Tools for clay target shooting

This week I’m going to talk about the tools used for clay target shooting. There are three must have things. You need a good pair of safety glasses, hearing protection and a shotgun. One misconception is you need a high dollar shotgun to shoot clay targets. Not true, someone with a $10,000 shotgun and miss or hit the same amount of targets as someone with a $300 gun. I was lucky to find a great deal from a gentleman that was upgrading to a higher end firearm. Below is a photo of my shotgun, it’s a Beretta 686 over/under. The neat thing about my shotgun is that it came with an extra trap barrel and a full set of tubes.

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 Tubes are basically metal tubes you place into the barrels that let you shoot different gauges all in the same gun. For my gun I can shoot 12ga, 20ga, 28ga, and 410. In a skeet competition you are required to shoot all four gauges and by having tubes you don’t need to have four different shotguns.

  

The trap barrel is a little longer than the sporting barrel to help with the long distance shots you encounter with trap.