Trap

This week I’m going to talk a littleabout Trap. If you’re just starting out in sporting clays this might be thegame for you.  In trap you shoot five targetsfrom five different stations. Clay targets are fired off from ground level 16yards in front of you; from the “trap house” when you call out Pull.  Also the trap machine oscillates left to rightwithin a 34 degree arc for added difficulty. Because the trap house is 48 feetin front of you, you can’t wait too long to shoot.  Removable chokes are really handy in trap toreduce the spread of shot (small lead pellets) as they travel. I’ve had thebest luck with an improved modified choke. With experienced shooters, trap canmove pretty quickly.

I prefer skeet over trap because it’s more social.  You can interact with your fellow shooters where in trap youare all in a horizontal line shooting right after the guy next to you.

Skeet

On my last post I talked briefly about the different types of sporting clays. This week I’m I going to touch a little about skeet. In skeet you shoot 8 different areas, moving in a half circle in counter clockwise. On a skeet field there are two trap houses (buildings that fling clay disks), one on the left (High House) the other on the right (Low House). “See attached pictures”. Out of the three games, skeet is one of the most challenging games to learn and master. The reason is, four of the eight stations fire off true doubles (targets fired from both houses at the same time crossing each other in the middle).  

Learning Sporting Clays.

Hello everyone my name is Jimmy, for the longest I've been Interested in sporting clays. So I decided  it was going to be my New Year's resolution. My goal with this blogg is to share with everyone the enjoyment and difficultys of learning a new hobbie.

Learning Sporting Clays.

                I’ve starting learning sporting clays. Sporting clays is often described as"golf with a shotgun". The object of the game is to shoot claytargets called Clay pigeons. There are three different key games associated toclay shooting. They are Trap, Skeet, Five Stand. Each game consists of 25 shotsat 25 clay targets and the object of the game is to break the target.

 Itemsneeded; Shotgun in either 12 gauge or 20 gauge,

Clay pigeons