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One of the most often asked quesitons at our facility is How to... shoot each of the shotgun sports at our facility. This is a guide on how each sport is played. Enjoy!
Sporting clays simulates the unpredictability of hunting field game birds and even rabbits, by using a variety of different trajectories, angles, speeds, elevations, distance and clay target sizes.
It can be shot in rounds of 50 or 100 clays (birds) on multiple Stations. Each Course has multiple Stations from which to shoot . Each station presenting targets
from two traps. Targets are thrown as pairs. Pairs include:
You may shoot multiple pairs at each Station. Once all Stations have been completed, the shooter who has shot the most birds wins!
Much like regualr Sporting Clays, Super Sporting Clays offers even a bigger challenge. It can be shot in rounds of 50 or 100 clays (birds) on multiple Stations. Each Course has multiple Stations from which to shoot . Each station presenting targets
from three traps. Targets are thrown as singles or pairs. Pairs include:
You may shoot multiple pairs at each Station. Once all Stations have been completed, the shooter who has shot the most birds wins!
Wobble Trap is a fairly new and exciting shotgun sport. Five shooting stations are provided on an elevated stand. Each shooter is allowed five shots from each station.
The traps, we ahve 2, are located underneath the stations. The traps stationary, but oscillates on both horizontal and vertical axes. Hence the name "Wobble."
The shooter calls for the clay to be thrown and it could come from either trap at any angle. After five shots from five stations, the game is over. A perfect score would be 25.
Wobble Trap shooting has become one of the fastest and most exciting shotgun sports and can be enjoyed by the entire family.
Five Stand is a type of shotgun sport shooting similar to Wobble. There are five stations, or stands and multiple strategically placed clay target throwers (called traps). Shooters shoot in turn at various combinations of clay birds. Each station will have a menu card that lets the shooter know the sequence of clay birds (i.e. which trap the clay bird will be coming from). The shooter is presented with 5 targets at each station, first a single bird followed by two pairs. Pairs can be either "report pairs," in which the second bird will be launched after the shooter fires at the first; or "true pairs" when both birds launch at the same time. After shooting at the 5 birds on the menu at that station, the shooter proceeds to the next stand, where they find a new menu of 5 targets. After the shooters shoot all 5-stands (25 birds total) the shooter with that shot the most birds wins.
Trap is shot on a Trap Field.
Shooters stand at predetermined spots on the filed and shoot at clay birds being thrwon from a Trap House. The birds may be thrown anywhere in a 44 degree ar from the Trap House.
Trap shooters commonly shoot three events: singles, handicap and doubles.
Singles
Single birds shot from the closest distance, 16 yards from the trap house. Since the birds are usually about 15 to 25 yards out by the time the shooter fires, even the 16 yard singles are 31 to 41 yards away.
Handicap
Handicap is like singles, except it is shot from various distances, depending on one’s ability, between 19 and 27 yards. These birds are 35 to 52 yards away, depending on one’s handicap and reaction time.
Since very few shooters with slow reaction times ever earn a 27 yard handicap, that 52 yard figure is an exaggeration. 27 yard shooters actually shoot their birds at 47 yards or less. As you might imagine,
a little disk, 40+ yards away and flying at 40+ miles per hour can be a difficult target. Doubles are two birds launched simultaneously, shot from 16 yards.
Doubles
Doubles are even more difficult and are, by far, the most fun. A round of doubles at MSI is 15 pairs, or 30 birds.
The game of Snooker consists of ten report pairs of targets, for a total of twenty targets attempted by the players. The Snooker field has a total of eight traps.
Two #1 traps, one positioned to the left and the other to the right of the shooter platform. Traps with the numbers #2 thru #7 are positioned throughout the outlined playing field.
Two shooters are positioned on the elevated platform with the left shooter calling for his targets first then followed by the second shooter.
Each pair of targets always begins with the release of either of the #1 traps. If the shooter misses the #1 target with the first shot,
he must use the second shot to break the #1 target. If the shooter breaks the #1 target with the first shot, then the #2 target is released,
on the report of his firearm, for him to attempt. If the shooter breaks both targets, he is scored for the sum of the targets, which would be three points (The total of #1 & #2 traps.)
Then the shooter on the right attempts the same pair. The shooters continue for the next pair, #1 & #3 and so forth up to #1 & #7 pair.
After the #1 & #7 pair, with firearms unloaded, the shooters switch sides on the shooting platform and the shooter with the higher score calls for the first of the four pairs in the bonus rounds.
He may choose any trap for his second target. The #1 target is always the first target attempted in the pair. Then the second shooter, calls for his pair of targets.
He may choose any trap for his second target also. After each pair in the bonus rounds, the shooter with the higher score calls first.
In the case of a tie after each pair, the order remains the same until there is a lead change. In the four bonus rounds, the #4 & #5 targets can be attempted only once by each shooter.
All other targets are unlimited in the bonus rounds. The maximum score for a round of Snooker is 65 total points. This requires the shooter to call for the #7 target in all four bonus pairs.
Whomever shoots the highest score WINS!
Any gauge shotgun may be used (over-and-under, semi-automatic, and pump-action), as long as it can fire at least two shells of 12 gauge or smaller. The preferred shot size is #8, but nothing larger than #7-1/2 should ever be used.