anybody shoot Skeet?

[Saltheart]

I shot sporting clays(I guess) at LLBean one year. Paid like $22 bucks for a lesson and shot one of their $1000+ guns with all the engraving on it. Definitely worth taking those introductory courses if you ever get up to Freeport.

I did really good at anything coming towards me or away from me , even at an angle I shot 100% but the ones going purely sideways I found it took some getting used to. I'd say I was 50/50 on them. The instructor said I was obviously a target shooter and that for the sideways shots you sort of had to have a general picture and track the target , you couldn't site right down the barrel like you would shooting a rifle with sites at a target. reminded me of the difference between shooting a compound bow with site pins vs shooting a long bow.

[Raven]

One day out on the salt marsh
i am duck hunting and i am on the inside of a tree
area that blocked a lone duck from seeing me...

i hear the whistling of wings from way off
having phenomenal hearing
so...i wait and wait...still no duck.....

Finally there he is and by the time i got a bead on him
i was actually leaning backwards
and squeezed off a shot...

that duck was tumbling and fluttering down
so i laid down the gun and started running like an idiot
trying to intercept the duck thinking i could catch it

right out of the air like a Thom Brady long bomb pass

what the hell was i thinking?????
that i was Randy Moss

i get to where its coming in for a landing
i have my hands ready for the catch
and at the very last second
i said (thought) no friggan way dude

and the duck smashes into the marsh
with a huge loud thud !

i easily would have broken my wrists or hands.
that was the last time
i ever tried something so Dumb,

but it was one hell of a shot.