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stubblejumper

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Our evening trap is done, and in two weeks our evening skeet, and our sporting clays league will be complete for this year. My sporting clays average is up about 8% this year, and I finally managed to put a clean round of skeet doubles together yesterday, for the first time this year. Overall, it was a good year,l but I am really going to hate shooting once per week weather permitting, instead of four days per week. Hunting upland will help to ease the pain, but by December, it's going to get very boring sitting at home instead of being out breaking clays. Overall, the turnout of trap and skeet shooters was down in our clubs, but sporting clays seems to still be gaining popularity here.
 
Our evening sporting clays is done in 3 more weeks as well. Hunting season for a while then patiently waiting for nice days to shoot. The usually bunch of weather guessers are once again split, some say a long hard winter is coming and some say an easy winter.... I say we'll see.
 
We maintain once a week scheduled evening shooting until the time change, but starting earlier as required. Starting in November we have a monthly five stand night shoot under lights set up on our trap field and alternate each month with our neighbouring Kamloops club. Great fun, why stay home?
 
I don’t shoot at a club but we set up our BC ranch for sporting clays and skeet during the early spring. We have been out there every weekend we can, many new shooters brought out as well. I’ll be out blasting all winter...we will see if the lady and others feel like it in the snow though!

I’ll shoot in any weather as long as we’ve got a fire roaring and a good dinner planned
 
I was discussing the same thing this morning with one of my members. During the summers we add a Monday night to our schedule from the first of May to the first of October. I'm dreading the return to shooting one afternoon a week too, we are open year round Friday & Sunday afternoons, I always work one of the 2, Monday evenings are my second visit, I have just enough time after work to get to the club and open up before the membership arrives.
 
We don't have leagues at our club but the Wed evening shooting is getting less and less with it being dark early now. Lucky for me our club is open Wed, Thurs, Friday afternoons and both weekend days, at least until winter comes.

When I retire next year I'll head down to Florida and shoot in Sarasota.
 
In this neck of the woods, sporting clay will run at most clubs all winter. Few clubs shut it down. We have a interclub shoot the runs all winter, so that's one Sunday a month. We fill in with other clubs, and manage to shoot most Sundays Not much fun shooting in extreme weather. Both hot and cold. I am however looking forward to little cooler temps. this 40degree plus shooting is less than fun.
 
Yes.

Put in an International clay and fire it out of a rabbit thrower at freezing temperatures. That bunny jumps pretty high. Try it.


Remember, We are in this sport for fun, not to beat the axx of your shooting buddy. Yah Right.
 
We shoot trap all winter in Southern ON. Same all year round, Wednesdays and Sundays. As well, the Silver Horseshoe league that I shoot in starts in Sept, as well as other leagues like Bronze League and the Intercounty.
 
His point is numbers and counts are constant themes in your posts. If you have goals for yourself, why do you always post them on public forums ?
 
Stubblejumper: I don't know the difficulty of your course but I think I'd be pretty happy if I could shoot an average of 85.1 for a season. On top of that, if you were doing that with your K20, all the better. Well done.
 
Over 20 weeks that must be at least 2000 targets. Looking at the CNSCA stats, there are only 2 shooters out of about 500 who have shot in the order of 2000 targets this year and have an average of over 85 and they aren't shooting 20g.
 
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