Clay shooting

[Rat 315]

Yesterday I met up with some guys from work out in a cow pasture and we shot through 6 boxes of clays.

Had 2 throwers going. One pointed out throwing doubles and one from the side.
Made for some pretty tough shooting with 3 clays in the air at a time. Hard to know which to shoot first.

Shot some cool guns. An over under 20 gauge, a benelli autoloader, a stoeger pump, and my 870.
The benelli makes a strange metallic click when it loads a shell but it never jammed.
The over under is really cool. Single trigger, just let it go and pull again for the 2nd barrel. Super light.
Shot that damn stoeger once with a 3-1/2" turkey load. Kicks harder than my 3" slugs. The gun was too light. Damn synthetic stocks.

Actually had the 870 twice be hard to extract the shell when it got really hot. Never had that happen before. This was with federal target loads. I guess I need to oil her up. Thinking back I should have looked over the shells after I got them out to see if there was a bulge or something. No tools needed, just very hard to rack the action back when it happened. Went through about 120 rounds.

Fun way to spend an afternoon. Reminded me of ATF days.