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I started skeet (recreational) last year and I'm wondering what could be consider a good average. I looked at the nssa for averages but like I don't compete I'm curious to know what you think.
Like most of you I'm looking for straight but didn't happen yet...
 
You are looking for 25's..but to move up classes its more important to lose the low scores. If you are shooting 23 and 24 regularly you can have a 90+ average easily..but when you drop in an 18 the whole 100 is lost.
 
I haven't competed in many years. Skeet is all about being consistent, so if I wanted the best possible scores, I would shoot one gun, and only shoot regulation skeet. However, I like to shoot all of my shotguns, usually more than one on a given day, and I like to shoot doubles, so my scores suffer a bit, with some 24s, and 23s, and even the odd 22 when I shoot my featherweight 410 field gun. I still shoot quite a few clean rounds, but shooting so many guns, most being 20 or 28 gauge, my average usually runs around 95-96.
 
You build up as time goes on. A lot of people start hitting 10 to 12 within their first 10 rounds of skeet if they have some proper instruction. If you are just starting, you will save a lot of aggravation by finding a good instructor and taking at least 3 to 5 lessons.

After that, it will depend on your enjoyment of shooting. To get into club average, you need to shoot around 20 out of 25 consistently. A lot of folks stop there and never improve. If you want to improve, you must shoot at least a flat a week and get some more instruction. The most important thing is that you be self aware and change little things that you are doing. It is a lot like a golf swing.

Decent amateurs can hit 22 to 24 all the time. The real competitors will hit 97 out of 100 targets on a consistent basis. Top scorers will hit 390 out of 400 and often 400 out of 400 before shoot offs.
 
When I used to shoot NSSA I held the same average as I did in ATA while shooting both disciplines in the same years. In those years I ran a 96+ average in both skeet and trap. My best trap averages came after dropping skeet and focusing primarily on trap. It kicked me up 1.5 to a 98 average. Funny thing though, I held a 96 average in skeet and to this day have never shot 100 straight. More 99's than I care to count whereas in trap I have shot a couple handfuls of 100 straights and a handful of 199's, the 200 still eludes me.
 
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When I used to shoot NSSA I held the same average as I did in ATA while shooting both disciplines in the same years. In those years I ran a 96+ average in both skeet and trap. My best trap averages came after dropping skeet and focusing primarily on trap. It kicked me up 1.5 to a 98 average. Funny thing though, I held a 96 average in skeet and to this day have never shot 100 straight. More 99's than I care to count whereas in trap I have shot a couple handfuls of 100 straights and a handful of 199's, the 200 still eludes me.
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I just can't imagine giving up skeet to shoot trap. Sporting clays perhaps, but not trap.:rolleyes:
 
Trap is the game that really drives me. It makes me compete with no one else but myself. Can't explain it well but it just really fuels a fire within.
As for Sporting Clays I have shot it maybe a dozen times and it really didn't fire me up all that much?
 
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the spank said:
Trap is the game that really drives me. It makes me compete with no one else buy myself. Can't explain it well but it just really fuels a fire within.
As for Sporting Clays I have shot it maybe a dozen times and it really didn't fire me up all that much?
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I just can't get into trap, it just seems too slow, and too boring to me. I much prefer faster shooting, changing target presentations, and multiple targets, preferably from different sources, to simulate shooting actual game birds on the wing.
 
In truth, trap is the fastest of the clay games. You have the least amount of time from seeing the target to having to pull the trigger, and you get through a round of 100 shots faster than the other games.
 
adamg said:
In truth, trap is the fastest of the clay games. You have the least amount of time from seeing the target to having to pull the trigger, and you get through a round of 100 shots faster than the other games.
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Have you shot much sporting clays? Have you never encountered targets that are launched from hidden machines, and are only visible to the shooter for a few seconds at most? And if the wind is right, the targets may not even fully clear the cover to give you an open shot. With those type of targets, you have far less time to spot the target, and shoot it, than you do in trap, where you can see the thrower, and you can see the target 100% of the time. There is a very good reason that people don't shoot clean rounds at sporting clays.
 
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I just can't get into trap, it just seems too slow, and too boring to me. I much prefer faster shooting, changing target presentations, and multiple targets, preferably from different sources, to simulate shooting actual game birds on the wing.
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The only reason I shoot ANYTHING without feathers these days is to keep in practise for something WITH feathers!!:dancingbanana:
I rarely shoot my trap guns anymore, and , well, SJ you know what I shoot when I'm shooting skeet!!:p
I have a feeling I am going to see you with that AYA far more than your Browning in the next while as well.:d
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catnthehatt said:
The only reason I shoot ANYTHING without feathers these days is to keep in practise for something WITH feathers!!:dancingbanana:
I rarely shoot my trap guns anymore, and , well, SJ you know what I shoot when I'm shooting skeet!!:p
I have a feeling I am going to see you with that AYA far more than your Browning in the next while as well.:d
Cat
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We have shot together enough, that you know my habits as well. Like yourself, I want to simulate shots that I will encounter in the field while hunting birds. I am usually shooting sub gauge guns, and I often shoot doubles at stations 1 through 7. My scores aren't as high as if I shot a 12 gauge and regulation skeet, but I don't shoot for scores these days. And when I do shoot a clean round of doubles with a sub gauge gun, I do get a little more satisfaction than I get from shooting clean rounds of regulation skeet. As for my gun of choice, I do like the AYA, but there is just something special about that 28 gauge Citori.
 
Don't get me wrong I enjoy all the clays games. I started out skeet shooting in my teens and some guys at the club encouraged me to try trap. I did and it went very well. The skeet shooters at the club I joined in my late teens had all given up the tournament days and never travelled elsewhere to shoots or kept track of shoots elsewhere but the trap shooters at the club were all very involved in registered shooting and were always inviting me along. Over the years that was how it remained. I got involved in some NSSA shooting when a new member wanted to hold registered skeet shoots at the club. I jumped in and got involved in all of setting it up, building new fields etc. I started to participate in shoots but after two or three seasons nobody was taking part any more and a few years on the club exec left me tired of all of it and in 2006 I walked away altogether. I started back this spring at a new club since moving and havent missed a shoot night yet. The fever for ATA came back so here we go again...... now if only my shooting skills would return........LOL

To answer the OP's question shoot to the best of your ability and ignore averages. Too many get caught up in averages so much so that they only shoot in fair weather, wind free days, only squad with certain people etc. that they forget they started the game for the fun it is. Instead they find one more stress to add to their life instead of using the range to relieve stress and relax.
 
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I shoot skeet for fun and really enjoy the guys I shoot with. I only have time to shoot on sundays and have lots of shotguns. I often bring 4-5 shotguns and shoot them all that day. Sometimes I bring and shoot a pump,semi,O/U and a sxs on the same day.I shot 9 rnds on sunday and averaged 23.Sometimes I'm hot and sometimes I'm not but I always have fun.
 
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