Sporting Clay Shoot

October 16 2025

IEC Atlanta & GA Chapters 2025 National Awards

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2025 IEC Atlanta & GA Chapters National Awards
By: Marie Thornton, IEC Atlanta/GA Membership and Marketing Coordinator

IEC Atlanta & Georgia Chapter is honored to be the recipient of multiple IEC National Awards during the 2025 SPARK conference.

Let’s take a look at what IEC Atlanta & Georgia Chapter and its members have accomplished this year!

Industrial Construction
Excel Electrical Technologies, Inc.

Category C: Electrical Contract Amounts Over $7,000,000.

Big Creek Water Reclamation Facility, Atlanta Chapter IEC

Grand Achievement Award

Ace Electric,Inc. and Penco Electrical Contractors

Individual Award
Contractor Impact Award
Robbie Jones, Coastal Electric of Georgia, IEC Georgia

CHAPTER AWARDS

Apprenticeship Impact Award
Atlanta Chapter IEC

Legislative Impact Award
Atlanta Chapter IEC

Chapter of the Year Award
IEC Georgia

You Can Win in 2026! Contact Jeff.Rogers@iecatlantaga.org

October 9 2025

2nd Annual Georgia Clay Shoot on Target for IEC Networking

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2^nd Annual Georgia Clay Shoot on Target for IEC Networking
By: Marie Thornton, IEC Atlanta/GA Membership and Marketing Coordinator

On Friday, October 3^rd at the 17 South Rod and Gun Club in Fleming, GA; IEC Georgia held its second annual Sporting Clay Shoot. 13 teams of IEC contractors, partners and guests met in southeast Georgia for a continental breakfast, lunch, clay shooting and prizes.

An engaging sporting clay course with tactical bays, trap fields, skeet fields and more, created a competitive outdoor networking adventure! Everyone vying for the prize, but only a few reached their goal. Congratulations to the winners!

1^st Place: Team Ace Statesboro division scoring 140! Jonathan Taylor, Josh Pevey, Matt Purvis & Michael King

2^nd Place: Team Gaskin Electric Company scoring 136. Suttle Payne, David Dixon, & Chris Gaskin

3^rd Place: Team Bob Cat scoring 128. Brent Martin, Ashley Sittle, Chelsey Dixon and Ray Webb

High Shooter: Matt Purvis of Ace Statesboro Division. His shooting accuracy gained Matt a high score of 42.

Dead Ass Last: Nikkie Kaufman walks away with this honor scoring a 7.

The event wrapped with raffle prizes, awards and lunch. See pictures of shooters, winners and more below.

Thank you to all the competitors for participating in an amazing event, and to our event Sponsors, because spectacular IEC events do not happen without you. Our Gunslinger Sponsors are Coastal Electric of Georgia and Lowe Electric Supply, getting top billing during the clay shoot. Thanks to CED/ Legrand for coming aboard as Drink Sponsors, and to SoleSource for the Station Sponsor.

July 23 2024

Members Sharp Shoot and Break Clays in Savannah

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Members Sharp Shoot and Break Clays in Savannah

By: Marie Thornton, IEC Atlanta/GA Membership and Marketing Coordinator
On Friday, June 28^th, IEC Savannah hosted its 2024 Sporting Clay Shoot at the 17^th South Rod and Gun Club in Fleming, Ga. 10 teams arrived early, donned their ear defenders and were ready to snipe clay targets mid-air. In addition to the morning competition, later in the day squads enjoyed lunch served, prizes won and awards were bestowed.

Congratulations to team CED for coming in first place with kills totaling to 120. Squad members Harper, Futch, Jue and Kobe aimed their rifles and came out on top!

Second place went to team JMS with squad members Sauls, Bolton and Wagner with kills totaling 119.

Third place was team Coastal Electric of Georgia scoring a close kill count totaling 118. Squad members Benningstall, Murad, Jones and Cameron had a satisfying run.

Finally, you always have the one that leads in kills, the “High Shooter”. Congratulations to Murad, who literally killed it with kills totaling 42 all on his own. Awesome job to Murad!

The Savannah Sporting Clay Shoot was sponsored by “Marksman Sponsors”, Coastal Electric of Georgia, CED and Legrand, “Gunslinger Sponsors”, Coastal Electric of Georgia and Chatham Engineering, “Industry Sponsor”, Excel Technologies and Gaskin Electric. IEC appreciates your commitment and support of IEC events. View pictures from this event below.

Thank you to everyone that made it out to compete and network with us. It was a fabulous event, and we hope to see you at the next one. We are heading to Augusta, Georgia for golf on September 20th. We hope to see you there! Follow our upcoming events at www.iecatlantaga.org/events.