Sporting Clays Anyone ?

[Narragansett]

I am a trap shooter. I have tried skeet, but no interest. I have no interest in sporting clays but would try 5 stand.

Like wobble trap and international trap. Like international skeet too.

 

[Nevada Ed]

It is a great game , even better when you learn the birds pattern , on the cource, stands.
Then on the next trip out you find out that they changed the clay's flight pattern !!

Great way to learn shooting angles and how to learn incoming and going away, proper leads on birds.
It taught me if I could "Dilly dally" or have to get with the program, when the clays fly.

A fun sport.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I kind of hate the thought of selling the Press (Mec 9000) and all the accessories. That would be like the beginning of the end of all my reloading.

I have a 9000 12 ga., and two of the same thing without the auto-index in 28 & 410 2 1/2", and four 600 Jrs. in 12, 20, 28, & 410 3"

At $50 a bag of shot, 410 is 800 rounds to the bag. My reserves are all low right now: 6 bags of shot, 14,000 W209 primers, & about 20 pounds of WW296, 7pounds of Longshot, & 22 pounds of Tightwad (great for fast 7/8 & 3/4 ounce 12 Ga.)

The worst problem is you have to have new shells at some point! My reserve of AA Sporting 410's is down to 1500, and about 750 28 ga. AA Sporting and nothing in 12 or 20.

Ivan

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

Shot more skeet than the other, though I did try it. Shooting from different stations from two towers always helped me when duck and dove hunting. Haven't been in quite a while.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Absolutely shoot sporting clays.

I think it's the most fun you can legally have with a shotgun.

NO..........Shooting Quail over a pointer......Or a hot Dove shoot is the most fun.

 

[Narragansett]

NO..........Shooting Quail over a pointer......Or a hot Dove shoot is the most fun.

Live pigeons is like going from marijuana right to the needle

 

[lrb1200]

Pete

Outstanding analogy of 'Flyers'!

Leonard

 

[ACORN]

My daughter’s employer holds 2 events per year, one in the spring, one in the fall, for their clients. Afterwards there’s lunch and an open bar. Everything’s provided including loaner guns, if you don’t bring your own. Beretta semis in 20 ga., Beretta O/U if you use the 12s. I hadn’t held a shotgun in my hand for about 30 years, but she coaxed me to go. I shot 42/100 the first time and 50/100 the second. Nothing to brag about but I could have done worse. I was only shooting a 20 ga. I’ve convinced myself I’d have scored higher if I’d shot a 12 ga.
Here’s a pic of my daughter and some fat guy she found wandering around in the woods looking for a beer and a free meal.

 

[Marlin57M]

I don't really shoot shotgun at all as I much prefer rifle and handguns ...However
my son and I decided we'd give sporting clays a try and we had a great time . It was a beautiful fall day here in Pennsylvania when we went and the leaves and foliage were in full fall color.

The place we went... Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays is very well organized and is built around a quarry that had filled with water....great scenery.

I didn't do particularly well scoring just over 30 hits out of a hundred but it was great spending the time together and we both really enjoyed ourselves .

We plan on going again.

Anyone else here try it ?

Lehigh Valley is a nice course. The owner is a NRA Board Member. Depending where you live in PA, you have access to a lot of good SC courses, including Blue Ridge Sportsman outside Harrisburg, Carlisle Fish & Game, M&E Sporting Clays in Hamburg and more. Sporting Clays can become addictive.

 

[SPEEDGUNNER]

Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays is a first class outfit. A little pricey for a round, but well worth it once you see how well the course is designed and laid out. The variety of shooting scenarios keeps it interesting and exciting, way more so than trap shooting. Shooting into the buildings has a feel like the old TV show COMBAT!. Anytime I have shot there the drive home has been with a sore shoulder and a huge smile!!

I am in awe of the owner's house across the lake, quite impressive!

 

[prairieviper]

I used to be a serious competitor and shot for fun as well. I finally quit the competitive stuff. Too much travelling, too costly, too much cheating/misinterpretation of rules, too much time spent and too much commitment.

In short, it ceased to be fun. I loved just shooting for fun, but I got into handgun stuff more and haven't shot sporting clays in years. I may have to give it a go with some friends in the new year.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Sporting Clays can become addictive.

"Can become" is way too mild of word!

I warned a friend that 410's were addictive. He had been a AA Trap shooter when in his 20/30's. After his third shot with a 410 on Sporting Clays, he caught the addiction! In the next 4 to 6 weeks, he had bought about $30,000 of 410's. His wife bought almost $60,000 in the same time frame. He bought fine American and German Modern guns, She bought mostly vintage English doubles.

