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mtsgsd · 11-05-2003, 10:16 AM

Good advice on the guns (although I love my Beretta), but you're describing Sporting Clays, or possibly "5 stand"?

In trap, you'll be shooting from stations placed along a semi-circle that's facing trap house set in the ground 16 yards away. The clay comes out at about 55mph at a random angle within a predefined narrow arc, and at a random height. You'll shoot 5 shots from each station so that you have 5 different views of the clays. Total of 25 shots.

In Skeet, you have stations along a semi-circle again, but you have two trap houses. a "high house" at the left end, and a "low house" at the right end of the circle. You start at the left end directly underneath the window that the clay emerges from. You'll shoot one bird from the high house (overhead going away) and one from the low house (low coming toward you). Then once more with both thrown at the same time for a total of 4 shots.
This is getting long, so to make it short you move along the rest of the stations taking one shot for each house at each station untill the end where it's the same pattern you shot at station1 but in reverse. Total of 25 shots. The 25th round is an "extra" used at the end, or during the game to make up for 1 missed shot.

Sporting clays is golf for the shotgun. You're shooting a "course" with several different shooting stations with different presentations such as homerhop described. The number of variations is endless, and the number of shots per station is variable. It's meant to simulate hunting situations and is very challenging. Since the sport's invention in England in 1875(?) there have only been 4 or 5 perfect scores of 100 targets broken.

Homerhop's example sounds like another version called "5 stand". The traps are set up in different ways like he described, and there are 5 shooting stations. The targets are thrown the same way for each station, but in different orders. Each stand has a different viewpoint, so the clays appear differently as you move from stand to stand. I can't remember how many targets are shot at here, but I think it's 100?

There's more, but I think that's enough

If you're just throwing clays out in front of you with a thrower, it's generally refered to as "trap" shooting, but I don't know if there's an official name other than maybe "plinking"

11-05-2003, 10:16 AM	#5 (permalink)
mtsgsd Addict Location: Wisconsin, USA	Good advice on the guns (although I love my Beretta), but you're describing Sporting Clays, or possibly "5 stand"? In trap, you'll be shooting from stations placed along a semi-circle that's facing trap house set in the ground 16 yards away. The clay comes out at about 55mph at a random angle within a predefined narrow arc, and at a random height. You'll shoot 5 shots from each station so that you have 5 different views of the clays. Total of 25 shots. In Skeet, you have stations along a semi-circle again, but you have two trap houses. a "high house" at the left end, and a "low house" at the right end of the circle. You start at the left end directly underneath the window that the clay emerges from. You'll shoot one bird from the high house (overhead going away) and one from the low house (low coming toward you). Then once more with both thrown at the same time for a total of 4 shots. This is getting long, so to make it short you move along the rest of the stations taking one shot for each house at each station untill the end where it's the same pattern you shot at station1 but in reverse. Total of 25 shots. The 25th round is an "extra" used at the end, or during the game to make up for 1 missed shot. Sporting clays is golf for the shotgun. You're shooting a "course" with several different shooting stations with different presentations such as homerhop described. The number of variations is endless, and the number of shots per station is variable. It's meant to simulate hunting situations and is very challenging. Since the sport's invention in England in 1875(?) there have only been 4 or 5 perfect scores of 100 targets broken. Homerhop's example sounds like another version called "5 stand". The traps are set up in different ways like he described, and there are 5 shooting stations. The targets are thrown the same way for each station, but in different orders. Each stand has a different viewpoint, so the clays appear differently as you move from stand to stand. I can't remember how many targets are shot at here, but I think it's 100? There's more, but I think that's enough If you're just throwing clays out in front of you with a thrower, it's generally refered to as "trap" shooting, but I don't know if there's an official name other than maybe "plinking"