does one game mess up another ?

[Kenny]

I have been shotting alot of sporting clay last 7 months . I just love the game. I am hooked big time. However my trap game is suffering. My avarage has dropped off about 4%.
So wondering will shooting two different games mess you up ??

 

[BCFred]

Not sure about competitive shotgun events because I'm pretty new to them, but (so far) I believe shooting shotgun is helping with my other shooting rather than making things worse. Sometimes there is a brief transition for me when switching over, but generally I feel the more active I am the better I am at shooting and the better I make transitions between different kinds of shooting. To me shooting a different venue is a bit like taking a brief layoff. There can be a small transition period before I get back to my usual form. I wonder what the scores look like between the first set and the second set when you return to trap. Main thing for me is time for practice. The minute I add another activity the more I find less time to practice the other etc. Oddly enough we were talking about this at trap practice the other day and opinions varied. One chap did feel that shooting different disciplines screwed him up. Different strokes...? fred

 

[catnthehatt]

Shooting trap and skeet has become a training vehicle for my bird hunting, I no longer do them just to shoot for enjoyment.
This being the case, I shoot everything with my 20 O/U from the "gun down" position.
Both games have seemed to meld together and the scores are slowly going back up.
However, when I shot trap competitively, I rarely shot a skeet game so I stayed focused on trap only.
Some people can, some can't do both, I couldn't!

 

[Win/64]

I have been shotting alot of sporting clay last 7 months . I just love the game. I am hooked big time. However my trap game is suffering. My avarage has dropped off about 4%.
So wondering will shooting two different games mess you up ??

Are you shooting both games with the same gun?

 

[beretta boy]

Yes.

But you should be able to recapture your "4 percent" with some sustained, meaningful practice.

A hard right hander from Station 5 at Trap is a whole different kettle of fish
than a springing teal, long battue or edgy rabbitt, let alone a 35 yard crossing following pair on the Sporting course !

The transition back and forth between Skeet and Sporting isn't quite so disruptive ... especially going from Sporting to Skeet ... the other way round however can certainly catch you out on a few targets, however !

Going from ATA Trap to International can be a humbling experiance for some ... but coming off International to ATA Trap ... well, those big fluffy 16 yard targets look like slow flying garbage can lids after shooting at those speedy little black aspirins from the Trench.

 

[Kenny]

thanks

thanks for all the great feed back, Once again, the good people of CGN come through.
I shoot a different gun for sporting. It shoots pretty flat, where my trap gun shoots little high.
What Beretta boy said makes sence. I was talking to a skeet shooter that told me, when he is close to a competiton, he shoots skeet and only skeet. Won't even watch trap.
You got to love this clay target breaking. Often wonder what would I spend all my money on, without this addiction

 

[BCFred]

What Beretta boy said makes sence. I was talking to a skeet shooter that told me, when he is close to a competiton, he shoots skeet and only skeet. Won't even watch trap.
You got to love this clay target breaking. Often wonder what would I spend all my money on, without this addiction

X2 for me. It makes sense that one would restrict themselves for awhile to the discipline one is going to shoot before going to a match, regardless of what one is shooting, and to have a warm-up round as close to the match as possible. It makes good sense to spend time visualizing too. Haven't talked to a good competitor in anything that doesn't do something like this. Even shooting at the club level, as I do, these things really help.
In another vein, I have no doubt that one would find other things to spend money on Kenny, (try golf or building a carpenter shop) but it would have to be something good to provide an equivalent level of fun.

 

[Claybuster]

I shoot a different gun for sporting. It shoots pretty flat, where my trap gun shoots little high.

That might be the problem right there. Gun switching. Some years ago I shot a high shooting trap gun and a flat shooting gun for skeet and sporting. At the time 70 per cent of my shooting was trap with skeet and sporting making up the remainder.

The trap gun needed an extended vacation in Pennsylvania for a rebuild so I shot my sporter for everything in the interim. My trap scores dropped about 10 per cent. In time however my trap scores came back but my skeet and sporting scores started to rise. I sold both guns and bought a better o/u and shoot it for everything although now hardly shoot any trap.

You got to love this clay target breaking. Often wonder what would I spend all my money on, without this addiction

I don't think about that. What I do think about is what a bargain it is compared to golf, sailing and a host of other activities. I also think about the great times I've had and the people I've met chasing the little orange discs.

It's probably the best investment I've made in non-monetary returns.

 

[Covey Ridge]

I have been shotting alot of sporting clay last 7 months . I just love the game. I am hooked big time. However my trap game is suffering. My avarage has dropped off about 4%.
So wondering will shooting two different games mess you up ??

I do not think it will mess you up. I think it will make one an all round better shot. I think scores may go down with less practice devoted to the individual specialized sport. You know what they say about jack of all but master of none? I think that taking a break from one game and trying another will allow you to come back to the one you love and with a little dedicated practice you may be better than when you left. ...... or you might find that variety is what drives you?

 

[beretta boy]

Couldn't agree with Claybuster more !

One round of golf (agreed to under duress) messes up both my swing
and back cast for a month ! Try to avoid golf like the plague.
I think Mark Twain was right ... " golf is just a good walk, spoiled ! "

 

[Claybuster]

I was once found myself at a quite high-brow dinner party, among very refined company in an old, established Toronto enclave of the well-to-do. During the course of the meal one of the high society types asked whether I golfed. I explained that I shot clay targets instead

When asked why I said that unlike golf, clay targets could be shot year round, that a golf club membership was many times the price of a gun club membership and that most importantly if some son-of-a-##### broke into my house at 3:00 am I'd have a more appropriate response than a putter.

You could have heard a pin drop. The conversation quickly switched to other topics.

 

[Donny Fenn1]

I was once found myself at a quite high-brow dinner party, among very refined company in an old, established Toronto enclave of the well-to-do. During the course of the meal one of the high society types asked whether I golfed. I explained that I shot clay targets instead

When asked why I said that unlike golf, clay targets could be shot year round, that a golf club membership was many times the price of a gun club membership and that most importantly if some son-of-a-##### broke into my house at 3:00 am I'd have a more appropriate response than a putter.

You could have heard a pin drop. The conversation quickly switched to other topics.

that's better than my usual answer: I'm not old enough to golf...

 

[Devlin]

Golf Courses = Waste of a perfectly good gun range