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There's a place about 15 minutes from here that has Sporting Clay runs for $38 per 100 clays.
I've always thought shooting fake birds was stupid, but since I don't have any real birds, I may give it a try.
Anything I need to know going in? Does everybody shoot low brass 7 1/2 type stuff? What's a good score? Good God, First its Sporting Clays...... then you will want to go fishing in Shorts and Tank Top in a swamp! What has happened to the MT flash? Is FLA really that influential........ When in Rome!
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I like to use smaller gauges or 1 oz loads around 1200 fps in that I found lighter recoil helps my score. I usually use a light Modified choke. Did league shoots with friends for a few years. It was a lot of fun. Have had friends catch the bug and shoot 20,000 rounds of ammo per year which gets expensive. Yowza! Thanks for the info.
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Try not to laugh at the dudes pulling carts full of fancy over and unders and changing chokes at every station. I like improved cylinder and have used skeet chokes enough not to feel under choked around here. Have fun it can be habit forming. +1,000, I've shot Clay's everywhere from Florida up to Jersey and west to Oklahoma. There were these types at every course. However, we use our pumps and banged up auto loaders, carry our shells in a pack and sling our guns instead of renting a golf cart and barely ever tighten our poly chokes past Improved Cylinder. It is easily my favorite off season activity besides bass fishing. $38 for a 100 birds is pretty good price too, just paid $25 for 50 here in NC yesterday. Good to know. Thanks.
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Deflave, my pal is a big time shooter and he loved the RIO 1 oz loads of 7 1/2 and maybe 8's they were something like 1255fps if I remember!! Have fun!! Hope you get back to Montana soon!! I'll keep an eye out. Probably wont' be back until retirement. 10ish years.
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All true battue, but we’re talking about a guy that’s never shot sporting clays and clearly has little to no shotgun trigger time. Remember, he thinks it’s stupid lol!! I've been fortunate to live in places that had lots of live targets. Not many have.
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Deflave, my pal is a big time shooter and he loved the RIO 1 oz loads of 7 1/2 and maybe 8's they were something like 1255fps if I remember!! Have fun!! Hope you get back to Montana soon!! I'll keep an eye out. Probably wont' be back until retirement. 10ish years. So you kept the single wide in havre city trailer park?
Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego. Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me.
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I've been fortunate to live in places that had lots of live targets.
Not many have.
The most shooting I ever get to do in Florida is when Snipe season rolls around.
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So it sounds like if you're just shooting to keep the rust off a guy would err on the side of a tighter choke?
For myself,yes. Less room for error, but it should make one be more exact in their point. Others disagree and go for a larger pattern. Someone else said it, but we often miss by feet, but chokes only give us inches.
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Deflave, my pal is a big time shooter and he loved the RIO 1 oz loads of 7 1/2 and maybe 8's they were something like 1255fps if I remember!! Have fun!! Hope you get back to Montana soon!! I'll keep an eye out. Probably wont' be back until retirement. 10ish years. So you kept the single wide in havre city trailer park? It a double.
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I've been fortunate to live in places that had lots of live targets.
Not many have.
The most shooting I ever get to do in Florida is when Snipe season rolls around. I catch those in a burlap sack.
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So it sounds like if you're just shooting to keep the rust off a guy would err on the side of a tighter choke?
For myself,yes. Less room for error, but it should make one be more exact in their point. Others disagree and go for a larger pattern. Someone else said it, but we often miss by feet, but chokes only give us inches. I only hunt with a full so I'm thinking I'll just leave it as is. Thanks for the info.
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Might want to look at the target presentation before selecting a choke, just a thought..... I don't even know what that means. From an article on chokes: "The other key factor is presentation. As we discussed, edge-on targets are much harder to break. A 35 yard edge-on crosser can be more of a challenge to both shooter and equipment than a 50 yard driven target. The visible area is considerably smaller and the face presented to the shot is the thickest and hardest. A target showing its full belly on the other hand exposes the thinnest part of the clay and will require fewer pellet strikes for a clean break. Choke selection then is part art, part science and (hopefully) now a little less mystery."
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Bet you can't catch a bona fide Florida Mud Dove in a sack.....
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Might want to look at the target presentation before selecting a choke, just a thought..... I don't even know what that means. From an article on chokes: "The other key factor is presentation. As we discussed, edge-on targets are much harder to break. A 35 yard edge-on crosser can be more of a challenge to both shooter and equipment than a 50 yard driven target. The visible area is considerably smaller and the face presented to the shot is the thickest and hardest. A target showing its full belly on the other hand exposes the thinnest part of the clay and will require fewer pellet strikes for a clean break. Choke selection then is part art, part science and (hopefully) now a little less mystery." You mean changing chokes in the field based on the angle of the clay/bird?
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Not on the angle of flight.
Based on the surface area of the clay exposed. Which could be at any flight angle. Go shoot, it will quickly be obvious.
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7.5's and a modified choke will work fine. No need to skullphuck it to death, as is the 'fire norm. Think 30-06, Leupold 3X9.....
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I got hooked on it at the beginning of last year. I was trying it with my 870, but quickly figured out that wasn't going to do. I want to do well, I hate it when I suck at something. I found a really nice used Citori for a good price and bought it. Now we shoot a couple of times a week. Try it, you'll like it.
I bought some extended chokes that I can switch if I need to. I generally use a Skeet and an IC. If it's a longer trap shot, I'll take out the Skeet and put in a Mod. If it's shorter closer in stuff like Rabbits, I might take out the IC and put in a CYL. I'll also switch the barrels back and forth depending on how I'm going to shoot that station. It's almost like golf, you're not going to make a long drive with a 9 iron, or a short chip shot with a driver. If you want just a good all around choke, most of the guys that shoot an automatic use an IC.
When I first started, I was shooting in the teens (out of 50). Within a month or so, I was shooting in the 20's. Now I'm hanging in the 30's and I shot over 40 a couple of times. Yesterday, just playing around and practicing, I think I only missed about 8 or 10 out of 50.
A 20ga is fine. Some guys shoot a 28ga. I shoot a 12ga, so I can't comment of what type of shell to use. A guy at our club puts in a huge order together for us twice a year from RIO. I shoot #8, 1 1/8 oz., 1250 fps. for about $5.25 per box. I'll go through about 4000 rounds this year. Walmart sells Remington 100 round 12ga, #8, 1 1/8 oz., 1200 fps Value packs for about $20.00.
I shoot at a couple of clubs, and the going rate is about $15.00 for 50 birds. So $36.00 for 100 birds ain't bad.
I shot 5 stand last week for the first time. That's like a high speed version of sporting clays and it's fun as schit. It's a little harder because you have to keep your head screwed on tight and pay attention to what you're doing.
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I've found that sporting clays is like playing a bunch of different golf courses and skeet is like playing the same one over and over. 5 Stand is somewhere in between. Trap is like going to the driving range.
I've probably shot more skeet than anything lately. It's kinda like a measuring stick of sorts. Sporting clays is fun as hell until you want to take it seriously.
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So it sounds like if you're just shooting to keep the rust off a guy would err on the side of a tighter choke?
For myself,yes. Less room for error, but it should make one be more exact in their point. Others disagree and go for a larger pattern. Someone else said it, but we often miss by feet, but chokes only give us inches. I only hunt with a full so I'm thinking I'll just leave it as is. Thanks for the info.
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