Skeet/Trap

[VKhaun]

If you thought this was a porn thread, no 4chan for a week.

Anyone shoot shotguns? Having never fired a gun before, I went through about 150 rounds of 12guage shooting at round orange 'birds'. The place we went was nice. Lots of stations set up in different ways so you had the target going towards or away from you, left to right, up, down from an elevated position, different angles, one actually rolled them out to skip accross a hill and down an embankment on their side so they bounced and hopped. Every station had at least two different machines to alternate between if you wanted to as well. Then of course there was the standard Skeet.

I felt like the shotgun I used was really short. Not the barrel but like the body of the weapon itself from bottom of the stock to the top of the barrel was very narrow. Plus the sight line was real low right against the barrel. Ended up with an annoying little bruise from putting the bottom corner of the stock against the top of my shoulder to get it high enough lol... still had a really surprising amount of fun. I was told I was doing well, but the spread I was getting from 12guage seemed like overkill shooting at the targets. I think most people there used 410 and that extra margin of error from the 12guage almost certainly helped me break more targets.

Did not attempt Skeet, but it looked neat. It sounds like people are practicing towards being good at 'skeet' rather than good at using the shotgun itself. Timing when the bird is coming out, aiming where it will be ahead of time, etc. I'd rather do trap and let someone surprise me with it. There was an olympic station where three machines fired at random or something, but the person I was with didn't play that and I didn't push to try it my first time out.

I'm ususally a night person because of my job, but I'm going to get my own shotgun and start doing it regularly as my 'daytime' activity when I need something to do with people.

[Boxy Brown]

I shoot trap/skeet with a 20 gauge.

[VKhaun]

lol I said the other people used 10guage... I meant 410 bore...

[Norska]

i've gone bow hunting in hawaii, but never bagged an animal. Since moving to Alaska quite a few people have asked me if I hunt/shoot etc etc. Truth is, I've never shot a gun before, but given where I now live it's the perfect opportunity to learn and I've met lots of willing teachers. A gun purchase is on my list of "shit I need to buy soon" but I haven't done much research on them (arguably, it's low on the list at this point )

[Esfires]

For never having fired a gun before, a shotgun can be kind of a rough start unless you're using small powder loads. If you really enjoyed shooting a long gun, I'd suggest investing in a cheap .22 rifle, something with a bolt action and magazine, as the semiauto's can sometimes be complicated to clean for a newbie.

[Sillywilly]

For never having fired a gun before, a shotgun can be kind of a rough start unless you're using small powder loads. If you really enjoyed shooting a long gun, I'd suggest investing in a cheap .22 rifle, something with a bolt action and magazine, as the semiauto's can sometimes be complicated to clean for a newbie.

What Esfires said. Especially a 12 gauge. 20 gauges and 410 are going to be far more popular for target shooting because they have a lot less recoil, if you can even all it that on a 410.

My dad has an old bolt action 16 gauge shot gun handed down to him by his father and my mothers father gave me a really old school single shot break barrel .22 caliber rifle when I was young. My first shotgun was my dads 410 which was easy to use even before I was a teenager and when I hit like 13-14 he bought me a 20 gauge that was perfect for small game hunting at that age.

[VKhaun]

12 really didn't bother me... I went through a 100 round box from Wal-Mart and 25-50 rounds of self load before it bothered my shoulder, and again that was with a stock that did not fit me at all.

I'm looking at the Saiga 12. Supposedly simple to maintain, and as an assault rifle style weapon there are lots of parts and mods out there for it that are supposedly easy to fool around with so I can try different grips and things, vs some shotgun that has a body made from one piece of wood/metal/plastic/cheese/whatever.

[wowzer]

When I was 11, my gramps and uncle thought it would be funny to watch me fire a 10 gauge. I fell on my ass and started crying. Haven't fired a gun since then.

[Zavon]

I don't get the draw that guns has for people. What is so cool about them? I've been shooting since I was a kid, and between the police and the army shot everything up to and including artillery. Never once thought any of it was fun.

What dont I get?

[VKhaun]

Going to pass on the Saiga. Have to mod it range legal probably, and even then I'll have to side load it through the bolt or carry around a ton of two round clips barely longer than the mag well. Just going to get a mossberg maverick hunter and put something on the stock to make it a little taller.

http://www.mossberg.com/product/shot...r-hunter/75445

And to correct my earlier statement, I shot 'clays'.
I did not shoot Trap.

[Valec]

I don't get the draw that guns has for people. What is so cool about them? I've been shooting since I was a kid, and between the police and the army shot everything up to and including artillery. Never once thought any of it was fun.

What dont I get?

You probably don't think explosions are cool either.