Clay pigeons?

Just got back from the fall M/L shoot at Berryville AR. Hung out at the shotgun range for a bit & those guys were having too much fun. I'm going to take my 12ga double to spring shoot & get in on the fun. Great bunch of people there.

i love shooting clays, just went the other night as a matter of fact. personally i love using my 20ga flint for them. great fun.

Ozark57 picked up a smoothbore flinter trade gun at the Berryville shoot. I'm looking forward to trying it on clays. Guess I'll have to practice sustained lead instead of my usual swing through. :hmm:

kwilfong said:

Guess I'll have to practice sustained lead instead of my usual swing through. :hmm:

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You might be surprised.....soon after I got a GM .54cal Flint smoothbore drop-in for a TC Hawken stock, I went to my trap & skeet range off hours.
I laid out my stuff on top of a trap house to use it as a table so I was not at the 16 yard line breaking them around 25-30 yards...I was basically at a 2 yard line breaking them around 15-20 yards.
I set the trap machine to throw straight out every time, and proceeded to bust a few birds no problem...discovered that was pretty easy so I then began stepping off 15 yards to the side of the trap house and shot from there...and was surprised to find that I could just shoot them the same way I do using my Remington 1187 .12ga trap gun....accelerate from behind, overtake and touch the set trigger as I passed the bird...broke nearly all of them.
.54cal
32" Flint cylinder bore
70grns Goex 3F
2 Oxyoke wonderwads
1oz #8 hard shot
OS card

It was a great smoothbore confidence building experience...and after this fall's hunting season, I want to take the the .62cal Virginia out there with its Full Jug Choke and see how it does...

Reminds me of a Ted Willians quote. When asked why he never missed a single batting practice, Ted replied, "I just can't imagine anything more fun than hitting a baseball".
I can't imagine anything more fun that busting clays, unless maybe it's busting clays with a flintlock, in competition! :haha:

CoyoteJoe,
I must agree, clays with a flinter is some of the most fun I have ever had with a Muzzleloader. Especially when I beat cappers, hee, hee! It's even more fun when it is Sunday night at the Labor Day rifle frolic and the whole camp is out to watch. And the razzing is non stop winning or losing. In fact winning will get you more razzing than losing. The camraderie is excellent.
volatpluvia

Clays are a hoot but I gotta say, live pigons are a whole lot harder to hit, and you can eat them. :haha:

My gun club recently put in a keyed system on the 5 stand range. Don't have to shoot during regular hours and don't need to be squaded with a bunch of suppository shooters. Makes it a lot easier to practice with the flinter. Just have to remember to buy targets a head of time.

Our local Wally World had clays on sale for $5.00 for 90. I think they were left from last years stock since some seem to shatter in the white wing , but they throw O K in the older weaker Tarus I have.