Trap guns

quail hound said:
Went to our local range a few years ago and the old trap guys were very rude to us as new comers. Went over to the skeet and those guys welcomed us to shoot a round with them and were much more friendly, helpful and laid back. Never shot trap again.
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I too have had this happen to me and I like skeet more anyway. I really like my 28 ga O/U for skeet but it is expensive to do so. Sporting clays is lots of fun if you have a good course to shoot. Will have to go shoot some near by ones this spring.
 
SDJIM said:
I too have had this happen to me and I like skeet more anyway. I really like my 28 ga O/U for skeet but it is expensive to do so. Sporting clays is lots of fun if you have a good course to shoot. Will have to go shoot some near by ones this spring.
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i dont shoot in a league but i shoot auto trap in what you might call a pickup squad with stangers at the local public range.occasionally ,I'll run across a group that I can tell have shot together before and i'll join in with them.I wouldnt necessarily call them rude always ,more like focused.trap shooting is a game where all the shots are fairly simple but the game requires a standardized form or focus to hit 25 straight,definitly for a hundred straight.the challenge is in consistency and as such many shooters want the squad to run smoothly, no distractions.this may lead to some sighs and frowns. thats unfortunate. i wonder if in my drive to challenge my self i may have been to serious or taciturn.
as to the thread,any one of a dozen guns,ill take 2 or 3 and switch between games
 
Snooty shooters..... Let me tell you about snooty trap shooters. If your just an occasional trap shooter shooting a practice round with a group of hardened, hard core trap shooters and your a little slow in your call for the target.... You'll get some looks that could kill. My god... disrupt their quick flow from shooter to shooter when calling for the bird and you mess them all up and they throw a hissy fit. TRap shooters (not all of them) are some of the snootiest shooters I've had unfortunate pleasure of shooting with. :rolleyes:

I've shot Sporting clays for 23 years, 20 of those were registered tournament shooting and I have yet to witness a new shooter who was not welcomed in by a squad of more experienced shooters and NOT given friendly advice along the way on how to play the game.
 
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I shot leage trap 5 years ago and it was not fun. a bunch of us usually went to shoot for fun then we decided to join a leauge. we were not that good and we didnt have $5000 shotguns we used our hunting guns-we didnt have fancy vests for our shells-we didnt have fancy yellow glasses with stupid side visors-we put our shells in our pockets and just shot clays and we were treated like crap- in the end we still had fun by ourselves and our shooting got much better without all that fancy jjunk! we are just a bunch of upland hunters that wanted to get some practice not a lesson on how to be a jerk.people would laugh at our guns and one guy said you cant shoot good with a pump. what a bunch of losers!!!
 
We've gotten of track I think but imagine the looks I got walking up to the line with my 20ga o/u with 26" barrels.:eek:
 
Our gun club is nothing like that. We have a bunch of super folks at ours. They shoot anything and everything. We have our serous shooters also, even a few well to do A-holes but we don't pay much attention to them. Our clubs best shooter this year is only 18 and he shoots a Mossberg 500 that doesn't function half the time but the kid shot something like 9 perfect 25's over the summer during his league shoots. Plus some in practice.
 
onpoint said:
Our gun club is nothing like that. We have a bunch of super folks at ours. They shoot anything and everything. We have our serous shooters also, even a few well to do A-holes but we don't pay much attention to them. Our clubs best shooter this year is only 18 and he shoots a Mossberg 500 that doesn't function half the time but the kid shot something like 9 perfect 25's over the summer during his league shoots. Plus some in practice.
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:thumbsup: That's really cool.:D

I wasn't saying I don't like the type of people who shoot trap versus sporting clays. I think there are friendly people everywhere, as well as jerks. I was just saying sporting clays is a more fun game to me. I like to walk through the course and talk and enjoy myself. It's more fun to me than standing in formation and shooting in order.
 
Toad said:
:thumbsup: That's really cool.:D

I wasn't saying I don't like the type of people who shoot trap versus sporting clays. I think there are friendly people everywhere, as well as jerks. I was just saying sporting clays is a more fun game to me. I like to walk through the course and talk and enjoy myself. It's more fun to me than standing in formation and shooting in order.
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I'll agree sporting clays is fun. Our local sporting clays range has lost their marbles on what they are charging now. I just couldn't afford to shoot it. It's like $20 plus and to shoot a round, when our trap club is only charging $7.00 a round for members.
 
