I want to get into Skeet Shooting. How should I go about it?
Skeet is wonderful either for competition or practice, and I suggest that everybody who wants to shoot clay targets should start on a skeet layout. Quite often, shooting clubs have multiple skeet layouts, and normally they’re open.
The game involves shooting targets thrown from a high house and a low house in a prescribed order. Shooters move in a semicircle between the two houses, and a complete round consists of 25 targets. British skeet, American skeet, and international skeet all have slightly different rules though the layouts are the same.
Because the basic layout and target trajectories are always the same, skeet gives you an excellent opportunity to hone your technique on repetitive targets. Every angle thrown on a skeet field will also be seen on a good sporting clays layout, so there’s plenty of carryover. Skeet shooting moves quickly. A 100-target competition can take less than an hour, so it allows you time to do other things in the day. I heartily recommend that you seek it out.
For more information, visit the websites of Britain’s Clay Pigeon Shooting Association (CPSA) and in the US, the National Skeet Shooting Association (NSSA).
This article is adapted from 28-time world champion George Digweed’s videos on shooting, available at claytargetinstruction.com
