Article 1: An Introduction To Skeet Shooting.

Skeet Shooting is said to originate from Massachusetts around about 1915 - 1920. A grouse hunter, Charles Davis invented a game he called 'Shooting Around The Clock' to improve his shooting skills. He put a 'trap' on the ground in the 12 o'clock position on an imaginary 25 foot clock-face then took shoots at the targets from each hour position.

It is said that a nearby chicken farmer complained about shot landing on his chicken house roof and thus the clock-face was reduced to half and a second trap introduced in the six' o'clock position.

The issue now was that you could not quite call this shooting around the clock. So a competition was held for a new name for the sport and from the thousands of entries the name 'Skeet' was chosen. (Skeet is the Scandanavian word for Shoot).

Skeet Shooting Today.

Skeet Shooting today has not changed much from this original sporting concept.

Targets emerge from the high-house, 10 feet above the ground on the left and from a low house 3.5 feet above the ground on the right. The houses face each other 40 yards apart. Legal skeet targets travel between 60 and 70 yards and pass 15 feet above a crossing stake set 21 yards from the shooting stations.

A round of Skeet consists of 25 shots, beginning with a high-house bird (target) at station one, then a low house bird, then a double at station one, station two, station six and station seven. The last shot is then taken as either a repeat of your first lost bird or, if you have not missed, a second low-bird at station eight.