Clays Shooting Pics....

OverUnder725 said:
Have you guys ever shot at our club in Saskatoon? Even closer to you then Jim's place. We have a new director in charge of trap and he is putting a shoot the this coming weekend.
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I stopped in to check the club out in 2019 at the Provincial Championships on my way home from fishing in Manitoba. Beautiful world class facility. We were thinking of attending this weekend coming but I have 5 more shoots I'm attending between now and the end of August, two in Swift Current, 1 in Edmonton, 1 in Calgary and 1 in Wainwright so my shoot and travel schedule is filled with all I can attend for this season. If SK provincials or the central zone shoot are being held there next year I will attend one or both of them.
 
A couple pics from an informal organized fundraiser memorial 5 station sporting clays shoot this past weekend. The premise was 5 stations, 4 of which would be true pairs and one a following pair but they could not get the one machine operational on one station so it ended up being three true pairs, a following pair and a report pair. Station one was a pair of rabbits and they sure did some bouncing as they zipped along through the mowed section of alfalfa field the set-up was in. It was alot of fun. I haven't shot sporting in about 6 years. They wanted everyone to wear a work safety vest but shooters with shooting vests got exempted as it covered their shell pockets hence the picture of yours truly in the safety vest as I don't like a shooting vest. I prefer a belt with a shell pouch or shotshell box pouch.
 
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JIMMY 808 said:
What’s that fellow think of that tsk stock?
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He is a new shooter to any shooting discipline. Last year he came and sat at the club and watched and spoke with shooters each week about shooting, guns, options for guns etc but always declined offers to try anyones guns. This spring he came out twice doing the same. The third visit he showed up with that gun brand new with that stock factory supplied, bought a membership and started shooting. He did alot of research on what he wanted for an all around gun and watched hours and hours of instructional videos before settling on that for his gun for all games. He doesn't have any complaints so far and takes instruction well on hold points etc. By the time he had two flats through the gun total between trap and skeet he had already shot his first 25 straight on singles trap, shot a 23x25 on the skeet field and at sundays sporting clays he shot 37x50 earning third place and after the shoot was over did another fun round and broke a 41 which was two higher than the first place score of the shoot, lol. Was he ever pissed at himself for shooting a better score after the shoot! I just laughed and said welcome to competitive shooting, it's a different game when the pressure is on! LOL He is headed to the Stampede Grand in Calgary tomorrow along with another of our club members to shoot the 4 day 700 targets main event. He decided to skip the 400 doubles marathon tomorrow.
I would think if asked he'd say he likes it ok?! LOL
And not that it matters but I captured second with a 38x50 using my SX3 20ga shooting Herters 7/8oz -8's.
 
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Modern Terry Fox stock.

Not sure if I like it takes away from some excuses. Stock doesn’t fit?

Nice shooting all around.
 
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Fernie Rod and Gun Club, we shoot trap Wednesday evenings. Rain or shine as evidenced by this soggy group from last Wednesday. Trap usually runs from snow melt (say late April until Thanksgiving).
 

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Donny Fenn1 said:
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Fernie Rod and Gun Club, we shoot trap Wednesday evenings. Rain or shine as evidenced by this soggy group from last Wednesday. Usually run from snow melt (say late April until Thanksgiving).
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Looks fun! LOL...Curious why you have so much banked material around the sides and back of the trap house? Drainage issue or just had lots of leftover gravel from building the pads? I like the gravel between the pads, alot less grass to cut!! What other facilities do you have? I like the bush background. Do you throw solid colored targets or domed?
 
Our trap house is also in the middle of our rifle range so I would venture to say the extra gravel/back fill is to stop the SKS warriors from shooting at something they may actually hit. We shoot orange White Flyer AAs. The club has a 280 yard rifle range, a 50 yard pistol/rimfire range and a 100 yard archery range. Family membership is 80$ a year and it is 7-10 minutes from town. In existence since 1899.
 
Donny Fenn1 said:
Our trap house is also in the middle of our rifle range so I would venture to say the extra gravel/back fill is to stop the SKS warriors from shooting at something they may actually hit. We shoot orange White Flyer AAs. The club has a 280 yard rifle range, a 50 yard pistol/rimfire range and a 100 yard archery range. Family membership is 80$ a year and it is 7-10 minutes from town. In existence since 1899.
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Very nice and yes that banking makes sense! Our club is a dedicated trap and skeet club only and we still get the odd passerby who sees a gun club sign and decides to shoot rifles while the club is closed and gate shut. Last one I caught through pictures posted on facebook where him and his gf set targets on the traphouse roof and put no less than 30 223 and 308 rounds through the roof's and back wall of two trap houses. How they didn't hit the Pat Traps inside is beyond our comprehension but fortunately they missed but of course we had repairs to make to stop the rain leaking.
 
the spank said:
Very nice and yes that banking makes sense! Our club is a dedicated trap and skeet club only and we still get the odd passerby who sees a gun club sign and decides to shoot rifles while the club is closed and gate shut. Last one I caught through pictures posted on facebook where him and his gf set targets on the traphouse roof and put no less than 30 223 and 308 rounds through the roof's and back wall of two trap houses. How they didn't hit the Pat Traps inside is beyond our comprehension but fortunately they missed but of course we had repairs to make to stop the rain leaking.
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Someone showed up at our club and shot trap houses, skeet houses and line markers a few years back. Those 7.62x39 rounds do a job on concrete and steel.
 
the spank said:
Very nice and yes that banking makes sense! Our club is a dedicated trap and skeet club only and we still get the odd passerby who sees a gun club sign and decides to shoot rifles while the club is closed and gate shut. Last one I caught through pictures posted on facebook where him and his gf set targets on the traphouse roof and put no less than 30 223 and 308 rounds through the roof's and back wall of two trap houses. How they didn't hit the Pat Traps inside is beyond our comprehension but fortunately they missed but of course we had repairs to make to stop the rain leaking.
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Yeah, we had something similar with binary targets on the trap house roof. People are stupid.
 
Donny Fenn1 said:
Fernie Rod and Gun Club, we shoot trap Wednesday evenings. Rain or shine as evidenced by this soggy group from last Wednesday. Trap usually runs from snow melt (say late April until Thanksgiving).
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I'm just down the road in Sparwood and keep meaning to come by for a shoot. Is drop in available, or can I purchase an associate membership or similar online? I assume around 7pm for trap on Wednesdays?
 
Well done Bayside Shooting Sports with a Successful “ Covid 100 “ . Semi Auto event with three birds in the air in rapid succession with report singles, pairs with report single and three at once. Challenging twist on Sporting Clays.

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Sounds like you had a great shoot! We used to put a triple out with one being a poison bird. It was alot of fun! Looks like semi's are popular in sporting clays? Rarely see one at a registered trap shoot. When you do it stands out noticably.
 
Back in July during the Mossleigh club Sporting Clays shoot, they put out a poison bird station and if you broke the wrong bird then you lost your score on the entire station! Then at the end of the shoot you could donate $5 bucks and try to hit a long crosser with two shots in your gun to buy back your score from the poison bird station, great fun!
 
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