sorry to be slow, but I just don't quite get it

[Guest bazookazilla]

If anyone doesn't already know, I don't own a shotgun. I want to buy one so that I can attempt to shoot skeet (I think). I do not understand what that difference between traps/clays/and skeets really is. It seems to me that they are all the same thing, but I understand that my ignorance may cause me to take thing for that which they are not. Will someone pleases explain the difference in such terms that a simpleton such as myself might understand??

[mousegunner]

Me too, Bazooka. I've never owned a shotgun. I've a suspicion that you are correct in thinking shooting clays and shooting skeet are the same thing. Unless the "skeet" happens to be like that imaginery bird they sent me looking for when I was a kid at camp!

[Guest looneeetunes]

no,no,no, a skeet has four legs, and looks alot like an ant eater..

[Guest gcrookston]

Trap is basically thrown from "a trap" in front of the shooter, usually just one bird at a time away from the shooter. Double Trap is when 2 birds are thrown at a time.

Skeet will be thrown from towers on either side of the shooter at an angle away from the shooter but across the range and sometimes 2 birds at a time are thrown. In each, shooters stand in a semi-circle and are assigned stations. During a match, the shooters will rotate through each station. In both, speed and direction are usually consistant.

In sporting clays there are many variations, but the most common is a tower with multiple throwers shooting multiple angles and speeds in various directions and heights away from the shooter. Single and Doubles are thrown at random. One elaborate course I shot in Tyler Texas included about a half mile walk along a river to each of the 10 stations. Every clay thrown was different and several stations included "Rabbits", hard round clays that are thrown across the ground like a wheel.

[white Oak]

Great Explanation !!

[Guest HexHead]

Trap guns will probably have a tighter choke than skeet guns as the target is moving away from you as opposed to typically across you.

[Im Neero]

Mouse, you're thinking of snipes.

[strickj]

Mouse, you're thinking of snipes.

thats right!but snipes are not an imaginery bird as some belive.It is a real bird about the size of a humming bird I think.Dont know where they are from but they are real,but not behind a wet bush at camp.

Actually the word sniper came from snipe hunting because of the difficulty in shooting them.

Now the left handed monkey wrench is still a thing a myth

[Rightwinger]

Snipe

Real bird, real season to hunt them. Real HARD to find.

[Im Neero]

Does that mean that ottersharks are real too?

[enfield]

This is a juvenile skeet:

You can see why people shoot 'em!

[Rightwinger]

Does that mean that ottersharks are real too?

What?

New one on me.

[deerslayer]

This is a juvenile skeet:

You can see why people shoot 'em!

WHAT IN THE HOLY HELL IS THAT?!

[strickj]

it looks like a bat and a chihuahua did the nasty and its off spring fell out of the ugly tree,hit every branch on the way down,then got hit by a truck.later something ate the road kill and pooped that!

[Rightwinger]

Mogwi.....Mogwi:eek:

[Guest bazookazilla]

Trap is basically thrown from "a trap" in front of the shooter, usually just one bird at a time away from the shooter. Double Trap is when 2 birds are thrown at a time.

Skeet will be thrown from towers on either side of the shooter at an angle away from the shooter but across the range and sometimes 2 birds at a time are thrown. In each, shooters stand in a semi-circle and are assigned stations. During a match, the shooters will rotate through each station. In both, speed and direction are usually consistant.

In sporting clays there are many variations, but the most common is a tower with multiple throwers shooting multiple angles and speeds in various directions and heights away from the shooter. Single and Doubles are thrown at random. One elaborate course I shot in Tyler Texas included about a half mile walk along a river to each of the 10 stations. Every clay thrown was different and several stations included "Rabbits", hard round clays that are thrown across the ground like a wheel.

thank you very much gcrookston

[Guest bazookazilla]

Snipe

Real bird, real season to hunt them. Real HARD to find.

That bird doesn't look like it has enough meat to make it worthy of a difficult hunt

[Rightwinger]

About the size of a quail so no.....I wouldn't spend the time to hunt them. I have seen on that I could positively identify. Dove is the only bird I hunt now. I will shoot a crow if I ever get an opportunity, mean,nasty birds.

[towerclimber37]

This is a juvenile skeet:

You can see why people shoot 'em!

In the dictionary, by the word ugly , they don't even need a definition. they can just use this picture..

that thang ain't natural!

[Guest ETS_Inc]

WHAT IN THE HOLY HELL IS THAT?!

See the resemblence:

It's her birth picture.

[Guest Phantom6]

See the resemblence:

It's her birth picture.

:rofl:

[SHbicycle]

When they grow up it just gets better.

[Guest gcrookston]

I found a really clear definition of the sports with this link:

http://www.claytargetsonline.com/aboutthegames.php