BRANSON, Missouri – Ducks Unlimited will host its inaugural Eastern Continental Shoot for competitive sporting clay shooters Oct. 9-13 at the world-class Bass Pro Shops Shooting Academy in Branson.

The shooting competition features thousands of dollars in prizes and is presented by Weatherby. The Bass Pro Shops Shooting Academy offers a state-of-the-art shooting sports experience in front of the stunning backdrop of Table Rock Lake.

The Eastern Continental Shoot offers a 100-target prelim and 200-target main event, sub-gauge and Super Sporting squad events and other regular events including 5-STAND and several other side games. All events are governed by National Sporting Clays Association (NSCA) rules, but membership in the NSCA is not required for a shooter to participate in this tournament.

This event is patterned after Ducks Unlimited’s popular Ducks in the Desert Las Vegas Continental Shoot, held each February for the past 33 years. The 2019 Las Vegas event was its most successful ever, thanks to 450 participants from 27 states and multiple countries taking part in the five-day tournament.

“Our Eastern Continental Shoot offers an incredible experience to shooters in a different part of the country and different time of year,” said Jim Konkel, chair of Ducks Unlimited’s National Shooting Committee. “The Branson event will be a fun-filled, competitive shooting environment that complements our historic Las Vegas festivities.”

The Eastern Continental Shoot is limited to 250 shooting participants. Early bird registration ends Sept. 10, and no refunds are allowed after Sept. 1.

Major Sponsor Big Cedar Lodge is the host hotel, but numerous other hotels are available in the area. All offer special rates for shooters and their families. The rates are only available via phone booking, not online, using code DUCKS19.

For full details and registration, visit www.ducks.org/easternshoot.

Other major sponsors include Bass Pro Shops, Outdoor Cap, Promatic and The Shooting Academy.

Photos courtesy of Bass Pro Shops

Ducks Unlimited Inc. is the world's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving North America's continually disappearing waterfowl habitats. Established in 1937, Ducks Unlimited has conserved more than 14 million acres thanks to contributions from more than a million supporters across the continent. Guided by science and dedicated to program efficiency, DU works toward the vision of wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever. For more information on our work, visit www.ducks.org.