Skeet/trap shoot info needed

[ckeaton]

Some friends and I are going to setup a fundraiser skeet shoot for a friend of ours that recently passed away. We are trying to raise money for the family. Between us and local businesses we pretty much got everything lined up for food and music and everything. My question is I have never shot in a skeet tournament and I don't know how to organize it with several people shooting. We will be doing it on our own land. We own one automatic thrower and we shoot for fun usually just 4-5 of us. Can anyone help me out with what we need to do to set this thing up for several people. We want it I be a real tournament and we will be giving away stuff so we want to have rules and everything just like a real skeet shoot. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[txfireguy2003]

Standard round of skeet is 25 birds, fired from 8 different stations, with two throwers, one "high house" and one "low house". You really need a true skeet field to do a skeet tournament. That being said, you could do a "trap" tournament, but you'd need to be able to trigger your thrower remotely to be able to do it right, and safely. Of course, you could always just have an informal type deal where the shooters take turns, everybody gets an equal number of birds, one shot per bird. The shooter stands next to the thrower and calls pull, the bird flies and shooter attempts to break it. Whoever breaks the most birds wins. Sudden death tie breaker.

[txhunter33]

For a skeet shoot you will need 2 automatic throwers and 1 tower, So that you can throw from a high and low house on each station. If your automatic thrower articulates and moves left to right you can set up a wobble trap and run several people through pretty easy. I would suggest to contact a local shotgun shooting range like in Austin there is Capitol City Gun Club out by 290 and Decker. They can lead you in the right direction.

[one66stang]

What we do in situations like this is an Annie Oakley.

$5 per round with one free "out"

Everyone starts at about 30 yards behind the thrower in a line. 1st person shoots 1 shot, If #1 Breaks the clay you move to the second person and throw another clay if #1 misses #2 can shoot if he misses #3 can shoot and so on. The persons that miss are "out" if someone breaks the clay and you go take a break after two "outs". When you go all they way down the line you move back 5 yards.

Shooting out of turn is an "out"

The last person standing wins a percentage of the line pot.

For the give aways we put white clays in, if you break the white one you win.

[ckeaton]

I appreciate yalls help. Maybe I'll call the local shooting range and see if we can do it there.

[jskinz]

What we do in situations like this is an Annie Oakley.

$5 per round with one free "out"

Everyone starts at about 30 yards behind the thrower in a line. 1st person shoots 1 shot, If #1 Breaks the clay you move to the second person and throw another clay if #1 misses #2 can shoot if he misses #3 can shoot and so on. The persons that miss are "out" if someone breaks the clay and you go take a break after two "outs". When you go all they way down the line you move back 5 yards.

Shooting out of turn is an "out"

The last person standing wins a percentage of the line pot.

For the give aways we put white clays in, if you break the white one you win.

This is a fun game!

[berettadave]

If you don't mind me asking, where are you located? I'm a member of the board of directors at Capitol City Trap and Skeet. Pm me if you want and I will try to help .

Dave