Trap shooting. Who likes it?

Trap shooting is my favorite shooting activity. If I can't get out trapshooting at least once a week I feel like it's a wasted week. I guess this is because I didn't start trapshooting until I was 45 years old and I'm trying to make up for lost time. The other thing that makes trapshooting fun for me is that I have to work hard at it to improve my scores.
With rifles and handguns, I was a natural and reached Master Class in my early twenties.

Mark
 
BubbaBlades said:
Trap shooting is my favorite shooting activity. If I can't get out trapshooting at least once a week I feel like it's a wasted week. I guess this is because I didn't start trapshooting until I was 45 years old and I'm trying to make up for lost time. The other thing that makes trapshooting fun for me is that I have to work hard at it to improve my scores.
With rifles and handguns, I was a natural and reached Master Class in my early twenties.

Mark
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Mark you are way ahead of me. I am 70 and this was my first time to shoot trap. You can bet it won't be my last. Don
 
I shoot trap or skeet at least once every week, all year long.
Been doing it for many years. I like Beretta's.
 
I use to shoot trap a lot in the mid '70s.

Then the last trap shoot I shot cost me $185 to enter and I won $3.95.

I then gave up trap and started shooting rifle shooting for the Guard. They paid me to shoot, bought my bullets and paid the hotel and travel to out of state matches.
 
I use a Browning Citori Ultra XT over/under. Like to shoot at least once a week if I can, sometimes twice a week. I load my own shells. I also have a Beretta over/under that I mostly use for Sporting Clays, when I shoot that.
 
I've been fighting the trap addiction for forty years. It gets the better of me every 4 or 5 years it seems. I go crazy on trap for a year or two, then the financial impact hits me and I calm down again.

ONLY smart thing I have done is to NEVER sell anything. Still have the guns, gear, Spolar loader, components, etc.

I currently have $17 a bag shot in the basement. When that half ton is shot up that may be my final END of the story. On a fixed retirement income , it's tough to afford the sport the way I like to do it.

Ljutic 34" for singles
K-80 32" doubles
 
I shot Trap for about 30 years. Then they tore down the range to build little pink houses row after row. Lost interest after that.
 
Just got back from the range. League, 23 yard line. Wind must have blown a few into my pattern. 23 and 25; my turn to buy soda again.
 
I like it, cant shoot it, but willing to try. Bought a new Beretta o/u, just cause i luv em, with a whole bunch of clay targets. Cant wait to try skeet and sporting clays, also.
 
I've been shooting again, for the past six years, after taking a 40-year layoff. After taking it up again, I went through at least six guns before I settled on the one I have now. I currently shoot a fitted SKB 85TSS.

If you decide to get a bit more serious, you'll want to get a trap-specific gun. They shoot a bit higher, allowing you to keep the bird in view. If you've noticed, the trap-specific guns have a higher rib, adjustable in some cases; a higher comb, adjustable cheek-piece, adjustable butts, custom recoil pads, etc.

When you get your first 25 straight, be wearing an old cap. The tradition, is that your cap gets shot up to "bring you into the club".

It's a very addictive sport, and you can spend, literally, thousands of dollars on guns alone. And at $8/box, you'll become a reloader very quicly.
 
Every Thursday it's trap from late April until Sept., Then we switch to Skeet. In between an occasional round of Sporting Clays. I don't shoot registered, but do shoot in a league. 5 man teams. I started with a 870, then moved to a SKB, Then a Remington Peerless, then a Browning Citori (which I still use for skeet & sporting clays) and now a Browning BT99+. When I miss, it is my fault.
 

Browning Broadway

The one on the bottom is mine and both stocks were made from blanks by my son. I also bought a reamer and cut the forcing cone out and that made a big difference in recoil and the way targets broke.

Remember when shot was $9.00 a bag. Who can afford shooting at today's prices.

Won the veterans trophy in 2003 for the state of Mississippi using one ounce loads of hard 8's.

 
Did the ATA years ago but now just local shoots and the AFL/CIO four shoots a year with the last shoot being Reno against Vegas, per phone scores.
At the club I do skeet, trap and sporting clays but mostly trap.

I do a lot of reloading from X-lite 7/8oz #8's at 1145fps for practice to the 3 Dram loads of 7 1/2's for the 25-27 HDCP rounds. Standard load for trap & Field is a 1 1/8oz 7.5 @ 1145fps.
Just hate the price of lead these days but I can still load cheaper than the factory stuff and developed loads that "Smoke" the birds.

Best little gun is an old win. 410 pump for skeet and my12Ga is a Browning O/U XS for the trap games.
 
I never thought I would like trap but when an old friend talked me into
shooting a couple rounds I was instantly hooked. That was several
years and several guns and lots of money ago. Started with an 870 and
then an 1100 and on to BT99s a Beretta OU and then an old but solid
Ljutic. Seems that serious trap shooters either love or hate the Ljutics.
Traded the old one on a much newer stainless mid rib Monogun and
then finally ordered a new low rib blue Monogun. I shot several
thousand shells a year in both practice and registered, most all 1 oz
handloads, until low back problems forced me to stop a couple of years
ago. Right now I am experiencing a very slow recovery from major
surgery and cannot shoot yet. Maybe this summer. Trap is a frustrating,
addictive wonderful sport. I'm glad we have it.
 
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