"OTHER" or non standard Clay target games

[Graybeard]

Any of you folks out there shoot "other" or non standard clay target games? I mean games besides the routine skeet, trap or sporting clays games that most shoot.

Back in the mid 70s I used to own a skeet/trap range. It had two skeet ranges and a trap range was superimposed on the right hand skeet range. We made up all kinds of games to play on those ranges, especially the side with both skeet and trap ranges to work with at the same time. I'll list a few of the games below.

1. 37 yard trap. In this one we took a position 37 yards behind the trap (yup 10 yards more than handicap max distance) and shot five shots. Best score took everyone's money and we played again. Oh did I mention all of these games were money games?

2. Get your gun. This one was played as both skeet and trap. Same basic rules applied to both. You lay your gun on the ground in front of you unloaded but action open. You call for the bird or birds and when you see the bird you "get your gun" and load it and shoot the target. Targets might be a trap target usually from skeet stand #8 or might be a single or even double skeet targets. You might know what to expect or it might be a surprise.

3. Quail walk. Played on skeet range. You start with loaded gun in normal field carry position. Begin walking from one of the skeet stations usually and walk toward station 8. At some point you'd get a single, double or maybe even a double and a trap target. Just like flushing quail you never knew what you'd get or when.

We had lots of others. So what games have you played?

GB

[Big Hext Finnigan]

Howdy,

We weren't as mean as y'all.     We played a couple of games.

Country Doubles is a game played by teams of two.  Single clays are released.  Shooter one must hit it but not powder it.  Shooter two must hit the biggest piece of the claybird.  One point is given for each hit.  Powdering with the first shot means no second shot for points.  The first team to 11 or 21 wins.  You can put something in the pot on this.

The shootoff is simple, the line gets moved further and further back.  It can get real, real long and real funny.

Best game, so far.  Baseball.  You need a crazy quail thrower, a plywood shield and two pieces of rope.  One goes on the ground from the plywood beside the thrower, down the way.  The other goes on stakes, downrange, say.. 25 yards.  You line up and down the rope.  
The far guy is"up."  He calls for the bird.  It is randomly thrown.  He must try to shoot it before it gets below the rope.  If he misses, the guy next to him may shoot at the bird.  If the #2 shooter hits it, #1 gets a strike.  If #2 misses it and #3 hits it, both #1 and #2 gets strikes.  If #3 misses, then no strikes and #2 calls for the bird.  3 strikes and you go sit.  You can burn up the shells with this game and we never played this for money, it was for blood and pride.  The king of baseball was true royalty.

I don't shoot much clays, now that I'm CASing.  Still, it's fun and I always appreciate a good Cowboy clay shoot.

Adios,

[Bob_K]

We'll sometimes shoot an "Anne Oakley" Trap match at my club. We start with a shooter on station 2, 3, and 4 at the 16 yard position, with everyone else cueing up behind station 4.  The three shooters load.  The shooter on 2 calls “Pull” and shoots at his bird, with the shooter on station 3 shooting if 2 misses, and the shooter on station 4 shooting if both 2 & 3 miss.  If the station to the right breaks the bird, all shooters to the left are eliminated.  Each shooter cycles to the left if they haven't been eliminated.  If shooter 2 breaks his bird, he cycles to the rear of the line.  Anyone shooting out of turn is eliminated, such as if the shooter on 2 breaks his bird, and shooter on 3 shoots anyway, shooter 3 is out.  After we go a complete pass through of all competitors at 16 yards, we'll run the next pass at 17 yards, then 18, then 19... etc.  Last man still standing gets the entry pot, minus the cost of the claybirds.

[Bob_K]

For National Trap Day we tried a few new variations in addition to 16-yard singles, doubles, and Olympic Trap:

English “Down The Line” match.  5 Shots off each of five posts, ATA style match, load two rounds, a break on the first shot counts 5, on the second shot it counts 4.  Ties shoot off one target per post.

Chinese Skeet.  Trap shot from the skeet stations.  Ties shoot off, miss and out.

“The Walkerton”  2  targets from each of 5 posts, ties shoot off one regular round, then miss and out.  Posts were in a straight line, 5 feet apart, centered on Skeet station 8.  

For Chinese Skeet and The Walkerton, your skeet field must obviously be overlayed on the Trap field.

[Graybeard]

We used to shoot what you are calling Chinese skeet often at my trap/skeet range as one of the skeet ranges did in fact over lap the trap range. Lots of fun.

GB

[shotgunner]

Bill

I have shot 2 games that are great fun. Scrap is shot on a skeet field with a trap field as you described. You shoot skeet doubles and trap targets from the skeet stations. This means you will have 27 yard targets from skeet station 4, so you will need some choke. But you must use the same gun to break the skeet targets. The pair on one and seven are harder than you think. The round consists of a pair of skeet targets and a trap target from 1 and 7, a pair and 2 traps from 2 and 6, two traps from 3 and 5, a pair and 2 traps from 4. On station 8 you take a pair os skeet targets shooting the high house first and the low as it crosses from behind. You finish on 8 with trap targets, the only easy shots in the game.
      The two man flush is very easy. You set up two small " blinds " on each sind of a trap house, even with it and maybe 25 feet to either side. Two shooters each load two and have 10 more shells in front of them in thier blind. One guy calls for his first target and the puller throws 24 consecutive targets, about one per second. The first shooter shoots two and reloads while the second shooter tries to break his two. They continue until the 24 targets are done. It is more fun when the trap is in the 5th hole and can be shot with any gun, a skeet choke will break them. This is a great time and a great money makes as it goes so fast.
   I have my own skeet field and am tempted to put in a trap so I can play them here at home, Shotgunner

[the rifleman]

We used to do what we called a "duck hunt". One at a time, each person would sit on a stool, or box, about 10 yards downrange from the trap. With his back to the trap. The puller would randomly let a bird go, and the shooter would have to shoot it, as it flew over him. You couldn't shoulder your gun first.  You have 20 shots or 20 birds whatever came first, as you could shoot twice at one bird. You had to reload fast if you let go with both shots as the next bird could be let fly at any time.

 It was good practise, for the duck blind! :grin:

[Graybeard]

Your trap must not throw as many broken birds as some I've shot on. I'd sure not want to be sitting that near down range with my back turned to some of them I've shot on. The back of the head might be bleeding.

GB

[Mikey]

Greybeard:  one of the unconventional shotgun games we hold at our club, once a year, is called the Mexican Duck Shoot.  It combines both trap and skeet, with a time limit and restrictions on the number of rounds you can load at any one time.  It is played by teams of two.

As I recall, each shooter gets either 15 or 30 rounds to shoot and must load and shoot within 45 seconds.  The birds are thrown either left to right or right to left and, away from you all at the same time.  You can have only two rounds in the shotgun at a time.

It is fast and furious and a lot of fun for the guys who play at it.  I've never gotten to the club on time to register to shoot and I have a real tough time getting my buddy to gear up for it (dang).  

Afterward, all the long range semi-auto rifle shooters take the unbroken clays, set'em up on the 150 yd range, and at the signal commence to fire until there is nothing big enough left to hit.  Next year we want to try that with pistols.  Mikey.