Sporting Clays?
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Originally Posted by teknics' post='916561' date='Feb 12 2009, 06:11 PM
20 gauge, single shot, 3 round. It's actually a pretty special gun but i forget the model and ****. Half the time i go to thunder mountain people im shooting with try to buy it from me.
My father and I are always shooting, not to sound like i have a huge ego but we're very good, when we miss a clay it's one of those dubya tee eff moments. The best is when you hit the clay with the wad but none of the actual shot.
I dont know what type you did but there's a wide variety. There's the open range kinda where you get 1-3 towers in front of you, you stand in a predetermined square and yell for the shots, basically standing in the midle of a field. Then there's wooded clay where you basically hike thru the woods to different stations, there's also speed clay which is a bitch. Then there's different kinds of clays, did you run into any rabbit clays? those are shot out rolling on the ground.
At thunder mountain there's one stop on the wooded trail where two rabbit clays come downhill thru the woods at ridiculous speed, one of the most challenging shots for sure.
of course there's old fashioned clay too. Basically a wood "bar" inf ront of you, machine mounted next to you, open area in front, yell pull, shoot clay repeat.
kevin.
My father and I are always shooting, not to sound like i have a huge ego but we're very good, when we miss a clay it's one of those dubya tee eff moments. The best is when you hit the clay with the wad but none of the actual shot.
I dont know what type you did but there's a wide variety. There's the open range kinda where you get 1-3 towers in front of you, you stand in a predetermined square and yell for the shots, basically standing in the midle of a field. Then there's wooded clay where you basically hike thru the woods to different stations, there's also speed clay which is a bitch. Then there's different kinds of clays, did you run into any rabbit clays? those are shot out rolling on the ground.
At thunder mountain there's one stop on the wooded trail where two rabbit clays come downhill thru the woods at ridiculous speed, one of the most challenging shots for sure.
of course there's old fashioned clay too. Basically a wood "bar" inf ront of you, machine mounted next to you, open area in front, yell pull, shoot clay repeat.
kevin.
Yah, this place I went was like golf with shotguns. Each station was a different pair, some overhead, some left to right (vice-versa), some really far, some fast. The hardest was the rabbit though man. I never hit that **** once, I could never time the bounce!!!! I wasted 6 rounds and gave up. LOL
Near the end of the day, i was able to do doubles with some consistency. Tons of fun, im actually looking at getting a shotgun now...haha
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yea thats a nice open range setup, good for practicing long range accuracy and for learning how to shoot ahead of your targets.
a good, and weird way, to learn how to shoot in front of your targets properly is to play that old computer game with two tanks shooting at each other from other sides of a hill, teaches you trajectory and wind factoring.
after says 10-15 shots my heads tuned in and i start dusting them, it's actually a challenging sport personally. use to be only a game for kings BTW lol.
kevin.
a good, and weird way, to learn how to shoot in front of your targets properly is to play that old computer game with two tanks shooting at each other from other sides of a hill, teaches you trajectory and wind factoring.
after says 10-15 shots my heads tuned in and i start dusting them, it's actually a challenging sport personally. use to be only a game for kings BTW lol.
kevin.
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