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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rogwar on December 19, 2012, 07:58:42 PM
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How many of you like to do that? Went with a couple of buddies today, all of us on vacation. Two of us were shooting gas operated Berettas and the other an older remi 870 wing master (from the good 870 days). He was hurting after 4 boxes. :D
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Me and some buddies go trap shooting, we turn it into a fun competition costs a quarter a round. Each of us brings a box of clays each and couple boxes of shells by the time were done everyones shoulders are feeling it, I use a 50's rem 870 wingmaster still shoots like a champ. I also bring my mossburg 9 shot tactical to cut down trees lol
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Love it. I have my own launcher, couple of 870s and a Mossberg 500.
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Only time I've gone is with my class at the range. Loved it.
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I love it. Too bad it's so expensive. Most fun you can have with a gun in my opinion.
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My son and i do it a couple times a month...we just do it for the Sportig Clays and :aok
Our Club (we just do it for the Sportig Clays and the food....best bacon on the planet!! :aok)
http://www.powderbourne.com/powderbourne-hunting-preserve.htm
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Yeah love it. I use a Miroku MK70, cartridges are getting expensive here. We have our own little piece of wood and up to a couple of months ago half a dozen traps.
Some scumbags cut the chain on the gate drove a 1/4 mile through the wood broke into the container and even managed to get the high tower trap. Unfortunately the yearly insurance cost was as much as the traps worth so we didn't have any! Three other local clubs had this happen too in quick succession.
We have bought a new auto and use the manuals now, not letting these vermin spoil our fun.
I'm not very good by the way :)
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I shot traps for 10 year's even made my own club called the Starbuster's . We had aroud 30 member's . We all got the Bob Alan Gluves and jackets the hole 9 yards .
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My son and i do it a couple times a month...we just do it for the Sportig Clays and :aok
Our Club (we just do it for the Sportig Clays and the food....best bacon on the planet!! :aok)
http://www.powderbourne.com/powderbourne-hunting-preserve.htm
Still gotta get up there with you guys.
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I did sporting clays for the first time last weekend with Golfer. (He is a lot better shooter than I am) its fun.
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I really enjoy sporting clays, it is a lot of fun.
But I'm better at skeet and trap. Don't know it it's common, but growing up I used to play a trap game we called "Annie Oakley" all the time. It's good fun.
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Love it but haven't done it in years though. First time I did it. It was a gang of guys from work. Someone let me use his Beretta. Turned out I was good at it. But then I learned to shoot in the military. Won a bottle of whiskey. This is Ireland after all! After that I usually won a prize or two at every shoot.
I seriously considered taking it up as a sport at one stage. But I didn't have the money to buy a decent gun.
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I have been talking with a few of my old member and we are going to start our club back going if we can find some land to rent . What happen to the old club we lost our land . It don't cost that much if you reload your own . I went in half with a friend and we shot every weekend for 40 buck's each . If you get the red double A hull's you can reload them a many times . I all way's put a little wax on the end's of the ones that did not crap down all the way to keep the buffer and shot from leaking out .
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flench, where in miss. do you reside?
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Still gotta get up there with you guys.
Yes, yes you do :aok Ill make the time if ya want to hook up...... Did I ever shoot you my cell # ?
Now we just need to find a way to kidknap Flench and get him up here too
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when the weather is good I take my Browning 500's out and blow through a few boxes in each. We had a bay out at the range that you put a token in and got 999 clays....they fixed that shortly after I pointed it out.
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I haven't done any sporting clays yet. I did shoot skeet competitively back in college. I still shoot a round now and then at the base. I don't use anything but an over under. I dropped the pump way back when and haven't looked back. I can only have one shotgun, can't justify more, so I use that one for everything including hunting. Been good for doves, quail and ducks so far.
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I have enjoyed sporting clays for a long time. I shoot a pump without a problem.
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We try and get a couple boxes of clays in a year. Had my wife try it for the first time the last time we were out, she loved it. Actually have a video of her first round somewhere. We live in the country and have lots of space we can do it right in the back yard. Usually make an afternoon of it between clays and target shooting with .22's or other rifles or bows. We try to come up with different competions when my friends and I shoot. My favorite is with two shooters and one clay. Both get one shot, pick one to go first and the second cant fire til after the first one has shot.
