I hardly ever shoot skeet but I would have to think it would be harder to master. I feel its a little "busier" than trap.

 

Skeet would be harder to master, since you have to adapt to wearing a Tutu.

 

This is gonna be good!

 

How many 200 straights at the Grand this year? I was surprised by the number.

Skeet and trap both have their difficulties. I'm mostly a skeet shooter, but love shooting trap doubles! Wish it happened more at my club!

 

 

Trap is easier to learn than skeet.
Skeet is easier to master than trap.

Trap has 5 shooting stations and 1 trap house. There is only 1 target (unless shooting doubles then all are 2 targets). All targets are going away from the shooter.
Skeet has 8 shooting stations, 2 houses, singles and doubles at four stations, singles only at four stations. There are out going and incoming targets.
There is much more to learn in skeet making the game more difficult to learn, BUT the targets always fly the same direction. The fact the shooter knows where the target is going makes the game easier to master.
Trap has an oscillating machine so there is uncertainty of where the target will fly, this uncertainty makes Trap a harder game to master.

IMHO,
TJ

 

Their is also the issue of trap targets are effected by the wind and weather considerably more.

 

There is an old saying:

Trap is easier to learn, and harder to master (evidenced by the few numbers of 400x400's)
Skeet is harder to learn, but easier to master (lots of people go straight in all 4 gauges and doubles)

This is an over-generalization, but there may be some truth to it. In skeet you know exactly where the target is going, every time (but that is true in doubles, too.)

But I don't shoot competitive skeet.

 

There is an old saying:

Trap is easier to learn, and harder to master (evidenced by the few numbers of 400x400's)
Skeet is harder to learn, but easier to master (lots of people go straight in all 4 gauges and doubles)

This is an over-generalization, but there may be some truth to it. In skeet you know exactly where the target is going, every time (but that is true in doubles, too.)

But I don't shoot competitive skeet.

That’s way off. There might have been 5 or 6 400x400 in skeet last year.

 

I assume 12ga for both, singles not HC for trap.

If so, skeet is harder to learn, more angels and leads, but easier to master, you know where the targets are coming and going.

Most new shooters can get to 20/25 pretty quickly in trap, takes a lot longer in skeet. Conversely, most people have a harder time running 25/25 in trap than skeet.

I don't shoot much registered in either discipline, but during the two summer leagues my trap average was about 90, skeet was just shy of 96. YMMV

 

I agree with most of what has been said. A new shooter that has a properly fit gun designed for the particular game, has qualified instruction, spends 6 months 6-8 rounds a week focusing on each game will have higher skeet scores that Trap.

 

Great comments. I realize this is a trap forum. ☺ This question is directed at the person who shoots both skeet and trap without bias. 1. which one is more fun for you, skeet or trap? 2. If you were given only one choice to choose, trap or skeet, which one would you chose and why? I am a skeet and trap shooter and I would have to think about it for awhile before I made a choice.

 

Shot my first ever games of skeet this weekend after shooting trap and dabbling in 5 stand for many years. It sure was a humbling experience but I had some great instruction from my teammates.

 

I have shot both.Primarily skeet.I was 4 gun AAA in skeet.I think 12 and 20 gauge skeet and 16s are pretty similar in difficulty.Dbls in both similar.Sub gauge 410 is tough to be consistent at and I can't recall any bad shooters ever lucking into a 410 hundred in the 30 years I have shot.With that being said I respect 27 yard caps as the hardest to excel at of the 2 games.

 

I like both, have always thought trap singles and 12ga. skeet fairly close in difficulty......23-25 yd handicap and .410 skeet close.....shooting from the fence and skeet doubles in sub gauge close......I think the difference mostly is that trap is such a mental game, thats what makes trap harder to master on a consistent basis, for me anyway

 

I like both, have always thought trap singles and 12ga. skeet fairly close in difficulty......23-25 yd handicap and .410 skeet close.....shooting from the fence and skeet doubles in sub gauge close......I think the difference mostly is that trap is such a mental game, thats what makes trap harder to master on a consistent basis, for me anyway

I can't see how trap can be any more mental than skeet.

 

I shoot both disciplines and find I am equally talented in both. "I Suck!!!!" To be a true suck pro you should suck in 3 disciplines so I shoot Sporting occasionally also. As I get older I have fewer good days but just enough to give me (false) hope that things will get better but I love the sport(s) and plan on going till I die.

