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Was messing around today with a carbine and some clays. Had to get the setup right so I had a good safe backstop but could get the camera to see the birds. This is on a controlled access range and all shots were positively contained on the range impact area.

Don't try this without making sure all your shots are contained in a safe manner.

Edited out some of the misses to speed things up.



Optic was a 4.5-14X50mm Leupold.

Jerry Miculek would be proud of you. Nice shootin'.

Nice shooting but let's not confuse that with sporting clays.

Let's see a hard left to right bird now! LOL!

Looks good, tracer would make it even more fun.

looks like fun, but the 'disclaimer' was a little over the top.

I like it...good shootin for sure.....

Nice shooting.

Now, lets talk about that strange scope mount setup....

What?? You guys mean a straight away trap shot from the 0 yard line isn't "Sporting Clays"??

I don't know how much ammo it would take to finally luck into a hard crossing bird. A guy might get lucky and tracers would sure help to get some kinda handle on the lead.



Funny you should ask....

Oh I bet if you had hash marks in the scope and could shoot tracers, you could figure out how to hit a crosser.

Nice shooting. We used to do that with 10-22s here many moons ago. When it was safe to shoot down into a little bowel below the house. And no neighbors.
Alas I now have neighbors I can see, much as I dislike it, it is life.

Jeff

Or at least try a double.

Nice shooting

That's good shooting, even without a S&B

a 50 yard full spring, low arc battue would be a hoot to try. I have shot skeet with a Judge and you might just be surprised

By the way John, nice shot! that 105 is all edge going away like that

Try iron sights; I'm betting it would be better.

1. Nice gun mount, but with the irons you'd have a better focus on the bird, better move to the target.

2. Your "call" needs work. "Hep" is what old, worn-out Trapshooters bark. LOL

3. Always shoot more than once if you miss with the AR. It says so in the NSCA rule book.

Rick, I saw way too much back hand and a little to quick but overall not bad for a trapshooter (grin)

john, very cool and it looks like a whole lotta fun, any tips for trying to do that, you probably want to take the shot when the bird kinda floats for just a moment.

Great shooting; looks like fun. Reminds of some games we used to play with .44 revolvers and shot loads on the skeet field (after hours of course). Again, good shooting.

Looks like a lot of fun! A 10-22 might be even more so.

One shot I'll never forget was on a Thanksgiving afternoon, back in the late 1950's. We were at my grandparents farm. After the meal Granddad, Dad and Uncle went out to shoot some hand-thrown clays. I wandered out to where they were shooting and watched Granddad and Dad miss repeatedly as Uncle threw the birds. Uncle asked them to give him a minute and he went into the house and retrieved Granddad's old Remington M24, an iron-siighted, bottom -eject, take-down semi-auto .22 rifle on Browning's design.

Uncle loaded a round in the chamber and leaned the rifle up against a fence. He then threw another clay bird and grabbed the rifle. After Granddad and Dad had both missed, Uncle took a shot. The bird was now out quite a ways. Not sure of the distance but Granddad had three round grain bins and it was out by the last one. (Near as I can tell using Google Earth it was about 40 yards.) To everyone's amazement, Uncle's shot hit the bird.

A side note. We kids loved that rifle. I figured I would never live long enough to inherit it so my first big purchase after getting out of the service was a new Browning rifle of the same design. I've put untold thousands of rounds through it but couldn't duplicate Uncles shot on my best day (not that I ever tried). Granddad died at age 100. (He was born in 1911, an easy year to remember.) I'm glad I got my Browning back in '74 because I'd still be waiting on the Remington - Dad has it now,