Club report.....
Back from the 'Butte!
Well, that was a humbling experience. Lots of interesting stations to say the least!
beretta boy said:
The nested pairs I've seen are usually a "mini" hidden under a regular target on the rail. They go up together then seperate. My strategy has been shoot the mini first ... if in fact they seperate quickly. You then have a little more time and pattern for the bigger, lazier target. .... Sometimes they don't seperate right away ( the mini hides ) and as often as not, the mini will NOT break when you break the regular it is hiding under ! Stay focussed !
8's seem to work best. Fun pairs!.BB
You're right, those nested pairs are tough!- I had the best luck taking the big bird first, and IF I got it, then there would be time to pick up the second, mini. That was the theory, at least!
I think I used both shells just getting the first bird most of the time. The interesting thing about the presentation at Lone Butte, was that some diabolical mind decided to throw the birds from behind a 20 foot high berm, so you couldn't see them until they rose over the top and were climbing fast. They were already singled out by then, and going fast. By the time you got the first bird (if you got it) the second was just starting to drop behind the berm at the back of the bay. Very challenging!
I had fun with the fast pairs that came straght at you - A few guys had shrapnel wounds afterwards, and they were just spectators!
The pairs flying away from your feet were the easiest (I thought). For some reason I was able to get all over those.
The straight doubles from the trap house was a mini and a regular bird, shooter at station #5. I usually do fairly well on these, but the twist was that stupid mini.
I like to shoot left bird first, then keep swinging to the right, but they had the mini on the left, and I got psyched-out into shooting the right side first, and swinging back to take the mini second.
I should have switched back, but I didn't. Next time!
One of my latest faves is the " slow bunny " Trapper rolls them on edge down the edge of a 2x6 with rails added to it to keep them upright, at about a 35 degree slant . ( Now that's a "trap" all gun clubs can afford - and the "spring" never wears out or breaks ! ) They hit the ground and roll at oh, maybe three or four miles per hour (painfully slow) appearing from behind a hay bale -rolloning through the shooters window of about 8 feet or so - before disappearing behind another hay bale where they are out of bounds.
LOL ... from about 7 or 8 yards out, there's a lot of shooters that have trouble with something so slow. ( Listening to them rattle down the run board before you see them is also very unerving ) It's easy to shoot too far ahead of them !
Your bunnies were the geriatric bunch, whereas ours were on steroids! They were flying out at Mach IV
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We had to stand at the corner of a "building" (one of the IPSC props at our range) and called for the bunny, but could not see around the "building". These bunnies were "following pairs", so after the first one went screaming across the ground, the second was not far behind! And the same twisted mind (see above) decided that shooting the bunnies took place across about a 30 foot front, from less than 20 feet away. (CQB rabbit shoot!) And
if you could learn to get far enough ahead of these racing bunnies, then you had to contend with the "jumpers" LOL!
That was an insane station... although I didn't do too badly on it, especially since I had a full choke on my second tube!
I don't know which would be worse, your slow-peekaboo bunnies, or these rocket rabbits.
Fun times though... I haven't played some of those games before so it was very "enlightening" shall we say, and leave it at that!
Good time was had by all, we didn't get rained on, and the chile and salad lunch was great! Good turn out (25 shooters) for a small club, and the only thing missing was Haggisbasher!
Cheers!
