What is the difference between a trap and a skeet gun? Also is it okay to use a 28” barrel for trap?
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What is the difference between a trap and a skeet gun? Also is it okay to use a 28” barrel for trap?
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Lordy....
The most obvious difference is chokes. Skeet are choked open, trap are choked tight. How open, and how tight, will depend.
Everything else depends. In the old days (low gun skeet-tat is, gun off the shoulder) people would shoot "low" stocks for skeet, with maybe 1 1/2" drop at comb and 2 1/4"+ at heel. the stock sloped down from action to pad. Low rib.
Nowadays, many people use so-called "trap" guns (Beretta 682 X, Blaser, Kolar etc) for skeet and just put open chokes in them.
Barrel lengths....trap is all 30"+, most U/O in the USA appear to be 32" for trap. I'm sure you can shoot trap with a 28" gun but you'll never sell it.
Skeet USED to be 28" (hell it used to be 26"!!) but again most people are using 30"+
If you are talking pre-mounted (American) skeet, of course. ISSF (Olympic) skeet is a different baby.
The most obvious difference is chokes. Skeet are choked open, trap are choked tight. How open, and how tight, will depend.
Everything else depends. In the old days (low gun skeet-tat is, gun off the shoulder) people would shoot "low" stocks for skeet, with maybe 1 1/2" drop at comb and 2 1/4"+ at heel. the stock sloped down from action to pad. Low rib.
Nowadays, many people use so-called "trap" guns (Beretta 682 X, Blaser, Kolar etc) for skeet and just put open chokes in them.
Barrel lengths....trap is all 30"+, most U/O in the USA appear to be 32" for trap. I'm sure you can shoot trap with a 28" gun but you'll never sell it.
Skeet USED to be 28" (hell it used to be 26"!!) but again most people are using 30"+
If you are talking pre-mounted (American) skeet, of course. ISSF (Olympic) skeet is a different baby.
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Difference?? Humm....
My Trap gun - 30" Browning Special Sporting Clays
My Skeet gun - 30" Browning Special Sporting Clays
My Sporting Clays gun - 30" Browning Special Sporting Clays
My Five Stand gun - 30" Browning Special Sporting Clays [emoji41]
Unless your planning to be a pro at Trap, your 28" gun will work just fine. The advent of interchangeable chokes has made any gun "useable" for all clays games. May not be the "best", but it will work.
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As long as the shotgun you want to shoot fits you and this shotgun has removable choke tubes. It really does not matter which shotgun you buy. As long as the shotgun fits you properly. The biggest differences were the Monte Carlo Stocks. While the numbers of the comb and heel were very close most times between the two shotguns. At least for Browning and Beretta. The MC stock did allow the recoil pad to be lowered more than a non-MC stock. This in turn allowed a slightly more heads up shotgun for most shooters. Nothing a Adjustable butt plate can't fix though. The other differences were slightly higher ribs on Trap guns, and a slightly different forearm stock. A semi-beavertail, compared to a regular beavertail forearm. While the Schnabel Forend is found mostly on Sporting Clay shotguns. But with today's higher ribs on Sporting Clay shotguns, most trap shooters can really pick the forend and rib height they like the best. Just make sure the shotgun you want to buy has the POI that you prefer.
A 28 inch barrel is fine for Trap, Skeet, and Sporting Clay's. A longer barrel does not produce a better pattern. It does however give the shooter a little longer sighting plane. This does help to some degree to break longer shots.
However you better buy this shotgun for a real real, I mean a really low price. You will not be able to sell a 28 inch barrel shotgun today for any clay target sports. A hunter may want it if its light enough. Most target shotguns are too heavy for hunting and would be frowned upon. Just a FYI as it were. On a bright note! Buy whatever shotgun you really want to shoot and keep it. If you keep it? It really doesn't matter what you paid for it, or what you can sell it for. As long as it make you Happy, Its a keeper!!! break em all Jeff
A 28 inch barrel is fine for Trap, Skeet, and Sporting Clay's. A longer barrel does not produce a better pattern. It does however give the shooter a little longer sighting plane. This does help to some degree to break longer shots.
