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I used to shoot with friends in college and one guy who was big into bird hunting got us all into trap shooting. At the time the only shotgun I has was an 870 with an 18.5" open barrel. I had to learn to shoot rapidly since my pattern went to shit out past 20ish yards. I would usually shoot 22 or 23 for 25. I hadn't shot much the last 5 or so years but I recently bought a 28" barrel with changeable chokes and started practicing again. Holy shit it's so much easier and I had forgotten how enjoyable it was.

I used to shoot with friends in college and one guy who was big into bird hunting got us all into trap shooting. At the time the only shotgun I has was an 870 with an 18.5" open barrel. I had to learn to shoot rapidly since my pattern went to shit out past 20ish yards. I would usually shoot 22 or 23 for 25. I hadn't shot much the last 5 or so years but I recently bought a 28" barrel with changeable chokes and started practicing again. Holy shit it's so much easier and I had forgotten how enjoyable it was.

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[–] • 4 pts

I used to shoot Trap a lot until I joined a club with a very nice Sporting Clays course... Once I discovered Sporting Clays I started preferentially shooing that rather than Trap. Sporting Clays courses change and are more dynamic. Trap gets repetitive. Hold over the top corner of the bunker, breath, yell 'PULL!', track, squeeze the trigger and then wait for your turn again. In Sporting Clays you never know what you will get... a single, double from the same launcher, double from different launchers, double on report, etc. We have 30 shooting stations but only use 15 per round so it is always fresh. The launchers get re-positioned once a week. Now Trap and Skeet seem boring. Only 5 Stand even sort of compares. I shoot a few rounds of Trap in the spring get back in the groove and that is it.

[–] • 1 pt

I second your recommendation on sporting clays. Except those bouncing bastard rabbits, I hate those.