College Signing
Two of the Forest City Juniors top shooters and recent graduates Chase Buerger and Georgia Kennedy, will be continuing their competition shooting with Clemson University.
On Friday June 13th, both Chase and Georgia signed with Clemson at a ceremony held at the Forest City Gun Club covered 5-stand building, along with Clemson head coach Rick Willey, family, friends and FCJ team members.
Congratulations Chase and Georgia!
2025 Raffle Winner
Congratulations to Club Member and team dad Todd Martin, who won the 2025 Forest City Juniors raffle and will be claiming a new Krieghoff K80 for his son and current FCJ IA shooter Hunter.
2025 SCTP Georgia State Championship
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Your Forest City Juniors had their most dominant performance in the 12 year history of the program this past weekend as we successfully defended our home turf . . . and then some!
The High Overall Team championship usually comes down to a handful of targets out of the potential score of 1100. This year we won by 31 targets, which is our widest margin of victory ever. With a score of 1079, we only dropped 21 targets across 11 rounds of 100. We swept all 3 disciplines at the Varsity level and we also won the Men’s HOA with Mills Hollis shooting an amazing 295/300 and the Ladies HOA with Landyn Fries shooting a 281/300 to win by one target.
The winning HOA team scores were:
Sporting: Curt Jones 98, Mills Hollis 97 and Chaz Palmer 94
Skeet: Sam Anderson 100, Lucas McKenzie 100 and Mills Hollis 99
Trap: Mills Hollis 99, Gavin Walmsley 99, Chase Buerger 98, Landyn Fries 98 and Lucas McKenzie 97
Ladies HOA
Let’s talk about Girl Power: We had 5 of the Top 10 Ladies:
1st Landyn Fries 281
4th Georgia Kennedy 275
5th Bailey Stokes 274
8th Emaline Haddad 271
10th Gracen Garceau 268
Men’s HOA
For the Men, we had 4 of the Top 10:
1st Mills Hollis 295
4th Lucas McKenzie 290
T-6th Curt Jones and Chaz Palmer 286
Each of the Sporting, Skeet and Trap Squads listed above was the Varsity Champion. In addition, the Varsity Super Sporting Squad of Mills Hollis, Chaz Palmer and Lucas McKenzie took 2 nd Place.
Individual Varsity Winners
Sporting Clays:
2nd Curt Jones 98
3rd Mills Hollis 97
Ladies
2nd Gracen Garceau 88
3 rd Georgia Kennedy 88
All State Team:
Curt Jones
Mills Hollis
Alternate: Chaz Palmer
The All State Team represents Georgia at the National Championships against all other States and consists of the Top 5 Scores and shooters 6-10 are Alternates.
Skeet
1st Sam Anderson 100
2nd Lucas McKenzie 100
3rd Mills Hollis 99
Ladies
3rd Landyn Fries 96
All State Team:
Sam Anderson
Lucas McKenzie
Mills Hollis
Alternate: Chaz Palmer
Trap
1st Mills Hollis 99
2nd Gavin Walmsley 99
Ladies
1st Landyn Fries 98
2nd Emaline Haddad 97
All State Team:
Mills Hollis
Gavin Walmsley
Landy Fries
Alternates; Chase Buerger, Lucas McKenzie and Emaline Haddad.
That’s right, 6 of the Top 10 scores out of over 500 shooters were our Forest City Juniors.
Super Sporting
3rd Mills Hollis 46
Ladies
1st Emaline Haddad 44
Junior Varsity
First year shooter Nora Lynes shot a 91 in Skeet to win Ladies JV Championship
Intermediate Advanced
Sporting Clays
3rd Place Squad:
Jacob Butler 93
Raj Kamaleson 90
Chip Klein 85
Individual:
2nd Jacob Butler 93
Skeet
2nd Place Squad:
Caleb Vo 95
Hunter Martin 94
Rett Shurling 93
Trap
2 nd Place Squad:
Rett Shurling 90
Caleb Vo 86
Chip Klein 86
Jacob Butler 84
Raj Kamaleson 84
Super Sporting
1st Place Squad:
Archer Ritchie 45
Hunter Martin 44
Caleb Vo 43
Individual:
T-3rd Archer Ritchie 45
IA – HOA
3 of our IA Shooters made the Top 10 for IA HOA:
5th Jacob Butler
7th Raj Kamaleson
9th Caleb Vo
Intermediate Entry
Sporting
2nd Place Squad:
Sam Thorpe 87
Ansley McIntosh 82
Mac Reardon 77
Individual:
3rd place Sam Thorpe 87
2nd Place Ladies Ansley McIntosh 82
Super Sporting
2nd Place Squad:
Sam Thorpe 42
Ansley McIntosh 38
Wynn Palmer 37
Individual:
2nd Place Sam Thorpe 42
2nd Place Ladies Ansley McIntosh 38
Skeet
1st Place Squad:
Mac Reardon 95
Ansley McIntosh 93
Sam Thorpe 89
Individual:
1st Place Mac Reardon 95
1st Place Ladies Ansley McIntosh 93
Trap
1st Place Squad:
Mac Reardon 87
Ansley Mcintosh 83
Wynn Palmer 78
Sam Thorpe76
Lucas Lockwood 73
Individual:
2nd Place Ladies Ansley McIntosh 83
Intermediate-Entry HOA
Lady Runner-Up Ansley McIntosh 258/300
4th Place Mac Reardon 259/300
Both first year shooters!!!
