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the world famous unofficial skeet and trap thread

bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
edited July 2018 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
as many know, I enjoy skeet and trap. so, lets make a aiming point for skeet and trap questions. lets put them all here so you don't have to go digging on 20 pages for old posts.
so.......whos first? do you shoot skeet or trap?
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  • charliemeyer007charliemeyer007 Member Posts: 6,572 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have shoot both, I like sporting clays too. I started back in high school early 70's as prep for real bird season. Best day was some factory Remington lady shooter (sorry I forgot her name) let me shoot a round with her custom 3200. She even gave me the ammo and bought the birds too.

    Second best day was at the end of my first round of SC. Buzz Faucet told me I was the first to shoot at his range with a combat 870 and shot way better than he would have ever expected with a hand held.
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  • B17-P51B17-P51 Member Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I religiously shoot one round of trap every year weather I need it or not. I shot a round of skeet once with a borrowed 6000.00 20 gauge shotgun and got 8.
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  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,009 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Both on a fairly regular basis. Also shoot sporting clays when I have the chance. Trap gun is a bt-99, most of my skeet shooting is with a Citori XS in 28 gauge, also have the same in 20 gauge. My worst station as a right handed shooter is skeet #2 high house..
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  • 336marlin336marlin Member Posts: 201 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Registered skeet; occasional trap, 5 stand, & sporting clays. Started shooting skeet with a set of bobski's tubes in a 3200.
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  • XXCrossXXCross Member Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I've been involved in the trap game (16 yard and continental) since the late 60's. For the most part I poke at 'em with my Remington 870. In the 70's I was part of the PITA shooters group. Hunted with the same gun. About 35 years were spent working part time in a gun shop that specialized in shotgun repair and custom barrels. (screw-in chokes, backboring, rust bluing etc) On sunny days I still take my trusty DH Parker out to the range and scare the hell out of targets !
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  • iceracerxiceracerx Member Posts: 8,860 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Started off life shooting Bullseye. Took up Skeet much later (long long after enjoying upland game hunting and Duck Hunting (pass shooting - NO decoys!)

    My regret is that I never broke the first 25 in a row to get my hat shot. The next move would have been 50, 75, then 100 (as you know)

    Looking back at it, some coaching would have helped, but the best coach I knew was busy developing the youth (as he should)

    So...Skeet
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    336...hows it hangin', bro?! you dodgin' lava?
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I prefer skeet over trap and don't care for sporting clays. it comes across as just golf with shotguns.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ive shot or owned just about every American shotgun made.
    and it seems my favorites have always been the super xm1, the model 12, the model 50, and the Remington 3200. I own and shoot krieghoffs, but ehhhh....I wouldnt mortgage the house for one. I prefer the beefy old American wood guns.
    I sold off my entire browning double auto collection and no longer enjoy older brownings.
    maybe an old ST100 would turn my head...but that's about it.
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  • iceracerxiceracerx Member Posts: 8,860 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What are your thoughts on 5 Stand? We used to shoot that at the local DNR range during our lunch break
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I shoot skeet twice a week...at one club they shoot wobble skeet. I also shoot sporting clays on occasion..

    My go to skeet guns are a pair of Remington 1100 Skeet B models in 12 and the large frame 20 ga.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    5 stand is ok, just expensive to own or shoot.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    any of you guys from around my farm in s.central mo?
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  • 336marlin336marlin Member Posts: 201 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bobski
    336...hows it hangin', bro?! you dodgin' lava?

    Ha! Not dodging lava, that's a long way from NC. But I am hanging in there though; seems like all I'm doing is loading shells and shooting them up. The older I get though 100's are getting harder to come by. I still enjoy reloading. Got a friend interested in skeet and I'm going with him while he's practicing a whole lot. Using up more shot practicing than at registered targets now. He's getting better with all this practicing & it's making me develop bad habits. Wish I hadn't got rid of my 3200 but I may have another some day. I haven't been through as many different shotguns as you have though. After the 3200 I acquired a K-80 barrel set in about '86' and that was my primary skeet gun for 25+ years. A few years back when I retired I figured I'd try out some different guns with the high ribs; got a couple super sport F3's and another K-80 with the pro sport ribbed barrel (tube sets). It's fun learning to shoot them but my averages are suffering. Shoot the 12ga events with my SX1 at regular and my 1100 at doubles. Guy's told me I should stick to my old K-80 that I shoot better scores with and quit screwing around with different ones. But I'm having fun. Not traveling so much now to tournaments, just going to local clubs & close neighboring states. Used to also referee which was an incentive and helped with entry fees but I enjoy not having to be out in the rain and sun all day long now at 3 and 4 day shoots. Haven't been to a world shoot since they quit having them in Savannah; don't look forward to the long drives anymore.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I stopped the world in 96.
    and im in the shoot them all and who cares about scores now as well.
    I got bored going 100 straight.
    so I up'ed the antie and made it...shoot 4 different ranges anywhere in the nation and go 25 straight at each one in a row, or start over. it gives me some excitement when I pull into a new range and never shot it...and try to go 25 cold turkey.
    then go to another and pray I dont screw up.
    marlin...pm me.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    the mods said since the PM/emailing option is broken, if I want someone to email me, I can post it...so here guys...
    nec9554@juno.com
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    how far is the closest range to your home? I got a trap range 10-15 minutes from my door.
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  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,009 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bobski
    how far is the closest range to your home? I got a trap range 10-15 minutes from my door.


