Ed Ames
Member
This'll probably end up as a foot-in-mouth episode for me but hopefully someone can set me on the right track.
I've decided I want to actually learn (as in take at least a couple of lessons) to shoot clay targets... not sporting clays or skeet or trap specifically but moving targets flying through the air...whatever that's called. My only experience so far is going out with friends and trading off my 12ga pumpgun and a hand thrower. We all had fun and quite a few clays were busted we weren't really doing anything "right" (I don't think... if we were it was luck).
So I've been looking around for people or places to get some coaching or lessons in the Dallas, TX area.
Want to shoot handguns? No problem! I can find maybe 50 people or places that are falling over themselves to teach basic handgun courses, usually in conjunction with CHL courses but not always.
Tactical shotgun? I can find people teaching that.
Clay target shooting? So far I've found one person. She charges $100/hr and includes use of a shotgun "sized for women and youth" in the price. Actually I found someone else but he sounded more like a motivational speaker (he holds "clinics") than someone who teaches beginners.
Is this right? Why is it maybe 100 times easier to find a flight instructor and start learning to fly an airplane than find someone to teach the basics of good shotgunning? There have got to be more would-be shotgunners than would-be pilots and both are physical skills requiring coaching and practice.
Is it that I'm looking in the wrong places? The results online are embarrassing. Phone book? I actually looked, there are two entries (under "trap"... nothing under skeet though LOL) one of which is the aforementioned $100/hr "women and youth" person and the other is about 50 miles away and has no information at all about what they offer. Is there some secret communications method only people who are supposed to get into shotgunning can access and I'm not on the list? Or am I 50 years too late?
Bummer.
:banghead:
I've decided I want to actually learn (as in take at least a couple of lessons) to shoot clay targets... not sporting clays or skeet or trap specifically but moving targets flying through the air...whatever that's called. My only experience so far is going out with friends and trading off my 12ga pumpgun and a hand thrower. We all had fun and quite a few clays were busted we weren't really doing anything "right" (I don't think... if we were it was luck).
So I've been looking around for people or places to get some coaching or lessons in the Dallas, TX area.
Want to shoot handguns? No problem! I can find maybe 50 people or places that are falling over themselves to teach basic handgun courses, usually in conjunction with CHL courses but not always.
Tactical shotgun? I can find people teaching that.
Clay target shooting? So far I've found one person. She charges $100/hr and includes use of a shotgun "sized for women and youth" in the price. Actually I found someone else but he sounded more like a motivational speaker (he holds "clinics") than someone who teaches beginners.
Is this right? Why is it maybe 100 times easier to find a flight instructor and start learning to fly an airplane than find someone to teach the basics of good shotgunning? There have got to be more would-be shotgunners than would-be pilots and both are physical skills requiring coaching and practice.
Is it that I'm looking in the wrong places? The results online are embarrassing. Phone book? I actually looked, there are two entries (under "trap"... nothing under skeet though LOL) one of which is the aforementioned $100/hr "women and youth" person and the other is about 50 miles away and has no information at all about what they offer. Is there some secret communications method only people who are supposed to get into shotgunning can access and I'm not on the list? Or am I 50 years too late?
Bummer.
:banghead: