Marty Fischer: Course designer, target setter, coach and hunter

Marty Fischer grew up in southeast Georgia near Savannah and is a 1974 graduate of Georgia Southern College with a BS Degree in Speech-Public Relations.  Marty got his start in the hunting and shooting industry when he served as the Vice President and General Manager of Cherokee Rose Shooting Resort in Griffin, Georgia from April 1990 through December 1992.  In January 1993 Marty founded SportShooting Consultants, Ltd, a company that specializes in gun club design, event target setting and management as well as business consulting for the hunting and clay target industries.  To date Fischer has designed and/or set competition targets on more than 175 sporting courses throughout North America. He has done design work for the likes of the Ted Turner family (Kinloch Plantation on the Santee River in SC), Henry Kravis, (7 Lakes Lodge in Meeker, CO, now owned by golfer Greg Norman) managing partner of Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts in New York, Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walters, noted hotelier Richard Kessler and his Kessler Canyon Ranch in DeBeque, CO.  He recently did an initial private design and clay target installation for Gaylon Lawrence, Jr. in Wilson, Arkansas.  Additional public facility phases are being planned and priced at this time.     Recent courses of note include a redesign of the Brays Island Sporting Clays course in South Carolina and two 15 station championship layouts for the Clark County Shooting Park in Las Vegas, Nevada; sporting clays, 5-Stand, shooting school venues for The Orvis Shooting Grounds at Pursell Farms in Alabama; two 14 station layouts for the Garland Mountain Sporting Clays facility in north metro Atlanta, GA and a 5-Stand, Wobble Trap, 10 station corporate courses at The Kiawah Sporting Club in SC and at historic Millpond Plantation in Thomasville, GA as well as two 15 station sporting clays courses for Dead Zero Shooting Park in Spencer, TN.   He recently finished a project called The Clays at Lone Oaks Farm, a $2.3 million clay target project for the University of Tennessee.  His next full-service design for completion is a sporting clays facility in Weirton, WV.  At any given time, he has three to five different design jobs underway.  Fischer became one of the first National Sporting Clays Association (NSCA) Level III Shooting Instructors.  This level of coaching expertise represents the highest instructor level awarded by the NSCA.  Marty is also the Head Coach of the Georgia Southern University Clay Target Team, which competes for Regional and National Collegiate Clay Target Championships.  Under his guidance, Georgia Southern won back-to-back ACUI divisional national championships in 2021 and 2022.