The club's easy access to its ½ mile of private shoreline on spectacular Sengekontacket Pond offers many action-packed opportunities for fabulous saltwater fishing from the shore or boat.

Use of the club's beach is for members only.

During specific seasons, on the club's 16-acres of private property, waterfowl hunting from the two points of land that jut out into Sengekontacket Pond is bountiful. Just bring your gun, Labrador and put out the decoys. Many hunters have enjoyed a delicious duck or goose dinner from the club's flyways.

Hunting on the club's property is for members only.

Imagine your own island clambake, fresh corn on the cob, grilled new potatoes, warm melted butter and your favorite beverage. You can begin it all just by bringing your rake and clam basket to the club's private beach, wading out into the water, and gathering your own shellfish.

Shell fishing at the club is for members only. Also, you must live in Edgartown and have an Edgartown Shell Fishing License.

On Sunday afternoons throughout the year, members and their guests enjoy "breaking the clay birds" on the club's regulation skeet, trap and modern skeet field. Many of the members go fishing in the morning, and then enjoy the fun of shooting the shotgun sports in the afternoon.

The range is staffed every Sunday with a volunteer range officer. Ammunition, shell pouches and mandatory ear and eye protection are available.

The club was one of the first sportsmen's clubs in the country to become environmentally sensitive. By using non-toxic shot, black biodegradable targets and "hand cleaning" the grounds twice a year, the club has been applauded by local, state and federal environmental agencies.

The skeet & trap range has a complete sprinkler system that keeps the fields lush and green. Also, the grounds are groomed every week.

Skeet and trap may also be arranged on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and on Mondays when it is a Federal or State holiday. Members just have to call one of the volunteer range officers.

Guests are invited but must be accompanied by a member.

A member can practice and shoot skeet and trap by himself when he joins the Ventriloquist Club. The Ventriloquist is a device that the shooter clips on his belt and is voice activated, resulting in the release of the trap when the shooter says "pull." It's easy to practice skeet and trap a lot differently if you're alone. Just keep shooting your problem stations over and over - with no concern about holding up the squad.

To join the Ventriloquist Club you (a) must be a Range Officer and (b) must contribute $100 towards the purchase price and maintenance of the Ventriloquist system.

The club maintains a 50-yard archery range on the club's property overlooking beautiful Sengekontacket Pond. Opening soon is a 3-D archery range and a long distance target archery range on 100 acres in the State Forest off Barnes Road across from the Airport Industrial Park.

Guests are invited but must be accompanied by a member.

The club's 50-yard firing range is open seven days a week to members and their guests. Only pistol, slug shotgun and black powder is allowed. No center fire rifles. Eye and ear protection is mandatory. Throughout the year various shooting events in the different disciplines are held on the range.

Guests are invited but must be accompanied by a member.

The skeet, trap and firing ranges overlap each other, which does not allow all three ranges to be used at the same time. In the interest of cooperation, and so that all sportsmen may enjoy their favorite gun discipline to the utmost, the club has developed the following set of range usage rules:

• The firing range may be used during skeet & trap hours only if the skeet & trap range is not being used.
• During skeet & trap hours, if the firing range is being used, and skeet or trap shooters arrive to shoot, firing range shooters must stop shooting.
• During skeet & trap lesson times, lessons take priority. Skeet & trap shooters may shoot during lesson times if no lessons are scheduled.