5 Stand Clay Target Shooting

When my club started 5 Stand, it was something to do while you waited for your turn on the Sporting Clays course. Since I usually shoot 410 or sometimes 28, That's what I use on everything these days. Chokes, Warm weather Skeet/IC, sometimes Skeet/Skeet. Cold weather, I/C/Mod.

Once I got used to the sport, I average around 75% on Sporting Clays and 5 Stand.

BTW, 7.5's shot will do all you need, 8's are OK, forget 8.5's & 9's!

Ivan

I do not use 8's any more. In 1991 I broke a 98 in the Grand American Handicap event using 8's from the 25 yard line. I dusted the 2 I missed.. Lesson learned, no more 8's, except for the first target in target in trap doubles sometimes. The shot is fast and close
 
We had a 5=Stand at out club for several yrs.
I really liked it.
Movable target throwers so you could change the coarse up.
A tower behind the shooters to throw over your head target(s) out there and that machine like a Trap thrower so you never knew which direction it would be going out.

Each of the 5 shooting points, the shooter took 5 shots from.
A marker at each point showed the shooter which of the 7 or 8 different target throwers would be offering up the target .
You get one single bird for the first shot.
Then like Trap the next shooter in line is up to shoot and so on down the other shooters.
When it comes back to you,,the next presentation of targets are a Report Double and again the marker in front of you tells you which positions the targets will be coming from.
Then on to the next shooter,,etc.
When it comes back to you,,your last 2 shots at that position are a True Double, with the chart once again noting where the targets come from.

Once all five shooters have shot their first Stand,,as in Trap, the shooters move over one Stand and the last shooter on the end (extreme RH position) comes around to position/Stand #1.

Same cadence of shooting,,One Single, A Report Double and then a True Double. But each Stand has a different line up of target positions that the targets come from.
5 shots at each Stand,,5 Stands,,25 rounds.

I shoot it with a Full choke vintage guns with 30in bbl(s) and never feel handicapped.
Don't over think this Choke Thing.
Get the correct lead and follow through and you will break the bird.
Wipe all that other needless scramble out of your head about choke(s), barrel length, gun weight, action type, shells, velocity, ect.

It can be a very humbling game expecially if you are used to just shooting Skeet.

We often ended the day with a 'Flurry' where all five shooters get to shoot at the same time at multiple targets lunched at the same time.
Great fun.
 
Sporting clays

Been a trap shooter since the 70's. Started shooting clays 20 plus years ago. I live 15 minutes away from a ten stand course, which recently was purchased and totally redesigned & equipped with new state of the art stands and traps.
I concur with not over thinking the chokes & all that. I shoot a O/U 12 ga with mod/mod chokes. I hosted a shoot years ago for a fraternal group that had about 60 shooters.
I had new shooters with me. One of them had never shot clays, he was a duck & goose hunter. He had a weathered 870 ( his only shotgun) that had obviously been in a lot of blinds & boats.
He was one of the top 5 shooters of the group. Several of the other shooters were trying to "game the course" by swapping out choke tubes & had big $$ & big name shotguns.
The duck/goose hunter simply put the pattern where the clays were.
 
That is one thing I never do, and that is get tied up in the choke tube game or anything else. My guns are choked the way they need to be, and there is nothing adjustable on either gun.

If anybody knows the name, I took several instructional clinics with Frank Little. I could list his accomplishments, but I would have to type for 15 minutes. If there is one thing you learned from him, it was to get the trivia out of your head.
 
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