Fauxdegla Shooting Ground

I was up in north Wales today seeing my parents in Ruthin so felt it would be rude not to squeeze in a quick sporting round at Fauxdegla's facility. I was really impressed by the venue; after seeing mainly negative posts (granted from a few years ago) when I searched for information I wanted to show some pictures and my experience of the ground.

100 Sporting Round = £25 with both Fibre and Plastic wads allowed.

Firstly, what a breathtaking area to be based in. I really do love this part of North Wales as I have done a lot of mountain biking here.



On to the stand layouts...

1: Away in front O/R L-R High Incomer

2: L-R Rabbit O/R R-L Looper

3: R-L Quartering Away O/R R-L Quartering Away

4: L-R High Crosser O/R L-R High Crosser

5: Overhead O/R Overhead

6: Mini Away O/R L-R Crosser

7: R-L Looper O/R R-L Looper

8: R-L Crosser O/R R-L Crosser

9: High Teal O/R L-R High Looper

10: L-R Crosser O/R R-L Crosser

11: Overhead Driven O/R R-L High Crosser

Stands 9 and 11 really tripped me up. Very testing targets that are really (for a beginner) far out. The rest of the layout was nice and friendly with a few tricky birds. 

Lovely scenery and promatic traps mean even billy no mates can have a nice wander round:





After the sporting round I tried my hand at a round of Skeet, after one of the groundsman having to explain to me what I am meant to do. It seemed fun, I hit 23 of the 25. Beginners luck maybe? Or no pressure from other shooters around?

After the sporting and skeet rounds I grabbed a bite to eat in the cafe which was very reasonably priced and tasty food. Beans on toast, which made a nice change from the standard sausage and egg rolls!

A very enjoyable mornings shooting and a cracking facility. No idea what this DTL business is though, but there seemed to be some serious people shooting that....

Great post and lots of info. Well done. Never been there myself but after looking at your pics might just have to have a day out to Wales. 

Very good review! no where near me not likely to attend there but if i was i'd dig out this post!!

They could put on some right targets there, but it bats way below its potential.

I shot the BO there a couple of years back.... they had some 'right targets' on that day!

And RDP - Excellent review - more of these please!

If reviews like this are genuinely helpful for people I would be more than happy to do the same for all the grounds I get out to. 

I did feel that some of the targets were a bit easy; but that's a nice confidence booster when your closest shoot is set by Mr.Lovatt!

ShootClay Admin said:

And RDP - Excellent review - more of these please!

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​+1.. Reviews and pictures like this just make me want to visit for a shoot can feel a shooting holiday coming soon.

@RDP - PM me your address, gonna send you something for your troubles. 

You must have been there later on in the day or else you could have had a round of Skeet with me

Until last week I had only shot at FD - however I went to Mid Wales to see the ground as I am shooting in the Welsh Inter-counties next Sunday

All I can say is that I like it - we generally have a Saturday Skeet club (kick off at 11am) however most were at the English at Northampton (of which a few came in high in the class - well done Ian Cunliffe and Marc Haley)

If the conditions were as windy as they say then they had the upper hand - for FD having no wind is an exception!!

I've shot at FD a few times.  Nice ground, beautiful setting and good facilities.

Sadly the sporting targets didn't change much between visits (and they were months apart!) but I'd have no hesitation going back ?

I'm going to go there a couple of times this summer.

My aunt lives 25 miles from the ground, and 50 miles from Dovey Valley, another ground i'd like to shoot at.

PhilS said:

I've shot at FD a few times.  Nice ground, beautiful setting and good facilities.

Sadly the sporting targets didn't change much between visits (and they were months apart!) but I'd have no hesitation going back ?

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That's not surprising really. Fauxdegla (and Llandega before it) has really always been dedicated to trap. Mike is a keen trap shooter and I guess that's reflected in the grounds focus.

Good skeet layouts too.

I shot in the ABT home international there a few years ago, lovely ground and scenery,very good targets on the trap layouts, only problem was having to stop the rounds to move the sheep away from trap houses ?