Clay disciplines
There are many UK shooting grounds with sporting targets suitable for beginners.
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Our guess is your early shooting instruction will have taken place on shooting ground stands offering sporting targets suitable for beginners?
OR IT MAY have taken place on a skeet range - for some reason, targets from peg two on a skeet layout are great favourites of some instructors.
Wherever your tuition took place, you will have noticed there are several different types of competition available on the average shooting ground. Let's have a quick look at the main types.
ENGLISH SPORTING
The objective of this discipline is to simulate the huge variety of different targets encountered in field shooting.
A typical 100-target competition may be shot over as many as ten or more stands, each offering a different type of target - going away, incoming, crossing, rising or falling.
Sometimes the targets are presented as simultaneous pairs (two targets in the air together), or 'pairs on report', when the trapper releases the second target the moment he hears your first shot.
The physical features of a shooting ground, together with different types of clays travelling at different speeds, help offer almost endless variations. Some targets are presented among trees, and some against backgrounds varying from wooded hillsides, to open skies.
The international version of this discipline is called FITASC Sporting.
TRAP DISCIPLINES
There are several; all with slightly different forms of target presentation and different rules. However, all have one thing in common - all the targets are going away from the firing position, originating from a trap house about 16 yards in front of the shooter.
Common disciplines are Down the Line (DTL), Ball Trap, and Double Trap.
The Olympic discipline is Olympic Trap, which requires complex layouts not often encountered on UK shooting grounds.
ENGLISH SKEET
This is a game of relatively close-range crossing targets, presented from a high tower on the left of the range and a low tower on the right. Shooters take it in turns to shoot from eight different positions (or pegs) set in a semi-circle. There is a set sequence of targets which includes doubles - simultaneous birds in the air from both towers, crossing in the air in front of the shooter.
The Olympic discipline, Olympic Skeet, is broadly similar, but the targets are faster and the rules are slightly different. The US version, American Skeet, is also available on a few UK grounds.
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