Originally Posted by Dean Romig (Post 19161)

if I was lucky enough to shoot it would likely be where the grouse was - not where he is about to be.... :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Francis Morin (Post 19165)

What a silly pair of targets- Hi and Low Houses Eight present.

Not if you're a serious grouse hunter Francis. I experience those kind of shots almost every day I hunt them - Remember, the game of skeet was developed to improve one's skill in grouse hunting and if you practice you can bust 'em both right out of the house from a very low gun position.

As the late Nash Buckingham said- "Any game bird taken at that close in range would be pulped and not worthy of being cooked for the table" or something akin to that-

Not so! I can't remember the last grouse or woodcock I shot that wasn't perfect table fare. Focus on the head not body mass.

When we shoot Mexican skeet at DU events here- we can pivot and take each single at 8 as a going away birdie- but Lo Gun rules apply, no pre-mounted gun-

I'm not a skeet or clays man- I prefer to see a big ball of feathers hangin' in de breeze after I shoot a scattergun-but check me out on this- High House 1 or Low House 7 pegs- unless you have a crossing or quartering wind of some magnitude, you are shooting at a dead straight away moving target- granted, the rim or thin edge- BUT how many birds do you flush that ever fly in a dead straight flight path?:duck::duck::duck:

Originally Posted by Harry Collins (Post 19173)

When the game was still "Pull" and "Mark" everyone took their option bird on low house 7. Back then if you missed high house 1 the option was still taken on low house 7. It cost about $10.00 to shoot 100 and that included the shells. What's money when your making about $4,000.00 a year.