However you better buy this shotgun for a real real, I mean a really low price. You will not be able to sell a 28 inch barrel shotgun today for any clay target sports. A hunter may want it if its light enough. Most target shotguns are too heavy for hunting and would be frowned upon. Just a FYI as it were. On a bright note! Buy whatever shotgun you really want to shoot and keep it. If you keep it? It really doesn't matter what you paid for it, or what you can sell it for. As long as it make you Happy, Its a keeper!!! break em all Jeff
Thanks for the reminder, MackC85. Being surrounded with specialty shotguns at the local clubs causes me to forget I shoot for fun, against myself, and I never expect to enter the ranks of the top shooters. A fine O/U and a handful of chokes is perfect for my level of play.
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Biggest difference is that most skeet shooters use a rib and comb set so their pattern hits at a point close to where they aim vertically.
But in the Modern era most trap shooters are using a rib and comb that allow s them to see the rising clay with a shot impact that is some amount higher than where they pulled the trigger. This is not set in stone.
For club shooting at your local field you can learn to be quite proficient with a short barrel OU if you have one with a tight choke (Mod or full). But when you try a Trap gun that shoots to a point of impact thats a bit higher you likely wont want to shoot anything else at a trap target.
Have fun.
But in the Modern era most trap shooters are using a rib and comb that allow s them to see the rising clay with a shot impact that is some amount higher than where they pulled the trigger. This is not set in stone.
For club shooting at your local field you can learn to be quite proficient with a short barrel OU if you have one with a tight choke (Mod or full). But when you try a Trap gun that shoots to a point of impact thats a bit higher you likely wont want to shoot anything else at a trap target.
Have fun.
I remember someone writing that, if you drive out a country road and come upon a group of people engaged in a shooting sport, you could tell what they were shooting with a quick glance. If they were nice dressed and eating cake from tables with with fine china and lace table cloths, they were probably shooting skeet. If they were standing around trading guns and removing cases of shells from their vehicles, they were shooting trap,
Trap is shot from behind a trap house at targets going away from the shooter in an unpredictable 44 degree arc. Targets are typically broken 32 to 50 yards from the trap.
Sheet is shot from between two houses, one high and one low, crossing in front of the shooter at about 21 yards. Skeet targets are predictable.
Trap is shot from behind a trap house at targets going away from the shooter in an unpredictable 44 degree arc. Targets are typically broken 32 to 50 yards from the trap.
Sheet is shot from between two houses, one high and one low, crossing in front of the shooter at about 21 yards. Skeet targets are predictable.
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I shoot all the Clay Targets games. I use one gun. I shoot a K-80. I have 4 barrels . I have a 28" with Chokes that I shoot all the games with. I also shoot a 30 inch that shoots a bit higher, but not by much. And I Shoot a 30 inch ProSporter for Trap, Skeet and Sporting Clays. I see the targets the same with each barrel. I have been shooting registered in all three for 35+ years and I am very proficient in all three. I am not a professional nor claim such. I do believe that the "Man with one Gun" is the one to watch out for. Get to know your gun and where it shoots is the most important piece of info that I can provided. Everyone shoots different. That's the fun of all the sports. Have FUN, Have FUN. That's what is important.
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I also have a Browning Ultra XS Sporting Clays gun with 30" barrels that I shoot at everything.
For quite while I was adjusting my comb up about 1/8 inch to shoot Trap and then I would lower the comb back down to shoot Skeet, 5-Stand or Sporting Clays.
One day I shot in a charity Sporting Clays shoot. It was a soft course and I broke 96 targets and won the shoot HOA. When I got home I realized my comb was up that 1/8" for shooting Trap. I wear bi-focals so I can't see my barrel or beads very good even if I do look at them.
So ever since that day I have never adjusted the comb again.
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