About Us:

The Club owns 165 acres and offers trap, skeet, sporting clays and 5-Stand shooting. The Clubhouse is over 3,000 square feet and has a commercial grade kitchen that is open during normal operating hours. In addition, there is a campground with 26 camp sites that have electric and water hook-ups. The Club is open year round on Wednesdays from 4 to 8 PM and Sundays from 10 AM to 4 PM. The public is always welcome. The Club holds numerous trap shoots that are registered with the Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA). Additionally, the Club has summer skeet and 5-Stand leagues and participates in a multi-club sporting clays league in the winter months.

History:

Nestled in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, 90 miles south of Buffalo, New York, Bradford is located in the heart of the Pennsylvania oil regions.  In 1878, the town was the very center of a flourishing oil industry.  In 1878, the oil fields produced nearly half of the entire nation’s oil production.

This same group of pioneers in the “oil game” played the leading role in the area’s clay pigeon shooting game.  The Bradford Shooting Club was established in 1880 and the sport continued to grow as the club’s successor, the Bradford Gun club, was formed in 1930.  The hub of the shooting game in those days was the Gun Club’s elegant stone clubhouse. Pennsylvania state shoots were held at Bradford in 1908, 1917, 1931, 1936, 1941, and 1948.