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The Black Magic of Skeet Shooting By Andy Kohly Shooting
Dog Editor Skeet shooting is definitely a great way to tune up your pre-season shooting skills. After all, after the end of bird season many of us don’t see a shotgun again until the next season. By refining your shooting skills in the off season, not only are you ensuring yourself greater success in the field, but fewer cripples and a greater mastery of your shotgun that can provide year round enjoyment. To the uninitiated though, skeet shooting can seem to be little more than black magic??? High house, low house, doubles singles??? I can remember my first time at a skeet range and to be quite honest the experience was not only confusing but embarrassing as well because I simply didn’t understand the rules…… On a skeet range, shooters
fire from each of eight shooting stations arranged around a semi-circle. Each
target follows a preset path so there is no question about which house the
target will come from and what path it will take.
A standard round of skeet consists of the following target sequence: Stations 1 & 2: High
House - Single Low House - Single High House - Double Low House Pair - Double Stations 3, 4 & 5 High House - Single Low House - Single Station 6 And 7 High House -
Single Low House – Single Low House AND High House - Double Station 8 High
House - Single Low House - Single. The 25th shot, completing the round, is taken at the
time of the first miss, or with 24 consecutive broken targets, the 25th shot may
be taken from any position on the field.
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