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Summer trap league starts tomorrow night at the shotgun range I go to. Once again the team I'm on will be shooting together, great bunch of guys! We've been shooting together, on the same team, for a very, very long time, great camaraderie! Plus I just picked up an really nice, old, Ithaca LeFever single barrel trap gun to try out and give my old Citori XT combo a rest. As the team has aged, we just have more and more fun with this. One guy needs cataract surgery, another a knee replacement and this will be my return after extensive spinal surgery. I used to hit 460 - 470 out of 500 targets, time will tell! LOL! So we don't take it too seriously and just have fun with it. If it wasn't for shotgunning, and hunting, I wouldn't have the privilege of knowing this fine group of guys!


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I'm kind of like you, except that me and my group of guys shoot sporting clays on Tuesday afternoons.

It's about the only thing in my life that I can do and get all of the schit out of my head for 2 hours. No work, no phones, no computers, no problems. Just having fun and concentrating on what the hell I'm trying to blast out of the sky.


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Originally Posted by StoneCutter
I'm kind of like you, except that me and my group of guys shoot sporting clays on Tuesday afternoons.

It's about the only thing in my life that I can do and get all of the schit out of my head for 2 hours. No work, no phones, no computers, no problems. Just having fun and concentrating on what the hell I'm trying to blast out of the sky.


Stone cutter,

Where do you shoot Tuesday afternoons?

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Originally Posted by doctor_Encore
Originally Posted by StoneCutter
I'm kind of like you, except that me and my group of guys shoot sporting clays on Tuesday afternoons.

It's about the only thing in my life that I can do and get all of the schit out of my head for 2 hours. No work, no phones, no computers, no problems. Just having fun and concentrating on what the hell I'm trying to blast out of the sky.


Stone cutter,

Where do you shoot Tuesday afternoons?

Doc


Doc, I'll send you a PM.


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Wednesday night's it is sporting clays. We go out for pizza afterward until the day lengthens enough to bbq. Everybody has to bring a meal one night and some beers on another. I've been shooting with this group for 20 years but it looks like this year may be our last. 4 have retired with two of the guys not showing up as regularly due to other hobbies. Another had to quit the team after being laid off and having to relocate for a new job. Two others have been less reliable than in the past as their current job situations have them traveling more than in the past.

It's a shame we may be breaking up, since I started we have moved from the bottom class to the overall club champions for a couple of years. We then started shooting for entertainment by declaring "SxS day", 28 ga only night, or bring a gun and trade night. One year I shot a different gun each night for the whole season.

I shoot trap on Thursdays. I've shot on this team since the mid-1990s with a break of several years when the sponsor stopped shooting. He started back up a couple years ago and I've been shooting since. There are only three of us from the original team with two of our nemesis' from the past on the team now. This year we took on a kid who is home schooled and was unable to get on a high school team. He is out shooting our sponsor so either the kid or I will will get cut!😀

Back when I was more serious in my shooting, I shot on another trap team, a skeet league, and sporting clays leagues at two additional clubs in the spring through summer. Winter had me shooting a 5 stand and 410 league. That did not count registered matches for trap and sporting clays either. I rarely shot clays from Sept 1 until Christmas. There were two charity shoots in there that I attended but that was it. The rest of the year had me shooting clays somewhere each week.

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We have 3 trap leagues at my local club----spring, summer & fall. I've been shooting them all. My team has won several. I'm thinking of dropping out of the spring league-----I'd rather go turkey hunting on the weekends. I love shooting trap. If there was a skeet league----I'd shoot that also.

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Originally Posted by DeanAnderson
Summer trap league starts tomorrow night at the shotgun range I go to. Once again the team I'm on will be shooting together, great bunch of guys! We've been shooting together, on the same team, for a very, very long time, great camaraderie! Plus I just picked up an really nice, old, Ithaca LeFever single barrel trap gun to try out and give my old Citori XT combo a rest. As the team has aged, we just have more and more fun with this. One guy needs cataract surgery, another a knee replacement and this will be my return after extensive spinal surgery. I used to hit 460 - 470 out of 500 targets, time will tell! LOL! So we don't take it too seriously and just have fun with it. If it wasn't for shotgunning, and hunting, I wouldn't have the privilege of knowing this fine group of guys!

Good for you guys! Have fun, life is too short!!

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Nice.. Not enough shooters in our area for leagues!!


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