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Joined: 20 Mar 2009 Posts: 428

How many of you are skeet shooters and how often do you shoot vintage or american skeet for practice or competively?

Hello
Yes I do
Only once or twice weekly
Mike

Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 171 Location: western PA

I don't shoot competivly, just for fun. That said I shoot twice a week, as long as i get off work in time wed.

Ben

Member Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 76

Just for fun once every couple of weeks.

Bruce

Member Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 1257 Location: Nebraska

Practice about 15-20x per year, twice around the skeet field each time. Not so much this year and no registered, I did make it to Missouri for the vintage shoot. Should have practiced low-gun a heck of a lot more than I did.

Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 960

I am on a team in the Eastern CT Skeet Club and shoot the winter league. I shoot wobble skeet about twice a month, regular skeet almost every week from September to April and League Skeet ever other week from October until April. The rest of the time shoot sporting clays. Total targets in all maybe 5,000 to 6,000 per year. If I had more free time I would double that or more like I used to.

Member Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 3440 Location: Illinois

I shoot American skeet whenever I can---Sometimes up to 10 rounds a week other times two weeks may go by---I can now shoot vintage with the aquisition of the CZ SXS Cool

I shoot two or three International skeet shoots a year. The rest of the time it's American skeet, gun down or sporting clays/5 stand. 200 targets a week.

Tom

Member Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 51

Every Tues & Thurs nite & some Sundays.Shot 3 rounds tonight,giving me 118 rounds so far this year.I use my 1987 Citori for regular skeet & flip flop back & forth between my Parker & pre war Fox for vintager skeet.I sometimes use one of my English doubles,usually at least a few times a month.

Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 728

I shoot about 3000 rounds/year at wobble skeet.

I used to shoot skeet back in the mid 80's but gave it up. Too many other off season pursuits.

Chicago Mike

Nothing but Vintage Sporting Skeet for years: low gun, delay pull; 2 highs stations 1 & 2, doubles high-low, low-high 3 & 4, doubles low-high, high-low 5, 2 lows 6 & 7, and backwards 8 taking the target from the house behind me (haven't been beaned as yet Rolling Eyes

) Should have 2 extra shells to shoot at a big piece (or a missed target twice Mad

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Nothing like this would ever happen to me Crying or Very sad

Alot of this though Wink

Joined: 29 Jan 2009 Posts: 207

I practice skeet all the time (in fact I shot two different times yesterday!), but it's usually with an O/U, and by modern American Skeet rules. I do shoot competitively at least a few times a year, a I will go to the Worlds Skeet Shoot next month.

I generally only shoot Vintage with my SxS when I'm getting ready for hunting season.

Joined: 20 Mar 2009 Posts: 428

Thanks guys for all of the great posts! It seems that skeet is still the best game for wingshooters and it's also my favorite. Best of luck to all of you this bird season Wink

Thanks again for your imput Exclamation

Good luck at the World BPGuy! I wished I was going with you, but used up all my vacation shooting skeet and hunting Crying or Very sad

Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 6 Location: Varnell, GA

I try to shoot a couple of rounds of skeet a week. I shoot low gun, mostly with my 1972 LH 870 and 3/4 oz loads - occasionally with my riot gun or sxs 16.