Recently purchased an 870,(don't laugh I'm on a buget)with a modified choke.My son and I went out with a plastic hand thrower and a box of skeet and had a great time.I understand the concept of leading the target for it's speed and distance and did quite well for my first time out.Just wondering if there are any pointers you experinced folks can offer for form and accuracy.Thanks in advance.
I'm addicted
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Donny Fenn1
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- East Kootenays
first, don't call "clays" skeet in front of shotgun snobs
second, find a local trap or skeet club and have at her...
second, find a local trap or skeet club and have at her...
No advice to offer but just wanted to say that it is great for you and your son to have found the pleasure of shotgunning. Welcome aboard!
Oh and yes if I could offer anything of help it would be to encourage you to join a local gun club and get shootin'.
No laughing at all. Started in the same manner in 1997 and still have that hand thrower hanging on the wall although the Sporting Guns have grown in numbers over the past years.
Join a club as lots to learn and get into the challanges of Sporting Clays.
Great sport to get yor kids into.
For now, just focus on the target and point and shoot!
Drop in on a trap and/or skeet club and introduce yourself as a newbie and take it from there.
Don't do anything these guys tell you BackFire. Don't even consider it. If you do you'll be shunned by society, broke all the time and, as the addiction grows, you will become an embarrassment to your friends. They will find you standing and staring off into the distance and muttering things like "Front of the bird! Front of the bird!", for example. They will find themselves unable to talk to you unless they can discuss such arcane things as XL-1 wads or AAHS hulls. They will shun you even more as their puny interventions and suggestions for alternative recreational acitivities continue to fall on deaf ears. They will soon realize you are truly beyond help (hope?) and will finally leave. You will find yourself helplessly shooting more and more. I have heard of men putting 2nd mortgages on their houses, for example, just to pay for the reloading costs (Reloading doesn't help either. It only relaxes you and lets you shoot more and more. The perceived savings allows the cost to escalate further.). There will be phases in the addiction, of course, when you actually feel and look almost normal, when you feel that you are getting on top of things. Beware! Soon you will fall hard for some ###y piece with two barrels (Beretta Silver Pigeon 2 in my case.) or your scores will drop off and you will find what addiction is really like (I can't talk about this part right now...it's too hard!). Like I said, don't listen to these guys, but run like h*ll! They are all addicts, broke and miserable and they are trying to suck you in. They all belong to clubs too, where other such sorry individuals hang out and support each other in their addiction by shooting together and making group buys to keep costs down (They keep accelerating, of course.) Sobbb!
I haven't found the cure!!!! I keep shooting more and more....
I haven't found the cure!!!! I keep shooting more and more....
Thanks for the comments all.I live in B.C,lower mainland,Surrey to be exact.I've stopped by the Vancouver club and chatted with a shooter there,they seemed very begginer friendly.Also visited Langley.The Mission club looks nice,a bit far though.I also shoot handgun and rifle and it would be nice to be able to do all in one club.I'm just getting back into shooting after spending the last 20 years raising kids. They both have interest in the sport,lots of good times to be had.Can't wait.
Nothing to laugh at. I started out the same way 3 years ago with a synthetic 870. I joined a club only minutes from my home ( lucky me ) started out only breaking 10-15 birds a round but finaly broke the 20 bird plateau consistently last year. Just keep your eyes open for a good used trap gun on your local shops web sites. Good deals come up on used and new guns often enough. Also the guys at any of the clubs in my area are always helpful to the newbies. Welcome to the sport.
hail out to my brother in surrey,
I go out to the poco range for all my shooting needs, they have trap,rifle pistol ranges, all and all nice people there and all that run the place. For me its a wee bit out of the way but great place. the trap days are every second sunday at noon till 430, and u can buy your shells there at a good price.
- Location
- Ft. Mac. Alberta
Might as well grease those other guns up and put 'em in storage, because they will NOT be used, but you will find yourself looking for a nice over/under in the near future - I would suggest this fellow....
http://www.bilozir.net/
Cat
I'm gonna head up there and have a look.I've heard it can get pretty busy,still fairly close to home.Cheers to ya my Surrey brother!hail out to my brother in surrey,
I go out to the poco range for all my shooting needs, they have trap,rifle pistol ranges, all and all nice people there and all that run the place. For me its a wee bit out of the way but great place. the trap days are every second sunday at noon till 430, and u can buy your shells there at a good price.
Thanks for the link,nice stuff.If I brought any one of those home at that price I'm pretty sure the wife would leave me,with our current financial state.Hmmm,maybe we're on to something here.HAHAMight as well grease those other guns up and put 'em in storage, because they will NOT be used, but you will find yourself looking for a nice over/under in the near future - I would suggest this fellow....
