I have no idea about what particular rules apply to shooting skeet, but by golly that has to be the most fun sport you can do with a gun! I don't think we're doing it right, but my wife throws them with the little red plastic thing we got at Wal Mart, and I shoot them down. Then we switch, and she just destroys the poor little things. I never did get off to dove hunting, but I really like shooting the pigeons. What other fun sports are there in the gun world that I have overlooked?
Shooting skeets and other fowl.
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You can classify shooting sports as plinking and Organized plinking. The organized plinkers shoot at paper bullseye targets (nra bullseye), cardboard cutouts (ipsc, idpa), steel critter cutouts (silliwete), steel plates (steel challange, cowboy action), clay 'pigeons' (trap, skeet), bowling pins (second chance).
The general plinking shoots at anything that is a safe and legal target. tin cans, washing machines, old auto's, ice balls, water jugs, sticks of dynomite, interesting rocks--ETC.
Have I missed anything guys??
The general plinking shoots at anything that is a safe and legal target. tin cans, washing machines, old auto's, ice balls, water jugs, sticks of dynomite, interesting rocks--ETC.
Have I missed anything guys??
Nope...a good ,well set up Sporting Clays course is the ultimate in shooting sports. Be prepared to deal with targets thrown from all points of the compass. Also the sport has several different sizes of clays that fly differently and good course setters can make the clays do amazing things.
Warning, Sporting Clays is addictive and does tend to be expensive. Try it you'll like it, but don't say I didn't warn you about it becoming an obsession.
Geoff Ross
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Warning, Sporting Clays is addictive and does tend to be expensive. Try it you'll like it, but don't say I didn't warn you about it becoming an obsession.
Geoff Ross
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One reason to vote in the next Presidential election.
It's the Supreme Court, Stupid!
kjm
I started that way. An old 870 pump and a hand thrower. Please take my advice.
Put that target thrower away and never look at it again. Soon it will get boring and you will consider one of those spring loaded clay throwers that go into the ground. Then you will tire of that and go to the local skeet/trap/sporting clays range. You'll try a little of everything. People will explain the rules to you and maybe let you try their nice shiny guns. You'll think about a new gun, maybe one of those foreign named over/unders with choke tubes. Then comes the reloading machine, the shooting vest, the electronic ear protectors, the tinted glasses with the little wind guards. You'll read books, watch videos and consider important issues as the best lens tint on a cloudy day against a green background and whether you need to have your gun fitted. You'll start shooting the local club matches and move to registered targets, regional shoots comes next and before you know it you will be standing at the Grand in Vandalia (if you are a trap shooter) along with thousands of like minded addicts. All to break a little disk made of compressed pitch.
Hope to see you there.
I started that way. An old 870 pump and a hand thrower. Please take my advice.
Put that target thrower away and never look at it again. Soon it will get boring and you will consider one of those spring loaded clay throwers that go into the ground. Then you will tire of that and go to the local skeet/trap/sporting clays range. You'll try a little of everything. People will explain the rules to you and maybe let you try their nice shiny guns. You'll think about a new gun, maybe one of those foreign named over/unders with choke tubes. Then comes the reloading machine, the shooting vest, the electronic ear protectors, the tinted glasses with the little wind guards. You'll read books, watch videos and consider important issues as the best lens tint on a cloudy day against a green background and whether you need to have your gun fitted. You'll start shooting the local club matches and move to registered targets, regional shoots comes next and before you know it you will be standing at the Grand in Vandalia (if you are a trap shooter) along with thousands of like minded addicts. All to break a little disk made of compressed pitch.
Hope to see you there.
Charcoal briquets.
Sitting still, they make a neat puff of black smoke when you hit 'em, and if you make a thrower out of about 18 inches of broomhandle and a creatively hacked-up tennis ball can, you can pretty much simulate a slow, fat, squirrely pigeon.
Down here, you can find Shurfine charcoal for two to three dollars for a 10 pound bag. Less, on sale.
LawDog
Sitting still, they make a neat puff of black smoke when you hit 'em, and if you make a thrower out of about 18 inches of broomhandle and a creatively hacked-up tennis ball can, you can pretty much simulate a slow, fat, squirrely pigeon.
Down here, you can find Shurfine charcoal for two to three dollars for a 10 pound bag. Less, on sale.
LawDog
Back when I was a young'un... I worked as a DJ in a little 1000 watt AM station. The record companies would send HUNDREDS of 45 records to us a week for us to play. (Tells you how long ago THAT was, dosen't it?) Most were REALY bad. I looked down in the basement one day and found several thousand of these old records. Next day, little brother and I were out in the boonies flinging those 45s like frizbees... and bustin 'um with our .410s. Man was that a hoot. We shot them with everything, 12 ga, .410, .38 Specials loaded with Rat Shot.. even .22 mags out of an old Model 94-22M.
Problem came when grampa saw us coming home after leaving with all that ammo. A gun was a tool to Pop... You used it to put food on the table. "You boys sure shot up a lot of ammo.. what did you bag?" Those 45s did NOT eat very well at all.
Bubba
Problem came when grampa saw us coming home after leaving with all that ammo. A gun was a tool to Pop... You used it to put food on the table. "You boys sure shot up a lot of ammo.. what did you bag?" Those 45s did NOT eat very well at all.
Bubba
I've never understood skeet shooting. No matter how you cook 'em, they still taste like dirt. 
I like dundee's categorization. If you think about it, target shooting is less practical than milk jug shooting, as trash blasting offers a tougher sighting picture than an iron-sight 6 o'clock hold on a high-contrast bull.
dundee, you did leave out dirt clods and stumps. The folks at the IDSA (Int'l Dirtclod Shooting Association) will probably nail you for fragmenting the shooting sports...
I like dundee's categorization. If you think about it, target shooting is less practical than milk jug shooting, as trash blasting offers a tougher sighting picture than an iron-sight 6 o'clock hold on a high-contrast bull.
dundee, you did leave out dirt clods and stumps. The folks at the IDSA (Int'l Dirtclod Shooting Association) will probably nail you for fragmenting the shooting sports...