All year shotgunners?

[ZVP]

As fall wears on a mans thoughts sway towards the great outdoors, the hunt and of course our Shotguns...
I am relativelly re-newed to Shotgunning having bought two this summer Oe to be onverted to HD duty and a sweet 20 Ga double just for shooting.
Now I am sa guilty as the next guy in the respect that I don't think about my Shotgun till the fall and winter months and I don't shoot clays ( I'm disabled and the standing gets to me.
I'm usually good foe==r about 1/2 to 3/4 of a box and then the legs go sour, Since I'm in this condition I still want to shoot and do it all yer long not just when everyone else is excited about em.
I use the excuse at the Club that I'm gonna pattrtn some loads and then go and shoot my 20 or so rounds off and grin a lot!
I have been trying out the HD 12 ga at various close ranges with both Buckshot and light tatget loads ( just to save the sholder and they're cheap!) I do the same with the little SxS but at all ranges
It just seems like such a waste (even crippled up as I am) to only shoot shotguns during hunting seasons.
The reason I got away from Shotgunning was a love affair with SPring-Air Adult air rifles and rimfires/ I still like em but y tastes have hanged to revolvers (smokeless and Black Powder) and Shotgunning. I
m 65 and I figgure if I'm gonna enjoy these guns I
d better get to it so I joined a reqlly nicd shooting Club and haven't looked back since...
How bout it what do you guys do to keep your SHotguns active off-season?
Hope ya all have good health and shoot a lot1
ZVP

 

[Armored farmer]

HELLO ZVP
I have enjoyed your posts over in the b/p section. I could spend hours talking about cap'nball revolvers, but if I ever had my 15min of fame ...it was with a trapgun.
we get the shotguns out at family get-togethers and shoot clay pigeons from a thrower. Ihave a good thrower, but the chweap plastic ones are just as much fun and challenging. SDometimes the hand thrower is preferred to get someone to miss!.
If you have a local trap club, I will bet money that those guys wouldn't mind at all if you join them for a fun-shoot and bring a stool right out on the line and shoot with them. We have a couple of guys that do that at my club. one guy has a light but sturdy folding stool that he uses. Sometimes he moves with the squad, sometimes he sits in one place and shoots all 25. Certainly doesn't bother me a bit.
Then there's my good friend and club president that fell from a treestand and broke his back. He is permanently in a wheelchair since he was 35 or so. He shoots from his chair too.

 

[kudu]

I still shoot a few hundred clays a year at our local shotgun club, an assortment of skeet, trap, and sporting clays, skeet being my favorite. I'm still pretty good, but haven't shot heavily since the mid 90's when it wasn't uncommon to go through 25-30 thousand shells on skeet a year. A wife and kids can really knock the amount of money I can spend on shooting.

My daughters are old enough to be able to shoot with me sometimes if they want to, so I hope they will get into it a bit more.

 

[Pete D.]

SG

I shoot all year....weather permitting. Upland hunting through Autumn into February and Trap once a week at least all year.
Pete

 

[rromeo]

A change in profession has kept me busy and changed my climate, but the one advantage when I lived in California was the abilty to shoot a few rounds of trap or sporting clays on Christmas morning, and often not wearing a jacket. I really like all of my shotguns, from the H&R singles up to my Browning A5, and I would shoot them every day if possible.

 

[throdgrain]

I mostly shoot clays, I go maybe 3 times a month, maybe 100 shells per visit, so that's 3600 rounds a year, roughly I suppose.