Inquiry about your club rules for skeet shooting. . .

Skeet is only a slow game in informal shooting. Shooters mill about like they are at the rodeo watching their favourite bullriders jawing and talking and being 20+ feet from the station when it's their turn to shoot. Shoot practice with shooters who shoot registered or shoot a registered event and its a whole different world. Registered shooters tend to shoot practice in a squad the way they would in an event. Each lined up in order behind the station awaiting their turn and moving from station to station as a group in an organized timely fashion stepping onto the next station without a bunch of fanfare and jawing endlessly. In registrered skeet you have 20 minutes for a squad to complete a round and 90 minutes for a 100 target 4 rounds event. And thats with shooting # 8 properly, all shooting high then low in turn with the squad lined up in order behind the shooter. If time is a concern there is more time saved in getting organized and shooting in a proper timely fashion than loading two shells on singles to save time. There is lots of time after the round for shooting the #### with buddies. It's the endless banter and not paying attention to your turn that delays the game.
 
A 2nd round can not be loaded if there is only one single left to shoot. That's already a rule.

Pick up your hulls when everyone is finished shooting their round. That should be a rule. It's annoying when you're shooting a clean round and have to stop and wait for some jerk picking up a 5 cent hull.
 
mwjones said:
A 2nd round can not be loaded if there is only one single left to shoot. That's already a rule.

Pick up your hulls when everyone is finished shooting their round. That should be a rule. It's annoying when you're shooting a clean round and have to stop and wait for some jerk picking up a 5 cent hull.
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This is absolutely correct. eg Load 2 on station one. First high missed, shoot option. Now load only one for low house, then 2 for pair.

You musn't load 2 when there is only one bird to shoot. NEVER load 3.
 
Clayduster said:
The same thing could happen on a doubles bird, so I don't see the point in only allowing one shell at a time on singles. Nssa rules allow either set up. I've shot skeet and refereed for nearly 25 years and have taken and seen some pretty hard knocks from target debris and shot. There is a floating piece of cartiledge in my nose from a piece of target from which I thought someone had reached out and punched me as I pulled the trigger. I never saw a shooter sweep the squad as a result. On 7 you have to make quite a turn to point at your squad mates. Shooting the bird before the centre stake is often the cause of dangerous target shrapnel on 7 and should be discouraged. But, to each there own and your club, your rules. Just keep on shooting.
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Actually you are wrong, the same thing could not happen on the double, because you shoot the low house first. Think about it...
 
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