THE two youngest shooters at the City of Warwick Championships at the Warwick Clay Target Club placed at the June shoot.

Thomas Blake joined the club after reaching the minimum age of 11 for juniors and was second in single barrel C-grade.

He is one of the Warwick-based members of the club and has already won a prize for a strong performance at a Texas shoot earlier this year.

Each Saturday, he plays football at Queens Park and then often shoots on Sundays.

Thomas has competed on Warwick, Texas and Ballandean ranges but has no doubt which is his favourite.

"I like it best on the home range in Warwick,” he said.

Brisbane shooter Will Day, 13, won the C-grade pointscore event in Warwick in early June after winning $30 a week earlier at the Belmont range.

"I put the $30 into video games, not bullets to use in competition,” he said.

Last Sunday was his second time competing in Warwick, and shooting is his only sport other than playing halfback in rugby union for Villanova College in Brisbane.

The Warwick club can attract up to six juniors at its regular shoots.

All shooters start in C-grade and will be promoted to higher grades depending on results.

There is a circuit for clay target shooters in the area with shoots from the first to the fourth Sundays from Warwick to Toowooomba, Ballandean and on the fourth Sunday to Texas.

Shooters have any fifth Sundays off. The next Warwick club shoot is on July 1 at 9am.

The clay target club, formerly gun club, has operated for 120 plus years and been at the current range in Rosenthal Road for more than half a century.

The club attracts men and women of all ages from an area north to Brisbane and south to Glen Innes and Moree.

A field of 44 shot on Sunday in four grades.

More information on the club from president David Cox on 0427967567.