First outing on the trapline

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Hello all!

First post after having lurked for some months:

A week ago, my GF and my sister took me out for a belated birthday present. Being a targetshooter for about 7 years now, and hinted a couple times I'd like to shoot some clays sometime, my GF came up with the idea for my birthday, love that girl!

So we went out to a big outdoor-terrain with a traprange. We decided we'd do a course, which also included some rimfire shooting, bow shooting as well as clays.

We started with the rimfire shooting, bunny targets at 25 meters. My GF and I both scored the maximum amount of points there. My sister had a little more trouble, beeing a lefty and cross-dominant. So she scored a bit less then the rest of us.

Then the bow-shooting. I also scored better here. Though the scores were near.

Then the real challenge came. The clays. We shot 4 stations, 5 birds each. Wow, those things are tought to hit. Maybe it's because I'm wired to be aiming at the targets instead of trying to miss them. I hit only 8 of the 20 birds. My GF was a much better shot for the moving things. She hit about twelve I think. My sister wasn't nearly as good, but we all had a good laugh.

In the final scores I won, with 4 points ahead of my GF, but I think she let me win, because it was my birthday. All in all a good day, got a nice red spot on my shoulder as a reminder.

Too bad it's that expensive, and I'm a poor student, because I'd love to bust some more. :D
 
AND SO IT STARTS....

First, a trip or two to the range and some fun time destroying things loudly.

Then, the wife shows up with a new fancy shooting vest, and before you can say "Perazzi MX 8" your money is gone into shotguns, ammo, accessories and bling.

You'll learn to use numbers as nouns, as in 12, 37, 97,500, 870, 1100, 1300 and so on.

Every catalog with the word "Shotgun" in it more than twice shows up in your mail, and you'd both rather look through them than the one from Victoria's Secret or Mercedes-Benz.

What was the family room will have his and her reloaders bolted to a workbench and Hoppe's #9 is the fragrance of the day, not Estee Lauder.

And about the time you get the Mastercard paid off, someone will tell your wife about the mighty 28 gauge.

Welcome to Shotgunland.....

Seriously, read the 101 threads for some tips and info, Be advised that pain is not necessarily a part of Shotgunning.

Shotgunning is like Sex. If it hurts you're doing it wrong.

HTH.....
 
Well it didn't hurt. I actually was quite surprised to find that spot on my shoulder while showering.

I'd love to do some more, but shooting is more restricted over here (The Netherlands) - though it's not as bad as some countries around us (UK, Germany) - and therefore more expensive.

I recently read something about restrictions on leadshot. You can only posess it with a license, and to get that license you have to be able to prove you shoot in places it's allowed to shoot (over the border) or somesuch. So we're allready limited to steelshot, bismut and the like.

But I don't think those restrictions will bother me much :evil:
 
shootingdutchman - Welcome to THR!

Tell ya what I gonna do[tm] - I'll be your personal shopper.

Hello Mastercard, this is Steve - again. Yeah you might want to sit down first...we need to bump up shootingdutchman limit a "tad". Oh we got him fixed up...shopping for the GF now... :uhoh: ;)
 
shootingdutchman, welcome to the High Road,

Now for some words of caution, watch out for that guy sm, he'll get you in all kinds of trouble. ;)
 
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