1/26/2024 0 Comments Clay bird bell![]() No matter how many targets they hit and missed, all of them had fun, and almost all of them came back for more. I’ve shot with plenty of hunters trying their first round of sporting clays. You’ll never master it, and you’ll never stop learning. If this all sounds like a lot to absorb, it is, but it’s also part of the fun of the game. I’ll shoot low gun for some targets, as I think it gives me a better view and lets me make a better move, but I’ll pre-mount the gun for going away birds. Some shooters use a hybrid style, putting the gun to their shoulder but keeping their head up to better see the target, then moving the stock up into their face to make the shot. Sporting clays allows a pre-mounted gun, although back when I learned the game you had to shoot from a low gun start. If you’re a beginner, this is a helpful technique to use. Sporting clays also allows a pre-mounted gun like shown here. Some targets are easy to swing through like trap targets, while longer targets are usually easiest with a maintained lead method. ![]() The variety among sporting clays targets means learning different methods. ![]() It’s easy to rush through five pairs, which almost always leads to missing. Shoot the target sooner, or later, lead it more, lead it less, whatever, just don’t do the same thing five pairs in a row if you’re missing. As long as the birds are breaking, stick with your plan. Think about where you will look for each target, where you will start your gun before each pair. As in all clay sports, routine is important. Seeing a target hit the ground lets you judge distance more accurately.Īrmed with your plan, step up and shoot. Often, target setters will trick you into thinking a target is farther away or closer than it is. Then, follow the show targets all the way to the ground. Have an idea where you will start your gun, and where you’ll pick up each bird with your eyes. Think about where you want to shoot each bird, or which one you’ll shoot first if it’s a true pair. Good sporting clays shooting begins before you ever step into the cage. You get five identical pairs at each station, and the first shooter gets to see a show pair before they start shooting. Pairs are thrown three ways: true (both in the air at once), following (one, then another), and report, where you shoot one, then, on the report of your gun, the second target is thrown. Some clubs do rent carts and most serious competitors trailer their own decked out ATV clays cars to shoots.Ī round usually consists of five pairs of targets shot at each of ten stations. While a round of trap or skeet takes about 15 minutes, shooting the usual round of 100 sporting targets takes over an hour. Not only is that variety a blessing for those of us with short attention spans, but it also means that, unlike trap and skeet where everybody is grooved in and perfect scores are common, hardly anyone breaks them all in sporting clays. In addition, unlike trap and skeet fields, no two sporting clays courses are the same, and club managers change them up regularly. But, it’s all great fun, and sporting clays is still the best practice game for hunting. You’ll see targets now that you’d never see in the field, looping, falling, bouncing, streaking straight up, and more along with plenty of crossing, incoming, and outgoing birds you would encounter in the field. As it became popular, and shooters got better and many people who had no interest in hunting picked up the game, it changed.
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