Most I ever paid was around $2500 for the 32" 725 Sporting in 410. Then about two weeks after that, Jaque's had a early 60's Browning Superpose 28" 410, Factory rebuild for $5800. It was really hard to resist, knowing how my 12 and 20 gauge Superposes handled, but I knew it would never score better than my 725!

One of the last shoots before Covid shut everything down, my brother and I went to a fall shoot at Richland County Fish & Game, just outside Mansfield, Ohio. The first station was 3 true pair coming from behind your right shoulder and passing about 10 yards to your right at about Mach 3! Over the course of the day only 2 people cleaned that station! Popeye and myself. Popeye had helped teach me back in the 90's; He used his 12 ga. O/U Berretta 682, I used my 410 Feather XS, Most others ended up using their choicest swear words!

YES, I'M AN ADDICT, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Ivan

 

[Narragansett]

"Can become" is way too mild of word!

I warned a friend that 410's were addictive. He had been a AA Trap shooter when in his 20/30's. After his third shot with a 410 on Sporting Clays, he caught the addiction! In the next 4 to 6 weeks, he had bought about $30,000 of 410's. His wife bought almost $60,000 in the same time frame. He bought fine American and German Modern guns, She bought mostly vintage English doubles.

Most I ever paid was around $2500 for the 32" 725 Sporting in 410. Then about two weeks after that, Jaque's had a early 60's Browning Superpose 28" 410, Factory rebuild for $5800. It was really hard to resist, knowing how my 12 and 20 gauge Superposes handled, but I knew it would never score better than my 725!

One of the last shoots before Covid shut everything down, my brother and I went to a fall shoot at Richland County Fish & Game, just outside Mansfield, Ohio. The first station was 3 true pair coming from behind your right shoulder and passing about 10 yards to your right at about Mach 3! Over the course of the day only 2 people cleaned that station! Popeye and myself. Popeye had helped teach me back in the 90's; He used his 12 ga. O/U Berretta 682, I used my 410 Feather XS, Most others ended up using their choicest swear words!

YES, I'M AN ADDICT, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Ivan

Wow! Buy that man a fried baloney sandwich and some baloney salad.

 

[Skeet 028]

I am a skeet shooter but have shot a "few" rounds os Sporting. I had one of the premier sporting courses in Maryland 2 1/2 miles from Home...so I had to shoot there a bit Owned by a former skeet shooter name John George. I shot my K-80 with 20 ga tubes...Best I ever shot was a 98 shooting a really pretty Caesar Guerini 20 ga with 32 inch bbl. Beautiful high grade gun. I almost bought that thing. I shot some Intl Skeet but too hard to find fields. My real passion at one time was live pigeons. Shot the World Championship shoot a couple times Actually came home from Guadalajara Mx the first time 600 dollars more than I started with and bought a pigeon gun on my way at a small shoot in Texas. It is very hard to compete in pigeon shooting...unless you are rich. The little club I shot at in Sudlersville Maryland has 5 skeet fields 3 or 4 Trap with wobble and a very nice 5 stand...One of the oldest skeet clubs in the United States about 96 years old

 

[Narragansett]

I am a skeet shooter but have shot a "few" rounds os Sporting. I had one of the premier sporting courses in Maryland 2 1/2 miles from Home...so I had to shoot there a bit Owned by a former skeet shooter name John George. I shot my K-80 with 20 ga tubes...Best I ever shot was a 98 shooting a really pretty Caesar Guerini 20 ga with 32 inch bbl. Beautiful high grade gun. I almost bought that thing. I shot some Intl Skeet but too hard to find fields. My real passion at one time was live pigeons. Shot the World Championship shoot a couple times Actually came home from Guadalajara Mx the first time 600 dollars more than I started with and bought a pigeon gun on my way at a small shoot in Texas. It is very hard to compete in pigeon shooting...unless you are rich. The little club I shot at in Sudlersville Maryland has 5 skeet fields 3 or 4 Trap with wobble and a very nice 5 stand...One of the oldest skeet clubs in the United States about 96 years old

The betting system that gous on is big dollars. Not for me

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

I like to shoot SC's in warm weather for fun.....I built my own skeet field where I and my select friends can shoot 24-7 for fun. I have a 4 ft house and a 10 ft house. Set up 90 degrees to each other with 9 shooting stations laid out in an oval out front. I have 18 different shooting presentations plus doubles.
Much Much fun.......Wish I could light it to shoot at night.