Please vote for your favorite shotgun game.<BR><BR>ThanksWhat is your favorite clays game?Live Pidgeon Ok not a clays game but still?Sporting ClaysFive StandFITSACSkeetInternational SkeetTrapInternational Trap

To me skeet and sporting clays are the only games I really like.

I'll shoot five stand and trap, but think they are boring.

I say boring not easy, I can't get into it. I guess I like the commaraderie of sporting clays and skeet much more.

Well, I love to shoot all clay target games. I've shot more competitive trap and skeet than anything else with trap being my first love.

Schoot-a dee Pee-john is my first passion. Nothing even remotely compares.



As for Clay Targets; International Skeet gets my vote.

I've shot a lot of clay targets and work at a sporting clays range where they tried to convert this died in the wool trapshooter to their game...but I just didn't have the passion with that sport as I do with trapshooting. BSing is for after you're done shooting, not during, guys! I do enjoy going out on the clays course a few times a year to mess around and have some fun with friends, though. Skeet, I don't mind shooting it, but I just don't look good in that pink tootoo...not good at all.

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Originally posted by D99:
To me skeet and sporting clays are the only games I really like.

I'll shoot five stand and trap, but think they are boring.

I say boring not easy, I can't get into it. I guess I like the commaraderie of sporting clays and skeet much more.

That's why they make chocolate and vanilla ice creams.....I'm just the opposite. I always want to shoot a lot of shells when I'm on a range, and a fast trap squad can usually finish a 100 rounds of singles or doubles faster than the a normal skeet squad will shoot one round of skeet, not to mention skeet is a terribly boring mental game once mastered, but to each his own. Trap shooters always joke that all skeet shooters want to do is pat each other on the butt and say things like, "Hang in there.","Good pair", etc. Sporting clays is even worse with all the walking, talking, bitching, and choke changing that goes on......

Five stand and trap are fast enough to be fun to shoot.

The toughest non-live bird game is probably zzzzs but the ranges are expensive and rare. A good friend of mine, a Dr from Shreveport, La, won the ZZZ World Championship twice a few years back in Paris.

Live bird shooting is in a world of it's own, the game is so expensive and secretive that few know much about it......but when there's $50,000 or so riding on your next bird, it does make your pulse race a bit......it takes a special shot to really excel at it. I was never any good at it, since I had to close an eye to shoot and I just thought it was too expensive for this old country boy to spend the money to learn to adjust. Never tried columbaire.

PS: For Gerry, my above comments refer to American style skeet.....international skeet is indeed a fine game......as is international trap.

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Originally posted by JustinL01:
I've shot a lot of clay targets and work at a sporting clays range where they tried to convert this died in the wool trapshooter to their game...but I just didn't have the passion with that sport as I do with trapshooting. BSing is for after you're done shooting, not during, guys! I do enjoy going out on the clays course a few times a year to mess around and have some fun with friends, though. Skeet, I don't mind shooting it, but I just don't look good in that pink tootoo...not good at all.

Spoken like a true trap shooter.......

Gato,

Thx for kind Intl. Skeet words - the Gentleman you are. Guess where we're going when you stop-over next?

We have some inside jokes about our Trappers, mostly involving Passport & Visa Controls when entering "Our Territory" and "Two times from behind". It's all in good fun. I'm shooting a round or two of Intl. Trap now with a couple of our "Trappers" who have decided to give Intl. Skeet a try this season - fair enough.

I don't subscribe to the the "I'm a One or the Other" Shooter syndrome. Clay Shooters are all One & the Same, IMO.

A hand-thrower, case of Clays from Wally-World, the "Back-Forty" and a few Budweisers in a Cooler used to be our morning "Warm-Up" session for the Afternoon Only Dove Season Opener in Florida.



