field guns used for skeet??

[petey156]

Will I be at a disadvantage if I used field gun such as a Browning Citori White lightning for skeet? The only difference I see is the stock. A there any rules for this? If it fits i am going to use it, right?
let me know what you think.....

 

[Dave McCracken]

Skeet was originally a game for hunters off season practicing. The current trend for heavy shotguns and pre mounting has obscured that.

It may be harder to win the Nationals with your shotgun than with an 8 lb, 32" barreled gamer O/U.

It will not be harder to have fun and bust a reasonable amount of birds with your shotgun.

Enjoy.....

 

[throdgrain]

Assuming you actually mean skeet as in skeet, a course of high and low clays ,some in pairs, there's nothing wrong with using a sporting shotgun for it, people do it all the time. Hell I've hit 19 or 20 ex 25 with a Mossberg 500.

If like a lot of people on THR you mean skeet to mean random shooting at clays, well, your gun will be fine for that as well.

Basically, no problem

 

[sm]

Nope.

If the gun fits you is all that matters.

Focus on the target , not the equipment. Will Fennell

 

[Capstick1]

Yes you can

I've used a standard "Light Twelve" poly choked Auto Five for both skeet and trap. It's worked quite well for me. I've competed against people using expensive high grade over/unders and I've never felt disadvantaged with this field grade shotgun. Out of all the shotguns I own this one is truly one of my favorites. No matter what shotgun you use remember one thing. Practice, practice, practice. In time your scores will improve.

 

[testify4]

I shot skeet with a team from work for a couple years with my ugly black 870 pump. I could do quite well with it, and learning wingshooting with your field gun is a plus.

Another guy on the team used a Citori and had a great time with it. He almost got me to buy one!

 

[Jeff F]

Nothing like trigger time no matter what you shoot. I will even take my short barreled HD shotgun and shoot trap,skeet and sporting clays with it from time to time.

 

[Border]

I use my Browning Citori XS for skeet, sporting clays, trap and field. Good for everything and all a practice for bird hunting. I think there is an advantage toward staying with one gun.

 

[1/4MOA]

I agree with border, get used to your gun and stay with it. I do a ton of waterfowl hunting, as well as high house-low house skeet. I've competed in several local invitational shoots and even won several, routinly breaking 24 and 25 out of 25. All of these were with a Benelli M1 super90.

IMO, it doesnt matter what you shoot. A $200 single shot H&R can throw lead in the same way as that $2000 O/U. What ever you shoot, shoot it, be familiar with it, CLEAN IT, and have fun.

 

[surfinUSA]

Capstick,

Nice to see someone else uses an Auto 5. I use a 16 gauge and do quite well with it at the local trap range. There is nothing like the look on the faces of someone that believes throwing money at the clays is better than learning how to shoot them, when they find out that that old 50's gun is only a 16 gauge.

One of these days I'm going to look for a nice Japanese light twelve (I'd like something I can shoot steel shot through), they really are a great gun.

 

[Ed/Pa]

Petey....If the gun fits and you know where it shoots you will be fine.

 

[Steve C]

If you have interchangeable chokes use a full or modified for Trap (all clays thrown going away, long range) and cylinder or improved cyl for Skeet (high and low house close range).

If you start shooting regularly and participate in formal or fun competition you'll eventually buy a gun specific to the game you play.

 

[txgolfer45]

I use my Browning Citori White Lightning for skeet, sporting clays and 5 stand. Works for me!!!!

 

[MidMichBlue]

In my professional opinion, you need at one of each. Feel free to use me as a reference when explaining this to your wife.

 

[b.thomas]

I used my 1187 skeet to hunt pheasent so I guess you can use a field gun for skeet.

 

[Capstick1]

I don't think you can use a trap specific shotgun for skeet or sporting clays. If you do it might be a bit of a struggle to be effective with it. Trap specific guns are narrowly focused and have a radically styled buttstock that's really only good for one thing. Trapshooting.

 

[cat_IT_guy]

I've actually seen a couple of guys do quite well as skeet with trap guns. It was really fun to watch because everytime he hit the target it wolud just evaporate because of the tight choke in his trap gun.

As for field guns and skeet, absolutely they will work. I shot skeet for several years with a run of the mill 870, now i use a Ruger Red Label, another field gun and I've never heard a clay complain.

 

[Shell Shucker]

I have two Citori Lightnings, a 28 and a 410. I shoot "real" skeet. I have broken several 25 strait with the 28 and just shot my fist strait with the 410. I shoot low gun. They work for me! I recently knocked the crap out of some game farm pheasants with the 28. That was fun!

If your goal is to compete at registered skeet a 10 lb tubed 12 ga is probably the answer.

 

[berettashotgun]

If the shoe fits - run in it.
Otherwise you'll get a blister.

 

[ArmedBear]

I shoot low gun.

Good to know there are some real men on here.