What's really bad is when they set off your voice release from two trap houses over.

Well, one actually, but geez.

That's funny I don't find it hard to concentrate on my targets and ignore how they call. I've been shooting for 38 years and can't say that I have ever been annoyed by a call except when alot of people started using whistles when there was nothing wrong with their voices. And I have heard most of the strange calls. If you pay more for your targets than they do then you can complain. The only time it should be an issue is when as a previous poster said they set off the voice releases. There is a certain SRvet AA that set off our trap several times and he was two traps over. Tell him and you will get a ear full. I seen it happen last year at the Grand.

Hey Shotgun people.....I'm a big bruiser and i'm from from Canada...but my call is "UPPP"!!

Does the target get thrown at the beginning of the sound or the end? For example I see some people say a very quick PULL and other do a PPPPPPPPUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL. In some cases it looks like the trap throws at the end of the sound. On other traps it throws earlier and the guy is still saying LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL when he pulls the trigger.

The biggerst reason people have different calls is so there isn't much movement in their upper body when they call.

I use it to my advantage, when I hear that call I know about when its my turn.

True likes, but I believe many do it just to draw attention to themselves. Some people are consumed with standing out in some fashion.

Early on I tried to stand out from the crowd by shooting really well, but that has proven to be an exercise in futility. Thankfully I haven't developed any other tactics that may be intrusive to others--that I'm aware of that is.....

I find really great looking women in proximity a very real detriment to the shooting task at hand much more than hog callers; but that's better left for another thread.

Guy B.

Back in the old days of scorers that pushed the button too, it was kinda the in thing to do. To have an unusual call.

When I first started shooting, I used a two tone call that went from low tone to High, sorta of "puuLLLL". I don't know why or how I started this habit, but I got told to stop on the line a few times, and had to shoot alone a few times until I change my call to a single monotone. Now I can't wait to be in a shoot off with one of the folks that disliked so much....I might revive it just to help them focus...He he he...

This would be a great subject for delegate discussion during the Grand.

"pull" is from the day when a puller pulled back on a pipe rod to release the target. The Clyne Pull electric trap controller put an end to that.

Our Canadian friend, Ljutic73, has it right when he calls "up", since that what he wants the target to do.

Allan Radway from Canada is in line to become ATA President. This could become Allan's signature issue.

"THE SHOOTER IS REQUIRED TO CALL 'UP' WHEN HE WANTS THE TARGET TO APPEAR".

The guy who blew or blows a whistle must have a voice problem. I have heard of a guy who had a light on his back so when he was ready it would light up and the scorer would then throw the target for him. Hey it worked.

At our state shoot we had a lady who had a call that you could hear 3 fields away. It was a call that matched your fingers going down a chaulk board. NO KIDDING. First I would like to add she is a very nice lady but its her call.

When you were shooting you would mount the gun. Call for the target. Follow the target and just before you pulled the trigger you would hear this HIGH PITCH call and flinch and miss your target. After about 2 to 3 of those I would listen for her and if I felt she was about to make a call I would stand there and wait till she did. The other shooters wouls look at me and wonder what I was doing. After I heard her call I then shot. They after about a stations worth of that they started to do it also. LOL. I got alot of smiles from them during the round. We worked around her call and everyone was happy.

Just to add my call is just a HUP. Quick and just loud enough for the scorer and or speaker. If I feel the scorer can't hear me I tap my ear and they shack their head saying they can't hear me I raise my voice alittle till they smile and keep it that way till the next field.

Guy B, I agree with about the distraction, and heaven knows I don't need any more distractions!

Charlie

do it to draw attention to themselves? well I guess it's working if it distracts others.I seriously doubt that is why they do it. I prefer a short "ettt or ahhh" a pull makes more movement

I have one for the books ...200 bird singles event at the PA state a few years back... we filled the squad 2 though 5 positions only leaving 1 open and well it happened he called for a look target all well and then... yelled yahooooo!! yes I said Yahooo!!!!he broke his target and I'm post 2 well I laughed and broke it but thought to myself that was just a mistake right ... not at all 199 more Yahoos from our post 1!!!!

I was shooting and there was a couple there, nice folks he was a good shooter, she must have been learning.

When he called he sounded like a calf calling and she sounded like a dog bark like (aarff). They shot one after the other and I would just about split laughing. No way I could or would squad with them.

I think people that are way loud and call way off sounds are very rude and being unsportsmanlike. JMHO

Ljutic73,

If you are from Southern Ontario you know who I was referring to. The fellow told me he had gotten the habit of using his unusual call because the trappers using ear plugs were missing his calls...No offense intended.

Now, I am one of those Ahhhh callers, so I am as guilty as the next guy.

I shoot down south with a fellow with a trache, and he uses a whistle...Won't bet against him on the line either...Never bothers anyone, and one heck of a nice fellow.

Shotgun