Trap, Skeet or Sporting Clays

[asmurff]

Granted it has nothing to do with Tactical .22 but how many members shoot trap, skeet or sporting clays and what type of shotgun do you use?

I'd very much like to get involved in something competive with a shotgun. Were I a younger me in better health I'd try 3-Gun but I think it might be to much for me. There are months the Tactical Rimfire matches wear me out. I fear Sporting clays may be the same because my clubs course is far from easy terrain.

[Microgunner]

I have shot all three games and love them. I'm particularly addicted to sporting clays, especially the abbreviated version called "5 stand". Trap I could live without, kinda boring.

I prefer to shoot my Browning Citori 12ga., which I shoot best, but I also own a Remington 11-87 Sporting Clays, a Browning Auto-5 and my beloved Winchester mod 12 left to me by my Dad which he bought new in 1942 and with which he won numerous competitions and brought home more game than I could count. He was a great shot.

Be very cautious, shotgun sports are extremely addictive.  ;D

[Michigan Joe]

25 years ago, in between marriages, I shot a lot if skeet. I did not like trap as you were only on one station. Sporting clays were new then, and I never got into that.

I used a Kreighoff (sp?) over/under with tubes. Had a custom stock and a lot of work done on it. When you shot a lot of skeet (3 or 4 times a week), you need a shotgun that can go through a million shells without giving up the ghost.  I was shooting about 800 shells a week at least.

We all had about $10,000 into our guns back then. Of course we had more money than brains back in the 80's.

I enjoyed skeet a lot, obviously. It really did make me into an excellent shotgunner. What made it enjoyable was the fact that I was hanging around with a bunch of other guys who liked shooting. We all eventually got married or remarried and the guns were packed away.

If you want to get good at skeet, where you are shooting 98 or 99 out of a hundred consistently, you have to shoot a lot. We would get upset if we missed more than two or three birds a night. Oh yeah, we shot at night all during the winter and shot in the weekend shoots in the summer. We were a little nutty about the whole thing.

That's why sporting clays is popular. They constantly change the stations to present you with different shots. As a result, you will have more fun and less frustration by shooting sporting clays than trap or skeet. 

[Microgunner]

[quote name=Michigan Joe

]    That's why sporting clays is popular. They constantly change the stations to present you with different shots. As a result' date=' you will have more fun and less frustration by shooting sporting clays than trap or skeet.   

And to add to what MJ has said I read some years ago that since Sporting Clays introduction in England in the 1920s, all Trap and Skeet national level competitions have been won with a perfect score but no Sporting Clays competition has ever been won with a perfect score. Keeps it interesting.