Any shooters here?

hillbilly

I tried "sporting clays" today and I'm hooked.... been shooting shotguns afeild for years, but trap, skeet and clays are fun games... and really improve the shooting skills.

Any other "dead-eyes" in here?

Hill (if it goes "bang" I like it class)

Fe2O3Girl

Me.

I currently use my husband's 12-bore Beretta. I am a slow learner, but I enjoy it. My husband is training to be a shooting coach, so I get as many free lessons as I want.

xenawarrior

Cool Hilly !!

I'll share a story with you about my experience with trap shooting. Now, please remember when you are laughing your ass off - that I was only 18 at the time k?

One of my best friends is really into trap shooting and is on a league here etc. He's a big bird hunter. So- back then he came over on a Saturday and told me we were going trap shooting. I'm figuring- heck, why not?

So we get out there and I'm intent on hitting one of those damn things. I think I hit like 2 out of 50. But my right arm was killing me !! Within an hour of finishing, I had a bruise developing. By later that day the entire inside of my upper arm was bruised. By the next morning I couldn't even move my arm at all and the huge bruise was deep purple and black. ARGH!!!

The whole time I was shooting at those damn clay pigeons I was holding the gun improperly. Instead of having it tucked into my shoulder I had it on my upper arm. To top it off, my friend told me that he had "goose load" in the gun which kicks more I guess. (what do I know?) In any event, it hurt like hell but I never again held a shotgun or rifle incorrectly again. I bitched at my friend about that -he could have just told me and I would have "gotten" it without going through all of that. K, no laughing, remember?

On a lighter note-- when I was married, my ex and I went to auctions a lot. At one of them we picked up an automatic pigeon thrower and a couple of cases of clay pigeons. In that "find" was also a hand thrower but I could never get the hang of that thing. We lived out in the country with a lot of acreage of farmer's field behind us and it became something we really enjoyed doing. Whenever we'd have a party there would be a group that was into it and always one that had bragging rights from the previous visit.

"PULL!"

XW

frenchbabyface

The only "video game" I was good at ... It gives me the envie to try the real thing do !

onacruse

I used to have a 0.38 Special.

And I still love the smell of burned powder; even when I strike a match.

Speaking of which, here's a "shot" from the past (gawd, when will you folks get tired of my reminiscing? LOL) :

When I was at Mountain Farm (central New Jersey; the smallest of the farms the WTS then operated), one of my "it's not your duty but if you want to do it, here's the rifle" jobs was to go out every evening and shoot woodchuck and rabbit (those dang varmints).

The one proviso: I had to buy my own ammo (0.22 LR hollows).

$14 a month doesn't buy much ammo, so guess where the money came from?