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  • ham
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2011
    • 1285

    ****! ****! 23!

    a week ago I played 2 games of trap and got 23 clays in a row. any advice on how to get the last two?
    "The gun has played a critical role in history...an invention that has been both praised and denounced...served hero and villain alike...and carries with it moral responsibility. To better understand the gun is to better understand history."
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    dougolupski
    Member
    • May 2011
    • 361

    practice practice practice. Its all a skill set, find your weekness and work like hell on it.

    I know at my range when I am on the far left pad, any clays that run to the left I have issues with. Finding I am slow to the extreme left I have now proacticed like hell on them. Wasn't cheap to get those last few.

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    • #3
      ham
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2011
      • 1285

      Originally posted by dougolupski
      practice practice practice. Its all a skill set, find your weekness and work like hell on it.

      I know at my range when I am on the far left pad, any clays that run to the left I have issues with. Finding I am slow to the extreme left I have now proacticed like hell on them. Wasn't cheap to get those last few.
      good to know. when i go out i always like start on my weakest stand. the hard left/right flyers are my biggest issue. but even the slow center flyers get me sometimes, maybe due to over confidence.
      "The gun has played a critical role in history...an invention that has been both praised and denounced...served hero and villain alike...and carries with it moral responsibility. To better understand the gun is to better understand history."

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      • #4
        sargenv
        Veteran Member
        • Oct 2005
        • 4620

        What's your choke and load? any idea what your pattern is at different distances? Sometimes clays can fly through pattern "holes".. Maybe just changing up to a slightly better (read as higher quality) load might tip the hits into your favor..

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        • #5
          BigDogatPlay
          Calguns Addict
          • Jun 2007
          • 7362

          Were they the last two birds of the round? Or someplace in the middle?

          If you have not, pattern your gun with the loads and choke you are using. I use a lot of Remington Gun Club through my 1100 because it's available at my club on the cheap and it patterns very well in my gun.

          The straightaways are what always seem to trip me up when I have a good score rolling. I lift my head ever so, bang, and I'm shooting behind / under them. Coming up off the stock is one common error that will cost you birds every time.

          Practice, and some instruction, will definitely help you get there. Trap is very much a game of mechanical process. The best shooters do not vary their mechanics.... at all. They shoulder the gun to the same spot, weld their cheek the same way, each and every shot. Repetition through practice builds that.

          FWIW, don't start from the same station each time. Move it around. If you shoot more formally you won't get to choose how you are squadded.
          -- Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun

          Not a lawyer, just a former LEO proud to have served.

          Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. -- James Madison

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          • #6
            ham
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2011
            • 1285

            the two I missed each round were sporadic, the choke i'm using is a modified. the shells wallmart federal target loads.

            Originally posted by BigDogatPlay
            Were they the last two birds of the round? Or someplace in the middle?

            If you have not, pattern your gun with the loads and choke you are using. I use a lot of Remington Gun Club through my 1100 because it's available at my club on the cheap and it patterns very well in my gun.

            The straightaways are what always seem to trip me up when I have a good score rolling. I lift my head ever so, bang, and I'm shooting behind / under them. Coming up off the stock is one common error that will cost you birds every time.

            Practice, and some instruction, will definitely help you get there. Trap is very much a game of mechanical process. The best shooters do not vary their mechanics.... at all. They shoulder the gun to the same spot, weld their cheek the same way, each and every shot. Repetition through practice builds that.

            FWIW, don't start from the same station each time. Move it around. If you shoot more formally you won't get to choose how you are squadded.
            great advice but what do you mean by "coming up off the stock"?
            "The gun has played a critical role in history...an invention that has been both praised and denounced...served hero and villain alike...and carries with it moral responsibility. To better understand the gun is to better understand history."

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            • #7
              BigDogatPlay
              Calguns Addict
              • Jun 2007
              • 7362

              Originally posted by ham
              the two I missed each round were sporadic, the choke i'm using is a modified. the shells wallmart federal target loads.
              If they are the Federal 1 ounce of #7.5 or #8 shot, those I've had good results with those recently in my over / under. A modified choke should be dandy for where you are at, busting 23 will attest to that.

              great advice but what do you mean by "coming up off the stock"?
              Raising your cheek off the stock / being in a hurry to get the stock off your shoulder when you fire. Follow through is a key to good shooting and you can't follow through properly if you aren't maintaining your mount and cheek weld.

              Something you can try, on the hard right and left birds keep the gun properly mounted and swinging on them after you've fired. Get and maintain the right lead and keep swinging after you break them. If it keeps up and there is an instructor handy ask them to watch a few shots for you on those types of birds and see where you are missing. On the straightaways with my gun I cover most of the bird with the bead. Assuming I am swinging correctly and maintaining my form, I won't be shooting behind / under them.

              These help me, your mileage may vary. Might want to check into one of the clinics if you are close enough.
              -- Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun

              Not a lawyer, just a former LEO proud to have served.

              Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. -- James Madison

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