I'm planning a match later this month and I want to encourage some competition among the smoothbore shooters, not just with balls, which can be shot at the rifle targets, but also with shot, maybe even buckshot. I'm thinking about some steel turkey heads which are weighted so that it takes several #5 or #6 pellets to knock them down--shoot from 35yards and only knockdowns count. Anyone have any other ideas about targets and matches for the fowlers and trade guns?
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At most of our trade gun shoots we usually shoot about half roundball and half shot. I know they are not exactly PC but we use clay pigions for one part of the shoot. We also shoot turky heads like you were talking about but we ususally try to have some sort of obstical like a lay down blind or some tree branches or something to shoot from. After all with a trade gun you usually have to sneek up on your game. That usually means staying low and using concealment.
Sometime we shoot steel and sometime paper and occasionally
clay birds flying by. Most like steel the best, sometime as small as a piece of rebar at 30-40 yds. or a steel animal at 100 yds. or more. About 20 targets on a walk thru.
clay birds flying by. Most like steel the best, sometime as small as a piece of rebar at 30-40 yds. or a steel animal at 100 yds. or more. About 20 targets on a walk thru.
arcticap
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It sounds like you favor reactive targets for competition with shot loads. However, another route might be to use paper targets employed in one of two turkey shoot styles.
1. Draw (using a fine line) or cut out a batch of small circle or square targets from plain paper and place them at a "moderate" distance. The shooter that puts the most shot into their target wins.
2. Draw (using a fine line) a batch of targets with a simple cross (+) pattern on a plain piece of paper and place them at a "moderate" distance. The shooter that comes closest to the center point of the cross with a single (ball of) shot wins. You may need a ruler or calipers to measure who's closest, ties require a shoot off.
While both shoots involve skill & luck, #2 usually requires a little more luck to win. To make things even more interesting, everyone could "ante up" for a target with the relay winner being awarded the pot. :haha:
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1. Draw (using a fine line) or cut out a batch of small circle or square targets from plain paper and place them at a "moderate" distance. The shooter that puts the most shot into their target wins.
2. Draw (using a fine line) a batch of targets with a simple cross (+) pattern on a plain piece of paper and place them at a "moderate" distance. The shooter that comes closest to the center point of the cross with a single (ball of) shot wins. You may need a ruler or calipers to measure who's closest, ties require a shoot off.
While both shoots involve skill & luck, #2 usually requires a little more luck to win. To make things even more interesting, everyone could "ante up" for a target with the relay winner being awarded the pot. :haha:
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YEA, BARNEY, that annoying Purple Dinosaur. :crackup: And maybe the Tele-Tubbies. I thnik that'swhat those things were called.
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Any of those stuffed critters,only shoot 'em volly style to make sure their good and dead! ::
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And no shooting a St Nicholas! Even if he is wearing a red coat and army boots like a darn Brit.
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