25-Straight Patches

2tall2 said:
Took me about 4 months from start, but changing to a trap gun helped a lot. No hunting background. Three seasons later, 50 straight is still elusive.
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If 25 straights are happening fairly easily and 50's are just not happening take a hard look at the mental aspects such as concentration and negative thoughts. The psychology of the game is your next big hurdle. It may sound like a lot of BS, but it's not. Your not breaking 50 straight because what's going on in your head at the time.
 
bdft said:
GOod advice. Trap is at least 75% mental.As soon as you think you have it all figured out you start missing.
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true words spoken... my first season .. well even my first 3 sessions of trap I broke 23 straight... never got to beat that. it's a shame I can't do it more often and get better.
 
My first round of trap at LRGC was 7...lol. An older member took me aside for a few minutes and explained a few things to me ( thank you Mr. Crouse)....next round was a 17....last round was 18 !!
I've gotten a 20 and a 21 since...but no 25's....at least not yet anyways....lol
 
It's not the easy game many seem to purvey in conversations. It's usually an eye opener for the informal clays shooter who shoots off a manual thrower in the back 40 with his buddies especially the group macho big mouth who ALWAYS beats all his friends without ever missing. I thoroughly enjoy watching that guy walk away with his tail between his legs after a round of formal trap on a regulation trap range dumbfounded and making excuses because he couldn't break more than 2 or 3 out of 25.
 
the spank said:
....It's not the easy game many seem to purvey in conversations....
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And even when you do get reasonably confident with it, having broken many 25's, 50's and so on, up to and including some 100's, then doing it in a formal ATA/NSSA registered shoot competition setting at a strange club ... is yet another level to conquer. And then ....when you have finally managed to squeak out a few straights at the club shoot levels, try it at the Zone/Provincial & National levels. Each move up the competitive ladder seems to get sequentially tougher. And just when you think you're "Mr. Deadeye", go give ISSF rules International Skeet or Bunker Trap a whorl to find out how hot a shot you really are ! .... and then there's Sporting Clays & FITASC ...... where every field and target presentation differs.

If you can run 25 straights, feel fortunate to be able to practice enough, have a gun that fits and to concentrate for that long. Each accomplishment upwards takes that much more work and discipline. For those that haven't got there yet, keep working on it & have fun. I think that's what a lot of us find compelling ...the challenge in these gamesand the compulsion in pursuing a higher level of competence.

Nobody, but nobody ... never misses !
 
Trevor,
Send me an email. We have lots. I can hook you up until TGD gets you some.
We have the Winchester ammo shoot in June, Im sure they will give us a butload of stuff then.
B
 
Shooting 25 straight is a fairytale....it is a story made up by ammo manufacturing and shot gun companies to get you to buy more of their products.And while they are doing that,you might as well look good with accessories and gadgets...
 
oops said:
Shooting 25 straight is a fairytale....it is a story made up by ammo manufacturing and shot gun companies to get you to buy more of their products.And while they are doing that,you might as well look good with accessories and gadgets...
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I have 25 straight patches in our cash box, but none have been handed out in years, because us old farts are long term shooters that shot our first 25 straight many years ago.
 
beretta boy said:
oops ... I hope that's tongue in cheek & not frustration ! ;)
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All tongue and cheek here...BUT.....I now understand why they make trap guns so expensive,it stops you from grabbing it by the barrel and beating the trap machine....

And why does the score keeper have to SCREAM....losssssssssss............
 
oops said:
All tongue and cheek here...BUT.....I now understand why they make trap guns so expensive,it stops you from grabbing it by the barrel and beating the trap machine....

And why does the score keeper have to SCREAM....losssssssssss............
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If competition shotguns were cheaper, people would throw them or beat on things with them, and we would be mistaken for golfers.:p
 
Maritime Storm said:
Stubble; Like us we don't hand them out very often, Brian is gratuitous enough to hook me up with a few until the local supplier gets some in.
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I have been a member of the local club for nearly two years, and we haven't given one out in that time. We are running a junior skeet program this spring, and hopefully that will result in me being able to hand out a few down the road.
 
oops said:
All tongue and cheek here...BUT.....I now understand why they make trap guns so expensive,it stops you from grabbing it by the barrel and beating the trap machine....

And why does the score keeper have to SCREAM....losssssssssss............
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Because most shooters are deaf at the best of times. Add hearing protection and shooting on adjacent fields and the situation gets worse. I'd rather hear a strong lost call to reaffirm that there wasn't a chip/piece that I didn't see.
 
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