Trap & Skeet

[Ian]

What are the differences between Trap and Skeet?

[MrMurphy]

This belongs in the High Power Club not the "TACTICAL" shotgun club...

[Ian]

I don't know what the high power club is.
But my reason for asking is which one would be more constructive training for self defense/tactical shotgun work?

[MrMurphy]

The High Power Club, if you scroll down more, is the regular shotgun/rifle forum.

And the answer is, neither.

Trap is simulating birds flushing and flying away. Skeet is the same but basically sideways.

Neither trains you in any way for defense, it trains you to hit a small round moving target. Nice for breaking in the gun, but professional training by a serious instructor (Louis Awerbuck for example) is what you need.

[Dalton Wayne]

In trap you stand in a fixed position and the birds (clays) fly away from you, in skeet you move in stages from the tower on your left to the tower on your right, you also shoot if I remember right a set of doubles on your last stage.

In skeet you fire two shots at each stage one from the left tower then one from the right tower(again if I remember right) when you say pull.
Here in the Tactical shotgun club were not afraid to answer any shotgun question, It's just been about 30 years since I used to shoot sporting clays so my memories is kind of foggy.
Best
Doug
founder Tactical shotgun club

[Ian]

I appreciate the answer. Thank you
I must shoot and become familiar with the shotgun before I attend a course, (it is a handgun/shotgun course, and although I am more than proficient with handgun, have only shot gunned twice!)
Some of indoor ranges here will not allow shotguns, but
There is a trap and skeet club not too far away, and I thought that it would be good practice.
I would have thought that hitting small moving targets would be very good practice, at the end of the day isn't that what we all need to do?

[MrMurphy]

I shot some skeet to break in my 870 shortbarrel. It was fun and made burning through several hundred rounds easy, but the seriously condescending looks ($300 gun versus in some cases, $15,000+ gun), anti-defense attitudes and general snobbery from about half the range (the other half was pretty cool) made me not really want to come back.

it did nothing really to help train on self defense,which instead of patterning ahead/into the target is about delivering the entire pattern in a tight group onto the target, and also about reloading/load management, maneuvering with the weapon, and basic tactical movement.

[eddief4]

Originally posted by Dalton Wayne
In trap you stand in a fixed position and the birds (clays) fly away from you, in skeet you move in stages from the tower on your left to the tower on your right, you also shoot if I remember right a set of doubles on your last stage.

In skeet you fire two shots at each stage one from the left tower then one from the right tower(again if I remember right) when you say pull.
Here in the Tactical shotgun club were not afraid to answer any shotgun question, It's just been about 30 years since I used to shoot sporting clays so my memories is kind of foggy.
Best
Doug
founder Tactical shotgun club


so skeet you physically move your position, and trap you stand in one location.

did i get it right?:wavey:

[Dalton Wayne]

Originally posted by eddief4
so skeet you physically move your position, and trap you stand in one location.

did i get it right?:wavey:

Yes
look at this http://www.claytargetsonline.com/aboutthegames.php

[Buckaroo]

Thanks, Dalton Wayne! That will make it easier to explain to my son.

[eddief4]

Originally posted by Dalton Wayne
Yes
look at this http://www.claytargetsonline.com/aboutthegames.php


thanks:wavey: