Shooting Trap


next - Care of Cats and Previous - Snowmobiles

Good Shot-Gun Web Site and A Second Good Site

Shooting clay pigeons is a sport that has been around for a while.  It’s an entertaining sport that a sportsman can always improve at.  A sportsman can either choose to shoot trap or skeet, which are two different games with slight variations.  To be good at the sport a person should find a decent shot-gun that fits them nicely. 

A sportsman can always improve at the sport because it is a difficult sport to master and takes a strong stance, a steady hand, and relaxed nerves.  If a person starts to think about the score then that person generally starts to not do so hot.  The sport takes a lot of practice, and unless a person has practiced a lot then they rarely get a perfect score.  Shooting Trap or Skeet is a good sport for all ages as long as they don’t get blasted by the kick of the gun. 

Trap and Skeet are two different games but are both very fun.  On a trap-line there are five sportsmen standing at either station 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.  Each person shoots five rounds then they rotate to the station to their right, shoot five more rounds then rotate again until they are at the station in front of where they started.  Then the range manager tallies up their scores and the games' over.  The most points possible is 25 hits on the clay pigeons (clay hunters’ orange discs).  Skeet is set up about the same as Trap except that the clay discs come out from the sides instead of in front of the sportsman and sometimes come out 1 at a time, 1 right after the other and even 2 at a time.  The thing about Skeet is that the sportsman doesn’t know which side it’s going to come out of (right or left).

Another way to be a good trap shooter is to find a decent shot-gun that fits the person well.  A good shot-gun can be identified by how well it fits in the shoulder of the person shooting the gun.  The person should