favorite sporting clay side games?

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we all enjoy shooting skeet trap and sporting clays but what's your favorite side game? I have shot a duck blind shoot, flurry, and pheasant walk. I'm looking for a different side game to try so lets hear what you enjoy!

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Justin
 
Just did a round of 5 stand and it was varied by "pullers choice". Two guys sent teals, rabbits, every size and total random in every direction. They even through a few by hand to mess you up. It was excellent and very different. It was a real crowd pleaser.

What the heck is a pheasant walk?
 
the two man shoot (or at least a variation of): a report "triple" thrown to 2 people, and multiple shots per target allowed, but you must alternate who shoots (no shooting two times in a row)
 
Skrap is Trap targets shot on a Skeet, you use station 1-7, after 7 you move back 5yrds and rotate back through the stations. At the end of each rotation you move back 5yrds with exception of Station 1 & 7, little hard to move the houses back. Each shooter has 5 shots to hit the target per station, if he/she hits the target you move to the next station, if he/she doesn't hit in those 5 shots they still move to the next station. When your box of 25 is gone, you're done. The person who hits the farthest target wins. Last monday that shot was 47yrds behind the trap house. On station one, a hard left can require as much as 8' of lead.
 
I've often played "shoot the chip" on 5-Stand ... you basically "back-up" the shooter before you ... let him shoot then break his missed target(s) or any
"chips " he's left. Safety first & always !

We also set up a "Skrap" layout using the typical Skeet layout that has a combined Trap layout on the same field. Standard Skeet targets & Trap set on wobble.
A total of 25 shots ... using the 8 standard Skeet Stations. Ours started out as H/L/T on 1, L/H/T on 2, T/T on 3 and variations of each as it proceeded.
Right handed shooters typically had a tough time of the L/T on report from 7. For safety sake, we kept 8 as a T/T report pair. As IIRC, only 1 "straight" in 2 or 3
years of running it. Definitely not as easy as it looks !

Have also seen a 50 target "Bunny Shoot" made up entirely of 5 shots/10 stations of rabbit targets only. Everything from a 7 yard crosser of bunnies rolling down
through a pair of rails on a 2x6 between two bales of hay to 40 yard "turbo" bunnies with the spring turned up. Surprising how hard a bunny is to hit running away
from you at a slight angle on it's edge (quartering/outgoing) ... old conveyor mats work pretty well to keep the targets running ... and a gentle speed bump or two can
make some interesting "jumpers" !
 
At a previous club we allowed "missed target" shooting on the skeet fields, i.e. a second gun shot at them, often at quite long range. My present club does not allow this, all shooters being required to be on the station proper, not to one side (even though missed-bird shot direction and shot fall would be safe.)
At Sporting my shooting buddy and I never launch the two "sighters" allowed at each station (saves the club money!) Of course, we sort of know where the birds are coming from (unless the manager has changed the layout - which he does from time to time!)
BTW, as a non-competitive, recreational shooter (at skeet), I never complain about "non-regulation" birds or high winds... if it gets out of trap, shoot it!
Cheers,
Roger
 
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