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Shot my first round of trap today
« on: February 16, 2014, 03:46:35 PM »
Joined the local trap and skeet club today.  I'm also going to be taking my little brother along for a lot of practice.  Don't know if I'll join a league or anything, but the practice will be great.

It was very humbling.  I quit counting, but my guess is I got like 7...  those clays are moving fast!
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2014, 04:56:59 PM »
Trap, Skeet = Hoot!
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2014, 05:00:50 PM »
Quote from: Waitone on February 16, 2014, 04:56:59 PM
Trap, Skeet = Hoot!

You forgot sporting clays.
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2014, 06:56:46 PM »
I try to avoid shooting trap.  While I am not all that good, it's a lot of fun and I would no doubt get hooked.  I just don't need another hobby.
Good on you for trying it out.  Have fun!   =)
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2014, 07:35:26 PM »
Trap, Skeet, Five-stand and Sporting Clays.  All humbling games for beginners.  Just go to have fun and remember the original intent of those games was to give bird hunters practice.  ;)
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2014, 08:21:06 PM »
I'm so ready for the snow to go away.  I really would rather shoot trap and sporting clays in something other than 3 feet of! snow
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2014, 08:22:37 PM »
You haven't shot trap and/or skeet til you done it with a Judge.
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2014, 08:30:57 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on February 16, 2014, 08:22:37 PM
You haven't shot trap and/or skeet til you done it with a Judge.

Or shot a judge like Cheney  :lol:
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2014, 08:32:47 PM »
Dude shouldn't have jumped in front of that quail!
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2014, 08:57:12 PM »
It was bad...  good thing it was just open practice :).

First thing I'm going to do different is put the inertia driven Win SXP pump away, and get out the OU with extractors.  Chasing hulls will get really old on the firing line.
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2014, 09:34:27 PM »
Down at son's gf family farm and we were shooting trap and decided to see if we could do so with a Judge.  Actually hit more than not with it.
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2014, 09:50:17 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on February 16, 2014, 09:34:27 PM
Down at son's gf family farm and we were shooting trap and decided to see if we could do so with a Judge.  Actually hit more than not with it.


So it would be good for shooting corn dodgers out of the air  :lol:
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2014, 10:56:43 PM »
Quote from: wmenorr67 on February 16, 2014, 09:34:27 PM
Down at son's gf family farm and we were shooting trap and decided to see if we could do so with a Judge.  Actually hit more than not with it.

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Sure, with a spread like that out of a short rifled barrel, you're bound to connect with at least one pellet.
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2014, 10:43:01 AM »
Most interesting round of trap I ever watched was a quiet guy busting every single one with a .410 that turned out to be full choke.

I really want to find a safe place to see him do that with a .22lr.
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2014, 11:19:17 AM »
Worst round of trap I ever shot was a 3 . . . friend of mine had just starting loading shotshells, and this was at the now-defunct Lincoln Park Gun Club in Chicago, where plastic wads were forbidden. Plus, I was using a Savage double.

Patterning later showed 20% patterns, so I was essentially shooting a "spreader" load; I was lucky to get 3.

My employer had a trap and skeet club with its own range, and I shot in the league there for a number of years - took High Gun a couple of times in Trap (Big fish small pond? Actually, more like minnow in a puddle.  ;) ) but was inconsistent in skeet. Lots of fun.
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2014, 09:03:42 PM »
Shot two rounds of trap during a single range visit.  Trap score much higher than skeet score.  Love five-stand, could learn to love sporting clays.

Still a terrible wing shot.
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2014, 09:48:11 PM »
Quote from: Hutch on February 18, 2014, 09:03:42 PM
Shot two rounds of trap during a single range visit.  Trap score much higher than skeet score.  Love five-stand, could learn to love sporting clays.

Still a terrible wing shot.

I shoot 22/25 consistently with trap. Never shot skeet and I'm lucky if I can break 40/100 in sporting clays. Take me upland or waterfowl hunting and I shoot 9/10 birds consistently. Actually I don't think I missed at all last season.
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2014, 12:02:30 AM »
Has anyone ever shot a square of trap?

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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2014, 12:10:49 AM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on February 19, 2014, 12:02:30 AM
Has anyone ever shot a square of trap?

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What is that?
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2014, 12:59:50 AM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on February 19, 2014, 12:02:30 AM
Has anyone ever shot a square of trap?

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Maybe a rectangle.

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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2014, 04:18:06 PM »
I read this whole damned thread & NOBODY mentioned how they taste!
If I'm shootin' it I'm eatin' it or wearing it's skin.
And a "Round" of skeet. Is that like a covey of quail or a school of fish (or a congress of baboons)?
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #21 on: February 19, 2014, 04:43:28 PM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on February 19, 2014, 12:02:30 AM
Has anyone ever shot a square of trap?

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Round is just square with indefinable sides.
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #22 on: February 19, 2014, 04:48:07 PM »
Quote from: bedlamite on February 19, 2014, 04:43:28 PM
Round is just square with indefinable sides.

I was thinking a square of trap was a 100 targets (4 rounds of 25) or a person who breaks 100/100.

I see Brad was being a wisenheimer. 
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #23 on: February 19, 2014, 05:19:09 PM »
Quote from: Triphammer on February 19, 2014, 04:18:06 PM
I read this whole damned thread & NOBODY mentioned how they taste!
If I'm shootin' it I'm eatin' it or wearing it's skin.
And a "Round" of skeet. Is that like a covey of quail or a school of fish (or a congress of baboons)?

Kind of  . . . crunchy . . .
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Re: Shot my first round of trap today
« Reply #24 on: February 19, 2014, 06:03:29 PM »
Quote from: Triphammer on February 19, 2014, 04:18:06 PM
I read this whole damned thread & NOBODY mentioned how they taste! . . .
Maybe because they're toxic - in fact, in the past the cartons were actually labeled "do not throw where pigs feed."
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