Picked up my first adjustable today!
Been struggling with being right handed but left eye dominant. So, I'm hoping with being able to make some slight adjustments it will help improve my score! (Yes, switching would make more sense, but I'm not that sensible 😬)
I am a big believer that a lot of shotgun sports are heavily impacted by the psychological aspects and getting into the right headspace is key. For this reason, I have Bluetooth headphones and a playlist specifically for shooting. I’m curious how many people do this. I mentioned it to a group at my chat league and it seems like nobody had thought of playing music. Do you have music playing when you’re shooting?
Have been shooting 12 gauge Remington gun clubs and have been having an issue with some of them. The brass will separate from the hull and sometimes leave the plastic hull in the chamber. It is not on every shell. The cycling of the shotgun is smooth and is a clean barrel. Does not happen with Winchester buckshot or any other shell it seems. Has anyone else had this issue with Remington gun club shells.
Had my doubts after trying to run some standard loads through it. Jammed constantly, even with 1325 fps loads. Read on here they need some heavy powered loads, and you guys were right! Thanks to anyone posting feedback on this particular model.
Long string of issues with most of what I have owned throughout all the years I have shot clays.
SSS - July Heat Wave. 100 sporting in the morning and 100 super sporting afternoon.
I got a mod 31 for free recently from an elderly couple who decided to let me (neighbor) have it instead of turning it into the cops to get melted.
Its got a 30 inch barrel and a 4, +1 capacity.
Full choke (fixed)
12ga pump.
Would this be okay for clays? I mainly shoot trap
Hi all - tracking my stats and round and curious on tips for station 5? I seem to struggle there
I’ve added my stats for the last 5 rounds!! Thank you
My boy is interested in starting to shoot skeet in the subgauges. One of his coaches thinks he would do well. Currently uses a 12GA Browning Citori 825 sporting pro. For trap skeet and sporting clays. I want to support his shooting. Was looking at guns. In fact he was shooting skeet one day and borrowed his coach’s 28GA to try before states. Told him he’s being silly but if he breaks 8/8 in first two stations I’ll get him an28GA. Well
Shit. So one guy and the gun shop (not gunsmith just some guy walking around) said I should get Briley tube sets -don’t know this existed.
The adjustable comb seems to be a great but subgauges are tricky.
Any advice or thoughts?
Vid of some shooting sporting clays comp this weekend at SCTP PA state shot for fun
I'm entirely new to shooting, and I am in a bit of a conundrum. I think that I am cross dominant (left eye, right hand), so I have been attempting to shoot from the left. When mounted on the right, my left eye sees the side of the gun. This picture dominates. When shooting from the left the picture is a mess. I see mostly down the barrel but I still have a fairly significant ghost that can steal focus at inconvenient times. All of the simple tests suggest a left eye dominance, but shooting from the right with the left eye closed yields by far the best results 20 / 25) pigeons.
Am I actually dealing with cross-dominance? Or is it a center-dominance / weak dominance situation? What do you experience when shooting?
I've been loading shot shells off and off for two years now, I enjoy doing it and have been using whatever components I could get ahold of locally that match what is in my Lyman manual. My question: Is there any real world difference between a "Field" load and a "Target" load?
What sparked my curiosity is Winchester AA Super Handicap powder was back in stock the other day and I was looking at the "Factory Load" data on the label and when I looked it up in the Lyman Manual it was a Field load, but the factory load it emulates from what I can tell is their AA heavy target load for Trap/Sporting Clays.
I recreated a small element from a classic video game using polymer clay.
It’s part of a larger build I’m working on. Check it out under BlackYogurt17 on any social media platform.
14 months in. Punched to the 23. Ran 99 7 times. Current singles average 96.61 for the season. Current doubles average is 87.53. 25-50-75 straight all run multiple times in singles. 25-50 straight in caps. Trophied 10 times in 3 state shoots in the last 2 months with 3 event championships. These are two from the Arkansas State Trap Shoot last week.
