Pigeon shooting games

Skeet shooting is a recreational and competitive activity where participants, using shotguns, attempt to break clay targets mechanically flung into the air from two fixed stations at highspeed from a variety of angles. Skeet is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting.

Trapshooting is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting shooting shotguns at clay targets. The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays. Five Stand is a type of shotgun sport shooting similar to sporting clays, trap and skeet. There are five stations, or stands and six to eighteen strategically placed clay target throwers called traps.

Shooters shoot in turn at various combinations of clay birds. You can shoot six days a week in most of those places. So many clubs in Europe are tremendously active, with country-club type facilities. There just isn't much opportunity to shoot live birds in this country. RUDY: I'd say it is, because you always have the unknown angle.

You never know what that bird is going to do. And the weather affects the birds. In either box-bird shooting or columbaire hand thrown birds you've really got to learn how to point that gun to be a really good live-bird shot. There's only one thing that makes any kind of a tournament shooter - skeet, trap or live bird - and that's experience. It's a specialty gun, just as special for its purpose as is the race car built for the Indy It isn't something you're going to do much other shooting with.

RUDY: Full and fuller. The right barrel shoots a percent pattern with No. It's extremely tight. That's an advantage mentally. I know that if I miss the bird with the first barrel, which every shooter frequently does, the capability is built into that second barrel to kill the bird.

It's up to me to point it correctly. I think that the man who shoots a choke which is too loose, at clay targets or live birds, doesn't build any confidence with it. You've got to know that the gun is capable of doing the job it was intended to do.

RUDY: A big factor that we haven't talked about. Some people can stand competition, while others imply don't have the physical makeup to stand those finishes. I know many shooters who shoot better in competition, and others that don't do as well. I shoot much better in competition than I do just playing around in practice, because competition makes me concentrate. After you've shot as many years as I have, you don't just do it for fun. GRITS: Did you experiment with different shells - brands, loadings and shot size - to get those tight patterns in the Purdey?

The chokes in most European guns are cut using European shells which we never see over here. RUDY: Most of the time, but it depends upon the bird.

If the birds are well feathered I usually shoot 7? If it happens to be a shoot in South America where it's hot, and the birds are lightly feathered, I shoot 8s in both barrels. Another time when I'll use 7? Always 8s in the first barrel because - again, pattern density is the key to success. In Europe nickel and copper shot are available, and that's a distinct advantage in the second barrel because it's very hard - particularly nickel shot.

They tend to hold the pattern together a little tighter at long distances. They're also excellent for international trap. RUDY: About the only similarity is that you're shooting at pigeons in both.

As much difference as between skeet and trap, two different games. The columbaires are good, and they get to know the weaknesses and strong points of all good live-bird shooters. They take great pride in making the best shooters miss. It's a good game, and I shoot it, too. RUDY: No. Instead of the tightly choked inch Purdey, I shoot a Parker with inch barrel bored improved cylinder and full.

Again, it's a specialty gun. I try to get off the first shot as quickly as possible. It's a definite advantage to have two chokes at columbaire shooting, because your first shot is 20 to 30 yards and the second maybe 50 or more.

GRITS: The rumor goes around that a shooter can "buy" a particular columbaire to throw you an easy bird, or to throw a competitor a very difficult bird.

Does this happen? RUDY: There's a lot of conversation about it, but in all the years I've shot thrown birds around the world I've never seen that happen. Arcade Games. Shooting Games. Animal Games. Hunting Games. Clay Pigeon Shooting Games. Clay Pigeon Shooting A fast moving clay pigeon shooting game, quite tricky this one, ideal for your professional marksman!