A nice facility & Club with an international memebership (Shooters are great Folks!) Completely automated w/Chip Cards, all 3 ranges set-up for International Trap, Skeet & Trap Doubles. Each discipline w/voice activated releases so a "Puller" isn't required - a huge improvement when training/shooting alone. Ranges 1 & 3 have Five Stand integrated into them, too. Overall, a great place to do what we enjoy.



Here some photos of our "Playground". Had a major renovation last year; with considerable resources invested. The nets a temporary solution to cope with erosion as the week the grass seed was sprayed we had thunderstorms, litteraly "washing our efforts down the drain". Ugh!






A Poster for our 8th Annual Wiesbaden Skeet Open, sponsored by myself and two other rabid Skeet shooting club members. We'll have a broad spectrum of European shooters with A Class dominated by the some of the premiére European country Olympic Team participants. The rest of us Wannabes happily attempt a respectable placing in B & C Class. Hopefully the weather will cooperate on 30 May. I'll post some photos.

Damn, where's the elevators?

Nice range Gerry!

If I can figure out how to get my camera working I'll take some photos this weekend.

I voted for 5 stand because it is fast and challenging for the small area we have to shoot here. However, I like to walk so I wish there was a sporting clays course near enough to get a better feel for that game.

It seems to me if you like skeet you probably like sporting clays, and if you like trap, five stand is probably your game as well.

But that's a casual observation.

I have never shot FITSAC, and I really don't know mucha bout it.

LIVE BIRDS!!!

5-Stand is my game otherwise, Skeet a close second!

JW

Picciones,if you cant stand the blood then helice&the caps are recyclable.

Gatogordo,my son,Andy&little Andy were the 3 man team that placed 3rd in the helice world team championships in Rome in 01.

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Gatogordo,my son,Andy&little Andy were the 3 man team that placed 3rd in the helice world team championships in Rome in 01.

Are they going over to Portugal this year???

Some of my live bird buddies are heading over...

JW

Sorry no for my son.new baby,crazy helice politics.dont know about Andy,Rene'et al.something always conflicts with the pigeon shoots,Katrina didnt help either.not the same without Perdue holding court,Homer Clark,Robt Taylor either.i havent shot pigeons in Europe since Porto 93.Too bad.

Box birds, Colombaire, Skeet, sporting, trap... in that order

Wobblies or chip shooting with a buck in the pot to keep it interesting. Usually we shoot from a position off the side of the trap house about 20 yds. Fast birds!

First shooter "pulls" and shoots. Second shooter shoots at the missed bird or the "wobblie" / "chip" of a broken bird to eliminate the first shooter. Lots of variations in this game.

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Sorry no for my son.new baby,crazy helice politics.dont know about Andy,Rene'et al.something always conflicts with the pigeon shoots,Katrina didnt help either.not the same without Perdue holding court,Homer Clark,Robt Taylor either.i havent shot pigeons in Europe since Porto 93.Too bad.

Funny you mention Billy Perdue....I never knew the man, but have heard all about him. I'm new to the game, everybody got a kick when I showed-up at Price's shoot shooting a hammer gun in the main! Apparently he (BP) was dominant for years and shot an Hammer gun as well!!! Doubt I'll ever come close to filling his shoes, but it is a lot of fun shooting a SxS HG in these shoots! (even more fun when some of the purse comes my way!!!)

Come shoot with us!

JW

Holy smokes, I voted and am in the .2 percentile

Actually I like 'em all, but like the challenge of Int'l Trap the most, and am strictly a low gun shooter. I can usually hold my own, not many want to shoot me for a beer a bird

I MUST get up to Wiesbaden one of these days!!

I've even tried shooting Trap with the machine set on straight away, slight rising, blindfolded. It can be done! Or Skeet low 7 from the hip, it can also be done!

I'd actually like to be one of those guys who job is to just shoot, you know, good sponsor like Beretta or Benelli, unlimited supply of free shells and birds, and just shoot, and shoot, and shoot. Ah, but it ain't in the cards, just another poor working stiff who enjoys shooting clay, Waidmannsheil, Dom.