About Us

Founded in 1958 as the “West Texas Sportsman’s Club”, Abilene Clay Sports continues to offer the best in clay target shooting. As one of Texas's oldest and longest-running sporting clays range, Abilene Clay Sports has a storied history reaching back over 65 years.

The sport of skeet shooting had been around only about 28 years before Abilene’s Ira Yaw decided the folks needed a place to shoot in Abilene. Ira and his son Alan owned Abilene Marine on Tredaway, and subsequently spent a lot of time around Lake Fort Phantom. So when Ira decided we need a place to shoot, the lake area seemed like a logical place. With his dealings with the City of Abilene and knowing the right people, he negotiated a lease for property on the east side of the lake, and our club, then called the "West Texas Sportsman's Club" was formed in 1958.

The West Texas Sportsman's Club remained in that location until 1967 when additional space was needed to add more skeet and trap fields, at which time the skeet and trap disciplines moved to our current home at Lake Kirby in 1967.

The West Texas Sportsman's Club changed to the Abilene Gun Club and eventually Abilene Clay Sports in 2007. Though the name has changed, our commitment to the shooting sports and serving the sportsmen and women of West Texas has not.