Skeet

When I started shooting skeet, it took me almost a year of shooting 10+ rounds a week before I got my first 25.

Way back about 1964 when I was getting started they had a beautiful patch for 100 straight. I wanted it. I would go twice a week and shoot 50, and if I didn't miss I would keep going. I got 97 straight, and choked on low house 7. The easiest shot on the course. Loss of concentration.
That's why I don't like trap. I can go out there right now, after not shooting trap for years, and probably rip off a 23 or 24, and within a few trips rip off 100, but to get 200 or more like you need to to really compete in serious trap, forget it. I shoot for fun, and having to concentrate over a long period isn't fun for me. I did enough of that at work for over 40 years.

Shoot Low Gun.
That'll humble you....

kudu said:

Tried for the 75 straight, but dropped 2 birds

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Told`ya it would be humbling....



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For me shooting with the gun low is difficult. I'm sure i could get better with practice.

When I was shooting skeet competitively in the 1990's, I'd use .410 bore for attitude and precision adjustment. If one, you can break targets as well as with the larger gauges. But, it shows up problems easier if you shoot it some.

My 20 gauge averages were better than my 12 gauge averages so that is what I shot in the 12 gauge events. Again, with work and with today's ligher 12 gauge loads, my 12 gauge averages might eclipses my 20 gauge averages. A slightly larger starting pattern of the 12 gauge load might be an advantage.

I had a fondness for 28 gauge. My first hunting was with my Dad's 28 gauge side by side shot gun. I got a pheasant with it. Later, when shooting skeet with a tubed Browning O/U, I enjoyed shooting 28 gauge skeet. I won my first class win in 28 gauge after a shoot off with another competitor. Doubles at station 3, 4 and 5. We matched hits/misses at the first two stations but my competitor missed on the first pair of doubles. I hit both targets on the first pair of doubles and won the class.

That was 20+ years ago and I do not shoot skeet as well.

Anyway, it is skeet for me. Trap and sporting clays do not light my life on fire but I consider what others enjoy about those clay target sports. It is great that we have choices.

410 is so expensive, so is 28, and 16.....they are getting more easy to find now, but for a while there...oof.

I shoot a 20, not as expensive as the others, and it does not hit me as hard as the 12.

Great fun I am lucky enough to shoot in the back yard.

Get yourself a used MEC 600JR.
Load up 3/4oz 12ga -- very pleasant/effective

I shoot a 28 gauge and reload.

A pound of powder and bag of shot is about 5k rounds

Lo-Profile said:

I shoot a 28 gauge and reload.

A pound of powder and bag of shot is about 5k rounds

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5K????
7000÷15=466. You must mean 500.