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Originally Posted by berettafan
Hey Jeff 5 Stand is just sporting clays at 5 stations lined up together. For me 5 stand is actually tougher than a sporting course because you have to remember so many targets (our club has 13 traps on the 5 stand) and can't just look at what the guy before you had.
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That makes sense. My club is a little short on room to make a full walk through course, and this does have a stunning variety of targets from at least a dozen traps. The good thing about it is that we buy "cards" to give to the trap operator that specify which targets we want. It even breaks it down into "called doubles" vs "report doubles", i.e. we "call" for the second target vs. it gets launched when we shoot at the first. These "cards" are rated in difficulty, so guys like me can choose the "easier" ones. It is a lot of fun.
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Originally Posted by berettafan
I'll just offer one quick tip to any budding sporting enthusiasts here as i don't want to monopolize the thread- A very talented pro shooter (and talented Nashville recording artist) by the name of Wendell Cherry says if you use your finger to shoot a moving target in the air you will break it every time. IOW the brain already knows exactly where to put the gun and we just have to learn to get out of its way and let the gun go where it needs. Skeet is a game of lead memorization and trap is frankly easy to half ass and still do well in. But sporting requires accepting the brains direction and mastering good vision discipline.
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I had a guy years ago tell me that shooting a shotgun is like "shooting hoops". If you over think it you will miss every time. It's all by feel. And that is where it all falls apart for me.
If I shoot too much shotgun, my rifled arms shooting suffers. I shoot so much rifle and handgun that my shotgunning suffers. Two entirely different approaches to trigger control and "sight" alignment. And that's my biggest problem with the shotgun - I try to align their "sights" like a rifle. I think about it too much.
Those places should have rubber birds for when guys like me show up. It's just a crying shame to see perfectly good, uninjured ones shatter on the ground like that all the time.