How and why are trap guns different?

penguin

Thanks

nmyers

There are 2 distinctions:
1) They usually have a rib with 2 beads; the user "stacks" the beads. This tilts the barrel slightly upward to better hit targets that are rising.
2) They usually have a monte carlo to raise your head on the stock; otherwise, the rear bead would obscure the front one.

Neal

mark christian

Trap guns are set to pattern higher than your sight picture looking down the rib. Because a trap target rises very fast, to lead it you would essentially have to block the target with the barrel in order to hit it. Simply put; you wouldn't be able to see the target when you fired. To overcome this, trap guns have a rib that is not parallel to the barrel and is higher at the breech than at the muzzle. With a raised comb you can look (you don't "sight") down the rib and put the bead on target. Skeet guns normally shoot where you look land behave like a field gun.

Other than the fact that both disciplines use shotguns and clay targets, trap and skeet are drastically different. Nothing is as good for trap shooting as a dedicated trap gun, but it is essentially worthless for anything else. While a skeet gun can be made to work in trap shooting, if you try the reverse and use a trap gun for skeet, you'll have to hold under the target, otherwise you will be shooting over the top every time.

charliemeyer007

Go to the makers website and read the description for features on trap, skeet, clays and hunting shotguns.

Having several choke tubes for a skeet unit is my preferred 1 shotgun set up.

Hawk Carse

Or you can get a Sporting Clays model with Adjustable Everything and mark a setting that suits your hold for each game.