Went to the Range Today

**theorangeguy** · 07-18-2015, 09:28 PM

Shot handguns pretty much all morning and then did some skeet shooting.

**pajeff02** · 07-19-2015, 04:46 AM

Nice! Haven't shot skeet in years. Been doing some shooting with pistols lately and that has been very enjoyable.

**Zinergy** · 07-20-2015, 05:50 AM

Nice, I have only shot skeet 2 or 3 times. I have shot trap many times as I used to be in leagues. I also love sporting clays. If you haven't shot sporting clays it's kinda like golf and trap/skeet put together. There are usually 9 different stations. One guy shoots at a time, all the launchers are in random places. Anywhere from 2 to 4 clays per station. Once everyone in your group has shot you move onto the next station... just like walking to next hole in golf. Some places even have golf carts for the really old shooters instead of a place for a golf bag there is a locking vertical gun rack.

***SMWS6TA*** · 07-20-2015, 06:09 AM

Been yrs since I've done that. It's a lot harder then most ppl think.

**Zinergy** · 07-20-2015, 08:27 AM

They all have their challenges. Trap is probably the easiest to do but hard to fully master. There is a reason the pros shoot 5000+ clays a month.

Sporting clays is difficult because the launches change distance and angle multiple times at each station. And the places around here change the course up every month. So you can spend a whole month shooting everyday to master that course and then it will all be different next month.

The last one I was at last time had two tower stations. One tower the shooter stood at the highest deck and had to shoot at clays coming up from different directions. The other tower at another station the shooter was on the middle platform with a launcher below and above. You had clays going on a downward angle and upward. It was a blast.

**2002ssslp** · 07-20-2015, 04:03 PM

That reminds me, I haven't taken the Mossberg out in a couple of years. Now if I could only find some shells. lol

**theorangeguy** · 07-21-2015, 06:52 AM

Originally Posted by 2002ssslp

That reminds me, I haven't taken the Mossberg out in a couple of years. Now if I could only find some shells. lol

Thats one thing I never have a problem finding. Shotgun shells are a dime a dozen down here. Other ammo can be hard to find from time to time, but never shotgun rounds.

**Zinergy** · 07-21-2015, 07:04 AM

Yea, never had a problem finding 12 gauge around here either. And back when I shot in leagues I used to buy them in 250 round cases... 8 at a time.

**theorangeguy** · 07-21-2015, 07:08 AM

Originally Posted by Zinergy

Yea, never had a problem finding 12 gauge around here either. And back when I shot in leagues I used to buy them in 250 round cases... 8 at a time.

I usually get shotgun rounds in bulk because its pretty cheap most of the time...25 rounds of target shells down here is around $6-$7 a box "give or take 50 cents" so I usually just buy a bunch at once.

**Zinergy** · 07-21-2015, 07:42 AM

Yea, I used to buy federal for 55-60 dollars per case. That is 10, 25 round boxes per case so it came out to 5.50-6 dollars per box. I would buy Winchester AAs when they would have a super sale once or twice a year for to 6.50 a box. Then my uncles and cousins started reloading shotgun by the thousands so I started buying from them for 4.50 dollars per box. I never really got into to shotgun reloading because I never thought it was cost effective. They can reload a box for 4 to 4.50 per 25 and that was using shot my uncle got from the gun club because the club bought the machine used to produce lead shot. It's basically 5 dollars per box to reload using store bought shot. So you only save 1 dollar per 25 rounds. Which is about 40 dollars per 1000 rounds saved. Which is something but for the couple hours it takes to reload 1000 shotgun shells I would just pay the 40 bucks. I always stuck to reloading brass, like .40, .223, .44mag, 300 win mag. I was reloading 1000 .40 cal rounds for under 200 dollars. Usually around 180 bucks. You would pay double that even finding a good online deal. Saving 200-400 dollars per 1000 rounds for 2-3 hours of work.

**2002ssslp** · 07-22-2015, 05:12 AM

You guys are lucky you don't live in a communist state like New Jersey. You can't even have a sparkler, firecracker, smoke bomb, or a even a cap gun. I won't even get into the fact that there in NO carry in NJ. I hate this state.