I shoot trap, skeet, and indoor rifle. I've gotten a lot more confidence in my handling, safety, and experience with my firearms in the past 3-4 months and am looking to branch out into some new experiences.

 

On my short list are:

 

Appleseed - Next one is June at Winslow, NJ?

Steel - OBRPC's Knockdown Steel on May 6th

Blowing up a Watermellon/Tannerite - Is there anywhere I could go aside from trying to make friends with lots of land?

Sporting Clays - Red Wings is the closest to NYC area?

 

I don't want to hunt, so are there any other interesting non-pistol shooting sports/experiences that you'd recommend to a new shooter?

obrpc does a static steel event on the third sunday of each month-$20 for non members to compete.

 

they also do clays on the same day.

 

check the website newsletter calendar

I've clicked through all the "disciplines" and my impression was that the Static steel is a pistol event focusing on speedily shooting a few plates. Do they have a shotgun version of static steel?

Yes, It's a speed event. But do not let that discourage you, plenty of newbies and people who like to take it slow

 

Static Steel you stand in a box up range and start from the surrender postion with gun holstered ( hands above shoulders ) at the beep you draw and engage 5 steel targets of various sizes and distances, once you hit the last steel target your time is done. You repeat this a total of 5 times per stage, your slowest time is dropped and the rest averaged.

 

You cannot use a shotgun for static steel, knock down steel you can.

 

Static steel allows pistol caliber carbines as well. Do a search on you tube of " obrpc static steel "