    2 trap ranges within 15 minutes from the house. 1 is just a regular old country style trap range with 2 traps, and the second is a large facility with up to, I believe 18 or so traps, as well as 2 skeet fields and an actual Olympic style bunker with 15 machines in it. Try and shoot with them whenever they are shooting it.
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  • PA ShootistPA Shootist Member Posts: 691 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had the privilege of shooting Skeet with good friends who at various times had won the Pennsylvania State Skeet Championship and are enshrined in the Pennsylvania Skeet Hall of Fame. I learned some from them, and love the game, but I don't think I'll ever have that kind of talent. And life has been in the way for much shooting the last several years... I mostly use a Browning Citori skeet gun 12 gauge with Kolar tube set; sometimes though we would have pump gun shoots just for fun and the challenge! I shoot some trap also, currently using a Winchester Diamond Grade 101 Trap. My wife, now seriously ill, used to shoot with us, and became pretty good at the sport, with her Remington 1100 Skeet. The camaraderie of the Skeet game and teams was probably the best part of all for us. Trap tends to be not as friendly a sport, at least that is the impression I developed over almost 50 years.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    too bad the email system is fried on gb. id be calling the mods and admins about getting a topic stuck that would list upcoming competitions and such. I cant believe im actually getting opposition from some. odd indeed. how would you vote on something like that?
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    did it. go see. pop something in!
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember when 7 shot was common. then 7.5 came out.
    8 was a mainstay for decades....then 8.5 shot came out.
    did it ever take off?
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  • XXCrossXXCross Member Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    For years I shot all my PITA registered 16yd targets with 8-1/2 or 9's.
    I had no trouble staying in the high 90's. (even got money from time to time)
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  • B17-P51B17-P51 Member Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know what PITA means in the trap world and I also know what it means to me when I shoot trap.Rest assured, they are not the same.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    whats your best yardage on trap?
    official unofficial?

    we shoot the 50yd event at the range here in mo.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ice....what kind of shotguns do you currently have?
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  • iceracerxiceracerx Member Posts: 8,860 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rem 1100 left handed Mag

    Marlin LC Smith 20 O/U (that was my 'skeet' gun after using a 870 20).

    Savage Fox Model B SxS 20 gauge

    What do I need? I know a fella with a Kreighoff....I can always ask[:D]

    I was a spoiled kid and had access to a Win Mdl 12 Skeet (just like Curtis Lemays!!!! Dad was SAC), but busted many a duck with the Model B and a 16 gauge single shot 'Whippet'. All but the 'B' are long gone.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    im sending the list now. look for it........
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    heading to ct and mass for a trap/skeet tour in july. anyone from up there?
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ice...bring what ya got. itll get it done.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    leaving Monday for conn. cant wait.
    ice...too bad your ride backed out. got any new leads?
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  • iceracerxiceracerx Member Posts: 8,860 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bobski
    leaving Monday for conn. cant wait.
    ice...too bad your ride backed out. got any new leads?


    I just spent $3500 on landscaping the backyard. I think my mad money has vanished.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    traveled to conn this week. shot some games in torrington. nice old one field place. everyone knows everyone. my kind of club.
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  • toad67toad67 Member Posts: 13,009 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by bobski
    traveled to conn this week. shot some games in torrington. nice old one field place. everyone knows everyone. my kind of club.


    What did you shoot, games and gauges?
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    shot my 20ga krieghoff 32 with 30 year old s&w 20ga shells!
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    popped over to ledyard s&t and shot 4 more boxes of 20ga.
    visited Groton f&g and shot 50 12ga with the m12 pigeon skeet.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    was invited to quaker hill r&g today. shot with some zone 1 champs and serious skeet shooters and had the time of my life. what a great bunch of guys.
    its nice to bump into old school shooters that shoot 4 boxes just to warm up and that still shoot doubles to loosen up.[;)]
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