? for you clay busters

The above poster is correct about getting competitive at any of the clay target disciplines. If your just out to have fun then don't worry about shooting tournamants. If I travel to an out of town tournament, it's easily a $600-700 weekend.

Sporting clays is great fun, but my game is skeet. Everyone gravitates to what they like best and they're all good. Best of all, you will meet some great folks at gun clubs.

BTW, shotgunworld.com has some great info about all the clay targets sports. Have fun!
 
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$600-700 a weekend! Holy smokes!

I think I'll get a better thrower and shoot at home.

Tim



The casual sporting clays shooter isn't going to spend that amount of money. I spend about $30 per month, plus gas and shells, at the most to shoot 2 50 bird rounds of sporting clays.

But, I have friends who shoot 2 50 bird rounds every Saturday and every Sunday, and they are on leagues during the week. You throw in the extra fees for matches and, yes, it can get quite expensive. But, it doesn't have to be.

And, it's always nicer to go through a course you haven't set up yourself. Part of the challenge is trying to figure out which bird out of a pair to shoot first ..... where to take it, if you change chokes, which choke or load to use, is the bird rising or falling at the point you will take the shot, so you don't over or under shoot it. If you only shoot off your own trap, you remove most of those elements of the game which makes it more interesting than trap or skeet.
 
I am not old, have poor vision or 'ill-tempered', but the 'ill tempered' is on the rise....I do enjoy shooting trap. Yes it is much simpler than skeet or sporting clays, but also allows me to teach my kids good gun handling skills, they get much quicker positive feedback, so all around a winner for me.

Now to be fair, I have never shot sporting clays, looks like a LOT of fun, and yes I want to. Nuff said.
 
Same here. I am neither old, have poor vision, or ill tempered. I am on a collegiate shooting team, and we do shoot trap, skeet, and sporting clays at many competitions. I will have to say that sporting, and skeet are by far the ones I like better. However, some are not necessarily easier than others. Yes anybody can come off the line and shoot a perfect 25 on trap, but can that same person shoot a perfect three or four hundred. It is a big concentration game at that point. I have been shooting competatively for 13 years now(yes I am a younger pup), but as far as trap and skeet goes, that perfect 3oo targets eludes me. Sporting clays however, I admit I have never shot a 100. But glad to hear some talk about this subject. Get your kids involved, its a blast. There are even a few colleges, that offer scholarships for kids if they are trap and skeet shooters.
 
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