Now I did it...................
 
birdshooter said:
Snooty shooters..... Let me tell you about snooty trap shooters. If your just an occasional trap shooter shooting a practice round with a group of hardened, hard core trap shooters and your a little slow in your call for the target.... You'll get some looks that could kill. My god... disrupt their quick flow from shooter to shooter when calling for the bird and you mess them all up and they throw a hissy fit. TRap shooters (not all of them) are some of the snootiest shooters I've had unfortunate pleasure of shooting with. :rolleyes:

I've shot Sporting clays for 23 years, 20 of those were registered tournament shooting and I have yet to witness a new shooter who was not welcomed in by a squad of more experienced shooters and NOT given friendly advice along the way on how to play the game.
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maybe those snooty shooter have some kind of wager or a pool they pay into and wiiner takes all. i was intrigued to learn there was at least 6 way to bet on golf.golf hustlers,pool hustlers, trap hustlers? it could happen
 
onpoint said:
I'll agree sporting clays is fun. Our local sporting clays range has lost their marbles on what they are charging now. I just couldn't afford to shoot it. It's like $20 plus and to shoot a round, when our trap club is only charging $7.00 a round for members.
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first off round a sporting clays is 50 targets round of trap is 25.

secondly most courses have at least 2 auto traps at each station, and 10 stations per course. You top that with specialty targets (rabbits, battues etc.) It doesn't take much to figure out why the cost is more but still fun.
 
birdshooter said:
first off round a sporting clays is 50 targets round of trap is 25.

secondly most courses have at least 2 auto traps at each station, and 10 stations per course. You top that with specialty targets (rabbits, battues etc.) It doesn't take much to figure out why the cost is more but still fun.
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Why it is more expensive and affording it are two different things. Twice the ammo cost, three times more cost per round. Just not in the budget.

Still, I hope you guys enjoy yourselves. It's all fun.
 
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A sneak Peek....Here it is
 
For Sporting Clays - 20 ga Bng Auto Gold and use #8 shell, sometimes 7.5. Usually shoot in the mid 30's, but rarely go over 40.

Have not shot trap and skeet for years...
 
onpoint said:
Why it is more expensive and affording it are two different things. Twice the ammo cost, three times more cost per round. Just not in the budget.

Still, I hope you guys enjoy yourselves. It's all fun.
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You really can't look at it that way. If I shoot 2 rounds of trap (50 targets) now the cost is $14 according to your clubs cost. A round of 50 sporting targets at your club costs $20, so it's not 3 times the cost on a target per target cost comparison. .28 vs .40. Your right, whether you can afford or not is entirely another matter.

If you get on a league the cost is affordable. The club I shoot leagues at charges $17 per 50 targets and $30 for 100 targets, so you get a break on the second 50. Lots of guys will shoot leagues and shoot their 50 targets every other week. The club sets up it's leagues as week 1-10 with each week consisting of 50 sporting targets and the course is changed each week. First month is set up to shoot Week 1 and 2, next month week 3 and 4 and so on until all 10 weeks are shot. You can also re-score any week up to 2 times within that month. So you shoot as much as you want, but a minimum of 100 targets a month, which is not outlandishly expensive by any means.
 
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jonnyB said:
For Sporting Clays - 20 ga Bng Auto Gold and use #8 shell, sometimes 7.5. Usually shoot in the mid 30's, but rarely go over 40.

Have not shot trap and skeet for years...
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Same here except I shoot a 12 ga. O/U. Usually shoot in the mid thirties. I think I shot a 40 or 41 one time but that's it. When I was shooting Trap I only broke 25 straight one time but usually broke 22-24 most of the time. Trap is easy and boring compared to sporting clays. I will take it up again when I retire in 4 yrs. for something to do along with sporting clays. Hell, I might even try Skeet, lord knows I need to! I suck on crossing shots!:eek::cheers:
 
Even some of the "sporty's" stations are a bit boring..so I like to mix it up a bit and not confine the game to what they list on the scoring sheets - in fact some of the time I ignore the score sheets entirely and focus on the crossers.

Some of the targets are starting to drop, which I find difficult and kind of a trick shot, not a typical pheasant shot, so I ignore those targets.

Yes, left to right crossers - not my best shot! A fun sport that one doesn't take seriously.
 
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