Rookies
Sporting Clays
2nd Place Squad:
Hunter Vick 82
Hunter Brigdon 78
Mason Guerrettaz 77
Individual:
2nd Hunter Vick 82
Skeet
1st Place Squad:
Hunter Vick 95
Hunter Brigdon 90
Mason Guerrettaz 74
Individual:
1st Hunter Vick 95
2nd Hunter Brigdon 90
Trap
2nd Place Squad:
Hunter Brigdon 90
Hunter Vick 77
Zach Grassi 65
Alden Shahein 57
John Klein 51
Individual:
1st Hunter Brigdon 90
Super Sporting
1st Place Squad:
Hunter Brigdon 40
Hunter Vick 37
Mason Guerrettaz 34
Individual:
1st Hunter Brigdon 40
HOA Rookie
1st Hunter Brigdon 258
3rd Hunter Vick 254
10th Zach Grassi 209
College
Last but not least, we can’t forget our Collegiate shooters. Our “Original Gangsters” have been busy “studying” all year and hardly have time to practice, but they always show up for tournament time. How do they do it? I don’t know if you have heard of the 10,000 hour principle, but some of these guys are very close if not there.
Sporting Clays
1st Place Squad:
Jackson Ferland 98
Owen Haas 97
James Daters 94
Individual:
1st Jackson Ferland 98
2nd Owen Haas 97
Skeet
2nd Place Squad:
James Daters 98
Aiden Strickland 97
Lawson Zhou 97
Trap
1st Place Squad:
Owen Haas 100
Jackson Ferland 98
James Daters 98
Aiden Strickland 90
Lawson Zhou 88
Individual:
1st Owen Haas 100
Super Sporting
1st Place Squad:
Jackson Ferland 49
Owen Haas 49
Lawson Zhou 44
Individual:
1st Jackson Ferland 49
3rd Owen Haas 49.
Collegiate HOA
1st Owen Haas 293
2nd Jackson Ferland 291
3rd James Daters 290
We couldn’t do this without our nearly 30 voluntary coaches who work week-in and week-out with these kids. As I always say, they are the backbone of our program and truly the secret to our success. Our coaching motto is “we are training Champions” and not one of us has not seen the impact this program has on the lives of these young me and women. I know it has made Jake the young man he is today.
Thank you also to all of our members who support and care for our team and these kids.
Finally, thanks for all of our sponsors and everyone who purchased raffle tickets this year.
Club Member and team dad Todd Martin won the raffle and will be claiming a new Krieghoff K80 for his son Hunter. Congrats!
2025 SCTP Southeast Regional Championship
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As a coaching staff who has won 5 consecutive National Championships, you always wonder what the next season is going to look like. All eyes are again on us as everyone is after the top dog. As the Savannah Morning News quoted then Gun Club President E. J. Kieffer in 1894, “the Forest City Gun Club never refuses a challenge of any kind,” and, based on this weekend, that still applies. After losing the SCTP Southeast Regional tournament last year by 5 targets, we were determined to get back to the top. We did that with room to spare winning the Team HOA by 16 targets and, for the first time ever, claiming the Triple Crown with Team HOA, Mens HOA by Mills Hollis with a stunning 292/300 and Ladies HOA by Emaline Haddad with 280/300. Aside from Emaline Haddad as Ladies HOA, 3 other Ladies made the Top 10 Ladies HOA: 5 th Landyn Fries, 8 th Gracen Garceau and 10 th Ayden McKenzie. Men's HOA Mills Hollis Ladies HOA Emaline Haddad It was, however, a sad weekend as we recently lost one of our dads and biggest overall supporters in Scot Ritchie. He was and will be missed, and we are dedicating our season to honor Scot this year as we go to Win Six for Scot!
