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Oh, no, Mark. You HAVE to shoot a Ljutic or a Kolar or Alfermann to have fun. A side by side is just too.......well...old fashioned or something. HA!

My last round of sporting clays was with a Parker 28 ga repro for me. I didn't score as high as the "Master Class" sporting Clays guy I was with.......but I had every bit as much fun.
Some trap shooters are pains in the rear, with some being unable to hit a bird, and some that are absolutely deadly.
It takes all kinds, and, by the way,I just took back my old job as Manager of Lincoln Trap & Skeet Club. We have Trap, Skeet, 5-Stand and Sporting Clays. It is a busy place, and you see a lot of darn good shooters, but very, very few of us old coots with side by sides.
Have a good one, old friend:
Sam Ogle

Come to the Fort Bragg Clay Target center. You will see vintage pumps, SBTs double traps on the line as well as the assorted 'new' trap guns. We all respect one another and generally have a good time. A few of us have been shooting wobble trap. At 22 yards for the moment but will try longer yardage as soon a 90% hit average is attained.

OK. I responded to the OP's topic as best I could. Now I'll respond to the secondary toipic running through the thread.

I must be a nutty old fart since I like the vast majority of trap shooters I've met; can't say the same for most Canadians. And I don't think I'd get along well with Texans who have the attention span of a 4 year old.

I hunt birds with a SxS that was likely sold in a hardware store. I've never had a gun fitting, much less ordered a shotgun, but I can hit almost everything I shoot at and don't make excuses for what I miss. I'm not averse to backing up claims of my shooting prowess with cash bets.

That's probably crass, but then, I despise brown likker, don't know what the hell single malt means and get nauseus at the smell of cigar smoke. If it intrudes my space and I can't escape it, I get downright beligerant.

English setters are OK, though I've never met one with more personality than your average zombie posesses; the 2 I hunted with for 15 years certainly didn't. I've gathered that other pointing breeds aren't even worthy of mention, so I won't. I'm apalled at the thought of anything around a dog's neck that has a battery in it. Still, they'd be my first choice for catch and release with a butterfly net. Now that I'm an anal retentive old fart, it seems unsporting to me to actually shoot a bird rendered completely defenseless by taking away it's surprise flush. IMO, shooting pointed birds is not that far removed from ground swatting, something I also tried in my misspent youth and now regret. Nowadays, I only shoot flying objects for fun. Competing is fun for those who can....for others, not so much.

Mike you need to continue that discourse. I had a hard time gettiing up off the floor I was laughing so. But then I have a hard time getting up anyway...Gil

From Gough Thomas (Shotguns and Cartridges):



If anyone has pics to share of "supplementary, superelevated ribs" they have mounted on their sxs, I am sure they will be favorably commented upon.

Ask and thou wilt receive

Wobble is the best kind of trap, Walt.... other than maybe doubles.

We have a Pat trap with a vertical unit, and we throw a wide, fast target.

The ideal is 80 yards in still air.

They come out like a laser, but they give you a true line.

The hard angles at low elevation will bring you out of your shoes.

We shoot mostly 19 yards at that, and a 25 isn't uncommon.

Of course, some of us shoot from the top of the picnic table too... maybe 32 yards back... with poorer averages but more fun. You can see the time of flight very distinctly when they do break 1/4 of a second later.

Ease up on trapshooters guys, we like to have fun too.

Nice find - that looks like a good way to lose an eye. The BTFE appears to be on steroids too. I wonder what formerly wonderful SLE is enduring that humiliation.

What's he do, launch grenades with it?

Can't quite figure that one.
Are there two ribs there at different elevations, ?
Volley Sights went out of style in WW1

The hat thing I've seen before.