Tip for Trap Shooting...

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Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby R. Chapman » Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:28 pm

I've bet you've heard a thousand times to focus on the bird and the bird only; that's a good tip but there's more you can add on to it to make it really work. As soon as you can see that bird, turn your focus to that bird as usual but what I want you to do is be aware of where your muzzle is. So your main focus is on the target but in your peripheral zone of that main focus, that you ackeknowledge that the muzzle is there and that is in front of the target. I see it all that time, people are focused on the target which is good but sometimes their hands haven't caught up to their eyes. Below is a picture of what I'm talking about in regards to main and peripheral focus.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby FlintRiverFowler » Tue Jan 07, 2014 9:33 pm

I'm confused.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby capt1972 » Tue Jan 07, 2014 9:35 pm

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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby NuffDaddy » Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:10 pm

2 snow days and your already this bored?
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby R. Chapman » Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:14 pm

Not much snow, maybe 4" at most.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby T Man » Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:39 pm

Shooting Tips from the resident expert.

Next week: ACT prep techniques.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby NuffDaddy » Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:43 pm

R. Chapman wrote:Not much snow, maybe 4" at most.

Really? So 2 days back at school at your bored?
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby NuffDaddy » Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:44 pm

T Man wrote:Shooting Tips from the resident expert.

Next week: ACT prep techniques.

:lol::lol:
That's funny right there.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby R. Chapman » Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:51 pm

NuffDaddy wrote:
R. Chapman wrote:Not much snow, maybe 4" at most.

Really? So 2 days back at school at your bored?

I also think my Bio teacher is a dipshit but that's his problem.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby R. Chapman » Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:53 pm

NuffDaddy wrote:2 snow days and your already this bored?

Wait, what! Snow days? Never has happened in the all years I've been in school. This MT, we don't do fucking snow days! It could be -50 with 2 feet of snow, you still have to get your ass up and go to school at 7:30.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby DeadEye_Dan » Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:54 pm

Maybe I'm wrong, but when I see the target, I break the fucker.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby rebelp74 » Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:58 pm

DeadEye_Dan wrote:Maybe I'm wrong, but when I see the target, I break the fucker.

You're wrong, all 13 year olds are always right.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby R. Chapman » Tue Jan 07, 2014 11:17 pm

DeadEye_Dan wrote:Maybe I'm wrong, but when I see the target, I break the fucker.

More than 90% of the time?
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby T Man » Tue Jan 07, 2014 11:17 pm

DeadEye_Dan wrote:Maybe I'm wrong, but when I see the target, I break the ****.



Youre doing it wrong.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby DeadEye_Dan » Tue Jan 07, 2014 11:29 pm

R. Chapman wrote:
DeadEye_Dan wrote:Maybe I'm wrong, but when I see the target, I break the fucker.

More than 90% of the time?


Yep.

Then again I mostly shoot Sporting Clays...I find trap and skeet to be mind numbingly boring.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby sws002 » Tue Jan 07, 2014 11:41 pm

DeadEye_Dan wrote:Maybe I'm wrong, but when I see the target, I break the fucker.


This. Quit fucking thinking so hard, it's really pretty simple.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby R. Chapman » Tue Jan 07, 2014 11:44 pm

DeadEye_Dan wrote:
R. Chapman wrote:
DeadEye_Dan wrote:Maybe I'm wrong, but when I see the target, I break the fucker.

More than 90% of the time?


Yep.

Then again I mostly shoot Sporting Clays...I find trap and skeet to be mind numbingly boring.

I wish I could enjoy SC, but Z-Z is shit, and their "skeet" range has a 5 foot tall mountain of dirt in the middle of the skeet field with cow pies littered all over.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby T Man » Tue Jan 07, 2014 11:50 pm

I grew up shooting at my familes trap park. After shooting sporting clays at my buddies bachelor party a few months ago, I probably wont go back to trap/skeet. SC provides a much better hunting simulation than trap and skeet ever can, and is much more exciting. Watching a trap tie breaker makes me want to put my head in an oven. Same birds come out of the same houses at the same place.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby DeadEye_Dan » Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:01 am

I think my favorite shooting game is 5 Stand with 4 other good shooters....you can damn near melt a gun.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby R. Chapman » Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:08 am

T Man wrote:I grew up shooting at my familes trap park. After shooting sporting clays at my buddies bachelor party a few months ago, I probably wont go back to trap/skeet. SC provides a much better hunting simulation than trap and skeet ever can, and is much more exciting. Watching a trap tie breaker makes me want to put my head in an oven. Same birds come out of the same houses at the same place.


You need to get yourself in a trap tie breaker first! It's nerve racking, especially when there's some big bucks on the line. Skeet is the one that bores me.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby R. Chapman » Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:09 am

DeadEye_Dan wrote:I think my favorite shooting game is 5 Stand with 4 other good shooters....you can damn near melt a gun.


When I was down in Cody, WY, they had a game like 5-stand but it's called flurry, now that will melt a barrel!
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Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby DeadEye_Dan » Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:15 am

We set up a flurry at the DU fun shoot event every summer.

2 shooters per team, 10 traps, 40 targets in 60 seconds, reload on the fly. There are always 3-5 targets in the air.

I've seen guys literally blister their hands trying to keep up.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby 3legged_lab » Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:17 am

DeadEye_Dan wrote:We set up a flurry at the DU fun shoot event every summer.

2 shooters per team, 10 traps, 40 targets in 60 seconds, reload on the fly. There are always 3-5 targets in the air.

I've seen guys literally blister their hands trying to keep up.

That does sound like fun dan.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby DeadEye_Dan » Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:25 am

We also set up a station with 5-8 traps and call it the "flush" - one press of the button and all the traps fire simultaneously.

That is a bitch.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby assateague » Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:52 am

I have no interest in shooting something I can't eat or sell.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby FlintRiverFowler » Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:35 am

assateague wrote:I have no interest in shooting something I can't eat or sell.

I don't believe this
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby BrewGUN » Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:40 am

FlintRiverFowler wrote:
assateague wrote:I have no interest in shooting something I can't eat or sell.

I don't believe this

He uses his hammer for everything else he can't shoot!
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby assateague » Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:40 am

Serious. Shooting trap or skeet has always seemed about as appealing as going to the gym.
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby FlintRiverFowler » Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:09 am

assateague wrote:Serious. Shooting trap or skeet has always seemed about as appealing as going to the gym.

So you don't even lift?
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Re: Tip for Trap Shooting...

Postby jehler » Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:18 am

assateague wrote:Serious. Shooting trap or skeet has always seemed about as appealing as going to the gym.
sounds like you're not drinking enough?
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