Trap vs English vs Field stocks

The reason I enjoy club skeet is the fun and the joking and the nice guns. Admittedly some are not nice but they are fun lol. I shoot low gun and a wide variety of guns but I prefer the straight English grip on a sxs or single shot. Round knob prince of wales grip on a over under and pumps and semis a full pistol grip as I use them for more heavier loads
The parallel comb sporting guns are sure nice to shoot with for sporting clays but I'm finding I don't like the weight of the guns as much as I used to
 
canvasback said:
Funny how we keep inventing games to replicate hunting situations and then change the rules so that ultimately it has little to do with hunting. The style of gun, the mechanics….all get changed in search of higher scores.
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Everybody wants a challenge until a challenge is provided then they want to take as much challenge out of it that they can. Shooting a couple rounds of skeet the other day and one of the shooters complained about the clays having black edges/bottom instead of being all orange and easier to see. Back when my folks used to put on an annual Blackpowder rendezvous, some shooters would complain that the targets on the trail walk are not painted an therefore can be VERY hard to see. Dad did that on purpose because when the targets are painted (usually bright orange) then the first shooters would get nice bright easy to see targets and the last shooters got unpainted hard to see targets and they were all shooting the same competition. Leave them unpainted and it is the same for everyone. I suppose it is the difference in those that play for the love of the game and those that play for score. Just like special weapon hunting seasons. People want the "challenge"of special weapons (bow/muzzleloader) then do everything in their power to eliminate that which makes it more challenging, bows/sights that are powerful enough and accurate to 100 yards, stainless steel, plastic stock inline "muzzleloaders" with a scope shooting sabots. Now we have men "identifying" as a woman so they can compete in the women's league but bring along all the physical advantages on a man. A lot of people want the recognition of doing something in a more challenging way but don't want the actual challenge associated with it.
 
Black edges ,we have the black chicken trap shoot at our club ,hitting an all black target is a new level of frustration, but it is fun..
 
The English stock lends itself well to two triggers and is light, both of which are great for upland hunting. I hunt upland exclusively with English stocked SxS shotguns.. I always preferred parallel combs for skeet, and now I also use one for sporting clays, I don't find it a hindrance, when shooting low gun. I hunt waterfowl, with semi autos, that have field stocks.
 
reddog said:
Black edges ,we have the black chicken trap shoot at our club ,hitting an all black target is a new level of frustration, but it is fun..
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I was 14 or 15 the first time I shot skeet. It was at the St.Catharines Gun Club. It was a privately owned club. The targets were unpainted solid black. It's all he ever threw on his three skeet fields and lone trap field. It was the only club I ever shot at in my travels for many years that used an automatic trap machine. He had a fully automatic western trap. Only one I've ever seen.
 
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If I can divert back to stocks for a moment, decades of wandering the woods with my old English aka straight stocked Browning BSS made me appreciate how much easier it is to carry a gun with more of a monte carlo or pistol grip so that you don't have to clench it so tightly for hour after hour. The English don't wander much, they stand in one spot and shoot upwards at an angle of 45 degrees or more so ease of carrying doesn't matter to them. Having said that, I'm sure the straight stock on the Browning forced me to carry it at more of a ready stance than I would have otherwise and gave me a measurable advantage hunting the grouse and woodcock that spring up and are gone around here. The straight stock was of course intended for ease of use on double triggers; what I'm talking about is incidental.
 
New to me but I'll let you know what I think after tomorrow. Coincidentally it's a robins and blackbirds shoot.
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Big Bad said:
... how much easier it is to carry a gun with more of a monte carlo or pistol grip so that you don't have to clench it so tightly for hour after hour.
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Funny, for me it's the other around. Maybe it's because I've broken my wrist in the past... but
- Shooting prone, I'd rather have a pistol grips
- Walking around with a shotgun, I find the English stock much easier (and comfortable) to hold


brybenn said:
But the barrels are the wrong way
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O/U, weren't they invented by British gangster using SxS ?

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The gun is a 1988 Citori Superlite with 28" bbls, steel reciever, invector tubes, 12 ga., 7 lbs 2 oz. Robins and blackbirds is shot on a skeet field with randomly thrown orange clays and black clays. In this event if you shoot an orange bird you get points, shoot a black bird and you lose points. For fun there are reactive clays in the mix, also for more points.
 
Londonshooter said:
The gun is a 1988 Citori Superlite with 28" bbls, steel reciever, invector tubes, 12 ga., 7 lbs 2 oz. Robins and blackbirds is shot on a skeet field with randomly thrown orange clays and black clays. In this event if you shoot an orange bird you get points, shoot a black bird and you lose points. For fun there are reactive clays in the mix, also for more points.
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Thank goodness for the tweety birds, LOL.
 
sillymike said:
Funny, for me it's the other around. Maybe it's because I've broken my wrist in the past... but
- Shooting prone, I'd rather have a pistol grips
- Walking around with a shotgun, I find the English stock much easier (and comfortable) to hold




O/U, weren't they invented by British gangster using SxS ?

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I'm the same way
 
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