I shoot 100 sporting clays once or usually twice a week along with a regular gang of 8. Five of the 8 are mainly shooting reloads and the other 3 are finding shells here and there at prevailing prices. Granted, the majority regularly shoot modern guns but when out occasionally with a vintage SxS the reloaders adjust to somewhat lower payloads and speed, and thus lesser recoil. Most have good inventories of components stockpiled over the past year or so (Aesop's fable ant analogy). I and others have gone from 1-ounce to 7/8 ounce loads for practice/fun 12g shooting and as most here know that stretches a bag of shot from 400 to about 455 loads. Net, the shortages haven't affected shooting by the gang or me all that much.
Otherwise, at a certain large sporting club the public activity through the summer and fall seems to have been about on par. But that’s hard to evaluate now that winter has set in and with the frequent funky weather. Fair weekend days will bring out plenty of shooters albeit most with complaints about shell pricing, but even a hint of drizzle or snow flakes keeps many of the casual that are locally called "red hatters" from coming out. They seem to be even more weather sensitive of late. For sure, conditions can certainly be uncomfortable at times but as friend Fred says, better to be shooting than in other places or situations he relates. All these are just observations; of course I don't have the objective data on shooter numbers and trends hereabouts.
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