Bragging rights

[kudu]

Our club had a Club Championship shoot today for all-round shooter. 25 each skeet, trap, and 5 stand sporting clays, and then 25 of your choice. I really didn't figure I had much of a chance, as I have shot maybe 300 birds total in the last 3 years, those only skeet.

So we have 100 birds possible, I picked skeet as my extra choice, broke 49 out of 50 with my wittle 28 gauge, and inkballed almost every target. Then I started in on a round of trap, I haven't shot trap for 4 years. I dusted off my old M12 trap gun and broke a 22 out of 25 with mostly solid hits running 7/8oz loads. OK so far so good, then I went and shot 5 stand, 18 out of 25. So total 89 out of 100, not great, but with 20 mph wind gusts at times, it was good enough. We had about 25 shooters for the event, some quite good, 88 was next best then 85.

The point of the event was to find the most rounded shooter, who can shoot all types of targets and presentations, not just the top trap or skeet shooter.

I had a small trophy to keep, and a rather large traveling trophy for a year. I had the honor of winning this event last back in 1997.

 

[RaceM]

BRAVO! I haven't shot enough clays at one go over the years to gain any kind of proficiency at it. Bask in the glory!

 

[Ironclad]

Pretty dang good! I find it very wrong that you are better at skeet than trap though.

 

[Dave McCracken]

Excellent!! Imagine how well you'd have done with some practice......

 

[Cop Bob]

Good SHOW...!

I'm Jealous... the safest place to be around me with a shotgun is in the air and movin!!!

I can shoot a pistol, rifle and carbine like there is no tomorrow.. with a shotgun on moving targets and some type of ground reference for speed and direction, the target is in trouble.. put it up in the clear blue with nothing to reference it against and it's safe as in it's momma's arms...

 

[kudu]

I find it very wrong that you are better at skeet than trap though.

Skeet was my game, back when I was younger with less responsibilities, 30-40 thousand birds a year, lots of 100 straights, trap, on the other hand, was just something I played at, and made some money at with game nights on killers and protections, 27 yards, and sometimes on back behind the fence, (45 yards), I could hold my own. I just thought it was very boring and structured to shoot plain trap targets. I could hit about 75% of them from the hip at the 27 yard line, that was a bit funner, the hard core trap shooters refused to shoot with me.

Sporting clays was just catching on big about the time I quit competing with skeet, I really like sporting clays, but I can't afford to shoot much any more with 3 kids and wife and house and property and farm stuff, etc....