Let me see a show of hands of the Trap Shooters on our forum.

[300WSM]

Tis the season alright....

Who from our beloved forum here shoots trap?

It's that time of year for Trap leagues to be in full swing.

 

[JD338]

I shoot trap at our local club. I use my Beretta Silver Pigeon but sometimes use my old Remington 870 TB grade.

JD338

 

[NYDAN]

I am a former league trap shooter. However, my passion was skeet shooting and I shot registered skeet in the Northeast for years. Early on I used Rem. 870's, and 1100's and then transitioned into over/unders, including Belgium made Browning Superposed, Rem. 3200, Win. Diamond Grade, and a Krieghoff 32. The Krieghoff 32 was the best of the bunch for me.

 

[Teknys]

I too shot Skeet. Closer to actual hunting birds. Loved the windy days. Unfortunately our club was shutdown. Closest skeet field is100+ miles away. Was spoiled having it in our home town. Shot twice a week if not more.

 

[Aussie Wanderer]

Sporting clays at my end. Closest thing to field shooting I can get.

 

[salmonchaser]

Prior to last year I have been on a trap range less than 10 times in my entire life. Mostly as a result of accessibility. Last year I discovered Tucson Trap and Skeet club. The place is amazing, a mile long strip, fully developed with bunker after bunker devoted to trap and skeet. I didn’t have any recent experience to compare cost, but the cost seemed reasonable. We were only in Tucson for two months but I managed to go through 1200 rounds of #7.5 or 8. They also have four sporting clays courses. Progressively more challenging. I only shot on two of those.
Our plan is to be in Tucson longer next winter, I don’t play golf, I’ll be up at the range at least once a week. It will be interesting to see what I retained in my shooting. Started at about 75% finished shooting in the the high 90s, one 98 and hit 96 four times. Never broke 100 but for the most part knew why I missed when shooting trap. Sporting clays however was humbling some son of a gun set those courses up had a diabolical mind.

 

[walkinhorseman]

Prefer Sporting Clays and 5-Stand. Shot trap in a league for a season with Benelli Cordoba.

 

[grry10]

I love shooting trap, skeet and an occasional round of 5-stand. The range is a half mile from my home so it is a weekly thing.

 

[300WSM]

I shoot trap at our local club. I use my Beretta Silver Pigeon but sometimes use my old Remington 870 TB grade.

JD338

There's a guy who doesn't shoot much any longer (health) but...
He was the top gun in the league for years.
His weapon of choice....

Cue the price is right music.....



A Remington 870 express.

YEP...THE CHEAP, CRUDE AND UGLY LOOKING 870.

He carried a 98%-99% average for decades.

 

[wvbuckbuster]

There's a guy who doesn't shoot much any longer (health) but...
He was the top gun in the league for years.
His weapon of choice....

Cue the price is right music.....



A Remington 870 express.

YEP...THE CHEAP, CRUDE AND UGLY LOOKING 870.

He carried a 98%-99% average for decades.

It's not the arrow but the Indian

 

[wvbuckbuster]

The club I belong to started out with skeet and trap ranges in 1962. We added a house on each side of the trap house to make a three-stand type of shooting. The skeet range gets the most use of all three. Rifle and pistol ranges are the most used of all.

 

[300WSM]

The club I belong to started out with skeet and trap ranges in 1962. We added a house on each side of the trap house to make a three-stand type of shooting. The skeet range gets the most use of all three. Rifle and pistol ranges are the most used of all.

Around here for shotgun anyways...
Trap is #1
Sporting Clays #2
Skeet is #3 and a distant #3 at that

Perhaps one reason is a club in our local league hosts the Skeet state championships every year. It's a big deal

Oddly or not oddly pending the paint job you're looking at it's the only club in a 75 mile radius that even offers skeet no matter championship shoots or leisure shooting.

 

[300WSM]

One club here does a wobble trap. It's absolutely some of the most fun...

Humbling for sure.

Two traps with covers between post 1&2 and the second between post 4&5

The traps are literally beside you plus being covered there's no way to predict the flight of the clay.

They run it as such...
Pull...first trap wobbling sends out a clay.
Upon the report of your shot rhe second wobble trap launches it's clay.

As you can imagine after shooting #1 then having to locate #2 and bust that clay....


We shoot...laugh at each other, laugh at ourselves...

But going back to regular trap after shooting that wobble set up...
Everything is in slow motion for a while.