Skeet Thrower is a Very Important tool in a Skeet Field Layout

Skeet Thrower Used In Competitive Target Shooting

Skeet Shooting is but one of the three major types of competitive shotgun shooting at clay targets released by a skeet thrower. The others are trap shooting and sporting clays. There are also several types or variations of skeet shooting. The main ones are known as International or Olympic Skeet and several with local or country recognition.

A round of skeet consists of 25 targets shot on a semi-circular layout with two trap houses each equipped with a skeet thrower, the left being the high house, the right the low house. There are 8 shooting stations. One shot only may be fired at each target. Squads consist of 5 shooters; each takes his turn to shoot from a position known as a pad. These are numbered from 1 to 8. From each of these stations a single target is released from each house on the call of “pull”. The shooter may have his gun on or off his shoulder as he chooses.

After the competitor has shot his two single targets from stations 1, 2, 6 and 7, he remains on the pad and shoots a “double” where two targets are released at the same time, one from each house; one shot is fired at each target.

If at any time during a round a competitor misses a target he then reloads one cartridge and repeats the first target that he has missed; however, if he gets to station 8 and has broken all of the 24 previous targets, he then repeats his last target to complete the 25 target round.