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#10MinuteTalk - Trap, Skeet and Sporting Clays – What’s the Diff?

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Insanely fun, accessible, low recoil, all ages welcome, and as casual or competitive as you want to make it — the shotgun shooting sports are king for these reasons and more. But what’s the difference between trap, skeet, and sporting clays? Mark Boardman, Jimmy Hamilton and resident clays expert, Ryan Muckenhirn, break down the big three, so you can head to your local club and start breaking targets.

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0:00.0

Shotgun bang. What's up with that thing? What's that thing? The various forms of shotgun shooting sports gentleman Jim to my right. Mr. Ryan muckin her and across from us. Ryan Arco. I have an admission to make. Please. I haven't participated in formal shotgun shooting sports.

0:23.0

And like 15 years. That's a shame because they're so darn fun. We're going to talk about them today. There's some nuanced differences.

0:33.0

And then I think if we can put it together, we're actually going to go do some participating. I'm going to participate this weekend. You've been going. I haven't. So this year I actually have not. Last year I got back into the game, but this year's it's been a busy year. Did I miss the invite? No, there was no invite.

0:51.0

Not that you can't come, but I made this decision last night that either Saturday or Sunday. I'm going to go try my hand in a little bit of the greatest shotgun sport there is. Skeet.

1:04.0

Okay, we need to talk about the differences between these things because hashtag disagree. Oh, okay. Mark, do you have an appropriate shotgun sport shotgun? Of course I have a 12 gauge auto loader.

1:19.0

I don't think that's appropriate. Are you? Oh, Jim, are you pinky up shotgun shaming me right now? My pinky wasn't up, but I am shotgun shaming you. That's unlike you. Usually you're like, yeah, just take what you got and hopefully it's the crappiest and that's the best. That is true.

1:36.5

They're hurtful words coming from two guys. I thought we're friends. But anyway, yeah, ski.

1:41.0

Just think I was on death. That was uncharacteristic ski. Yeah, I know. I just.

1:47.0

You being the guy who always wants the nicest fancy is flashy is thing. And utility and except guns. He doesn't do that. I don't understand it.

1:57.0

And I admire it, though, because it's like he'll just run what he brought. And sometimes it's frustrating because I it's like you could have. He's like, I don't need it. Yeah. And it's like, damn, he's right.

2:10.0

I'm still I'm in I'm in I'm in stronger mental process of getting a couple. Yeah, but at the same time, it's like, Mark, you could survive in a Coleman tent. He's like, oh, no, that's true. No, I disagree.

2:22.0

Dude, like food, water, shelter, those are important things. You better get the right one. Your gun is too, Mark, carrying on.

2:28.0

Right. So let's let's so we've got let me go through the ones that I know the new add any we've got ski.

2:36.0

We've got trap. We have sporting clays and five stand, which is a variant of sporting clays. Kind of. Yeah.

2:46.0

And then what else the task, he lists and ZZ, which are kind of the same thing, bunker trap, which is a little bit different. Yeah, you control your destiny. There's a lot of different things you can do.

2:59.0

And and most key. I still need to make great again. I think Jim, we backed up. We were hot and heavy. We did that podcast on most key.

3:08.0

We got people fired up. I was fired up the machine. We bought machines. You bought a smooth board 22.

3:15.0

Right. You got some clays that may or may not work. That's the hardest part. The clays has been the hiccup. They're going to work.

3:23.0

All right. Well, we just got to try. Okay. You say when? Okay, let's start. We're going to really focus on the three main ones. Three main. Let's, so let's focus on the three main ones. Okay.

3:34.0

You love skeet. I love skeet. Let's start with skeet. Okay. So skeet is a fun.

3:41.0

It's almost a hybridization of trap and sporting plays in that you have set stations that you move around.

3:48.0

You have a finite number of targets. And that's not, you know, sporting clays, you have that too. But it's the same target presentations every time.

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