Our club started holding a sub-gauge sporting clays handicap fun shoot on the last Saturday of every month. This was the first opportunity that I had to go shoot it. 100 birds on 12 stations where most stations you get 2 presentations, A as a single, B as a single, then an A-B report pair and a B-A report pair and a true pair and then two of the stations has an extra true pair to get 100 birds shot.
12 gauge gets no handicap, 20 gauge gets 7 targets, 28 gauge gets 10 targets and .410 gets an extra 15 targets of handicap. I opted to shoot 28 gauge and just left skeet and I/C chokes in my gun. I shot with an older guy of about 75 who was shooting a .410 with the same choke set-up, best of all I got to ride around in his Kawasaki side-by-side. Most targets were quite shoot-able, but had some thinking involved. With a mixture of standard, midi, mini, and battues and a couple rabbit targets. Had some very devious set-ups. From 20 yards out to 50+ yard targets, none real fast, but deceptive. The I/C was able to break even the farthest birds with a little juggling of shot size, I bumped up to 7.5 shot for longer shots and kept 8 for just about every thing else.
The morning had just dumped over 2 inches of rain and we started out shooting in a light mist which cleared up by the second station, then the wind started to pick up with 15mph gusts which would shake rain from the trees and dribble down your neck when you least expected it and make targets dance pretty good. We were the first shooters out at 10:30 this morning as everyone else waited for the rain to quit entirely, which sounded like a good thing but the wind was getting gustier as we shot.
I ended up shooting an 88 hard score with my 28 gauge and the gentleman I shot with broke a 70 with his .410, so we had handicap scores of 98 and 85. He said last month a 97 handicap score won the shoot, so I have a decent shot at maybe winning this weekend. I had to leave so I won't know until I go back to the club later in the week. I had a good time and burnt up a few shells, will just be a bonus if I win.
12 gauge gets no handicap, 20 gauge gets 7 targets, 28 gauge gets 10 targets and .410 gets an extra 15 targets of handicap. I opted to shoot 28 gauge and just left skeet and I/C chokes in my gun. I shot with an older guy of about 75 who was shooting a .410 with the same choke set-up, best of all I got to ride around in his Kawasaki side-by-side. Most targets were quite shoot-able, but had some thinking involved. With a mixture of standard, midi, mini, and battues and a couple rabbit targets. Had some very devious set-ups. From 20 yards out to 50+ yard targets, none real fast, but deceptive. The I/C was able to break even the farthest birds with a little juggling of shot size, I bumped up to 7.5 shot for longer shots and kept 8 for just about every thing else.
The morning had just dumped over 2 inches of rain and we started out shooting in a light mist which cleared up by the second station, then the wind started to pick up with 15mph gusts which would shake rain from the trees and dribble down your neck when you least expected it and make targets dance pretty good. We were the first shooters out at 10:30 this morning as everyone else waited for the rain to quit entirely, which sounded like a good thing but the wind was getting gustier as we shot.
I ended up shooting an 88 hard score with my 28 gauge and the gentleman I shot with broke a 70 with his .410, so we had handicap scores of 98 and 85. He said last month a 97 handicap score won the shoot, so I have a decent shot at maybe winning this weekend. I had to leave so I won't know until I go back to the club later in the week. I had a good time and burnt up a few shells, will just be a bonus if I win.