Need my first 100-straight.
Didn’t own a shotgun and hadn’t shot one since I was 12 (and that was just once) before April of last year.
Fellow clay shooters, club officers, and coaches - Ive posted here before, but wanted to announce our official release!!
I'm a software engineer by trade, and I've watched this sport do two things at once: quietly explode with young shooters (SCTP, high school trap leagues, 4-H) - and still run on paper scorecards and dry-erase boards. There are a hundred apps that'll give you a scorecard. That's not what I built. I built Smoke 'Em to be a home for the whole sport - the club, the community, and the kids coming up behind us.
Here's what I mean, and why I think it's different:
🏟 For the club Stand up your club in a couple minutes, invite your members, and appoint trusted Pro members as scorers so multiple people can run multiple fields at the same shoot. Score the whole squad live on the line, then push each shooter their card to confirm - no more deciphering a clipboard at the end of the day. Walk-ins and first-timers? Score them as guests, no account needed. Pre-build your 5-stand and sporting layouts once and they're ready every time. Every club also gets a public page with its stats, courses and area - a real front door for the range.
For the community Shooting is the most social sport there is, but the tech never caught up. Add your buddies, tag the squad you shot with, follow their rounds in a feed, and settle it on club leaderboards (all-time or this season). Everyone gets a shareable profile with their averages and trophy case. It turns "how'd you do?" into something you can actually see.
For the next generation (this is the part I care about most) If you run or coach a youth program, this is where I really want your help shaping it. Coaches can score an entire squad of juniors live, track each kid's average and progress across a whole season, and use leaderboards, streaks and trophies to keep them hooked - because nothing keeps a 14-year-old coming back like watching their number climb and chasing that first 25 straight with their name on it. New junior without a phone or account? Score them as a guest and hand them a profile later. I want Smoke 'Em to be the tool that makes running a youth squad easier and keeps kids in the sport.
The basics: tracking your own rounds - trap (singles/doubles/handicap), skeet, sporting clays, 5-stand - is free forever, no credit card. Pro ($4.99/mo) unlocks the social, club and live-scoring side.
For the forum: the first 10 people get 30 days of Pro free. Code ShotgunForum30:
I'm building this in my spare time as a shooter, not a corporation, so I genuinely want your take - especially from club officers and youth coaches. What would make this a no-brainer for your program? Reply here or reach me at contact@smokeem.app.
See you on the line. Let's grow this thing - and the next generation with it.
I made this post to gather input and feedback from the community which I then brought to the real field to test out.
We are live and looking for users. I have 1 year free codes for club owners and for pro level subscriptions!!
Please visit sign up and add to your mobile devices Home Screen while we await the process for the App Store.
I finally gave up pushing a cart around and got a UTV and SureGrip gun rack installed attached the the bed rails. I’ve noticed it’s extraordinarily tight holding the butt/fore stocks. I’m mostly concerned about it marring the boiled linseed oil finish on my gun (it might have already).
Anyone have experience with this rack, or similar issue? Do you widen the forks, trim the rubber mount down slightly or wrap it in something to protect the stock? TIA!
I thought this was interesting. On Friday the weather was very overcast when we shot. I struggled to see the targets in the woods and swapped my lenses from my normal low light of 52CIN to the 39CIG (much more red than purple) and it was a night and day difference in seeing the clays for the rest of the course. On Sat/Sun we shot in partly cloudy to full sun and I had no issues seeing the clays with my normal 'mixed weather' lens the 30CIHB.
hi everyone. I have a new Beretta 686 .410 and have been using it daily for the last 2 months. ive been cleaning it weekly with boresnake and wiping the action and adding a little tetra gun grease to pivot points in the action and smoothing a thin layer in the contact point area. I’ve also been wiping down the barrel with eezox to keep a layer of oil on the metal.
This rust is developing and I don’t know why. What should I be doing to prevent it? Will a brass brush and CLP remove it?
