(11-24-2020, 02:58 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(11-24-2020, 02:52 AM)Senor Fantastico Wrote: Yeah like Sneakers said, skeet is a pretty distinct game. High house left, low house right. You move in a semi-circle between them to change the angles. 

Most of the time if you're shooting in the yard or whatnot, it's more of an unofficial trap game. The pigeon moves up and straight out from you. 

Both super fun and a little bit different skillset.

I never realized there was a difference.  I have always called shooting clay pigeons "skeet".  Either way I'm trying to get better at it.  Right now I average hitting about 2 out of 10.

At whichever distance most of the clays are breaking, set out a 30 inch target and shoot at it for a bit. An actual target on a post or tree not like a watermelon. This is so you can see how the guns patterns. Gun to gun can be pretty different, and if you have screw in chokes, obviously a large difference there as well. 

Some guns, the bead covers the clay, some you get the bead on the bottom tip of the clay. I have a mid bead so I make a figure 8 with the top circle of the 8 covering the bottom half of the clay. Really helpful to know what your gun is wanting to do. 

For chokes, I'd start with an IC or if you're a little slower (the clay starts falling before you shoot) maybe a LM.

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