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

[ysr_racer]

One's for old men, one's for old women, and one's called "sporting clays".

[supermario]

[jordan870]

trap comes out of a box in front of you

skeet comes out two towers from either side of you and

sporting clays is just random i think

[scidx]

Trap is similar to that old nintendo game "duck hunt" where the clays are flying away from you.

Skeet involves a high house and low house incorporated in a semi-circle course. The shooter moves with each volley. Clays fly from left and right.

Sporting clay (fun stuff) is a sport hailing from Europe. It's a course set in, preferably, a wooded area with shooting booths in sequence. The sport is supposed to simulate small game hunting. Clays are different sizes (small, midi, standard I believe) and come from different directions. Normal NSCA style, clays roll and bounce across the ground, come from below, come from above, even straight at you. The hardest one I've seen goes straight in the air about 40ft, hangs, and seems to come down faster.

Man, I miss it. Should be getting my 1100 in the mail soon.

[scidx]

After I posted, I realized this wasn't a question, but a joke. I guess I should read the WHOLE post. My mistake.

Any sporting clay courses near solano county? I don't know surrounding areas by heart.

[trickyvic]

Yolo Sportsmen in Davis and United sportsmen in Concord both have a sporting clays field.

[odysseus]

Sporting clay (fun stuff) is a sport hailing from Europe. It's a course set in, preferably, a wooded area with shooting booths in sequence. The sport is supposed to simulate small game hunting. Clays are different sizes (small, midi, standard I believe) and come from different directions. Normal NSCA style, clays roll and bounce across the ground, come from below, come from above, even straight at you. The hardest one I've seen goes straight in the air about 40ft, hangs, and seems to come down faster.

The most fun too. Some setups give you a choice as well in simulated trajectory and path per station.

[Purple K]

Birds Landing in Eastern Solano County has an excellent sporting clays line.

[mmartin]

Sporting clay (fun stuff) is a sport hailing from Europe. It's a course set in, preferably, a wooded area with shooting booths in sequence. The sport is supposed to simulate small game hunting. Clays are different sizes (small, midi, standard I believe) and come from different directions. Normal NSCA style, clays roll and bounce across the ground, come from below, come from above, even straight at you. The hardest one I've seen goes straight in the air about 40ft, hangs, and seems to come down faster.

that one I always hit (quail station, I think). the rabbits too... where they shoot across at ground level then hit a berm and pop straight up. the ones I can't hit are the goose station I think... long slow curve coming in with *plenty* of time to think about shooting it. hate that. too much time to think messes with my shooting.

my sporting clays instructor said the difference is
- Trap is for OCD shooters... exactly the same every time, every shot... don't interrupt their timing, it makes them miss.
- Skeet is for people who are Serious About Their Shooting. Serious, mind you.
- and in Sporting Clays you're just lucky if your buddy isn't trying to goose you while you make the shot.

megan

[shrap]

Go here:

Clay Targets Online - CA

Since sporting clays are pretty labor- and thrower- intensive, many fields require a lead time so that they can have all the machines and everything set up, so calling first is a good idea.

[gun toting monkeyboy]

They had a decent sporting clays down in El Cajon last I checked. It is a hoot. They called the one that went straight up a "teal" there, though I don't know if that is it's official name. I liked the rabbits the most. I had a worn sear on a SxS one time when I was there. Most of the time it wasn't an issue, but every so ofter both barrels would go off at once. You should see what that does to a high speed clay rabbit. It has long since been fixed, but let me tell you, that sure gets the puller's attention quick...

-Mb

[scidx]

Thanks guys. I'll check those out.

Sorry OP. I jacked your thread.

[scidx]

What is 5 stand and FITASC

[shrap]

5 stand is a smaller version of sporting clays, with only 5 locations to shoot from. From what I understand, a full round of sporting clays takes quite a while to shoot (has many targets) and is distributed across a large area.

Google says FITASC is the international association for sporting clays, headquartered in France. Official rules and regs.

Shotgunworld is probably a better place to ask these questions if you want a wider variety of responses.

[ysr_racer]

5 stand is a smaller version of sporting clays, with only 5 locations to shoot from. From what I understand, a full round of sporting clays takes quite a while to shoot (has many targets) and is distributed across a large area.

Yep, as the name says, there are 5 shooting stations. Sporting clays has anywhere between 10 to 20 (+) stations.

5-stand is usually setup on a skeet field with about 7 machines. You shoot a single and two pairs from each of the 5 stands, making a round of 25. Sporting clays is usually 50 or more often 100 rounds.

FITASC is a game with lots of rules. No shorts, you must have a collared shirt, no open toed shoes, no premounting of the gun, no practice swing and on and on.

Not to mention the targets are like sporting clays on steroids. A LOT farther and faster than normal.