Trap & Skeet Shotgun
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Falconflyer
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Stubblejumper nailed it.
Sporting clays will involve every imaginable target presentation that you can think of, from trap type targets and skeet type targets to everything in between, the sporting clays gun can literally do it all. If I could only own one gun it would be a sporting clays gun and I wouldn't be badly equipped for any shotgun sport.
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- South Southern Ontario
There are no stupid questions.
Golf
️ with a shotgun is a good description.Skeet and trap have set parameters like angles and distance ect.
Sporting clays anything going for the most part. Target setters can make it as hard or as easy as they want.
It's a blast I just got into it this last year and I wish there was a club they offered it closer without crossing the border.
Texas Golf Baby!! This is the Wife's and my club https://wsgclays.com/ We be flying out of BC on Fri after entertaining family for 3 weeks, be shooting the White Course Sat morning at 9am sharp, I miss it badly......
Cheers - will def go this route. Thanks all for the info.
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- Peace Country Alberta
Sporting clays is like golf but for men.
the spank
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Or for those that suck at a hi level of trap and skeet?
From what I've experienced at non-registered Sporting Clays shoots it's exactly like golf. You can take mulligans and manipulate your score card all you desire with your squad.
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the spank
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I can't speak to registered sporting clays as I've never shot it but there are no shortage of sandbaggers and broken target claimers in registered trap. I have shot registered skeet and it is by far the most honest of the registered disciplines. The puller/scorer is a sanctioned referee and of the shoots I've attended they oversaw the shooting by the rules, period.
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- South Southern Ontario
Thats the cover of a shotkam,
Youtube it.
It's literally a camera that clamps onto your barrel, I used one because I wanted to get better at skeet and it really helps because you can see where your shot went and it you stop
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- South Southern Ontario
If there a first place, prize or not there going to be cheaters.
Human nature.
C'mon Spank you never correct the scorekeeper when they say 5 and you know the guy dropped one
It's a bad idea to challenge a dead bird call. If I'm scoring and call it dead, it's dead. Argue the call and my eyesight might not be as keen when it's your turn to shoot. If I call lost and more than one other person on the squad disagrees I will probably mark it dead.
Falconflyer
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If there is a dispute over a broken clay I go with the group consensus but as the guy scoring my decision is final.
I quit registered sporting many years ago due to all the cheating that I saw. These days it’s all for the fun of it and I only compete against myself, I could cheat but then I wouldn’t be honest with myself.
I quit registered sporting many years ago due to all the cheating that I saw. These days it’s all for the fun of it and I only compete against myself, I could cheat but then I wouldn’t be honest with myself.
The sporting clays squad that I shoot on is aged 65-75, and it's not at all uncommon for other squad members to see pieces come off of a target, that the shooter doesn't see. If multiple squad members see a piece, we call the target dead. As far as sporting clays goes, I was previously primarily a skeet shooter, and the rest of the squad were trap shooters, and our sporting clays scores were much lower when we started out. As we shot more and more sporting clays, and got used to the different presentations, our skills improved, and our scores increased, to much closer to our skeet/trap scores. Our entire squad finds sporting clays to be the most challenging of the clays sports, and shooting it has improved our shooting skills.
the spank
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If I see a call that needs to be challenged I call it regardless if it was called dead or lost and again If another shooter(s) make the call and the squad members are askedC'mon Spank you never correct the scorekeeper when they say 5 and you know the guy dropped one
what they saw I report what I saw. If I saw a piece I'll say so and if I didn't I'll say so the same as the times I've been asked and did not happen to be watching. I can't report what I did not see. I always advise the scorer though that they should mark that target on the score sheet as per the rules as a challenge to their call for shoot management to review.
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