Trap shooting "cadence" and clay prediction?

[Meety Peety]

Where is this place at? I want to go shoot a couple of rounds with my 18" Mossberg. Just to piss him off!

A guy did this to us a few weeks ago.. was funny as hell. He had like a hipster muscle tank top on and slicked back hair shooting a mossberg 500 with a breacher and red dot. Kid you not, he was shooting those pink low recoil rounds. Talk about breaking your concentration.. hard to shoot when you're giggling uncontrollably

[BigFatGuy]

Make him fat and balding, and he could be me. That's great ammo...

[ysr_racer]

While I do find sporting clays to be more entertaining, the cost of shooting sporting is so much more than trap. $35 to $40 for one round (100 targets) of sporting when I can shoot trap for $6.00 a round max (25 targets which would equal $24 to compare against a round of sporting). Heck, shoot a sporting clays tournament and you are looking at over $200 for just the main event (100 to 200 targets) while a trap tournament is less than that for 5 events (500 targets).

Think about it, five trap fields need five machines. Your average sporting clays course has twelve to fourteen stations, and each station needs two machines.

[Newshooter]

Think about it, five trap fields need five machines. Your average sporting clays course has twelve to fourteen stations, and each station needs two machines.

I get the math...I was just stating a fact sporting costs more than trap.

[JagerDog]

Think about it, five trap fields need five machines. Your average sporting clays course has twelve to fourteen stations, and each station needs two machines.

So?

The machines are a minor factor. SC birds cost more. SC takes more real estate. If it was the machines, Bunker would be more expensive.

[champu]

The organizer is a pretty old fella, in his 70s, and he kept complaining that wife and I are shooting too slow and that we're disturbing the "cadence" of the squad... ...He told me that because wife and I are shooting so slow, he can no longer predict which angle the clay will be launched at (he's been shooting badly....)

This reminds me of a running joke I've developed when I visit national parks. I'll be driving on (for example) Going to the Sun Road, going the speed limit, and even in an environment like that I'll get some ****head behind me aggressively tailgating until I get to the next turn out.

In a fake-screaming, hypertensive voice I'll say to the other people in my car, "GET OUT OF MY WAY! I'M TRYING TO ENJOY THE BEAUTY OF NATURE!"

[ysr_racer]

So?

The machines are a minor factor. SC birds cost more. SC takes more real estate. If it was the machines, Bunker would be more expensive.

FITASC is even more expensive than sporting clays.

[JagerDog]

FITASC is even more expensive than sporting clays.

Did you have a point?

[ysr_racer]

Yes, it costs money to have fun.

[JagerDog]

Yes, it costs money to have fun.

You mean "more fun" than trap right? Trap is for heathens, cheapskates and the ignorant, right?. Why beat around the bush?

Relative costs till has little/nothing to do with the number of machines (which was your statement).

[ysr_racer]

Lots of hostility, you must be a trap shooter

[Newshooter]

Lots of hostility, you must be a trap shooter

Not all trap shooters are hostile, old and grumpy. I will agree that is a definite, unfortunate, somewhat true stereotype.

What I have found interesting is that the nicest shooters I have ever met are the trap shooters in Oregon and Washington. Not only are they friendly, they open their homes and welcome everyone to their shoots. There is a reason why twice annually my buddies and I travel north to shoot in Oregon. For some reason, CA shooters are a lot less friendly and less socially interactive.

[Jules]

Really? I've made friends all over the state due to trapshooting. I was scoring for another league today and got pulled in to sub, as I was the only scorer who also shoots. I had a ball, but then, I shoot with new people all the time. The grumpy people are out there, but they are by far the minority. I'm quite friendly with many of my competitors for the state women's team.

[Tom-ADC]

Used to shoot at San Diego Shotgun Sports (Miramar) & Target Tossers, can't recall grouchy shooters. I was much younger then shot mostly skeet but did shoot trap, sporting clays and 5 stand when they had it set up.
Going to start trap again at SBRC just because it's there and is easy for me to get to. They shoot 2nd & 4th Wednesday.

[JagerDog]

And that's one of the reasons trap is dying as a sport. The other is, it's just plain boring

The first time my buddy shot trap with me, he was using the only shotgun he had, a Remington 1100.

I was in the first position, he was in the second, geezers were in three, four, and five.

Out of the blue the geezer in three asks my buddy, and I quote, "how would you like it if hit you with a rock"?

It went downhill from there

If you want to have fun, shoot sporting clays. It's much more social due to the distance between stations.

You're actually showed to talk while you walk to the next one

What the difference between trap, skeet, and sporting clays?

One is for crabby old men, one is for crabby old women, one is called sporting clays

Seriously, shoot sporting clays.

Yes, it costs money to have fun.

Lots of hostility, you must be a trap shooter

The dogma gets tiresome.

On occassion.

Mostly skeet. I can shoot it in the weekday evening....which was the goal of the OP.