How do you shoot skeet with an auto?

[Questor]

If you shoot skeet with an auto, don't you lose your hulls if the club doesn't let you pick them up? Or is there a way of catching them?

[Graybeard]

There is a catcher made for Remington guns and you can make one yourself for other guns but how anyone shoots with them in place is a mystery to me. So yeah if club doesn't allow picking up hulls you lose them. Our club will not allow you to leave them laying. Since I can't bend over to pick them up and the rule is you must I mostly don't use semiautos.

[Questor]

That doesn't sound too good. I keep looking for an excuse to have an auto. I've always liked the Remington 1100. But some of these niggling realities keep turning me away from them.

[Graybeard]

The 1100s are excellent skeet guns and I've used them myself in fact my first ever 100 straight was shot with an 1100. Still it is almost a given that the hulls will hit the ground so you must deal with what that entails for you. There is a different device I just remembered.

It is a clip sort of device you can put on and take off and I've also seen it as a wire device that can be flipped aside for doubles. Joe at our skeet club uses that type on his 1100s. For singles he flips the wire up and it catches his hulls just about 100% of the time. For doubles he loses only one shell to the ground as it catches the second. I'm not sure who makes them or if they are even still being sold.

You might consider those two options. I know the clip deal is still sold but am not sure about the device Joe uses. I think Shotgun Sports Magazine sells the clip deal.

[bobg]

  I had one of the clip devices that fit my Beretta. It worked great. Have no idea where i got it. I no longer shoot skeet. I don't even know where the thing is. Someone could have it if i can find it. I found out i did better when i switched to my over and under. Also a lot easier to catch the hulls.
         bobg

[shotgunner]

There is a simple sheet metal clip that will catch hulls with an 1100, or Beretta auto. It is used for singles and removed for doubles. You will loose 8 hulls per round. It is a little slow to operate. If you are ever in Northern PA come shoot at my place, you can pick up all the hulls you want, when the shooting is done. Shotgunner

[1marty]

where I  shoot skeet you can pick up your hulls and anyone elses. In fact the owner has a big barrel with a sign "help yourself". People wait for the break in between rounds to pick up the hulls so it doesn't distract the shooter or hold up the round.

[shotgunner]

Picking up hulls can slow down the shooting and is dangerous if it is going on while people are shooting. Shooters bending over in front of the station 7 window has always made me nervous. But if it is done properly, keeps the field clean. I understand why some places do not allow it, they are too busy, but will always let shooters have there hulls back. Shotgunner