http://www.bilozir.net/
Cat
Perhaps a new forum is in order,Clay Junkies.... Hello my name is Shawn and I'm a clay O hollic. Happy clay killing Fred,you sound like a character.Don't do anything these guys tell you BackFire. Don't even consider it. If you do you'll be shunned by society, broke all the time and, as the addiction grows, you will become an embarrassment to your friends. They will find you standing and staring off into the distance and muttering things like "Front of the bird! Front of the bird!", for example. They will find themselves unable to talk to you unless they can discuss such arcane things as XL-1 wads or AAHS hulls. They will shun you even more as their puny interventions and suggestions for alternative recreational acitivities continue to fall on deaf ears. They will soon realize you are truly beyond help (hope?) and will finally leave. You will find yourself helplessly shooting more and more. I have heard of men putting 2nd mortgages on their houses, for example, just to pay for the reloading costs (Reloading doesn't help either. It only relaxes you and lets you shoot more and more. The perceived savings allows the cost to escalate further.). There will be phases in the addiction, of course, when you actually feel and look almost normal, when you feel that you are getting on top of things. Beware! Soon you will fall hard for some ###y piece with two barrels (Beretta Silver Pigeon 2 in my case.) or your scores will drop off and you will find what addiction is really like (I can't talk about this part right now...it's too hard!). Like I said, don't listen to these guys, but run like h*ll! They are all addicts, broke and miserable and they are trying to suck you in. They all belong to clubs too, where other such sorry individuals hang out and support each other in their addiction by shooting together and making group buys to keep costs down (They keep accelerating, of course.) Sobbb!
Got Juice?
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Peoples Republik of Kanukkistan
I got hooked one year ago.
Will Work For Once Fired AA Hulls.
I have a Winchester Western from Western Retro Products in my backyard. I shoot at Kimberly Trap and Skeet Club, and in my backyard whenever I want to.
So with the Browning Cynergy Sporting Euro Composite, The Thrower, Reloading supplies and reloader I have spent somewhere north of 10,000.00 to date.
But it puts GOLF to shame. I used to be an avid golfer... never got a hole in one. In shotgunning though a hole in one occurs when you 'dust' a target perfectly,,,, and in so doing, the sport has found another convert.
I can burn through 2 cases of clays (270 targets) easily in an afternoon of shooting by myself.
At club times, I usually only take 1 rack to try to keep on budget. I gotta save some $$$ for food!
Will Work For Once Fired AA Hulls.
I have a Winchester Western from Western Retro Products in my backyard. I shoot at Kimberly Trap and Skeet Club, and in my backyard whenever I want to.
So with the Browning Cynergy Sporting Euro Composite, The Thrower, Reloading supplies and reloader I have spent somewhere north of 10,000.00 to date.
But it puts GOLF to shame. I used to be an avid golfer... never got a hole in one. In shotgunning though a hole in one occurs when you 'dust' a target perfectly,,,, and in so doing, the sport has found another convert.
I can burn through 2 cases of clays (270 targets) easily in an afternoon of shooting by myself.
At club times, I usually only take 1 rack to try to keep on budget. I gotta save some $$$ for food!
Not laughing.
The fact you started is good enough. My wife started with an 870 in 20 gauge last year. Then went to a 1960's Stevens pump 12 gauge with a fixed full choke.
She would go and shoot in all sorts of weather, snow, rain, cold....once and twice a week.
She won the Ladies division at the Club for this year.
For Christmas, I got her a Browning Sporting Clays Gold from a CGN member....and she has no intention of slowing down now.
The fact you started is good enough. My wife started with an 870 in 20 gauge last year. Then went to a 1960's Stevens pump 12 gauge with a fixed full choke.
She would go and shoot in all sorts of weather, snow, rain, cold....once and twice a week.
She won the Ladies division at the Club for this year.
For Christmas, I got her a Browning Sporting Clays Gold from a CGN member....and she has no intention of slowing down now.
It's not really all that addictive. I can quit any time.
Field throwers are a great, no pressure way to start. They're the gateway drug.
Get to a local clays club and check it out. I've yet to be at one that doesn't welcome new shooters and will show them how the games are played. The reason we welcome new shooters is that we need someone to sell our old guns to.
I'd suggest starting with trap -- 5 shooters, targets going away from a single house. Your 870 with a modified choke will be fine.
It's not that addictive. I can quit any time. I really can. Anytime. Now excuse me as I have some hulls to reload.
Field throwers are a great, no pressure way to start. They're the gateway drug.
Get to a local clays club and check it out. I've yet to be at one that doesn't welcome new shooters and will show them how the games are played. The reason we welcome new shooters is that we need someone to sell our old guns to.
I'd suggest starting with trap -- 5 shooters, targets going away from a single house. Your 870 with a modified choke will be fine.
It's not that addictive. I can quit any time. I really can. Anytime. Now excuse me as I have some hulls to reload.
Hello Shawn! Nice to have you here. I think it is extremely brave of you to start coming out of the closet!!! It is kind of you to say I sound like a character too, but it is a pretense. I have no character and no money left after starting to shoot clays
. I said brave things like Claybuster at first, but I'm beyond that now and am working on accepting that there is a problem. I just hate to see a brother in denial, hopefully he will make it through. I've tried prayer. I've tried talking about the problem. I've even tried promising to quit and I've tried 37 different forms of therapy (bit of a lie here...I've only tried 26). I tried reassuring myself by citing the prayer about walking down the street and learning to walk around the hole in the street I keep falling into. I tried not hanging around other shooters. I even tried weaning myself off them by shooting by myself like the guy who spent $10,000 on individual equipment and was having trouble buying food. To give you a measure of just how difficult the problem really is, I even tried the taper off route in shooting and have gone down to 7/8 oz loads in skeet. I haven't had the guts to go below 1 oz in trap. All I have to show for the effort I've made is an increase in shooting and my scores didn't even drop (They didn't get all that much better either). You see...no character at all. Maybe accepting the problem will start me on a healthier and more socially acceptable route. On the other hand, I might hit more clays... I really didn't say that did I!!!
