Sporting Clays

[Prairie Doggin']

I think the AA is just Winchester branding/advertising.

 

[Prairie Doggin']

I think the AA is just Winchester branding/advertising.

Oops...hit enter and see Callem'in had answered...

 

[guywhofishes]

We league shot for a few years, I quit when I actually was getting worse as the season progressed.
Turns out I have a way of letting my tiny brain fill with anxiety and way over thinking my missed shot.
The corrective images and such just ruin it.

I feel seen

 

[SDMF]

When I was still a little hillbilly I was sneaking the old mans hexagon 22 with 3 or 4 short shells at a time up a big hill to shoot at an old Oldsmobile @200 yards down the hill.

I've never seen a 6-sided barrel.

I've also never seen anyone try to shoot thrown clay pigeons out of the air with a 22 @ 200yds.

Mayby encouragement

 

[Davy Crockett]

Right , my Dad always called it hexagon but it was octagon, hauled the Oldsmobile out for scrap a few years ago and it looked like Bonny and Clyde's get away car.

 

[snow2]

That AA patch caught my eye , do they classify by AA , A ,B and down the line ? And by age groups ?

Yup , my pop's got me started young 10yrs shooting a 20ga H&R single shot hammer shotgun box of clay targets for a couple bucks hand thrower,that little scatter gun kicked like a mule but I weighed around 50lbs + or - then in my teens we hit our local trap range always just b4 hunting season fun times,later in life my employer started a trap shooting league, only sport where a bunch of white guyz bbqing in the club parking lot swilling beer, shooting...no one got shot,knew it was my sport shooting my old but trusty browning A-5,usually low 20's score,then got hooked shooting registerd targets for score and playing options to help pay entry fees/ammo, watched guyz running 25 straight with fancy single barrel trap guns my old browning wasn't doing the job hot summer days the heat waves off the barrel was a issue fast forward spent 20+ yrs traveling 5 states shooting all three events with doubles the best and most fun ended up ordering a Italian custom 3 barrel trap gun 34"single barrel and 32" o/u for doubles shot 7 days/ week into winter months stuck as s B class shooter until I hooked up with a all American captain of our U.S. trap team Harlan Campbell jr,this guy was a shooting machine 200 straight in singles in big shoots he dude gun fit ,checked eye dominance adjuated POI abd LOP explained gun hold over trap house and much more,keeping focus on task at hand is a biggy,impressive his shooting videos are worth watching best money I spent for my shooting ego after my training his pointers allowed me to develop my own routine/fundamental by summer end AA with a 98 average, one thing novice shooters get messed up with is local club know it all's every club has em fancy shooting vest 25 straight patches what works for them usually doesn't work for novice shooters so be leary who you take advice from, one can shoot all summer and still be a average C or B class shooter one needs to build basic fundamentals the right way, practicing bad habits doesn't work iffin one wants to get serious like most sports fun sport but today a spending sport last few years lost interest for trap and enjoy sporting clays more action and not such a serious shooting sport. Like trap sc shoots has age classes us old guyz can't complete with young bucks hand eye coordination/ reflexes.

 

[snow2]

I've never seen a 6-sided barrel.

I've also never seen anyone try to shoot thrown clay pigeons out of the air with a 22 @ 200yds.

That would be a feet,I watched a trick shooter Tom Knapp shoot hand thrown asprin in the air and smoke em with a .22,I figured he was shooting snake loads and asked him he acted offended and said no.fun guy to watch shoot his hand thrown 10 clay targets all shot independently was impressive, sadly he passed away years ago

 

[svnmag]

I think the AA is just Winchester branding/advertising.

IDK: The gray hulled AA 7 1/2 ; 1 1/8oz @1250 is fine ammo for range and early season birds; IMHO. The shot is round and HARD. The price isn't retarded.

That is all.

 

[snow2]

IDK: The gray hulled AA 7 1/2 ; 1 1/8oz @1250 is fine ammo for range and early season birds; IMHO. The shot is round and HARD. The price isn't retarded.

That is all.

Agreed My early trap shooting days I was shooting those Winchester sc gray hull oads until I was schooled and started to get a flinch,16yd ammo ,cheap stuff,estate,rio's etc 1140fps breaks targets just fine 1 1/8oz #8's 2.75 shells in 12ga 8shot has 30 more pellets than 7.5 shot more pellets = better odds fixing a flinch takes time your brain never forgets what happens when you pull the trigger,a bad flinch for a serious shooter usually the shooter ends up with a "release" trigger on a breech shotgun.thats another trick. 7.5 shot works from the back fence 27yd stations especially on windy days or cold days when clay targets only dust not break.

 

[svnmag]

Agreed My early trap shooting days I was shooting those Winchester sc loads until I was schooled and started to get a flinch,16yd ammo ,cheap stuff,estate,rio's etc 1140fps breaks targets just fine 1 1/8oz #8's 2.75 shells in 12ga 8shot has 30 pellets than 7.5 shot m9re pellets = better odds fixing a flinch takes time your brain never forgets what happens when you pull the trigger,a bad flinch for a serious shooter usually the shooter ends up with a "release" trigger on a breech shotgun.thats another trick.

 

[snow2]

Svn,never herd of this guy? Must not be a registered shooter but maybe good read for basic fundamentals.

 

[SDMF]

us old guyz can't complete with young bucks hand eye coordination/ reflexes.

that sounds disgusting.

 

[1lessdog]

That would be a feet,I watched a trick shooter Tom Knapp shoot hand thrown asprin in the air and smoke em with a .22,I figured he was shooting snake loads and asked him he acted offended and said no.fun guy to watch shoot his hand thrown 10 clay targets all shot independently was impressive, sadly he passed away years ago

I out shot him the spring of 1998. At the time Dave Gruber was the host of the show and Tom was just hunting with us. We were spring goose hunting in S.D. and filming a episode of the Benelli Bird Hunter. I was in a blind right next to Tom. He had a Benelli cam on the end of his barrel. I was holding the handheld screen. A flock came right in and I watched him pick out every Bird. He missed the last shot of 8 shots. And knocked down 7 birds. Then he hand me his shotgun and said show me how its done. Now I have never shot a Benelli and his shotgun of choice was a Super 90. We had a flock come in and I sat up and went 8 for 8. I looked at him and said, I'm available for lessons all week. And he gave me that raspy laugh.

The day before we were hunting a different field and my oldest son was with. After we got out of the field Tom was giving use a exhibition and was shooting Asprins with his HK 22 magnum. He has a Quarter in his hand and asked my son where he should shoot it. He said in the nose, he hit it in the nose. I'm pretty sure he still has it.

He was a heck of a shot. Everytime I would see him. I would ask him. How do you make a shit hook, that was his drink of choice.