Hmmm! Trap and Skeet IS a game of the same target over and over. But, you must move from station to station and with trap you don't know which of any of 5 different directions from any of 5 different posts the rock is going to go. If you think it's easy, come on down and show us how to run a couple hundreds straight. Love those hard rights at #5 and the straightaways on #3! Oh, yes, when you do do pretty well, they start backing you up, just for a little different perspective on the game!
Skeet, which actually is rapidly becoming MY favorite, is very boreing too!! You always know from whence the rock cometh and whither it goeth, you do this from some 8 different locations on the course and then just for teasers, toss in pairs on 1/2 of the stations. When you think you have it "dicked" lets talk about small gauge a bit. There is a whole 'nother perspective on that when you trade your 12 ga for a .410! Add in to all this a 20 to 30 mile per hour gusting wind and watch the difference in the way a rock flies from the high and low houses and the difference in swing required to break them!
Yup, same old thing over and over again BOREING!!! Let me know when you start running them over and over, BOREING! To each his own! Oh yes! I almost forgot about the Boreing game of Five Stand! Running a 5-stand is almost a Gimmie!, same old thing over and over, gimmie a 1, a 2 and a 3, a 4 and a 5. Now lets move like we do in Trap to a different location and watch those same presentations over and over again. Throw the rock, break the rock, over and over again, again and again!
The places I shoot Sporting clays usually have no less than 4 and many times 10 shots per station of which you get the exact same presentation in the last pair as you did with the first pair. You ought to learn something by watching the free "lookers" on every station?? Don't get me wrong, I like Sporting clays just as well as the next guy. Best I've ever done is 80 out of 100. Trap? Never did better than 49 out of 50 and skeet a 23 followed with a 24 is my best. I don't shoot tournaments, usually, just serious fun and summer leauges. Don't nock the other diciplines just because it isn't YOUR favorite, go over there and join in on the fun. Rare is the day I go to the range and shoot just Trap or just Skeet or just Sporting Clays! Probably why I'm not very good at any of them? Too many guns, too many different games to master! I sure have a good time though! :wink:
BP