What is your preferred shooting sport?

What is your preferred shooting sport

  • Plinking " I like to shoot non-living stuff out in the woods for fun"

    Votes: 24 28.6%
  • Bullseye " I like to score the best I can on official targets for precision"

    Votes: 14 16.7%
  • Action/ Course/ Timed shooting " I like to be timed and run a course, shoot and move"

    Votes: 19 22.6%
  • Hunting "I like to eat what I kill"

    Votes: 25 29.8%
  • Silhouette paper target "I like to practice on a man size paper target"

    Votes: 2 2.4%

  • Total voters
    84
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This guy is tough , fill him full of holes and he keeps coming back .
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I agree, "None of the Above", but I have to differ: Once you have been bitten by the High Power Metallic Silhouette bug, there is no going back. Some of the smallbore Metallic silhouette guys might argue, and I could be convinced, I guess. I love them both.
WAY back in the 80s, I used to shoot an XP-100 in 7mmBR........:thumbup:

Lee Baker in Carson City was a master smith tuning silhouette guns at that time
 
Trap and Sporting Clays, A little plinking, checking zeros, and 'keeping my hand in' with the rifles and pistols, too. I wouldn't put Sporting Clays in with 3-gun, even if you use a golf cart to get around. Many Trap shooters use them to get to their assigned bank at the Grand and the bigger State shoots and Sattelite Grands, also. Doesn't make it an 'action course', either.
I voted hunting.
 
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Trap and Sporting Clays, A little plinking, checking zeros, and 'keeping my hand in' with the rifles and pistols, too. I wouldn't put Sporting Clays in with 3-gun, even if you use a golf cart to get around. Many Trap shooters use them to get to their assigned bank at the Grand and the bigger State shoots and Sattelite Grands, also. Doesn't make it an 'action course', either.
I realize that but the selection is meant to be a course first and foremost, whether a clay course, a action cowboy course, or a 3-gun or practical shooting course that you run station to station, so as to not make a poll with so many options in sub-catagories
 
In order of preference:
Subgun competition (Knob Creek, etc.)
USPSA
Bowling Pins
Steel Challenge
 
I load on two single stage Hornady Lock n Load presses. One set up for pistol and one set up for rifle. I have a eight year old grandson that I take out shooting every weekend. We shoot up in the Cascade Mountains a couple of miles off the main road at a gravel pit. I let him do most of the shooting while I pick up trash that other people left there. I generally load up a hundred 38spl, a hundred 357 magnum and fifty to a hundred 223 for his AR15 and our Ruger 77/223. Then we always have a brick of 22lr.
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I shot many of the action sports, where you would shot a magazine or two in ten seconds or less, and sit around for an hour waiting to shoot again. I found that boring.

I really enjoyed NRA High power, it was hard, you were busy all day, even if that mean sweating gallons out as a pit pig. But, in time, heat stress was a killer. So, I moved over to shooting in the shade, which is Smallbore Prone. A typical 160 round match goes from 0900 to 1300/1400, and you shoot in the shade, and you don't lift 40 pound targets a hundred times. You walk out to your target, and use paper clips to attach the new targets. Heat is still a killer, but the heat stress is a lot less when you are not in the direct sunlight. The game is hard, those little 22lr's float in the wind, and sight alignment and trigger pull have to be perfect each and every shot.

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Bullseye pistol is great. Match starts around 0900 ends around 1500. You shoot in the shade, you shoot 270 rounds, and it is just about impossible. It is the hardest shooting sport I have tried. Yes, everyone puts them in one hole with the firearm on a rest on top of a 300 lb concrete bench. Big whoop, try keeping them on a two foot by two foot target offhand, shooting one handed.

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Fifty yards is a long way out there with a hand gun, the ten ring is four inches at 25 yards and 50 yards, and 50 yard cleans are rare. Maybe that is why the insistent gratification crowd avoids sports that takes years to become half assed at.

While I claim some proficiency small bore prone, I am seriously half assed in Bullseye.

I have not tried trap or skeet, but I understand, it is grueling I am sure the first couple of rounds are fun, but the constant pounding from one ounce shots, over hundreds of shots, that would add up to one big flinch!
 
I chose Bullseye because that's what I do most of with both rifles and handguns. I also do some gong shooting and plinking of coke cans and plastic bottles filled with water. I pick up my trash when finished including stripping my targets and always try to gather a little of the trash at the gunclub range left by others.

I used to love to hunt but am too old and creaky to walk the miles required anymore.
 
I have not tried trap or skeet, but I understand, it is grueling I am sure the first couple of rounds are fun, but the constant pounding from one ounce shots, over hundreds of shots, that would add up to one big flinch!

I prefer sporting over trap and skeet; seems to be more camaraderie among squadmates (and lot of ribbing when you miss an "easy" one.) Add in the facts that NO two stations or courses are ever the same. Each place and each station is like a new tournament all unto its own. The constant variety is what I prefer. Super Sporting and FITASC are harder variations of regular sporting.
 
I'm equally split between target shooting and hunting. Plinking runs very close behind.
 
I have not tried trap or skeet, but I understand, it is grueling I am sure the first couple of rounds are fun, but the constant pounding from one ounce shots, over hundreds of shots, that would add up to one big flinch!

Not with the right gun:
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I shoot 1 1/8 oz. handicap loads only, (@1250 fps) and shoot between 100 and 250 shots every Thursday night, you don't feel the recoil with this gun. I tried a box of 1 oz through it, even lighter.
 
When I was shooting my Beretta A400s, I reload a 3/4oz 12 gauge load running 1275'fps. Works my gas guns, smokes 5-stand, sporting, skeet and trap targets
 
I can't hit anything moving with a shotgun. At 61 years of age I don't think I have a rats butt hole chance in hell to pick it up.
 
I went with the action/timed course shooting although I don't get around to that as much as I did. Three gun was a big hobby and occupied a lot of my free time. I still practice as if preparing for such an event. These days I usually manage to make it to the trap club 2-3 time a month. That easily accounts for up to half of my trigger time.
 
Just wondering your shooting preference, the question and poll pertains mainly to handgun and rifle

Shotguns contribute highly to the shooting sports, and IMHO, really should have been included in this poll as long as it is in the General gun sub-forum. Overall in this country, Sporting Clays, Skeet and Trap are probably participated in as much as any of the choices you have given.
 
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