While covering an Association of College Unions International (ACUI) Collegiate Clay Shoot event this weekend, I got a bit lucky with a few “burst mode” camera shots. Ever wondered what a cloud of 7 ½ shot pellets looks like just before impacting the target?
FNH Makes A Competition Shotgun? The FNH SC-1 Competition Over/Under
FN. It’s a little confusing if you’ve been around a while. Is FN the same as Browning? What’s Herstal? What’s FNH? Is that different than Fabrique Nationale? Should John Browning win a Nobel Prize? Are Belgian waffles all they’re cracked up to be? Let’s answer these questions with a simple history review. In 1889 Fabrique […]
Pic of the Day: Choke Tubes All Choked Up
When you shoot competition shotguns, like this Beretta 682 Gold Trap, gunk accumulates quickly. While one might shoot a half-dozen rounds while hunting, a moderate day on the competition clay fields easily numbers in the hundreds. These are a pair of Pure Gold choke tubes, both Light Modified, used a the recent SCTP Collegiate Florida […]
Pics of the Day: The Breaking of a Clay
I had the pleasure of attending the SCTP Florida Shoot today where nine southeastern colleges gathered to compete in three clay disciplines: trap, skeet and wobble trap. I caught this sequence from one of Clemson University’s squads.