 

Perhaps the real question is "which is better, Bunker or International Skeet?" The level of difficulty is not incremental, it is multiple. The best ATA and NSSA shooters can rarely hold the shell bags of the people that shoot Bunker and International Skeet. If they could, they would be winning gold medals at the Olympics. I have witnessed trap and skeet shooters that commonly shoot 100 straight and better attempt the international versions and not break 10 for 25. My eyes have also noticed HOA State champions in FITSC and Sporting Clays get smoked by ATA shooters in their event.

As mentioned above, why take Sporting Clays out of the conversation? What about live pigeon, FITSC, and Helice? I am probably wrong, but why can't all clay shooting sports be vehemently enjoyed without comparison? Why does one have be better than others? The guns are set up totally different for all the disciplines, anyway. I sponsor the idea that if a person shoots as much as they can as often as they can, then they will be the better for it.

 

Going out on a limb here. I've shot trap for fifty or more years. Somewhat above average but not AA. I've shot skeet off and on during the same period but not regularly, most often as part of some combo league, at the Muzzle Loading nationals, etc.
I coach a high school trap team. I've never coached skeet.
I think. I think that if I were given two kids with identical skill, motor coordination, and desire, that I could get straights out of the skeet kid sooner. 12 ga.
My theory is that in skeet, the target is "always" going the same place from each station. The hard part is the douibles.
I am only talking singles at trap and standard eight station skeet.
I'm probably wrong but I can often be shooting 24s and occasional 25s on the skeet field by the third week of combo league when I haven't shot since eight months before.
Oh, heck. They are equally difficult or easy. I just prefer the khaki slacks and polo shirt for trap.
It is a pain changing my "outfit" halfway through combo.

 

I just prefer the khaki slacks and polo shirt for trap.

You're a little over-dressed.

 

Look at the scores and you will see!

 

I shoot registered trap and skeet, I believe skeet is much easier. Switching between both games really screws up trapshooting for me but makes trap doubles easier.

 

I agree (for me).
That said, when I replaced American Skeet with International Skeet - a.) I became a better shot at both trap and skeet, b.) I became a Much better Columbaire shooter. I suspect that Intl Skeet made me focus better on both the line and the target itself. That said I never broke 100s at Handicap, 410, Doubles, SC or Bunker.

I would say with conviction that it is easier to run 100 at skeet (domestic/american) than any trap game. I would also say (for me) that the best preparation for upland game and pigeons is International Skeet or FITASC Clays.

You know what they say about opinions..

 

Why no sub-gauge events in Trap?

 

There are a few around, but I don't ever remember a registered sub gauge event.

 

I ask skeet shooters why don't you shoot trap? They say, I did but it's too difficult.

 

If in fact you are, you're asking the wrong skeet shooters. Trap allows one to make small mistakes and still be successful but not in skeet (head coming off the gun to look, stopping the swing/follow through and poor foot and body alignment/position) . Watch each being shot and you'll see exactly what I mean.

 

Skeet is to much a social fuchsine for me -- Trying to run a 50-bird fall trap league out of two houses with a skeet overlay on trap one - rules are we have to let a skeets shooter sigh up between our round -- sadly we can shoot a full squad on trap two before a threesome is half done with their round of skeet.

 

Back in the 80s I shot at the old Play Boy club in Lake Geneva Wi , then the Americana Resort. More than once I watched Jack Graceywho ran the club shoot a perfect round of skeet behind his back to keep the hotel guests shooting, Iam sure Jack remembers this. Jack Gracey was a Marine Corps Marksman, told us that watched it was easy there in the same place, I hope Jack remembers

 

Shot there too ... Jack was a 'GREAT' person and shooter !!! ...however, he's passed ... RIP

 

One needs a flat white hat, matching white belt and white shoes. The tutu is a dead giveaway as to the difference. Other than that, they both involve shotguns so neither can be that bad.

P.S. I shot one round of skeet with my 32” trap gun choked full and modified. I shot a 23 and that’s all that was necessary for me, or was it beginners luck?

 

Well, there's been perfect 1.0 averages shot at skeet. Think that should tell you something!

 

I shoot both trap and skeet as practice for sporting clays. I have numerous 25 straights in skeet, but I’m still looking for my first 25 straight in trap. I know it is a total lack of concentration, but I’m easily bored. Didn’t know a tutu was required for skeet or khaki pants for trap, will a kilt work for both? Of course no underwear with that kilt.