I used to work at a trap shooting club on the weekends when I was in college. They would let me shoot after everyone was finished. It was really fun. I haven't done it in many years, but my best score was 47/50. Those guys would use $2000 Brownings and $1500 Weatherby over and unders and I'd pull out my Remington 870 Express that I hunted with. Nice bunch of guys. I remember one guy had a really bad temper though and when he would miss, he would slam the barrel of his gun, nose first into the cement. I swear, he was gonna "mushroom" the end of his barrel. Another time, one of the newer members got a new loader for Christmas and started loading his own shells. He messed up some way and put double the amount of black powder in. He took one shot and I thought the gun exploded. I swear, my muzzleloader didn't make as much noise as that did. My ears were ringing, even with the hearing protection. The guys came running out of the clubhouse to see what happened. Everyone and the gun was fine, but they banned him from ever using personally loaded shells.

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