Whats that trick with the ejected hulls called?

[Artery]

I have no idea how to describe this really well, but its when you open up a break action and catch the hulls as theyre flying out and throw them down. It looks really slick and it seems that most world class shooters do it. Heres a video of the AMU Olympic Double Trap team doing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfXWFQZ2th8

For anyone that knows what I'm talking about, how do you do it?

[bohoki]

its called "auto ejectors"
some competitions do not like them

[ysr_racer]

Are you talking about catching the empty shells from an o/u shotgun? It's not a trick, it's called "cleaning up after your self". If you don't pick up your empty shells, the range will have to.

Get yourself a "Mossy" tactical "shoty", never shoot it, and you won't have to worry about picking up empties.

[Artery]

I'm not asking about the ejectors on the gun, or range etiquette, I'm asking about how some shooters can catch the hulls as they're being ejected. I do "clean up after myself" but like one person had phrased it, I 'pick up my empty shells,' not 'catch them'. I can stick my hand behind the action and sort of catch them as theyre coming out, but I'm talking about how some of these guys can sort of catch them/deflect them with their hand towards the ground in one fluid motion, is there a term for this?

Get yourself a "Mossy" tactical "shoty", never shoot it, and you won't have to worry about picking up empties.

I really don't appreciate your condescending attitude, and in my OP I specifically referenced break action guns.

[wilit]

how do you do it?

Lots of practice. When you shoot as much as an Olympic shooter, I'm sure you'd get pretty good at it.

[BVamp]

Ill eject unfired rounds and catch them in air and pocket them with my autoloaders. It isnt hard, actually. You just have to know your gun.

[NeoWeird]

How is it that some people can read the cereal box while they eat cereal in the morning without watching the spoon go in their mouth? How do they keep from dumping cereal on their shoulder?

When you shoot as much as they do, it's more than just 'trying' at that point.

[tankerman]

Are you talking about catching the empty shells from an o/u shotgun? It's not a trick, it's called "cleaning up after your self". If you don't pick up your empty shells, the range will have to.

Get yourself a "Mossy" tactical "shoty", never shoot it, and you won't have to worry about picking up empties.

I understand where you're coming from.

Anyway many shotgunners that are large volume shooters clean up after themselves because they reload.

[bombadillo]

Lots of practice. When you shoot as much as an Olympic shooter, I'm sure you'd get pretty good at it.

Exactly. The higher up guys at our trap and skeet range do this regularly. I am not about to bumble around trying to catch a 15c shell when i'm holding a 5k trap gun that isn't mine so i'll let them fall and pick them up not having to look cool. Especially when my father in law hands me a 16 thousand dollar Perazzi and says, "here, shoot this" It takes about everything in me to keep it in my hand without dropping his work of art.

[jordan870]

whats the trick called when someone with a pump ejects a shell and shots that spent shell??

[Rob454]

I'm not asking about the ejectors on the gun, or range etiquette, I'm asking about how some shooters can catch the hulls as they're being ejected. I do "clean up after myself" but like one person had phrased it, I 'pick up my empty shells,' not 'catch them'. I can stick my hand behind the action and sort of catch them as theyre coming out, but I'm talking about how some of these guys can sort of catch them/deflect them with their hand towards the ground in one fluid motion, is there a term for this?



I really don't appreciate your condescending attitude, and in my OP I specifically referenced break action guns.

Pretty much it's practice practice practice just like anything else. its a acquired skill

[Rob454]

Exactly. The higher up guys at our trap and skeet range do this regularly. I am not about to bumble around trying to catch a 15c shell when i'm holding a 5k trap gun that isn't mine so i'll let them fall and pick them up not having to look cool. Especially when my father in law hands me a 16 thousand dollar Perazzi and says, "here, shoot this" It takes about everything in me to keep it in my hand without dropping his work of art.

Anytime you're afraid of holding a gun and shooting it then you probably shouldn't shoot it or handle it. Anyone who buys a 16K shotgun and hands it to someone to shoot it shouldn't cry if the said gun gets scratched or damaged.

[wilit]

whats the trick called when someone with a pump ejects a shell and shots that spent shell??

It's called dangerous.

[BigDogatPlay]

It's called dangerous.

It's called practice, practice, practice... Tom Knapp who demo shoots for Benelli is very adept at it. I've tried it a couple of times out in a pasture and it's kind of fun. Kind of hard on the hulls though.

But seriously, I don't know that that trick has a name.

[ysr_racer]

I do "clean up after myself" but like one person had phrased it, I 'pick up my empty shells,' not 'catch them'.

I really don't appreciate your condescending attitude, and in my OP I specifically referenced break action guns.

Wow, no kidding. Who pee'd in my corn flakes

Here's the deal. It's not a trick, it's just something shooters do to show off. It kinda like Tiger Woods bouncing a golf ball on the end of his club. It doesn't have any real purpose, but it looks cool.

I've seen a lot of younger shooters do it, but most old guys like me don't. It's also something specific to trap or skeet shooters, since the "empty bucket" is usually right in front of them.

Sporting clays shooters (like me) don't do it because we shoot from inside a box/cage that has a cross bar in front of us. We have to break open the gun with our hand behind the empty shells, catch them, and toss them into the bucket.

If you're in So Cal, join me for a round and I'll show you.