What type of shotgun for SKEET/TRAP?

What do you use for skeet and/or trap?

  • Single shot

    Votes: 3 2.9%

  • Over and under

    Votes: 52 49.5%

  • Side by side

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • Pump action

    Votes: 14 13.3%

  • Semi auto

    Votes: 34 32.4%
  • Total voters
    105
I've used a Winchester 1400, semi, with changeable chokes for everything, since I got it in 1972. I have other guns I've used at times, but the 1400 gets the biggest workout by far. It's scarred and ugly, but has beat lots of those fancy specialty guns enough times that the eyes roll and the muttering starts when it comes out at the range. It only gets laughed at by the people it hasn't been shot against.;)
 
I go with semi auto beretta for skeet, O/U for trap.

Have even used a wincester 94 in .410 for skeet but it whacks the back of the hand when actioning for a second shot on the doubles! Managed a 21 from 25 though.
 
If you are planning on shooing "seriously" then the choice is pretty important. An avid shooter, of any clay target sport will also usually be a handloader. The cost of new shells every weekend would get prohibitive, and other than the "Grand American" or shoots of national championship nature, nearly all others will allow the use of handloaded ammo. So, the premise of saving money by handloading starts with saving your empties. Easy to do with an Over/Under, or a pump and on singles with a S/A can be done with a shell catcher. However, if you are shooting anything that needs two shots, an O/U is the way to go as a handloader, because nearly all clubs have a rule forbidding picking up empty hulls. With anything other than an O/U at least one of your hulls is going to be on the ground, and lost to you. So, if you can afford one gun go with an O/U, and if you get lucky you can find one with a combo single barrel for singles and handicap.
 
The reigning semi-automatic on the clay fields is the Beretta 391. While the Teknys and the Golds are fancy save your money and get the plain Sporting Optima. Second place would go to the Browning Gold.

The Remingtons IMO are declining in quality and in popularity. The shooters in our parts who are using recently acquired 1100s seem to have far more problems with them than the Beretta owners.
 
tbg@sasktel.net said:
If you are planning on shooing "seriously" then the choice is pretty important. An avid shooter, of any clay target sport will also usually be a handloader. The cost of new shells every weekend would get prohibitive, and other than the "Grand American" or shoots of national championship nature, nearly all others will allow the use of handloaded ammo. So, the premise of saving money by handloading starts with saving your empties. Easy to do with an Over/Under, or a pump and on singles with a S/A can be done with a shell catcher. However, if you are shooting anything that needs two shots, an O/U is the way to go as a handloader, because nearly all clubs have a rule forbidding picking up empty hulls. With anything other than an O/U at least one of your hulls is going to be on the ground, and lost to you. So, if you can afford one gun go with an O/U, and if you get lucky you can find one with a combo single barrel for singles and handicap.
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All this does not seem to apply anymore. Most seem to practice with the cheap or promo stuff, but I have never seen so many once fired AAs on the ground as where I shoot. Where once it belonged to the club if it hit the ground, our club manager seems to appreciate those who pic up after themselves.
 
Covey Ridge said:
All this does not seem to apply anymore. Most seem to practice with the cheap or promo stuff, but I have never seen so many once fired AAs on the ground as where I shoot. Where once it belonged to the club if it hit the ground, our club manager seems to appreciate those who pic up after themselves.
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I agree. There is not nearly as much reloading now with the cheap promo shells around. Even though lead is $40 a bag around here I still reload but my component cost is between $4.80 and $5.10 per box depending on the shot weight.

When I shoot my semi I pick up hulls. Not mine however but all the AAs that were left behind and there are a lot of them. I've even found a few AAHS in 28 gauge which are much appreciated. :D
 
Claybuster said:
When I shoot my semi I pick up hulls. Not mine however but all the AAs that were left behind and there are a lot of them. I've even found a few AAHS in 28 gauge which are much appreciated. :D
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When I shoot skeet with my o/u and other shooters see me keeping my AAs, some other shooters offer me their once fired AAs. I always wear my big pocketed vest when shooting skeet with the well heeled:D The odd time I shoot with a pump or auto I use top guns and let em fall. When I use top guns with my o/u I pocket them til I get to the trash can.
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trap shooting

:If you are looking for a price on a trap gun you can spend from 1500 to 20,000. You have to see whay you like and how well you shoot the gun. If you shoot your field gun well try it for a while until you can afford a trap gun. Trap guns are made for thousands of rounds, I have shot aprox 50,000 rounds from a few different trap guns i own and enjoy the sport, nothing like it.:)
 
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