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flench, where in miss. do you reside?
I live in Oakland MS . I have 6 people now helping me find some land to rent out , I'm trying to get some land by the main highway (55) where it be easy to find . That's just 60 miles south of Memphis . I have a place rented out but I deer hunt on it but if I have to I mite set the club up there . I got into shooting trap's really heavy . Reloaded shot shells that should have blown up in my face but did not . I got all kind's of little trick's on reloading . Like putting pancake mix in my shot before I cramp the hull and so on .
I love to come up there one day mbailey . Mite be able to do just that this year too . Let me get your cell phone number while I'm at it too and I will PM mine when I get back in town . Be AFK a few day's .
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i was gonna say if you lived near the coast i know a couple places but i guess not
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I have a really nice sporting clays course close by to me 14 different stations.
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I love sporting clays, I try to go at least once a month and shoot in some nsca shoots. I have a very nice facility about 15 minutes from my house with 16 "hard" stations, 8 "easy" stations, a trap range, and a five stand range. If anyone is around the Tampa/Brandon/Riverview area in Florida and wants to get together to shoot just let me know. Here is my clay buster.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7061/6906864067_34fe3c7eb3_o.jpg)
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I shoot a Beretta EELL....love it!! (Ill get some pics up soon)
I really want to take this old hammer gun out (Drilling)..I just want to get it back out in the field where it belongs..one of these days im gonna pick up some Euro 16ga shells for it And from what ive read, the 9.3x72R rifle cartridge is no slouch.....it was designed as an African big game cartridge :O
(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/IMG_3924.jpg)
(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/IMG_3927.jpg)
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That shotgun of yours Pewter has some really nice furniture on it :aok
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Love sporting clays. I do not hunt my relatives fish so I never took hunter safety. A couple friends got me into sporting clays. We have a course 20 mins away with two sporting clay courses and a trap course. The 1st sporting clay course is an intermediate course the other which I did once if you really want to do it proper you will want to change out your chokes from station to station. My first time i went I was using a buddies semi auto after two stations the ejector spring was failing and I would have to wait for the shell to eject before firing my next shot. I still managed to shoot 65% considering I have no experience and using a faulty gun. My other moment of glory an unusual station I went 4 for 4 on the hard course when the next best was 2 out of 4. My final score wasn't that good though. :frown:
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Here is my clay buster.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7061/6906864067_34fe3c7eb3_o.jpg)
that is a lovely looking gun :aok
those chokes seem to protrude a long way beyond the barrel, whats the deal with that - do they act as suppressors?
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that is a lovely looking gun :aok
those chokes seem to protrude a long way beyond the barrel, whats the deal with that - do they act as suppressors?
Thanks!
Our Sporting Clays chokes were designed to give you a nice dense pattern with fewer holes in the pattern where birds can be missed. All of our chokes are ported away from the shooter so there will be no powder residue blasting back at you. The porting is designed to strip the wad from the shot column, it will also keep the muzzle jump down to gain quicker response on the following shots.
Since our chokes are longer (1.75 past the muzzle) than your normal aftermarket choke tube, our chokes generally shoot one choke tighter than our competitors. Why? Because we have a longer forcing cone with a flatter taper angle. This helps reduce the pellet deformation, which causes “flyers”. So generally speaking, if you like to shoot an IC, you can back up 1 choke size with the Pure Gold and see about the same performance, give or take a few pellets. We have customers repeatedly say, “WOW, my current choke don’t come close to hitting targets like that!”
As with all Pure Gold Chokes, if you are not completely satisfied with the way the choke performs or handles in your gun, we will buy them back.
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ok that makes sense, although you'd think everybody would be producing longer chokes if the improvement was that noticeable?
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ok that makes sense, although you'd think everybody would be producing longer chokes if the improvement was that noticeable?
There are several manufacturers that also make extended chokes. I will tell you that they are a PITA to clean. Pieces of the wads get stuck in the holes and burnt on after 100+ rounds. I never patterned the gun before and after these chokes though so I cant say for certain if they do what they claim. I do seem to hit more but I have a hard time crediting the chokes vs just improving shooting skill. Who knows. Plus my 28" barrels are now 30" :aok