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Had the opportunity to go to Fauxdegla last friday, in the welsh hills. Quite a neat ground! Facilities are excellent - clubhouse is very cosy, had a fantastic breakfast (by a real chef!). Went to do the Sporting ridge, and I thought the targets were all very interesting an challenging; /most/ of them are shot up the hill, and theres a large selection of rather devious little birds. Really enjoyed it. There are also 2 pretty nice Compak layouts, again with interesting birds. Staff I met was very nice too, ground guy was pretty awesome, appeared in 2 minutes on a phone call to fix a trap that ran out of battery and was apologising all the way until we told him we actually *expected* stuff to break down and it was fine! Also had a round of skeet -- again, really solid, beautifully built houses and setup. /mostly/ sheltered from the wind too, which is quite nice considering the placement (the Sporting ridge is NOT sheltered and you'd better be ready for the nice Snowdonia 'breeze' down your neck ;-)) Trying to find a 'cons' against all these 'pros', I'd say I was a bit surprised to see the in-house Instructor wearing what looks like sweatpants. I'm not expecting E.J Churchill everywhere, but sweatpants? :-) -- anyway, I didn't talk to the guy, for all I know he's a multi-medalist of some sort, whoops :-) Another small 'con' is the fact you need to pre-charge your card. Given we had no clue when we arrived how many clays we'd shoot, it's really a tough choice! Ultimately we still managed to shoot 400 between the two of us. But I still prefer the 'pay as you go' sort of method... As far as pricing goes, it was very cheap; £20/100. Ok, it took us 2h to drive there and so on (also there is a LOT of traffic around Wrexham) but considering the quality of the facilities, it's really excellent.