Skeet shooting crown land

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Originally Posted by johny

Easy to say, but if you want to do a lot of shooting you can only do that with your own trap launcher.
If I go to our local skeet range I might shoot a maximum of three boxes of shells waiting for multiple squads of five to cycle through the range.
If I go out to crown land (clear cut or old abandoned gravel runway) I will often shoot 400 rounds in an afternoon. It would take 6 days to do the same at our local club.
When I want to practice I want to do a lot.

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Any "trap launcher" that you're hauling into the woods isn't giving you near the practice or variety that a club does. I've put many new hunters into the layout boat who have "practiced" and fired thousands upon thousands of rounds at birds thrown from a "trap launcher", and watched them empty box after box into thin air on decoying divers.

If you want practice, shoot skeet, five stand or sporting clays, and shoot it often.

-Nick

There are many clubs around that accept "guest shooters ", but you pay a little extra for a round of trap or skeet or sporting clays.

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Originally Posted by Sprite

Any "trap launcher" that you're hauling into the woods isn't giving you near the practice or variety that a club does. I've put many new hunters into the layout boat who have "practiced" and fired thousands upon thousands of rounds at birds thrown from a "trap launcher", and watched them empty box after box into thin air on decoying divers.

If you want practice, shoot skeet, five stand or sporting clays, and shoot it often.

-Nick

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I've also had clients that were champions on the range but couldn't hit a dead duck on the water from the blind/boat.

I know they had great scores on the range because I saw them shoot on the range.

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Originally Posted by Snowwalker

I've also had clients that were champions on the range but couldn't hit a dead duck on the water from the blind/boat.

I know they had great scores on the range because I saw them shoot on the range.

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I have watched video's of " Tom Knapp exhibition shooter extraordinaire " , miss a lot of ducks while hunting, and laughing at himself for doing so saying " this is definitely not like shooting clay targets ".

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Originally Posted by jaycee

There are many clubs around that accept "guest shooters ", but you pay a little extra for a round of trap or skeet or sporting clays.

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Could you point me in the right direction of a club that offers this?

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Originally Posted by HuTy

Could you point me in the right direction of a club that offers this?

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PM SENT.

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Originally Posted by Sprite

Any "trap launcher" that you're hauling into the woods isn't giving you near the practice or variety that a club does. I've put many new hunters into the layout boat who have "practiced" and fired thousands upon thousands of rounds at birds thrown from a "trap launcher", and watched them empty box after box into thin air on decoying divers.

If you want practice, shoot skeet, five stand or sporting clays, and shoot it often.

-Nick

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Radio push button remote control Atlas Trap.
With it I can practice approach, oblique, crossing and away shots and anything in between
Plus continuous variable angle of launch so I can simulate anything from a jumping mallard to a Buffie coming in low and flat to the water.

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Originally Posted by jaycee

I have watched video's of " Tom Knapp exhibition shooter extraordinaire " , miss a lot of ducks while hunting, and laughing at himself for doing so saying " this is definitely not like shooting clay targets ".

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It may just be my option but real birds seem to fly "slower" then clays. Maybe it's because I have more time to watch my target, or maybe it's because a real bird does not go from 0 to warp 7 in .45 seconds.

I've jumped a lot of pond ducks and a few pheasants, there is no clay thrower in the world that can recreate that classic vertical lift, hang, and shift to horizontal flight of a real bird. When you get it right then it seems like you have all day to make the shot.

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Originally Posted by johny

Easy to say, but if you want to do a lot of shooting you can only do that with your own trap launcher.
If I go to our local skeet range I might shoot a maximum of three boxes of shells waiting for multiple squads of five to cycle through the range.
If I go out to crown land (clear cut or old abandoned gravel runway) I will often shoot 400 rounds in an afternoon. It would take 6 days to do the same at our local club.
When I want to practice I want to do a lot.

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Do you clean up your halls, wads and target shards or just leave them there?

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Originally Posted by Badenoch

Do you clean up your halls, wads and target shards or just leave them there?

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Hulls yes.
I shoot on an old abandoned gravel airplane runway. Clay remnants make no difference there.

Do you search for your wads when you hunt?