Sport Skeet

[Rob!]

New game - or maybe I've just been hiding under a rock. Sounds like fun. Every Day at the world shoot.

https://mynssa.nssa-nsca.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2010/07/NSC-Sport-Skeet-Flyer-WS25.pdf

 

[Wade Kirk]

Several years ago I shot several rounds of Modern Skeet.

Like this but with machines that oscillate vertically. IIRC, station 8 was a true pair, shooting low as an incomer and high as a retreating target, which could be anywhere from the height of the low house window and diving to the ground to in the clouds.

The gentlemen who owned the club said he had never seen a 25, so no hats are harmed in this game.

What a fun game. Would love to do it again.

 

[kevin g]

Sometimes, when there's not enuff shooters, the few of us will shoot all true pairs on the skeet field. even on St # 8, with a single low left. Like to stay on 3, 4, 5 and 8 sometimes too, shoot 3 hi singles, then 3 low...last shot trappers choice !

All in good fun and practice

 

[iron cat]

Sometimes, when there's not enuff shooters, the few of us will shoot all true pairs on the skeet field. even on St # 8, with a single low left. Like to stay on 3, 4, 5 and 8 sometimes too, shoot 3 hi singles, then 3 low...last shot trappers choice !

All in good fun and practice

I use skeet for practise for upland hunting so me and my hunting pal and my son shoot all doubles starting from low gun.
Cat

 

[stubblejumper]

I shoot a lot of doubles skeet, and I use my SxS upland guns to shoot doubles before bird season. In wet weather, I shoot skeet with my semi autos, and always doubles . When shooting sporting clays other than league, I try and shoot all targets as true pairs.

 

[Rob!]

Well, if it's being shot at the worlds, maybe it'll stick. Pretty sure I can do all this with my EZ-Pull voice release. I'll have to give it a try.

 

[Falconflyer]

Haha, allowing up to 3 seconds to pull will totally screw up the dedicated skeet shooters. Delaying even one second will cause those guys to refuse the target. A good way to find out who your friends are I suppose!

My buddies have been mixing up the skeet format to make it more interesting for years, im surprised something like this hasn’t caught on sooner.

 

[struff55]

Haha, allowing up to 3 seconds to pull will totally screw up the dedicated skeet shooters. Delaying even one second will cause those guys to refuse the target. A good way to find out who your friends are I suppose!

My buddies have been mixing up the skeet format to make it more interesting for years, im surprised something like this hasn’t caught on sooner.

the 3 second delay has been in olympic skeet for 50-60 years

 

[NZClaybuster]

Now do it single shooter at a time with fastest round to break ties!!

 

[Falconflyer]

the 3 second delay has been in olympic skeet for 50-60 years

Is that so, I've never shot Olympic skeet.

The 3 second rule has been in sporting clays for many years but a lot of shooters don't even know that, at least I'm assuming it still is. I've seen a few guys pull a target a bit late and the shooter refuses the bird and wants another. By the regulations it's a lost bird but it's almost never enforced, just another reason I quit shooting registered sporting a number of years ago, too many shooters have no idea what the rules are.

 

[Rob!]

For a while, Silver Willow had the skeet range set up for someone practicing for Olympic Skeet. I went down and put my card in the machine and launched a few targets from the card reader.

I laughed and Laughed!!!! Then I went home. Geezuz!!!!

 

[struff55]

i have been shooting registered trap and skeet targets since 1973 ish
when i started shooting olympic style skeet in the 80's the 3 second delay and gun down was already being utilized

 

[reddog]

We have started throwing Olympic skeet at our club ,55mph vs 50 with the delay quite impressed with some of the shooters and I thought mallards were fast....

 

[stubblejumper]

If you find even doubles to be too easy, shoot doubles with the 410. I have shot clean rounds of doubles with all of the larger gauges, but not with the 410. I always seem to drop a target on 3,4 or 5, usually at 4.

 

[Beekman]

Several years ago I shot several rounds of Modern Skeet.

Like this but with machines that oscillate vertically. IIRC, station 8 was a true pair, shooting low as an incomer and high as a retreating target, which could be anywhere from the height of the low house window and diving to the ground to in the clouds.

The gentlemen who owned the club said he had never seen a 25, so no hats are harmed in this game.

What a fun game. Would love to do it again.

We shoot the same game weekly at my club, but call it "Wobble Skeet". The vertical oscillation makes it very interesting and all first 2 targets on station 1, 2, 6 & 7 are thrown as "report pairs", then following "true pairs". With the oscillation, sometimes on the true pairs 1 target is barely above the ground while the other is sky high. Makes it challenging to determine the exact target flight path.

This game really screws with the die hard American style skeet shooters.

Very rare to see a 25 perfect round, but I and a couple of others have shot the perfect round. Station 8 is the best with a true pair facing the low house and then taking the high house after it comes from behind over your head.

Alot more fun shooting Wobble skeet than regular American style skeet.

 

[Licensed to kill]

We shoot the same game weekly at my club, but call it "Wobble Skeet". The vertical oscillation makes it very interesting and all first 2 targets on station 1, 2, 6 & 7 are thrown as "report pairs", then following "true pairs". With the oscillation, sometimes on the true pairs 1 target is barely above the ground while the other is sky high. Makes it challenging to determine the exact target flight path.

This game really screws with the die hard American style skeet shooters.

Very rare to see a 25 perfect round, but I and a couple of others have shot the perfect round. Station 8 is the best with a true pair facing the low house and then taking the high house after it comes from behind over your head.

Alot more fun shooting Wobble skeet than regular American style skeet.

I am relatively new to skeet (and it shows) but even though I am no where near mastering “regular” skeet, this “wobble skeet” sounds like a hoot.

 

[stubblejumper]

I am relatively new to skeet (and it shows) but even though I am no where near mastering “regular” skeet, this “wobble skeet” sounds like a hoot.

When you earn your skeet patches, try sporting clays, for the most challenge.

 

[Licensed to kill]

When you earn your skeet patches, try sporting clays, for the most challenge.

I have tried sporting clays years ago. Took my 20ga flintlock sxs to give it a whirl in Grande Prairie. While I didn’t do great, I had a blast. Always loved to concept of sporting clays. There was a retired farmer not far from here that set up a couple sporting clay courses on His place. Unfortunately, he passed away last winter snd nobody knows what is happening with his course and equipment. Sounds like our club (in High Prairie) might try to get some of his throwers if they come on the market snd set up a sporting clay course. For the record, I shot trap for the first time the other day. I was told that trap is the most difficult if the three main shotgun disciplines, I thought sporting would be more challenging but was told, in no uncertain terms, that trap is the most difficult, so I tried it.

 

[Clay Huntin' Canuck]

This definitely sounds like a challenge and a blast, like wobble trap but I'm thinking even more challenging. Would be cool at clubs with out the room for other disciplines like 5 stand or a sporting clays course.