The Team HOA consisted of the Top 3 Scores from all shooters in Skeet and Sporting and the Top 5 in Trap. Making the winning team were: Skeet: Mills Hollis (99), Sam Anderson (98) and Ayden McKenzie (98) Sporting: Mills Hollis (96), Chase Buerger (88) and Miles Carson (88) Trap: Emaline Haddad (99), Mills Hollis (97), Gracen Garceau (96), Lucas McKenzie (96) and Caleb Vo (95) (and he’s only a 7 th Grader!!!) As the team took shape in the early years, those scores would have all been by the same 5 shooters, but as you can see, the program has gotten so much deeper with 9 shooters contributing and many other tying some of those scores. We are deep across all our divisions! In our Varsity Division, we had the following honors:
Trap 1st Place Team: Emaline Haddad (99), Mills Hollis (97), Gracen Garceau (96), Lucas McKenzie (96), Landyn Fries (93) 1st Place Ladies Emaline Haddad (99), 2 nd Place Ladies Gracen Garceau (96) Skeet 1st Place Team: Mills Hollis (99), Marshall Kent (98) and Sam Anderson (98) Men: 1st Place Mills Hollis (99) Ladies: 1st Place Ayden McKenzie (98), 2 nd Place Landyn Fries (97) Sporting Clays 3rd Place Team: Mills Hollis (96), Chase Buerger (88) and Miles Carson (88) Mens: 1 st Place Mills Hollis (96) Ladies: 3 rd Place Emaline Haddad (87) Super Sporting 3rd Place Team: Mills Hollis (47), Lucas McKenzie (46) and Curt Jones (45) Mens: 3 rd Place Mills Hollis (47) Ladies: 3 rd Place Landyn Fries (43) Junior Varsity
Super Sporting 3 rd Place Team: Oliver Whelan (45), Walker Brown (41) and Sterling Reciar (39) Mens: 2 nd Place Oliver Whelan (45) New shooter Sterling Recicar also shot his first 25 straight in skeet. Intermediate-Advanced
We are historically strong in the Intermediate-Advanced division (7 th and 8 th Graders), which is always very competitive, and this year is no different. Sporting Clays 1st Place Team: Jacob Butler (86), Raj Kamaleson (81) and Caleb Vo (80) Men’s Individual Clean Sweep: 1 st Place Jacob Butler (86), 2 nd Place Raj Kamaleson (81) and 3 rd Place Caleb Vo (80) Skeet 1st Place Team: Chip Klein (97), Hunter Martin (95), Jacob Butler (95) Men: 1 st Place Chip Klein (97), Tied for 3 rd Place: Hunter Martin (95), Jacob Butler (95) and Raj Kamaleson (95) Trap 2nd Place Team: Caleb Vo (95), Chip Klein (85), Hunter Martin (82), Rett Shurling (80), Jacob Butler (77) Men: 3 rd Place Caleb Vo (95) Super Sporting 2nd Place Team: Jacob Butler (43), Archer Ritchie (40), Raj Kamaleson (39) Men: 2 nd Place Jacob Butler (43) Caleb Vo’s 266/300 was the top Intermediate HOA Score for the tournament and good to tie for 30 th of all Men shooters. Intermediate-Entry
Sporting Clays 3 rd Place Team: Deacon Fetterman (73), Mac Reardon (69) and Sam Thorpe (65) Men; 1 st Place Deacon Fetterman (73) Ladies: 1 st Place Ansley McIntosh (58) Super Sporting 3 rd Place Team: Sam Thorper (39), Deacon Fetterman (38) and Lucas Lockwood (37) Ladies: 1 st Place Ansley McIntosh (29) Skeet 1 st Place Team: Sam Thorper (89), Mac Reardon (89) and Ansley McIntosh (84) Mens: 2nd Place Sam Thorpe (89), 3 rd Place Mac Reardon (89) Ladies: 1 st Place Ansley McIntosh (84) Trap 1 st Place Team: Sam Thorper (85), Lucas Lockwood (81), Ansley McIntosh (79), Wynn Palmer (75) and Mac Reardon (69) Ladies: 1 st Place Ansley McIntosh (79) Rookies (5 th Grade and below)
Sporting Clays 1 st Place Team: Hunter Brigdon (81), Hunter Vick (68) and Mason Guerrettaz (57) Men: 1 st Place Hunter Brigdon (81) Skeet 1 st Place Team: Hunter Vick (88), Hunter Brigdon (88) and John Klein (78) Men: 1 st Place Hunter Vick (88), 2 nd Place Hunter Brigdon (88) Trap 1 st Place Team: Hunter Brigdon (91), Hunter Vick (78), Zack Grassi (62), John Klein (60) and Mason Guerrettaz (52) Men: 1 st Place Hunter Brigdon (91) Super Sporting 1 st Place Team: Hunter Brigdon (39), Zack Grassi (38) and Hunter Vick (32) Men: 1 st Place Hunter Brigdon (39), 2 nd Place Zack Grassi (38) |
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