Talk:Skeet shooting

Charles Davis correct name is actually Charles Davies. My wife is his great-great niece — Preceding unsigned comment added by CPTC1670 (talk • contribs) 23:06, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Editing request for trap, skeet and sporting clay articles
The trap, skeet and sporting clays articles refer to each other near the beginnning, saying they are similar but different.

There is a lot of text explanation of each, but no clear explanation of what the differences are between them. Two have (unclear) explanations of their differences, but seem to contradict each other.

Can someone please write one-sentence explanations of each of these, which also makes clear their differences, and place all three explanations at the beginning of all three articles?

I am willing to do peer review on the explanations to make sure they are unambiguous to someone not familiar with the subjects.

Andrew8 23:52, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Please add a picture of skeet shooting with the clay pigeons. Also adding a diagram of the course would be helpful.

Two types of skeet? In Britain there is also English Skeet. This involves no station 8, and an extra pair on station 4. I would guess there may be other variations, the claim of two forms certainly needs amending in some way.--richieb 17:42, 26 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Indeed it does. This article (just like Trap shooting, for that matter) is extremely US-centric. By the way, would it be a good idea to split Skeet shooting and Trap shooting up into separate articles on each (major) form? The templates only apply to what would then be Olympic Skeet and Olympic Trap, which would be more obvious in such an organization. The risk, of course, is that the main articles (only outlining the basic principles of Skeet and Trap respectively) will become too short. What do all of you think? -- Jao 17:48, 26 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I acted on the silence and went ahead (with this article). Please, let me know if I have made any mistakes, as I'm not knowledgeable at all in rule differences between the versions, and so forth. -- Jao 11:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Question??
"The word "skeet" is derived from the Scandinavian word for "shoot"." First of all Scandinavian is not a single language (Scandinavia being Sweden, Norway and Denmark each with their own language) and as I am a Swede I can see no word i Swedish that could be forced into sounding like skeet. "shoot" is "skjut" and is prounounced pretty much like "shoot". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mimagnus (talk • contribs) 06:24, 14 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Well swedish and norwegian are as similar as American and Brittish english. And the woord is the same in Norway. In denmark the word is the same but pronounced less clear as always in danish. But then, Denmark isnt a part of Scandinavia since the 17:th century. However the word "skeet" sounds less like "skjut" than "shoot" does. The letters "Skj" makse a sh-like sound but further back in the mouth (instead of the front of the toungh pressing up, you use the back of the toungh), a sound not used in enlish at all. "U" is an O-sound were you press your lower lip or the chin forward, I cant find an english word with this sound. "T" is like "T" in english. I cant get the "skeet", the woman must have been making it up.

(Forgive me for my English spelling) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.228.241.235 (talk) 10:02, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

US-centrism (again)
As much as I like the amendments of late, they have also added to the US-centrism of this article. There is absolutely no reason to have a section named "History, general principles and modern American competition": modern American competition (i.e. American Skeet) is a nationally recognized version, and there's already a section about those. There is now so much information about American Skeet in this article that I propose creating an American Skeet article, and linking to it from the "Nationally Recognized Versions" section. This section should of course itself contain a brief comparison between different versions, but mainly, this article should focus on things that all skeet events have in common. Does this sound good? -- Jao 18:20, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

What is the name for the person who launches the pigeon?
Doesn't the person who launches the clay pigeon have a title? I would suspect it's something like "track puller," but I don't see it anywhere in the article. If it isn't there, shouldn't it be in there somewhere? __209.179.21.14 (talk) 22:15, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * The term is often "puller" or "trap puller"  Sometimes it's someone who has other jobs (loading the machines, keeping score and a kid.  Older terms for that still in use are "trap boy" and "trap girl"  (even though skeet isn't trap)  North8000 (talk) 21:40, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

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2 see also sections
Hi I noticed that there are 2 see also sections, wondering if this is on purpose or a mistake. -- NamelessLameless (talk) 03:17, 24 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks.  I fixed. North8000 (talk) 12:08, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Is there a standard gauge?
Came here looking to see what gauge (if any) is the standard accepted in competition. Is it 12 gauge? 20? 28? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Major Detail (talk • contribs) 18:34, 8 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I don't know if there is an official answer. 12 gauge is the most common. Many places don't allow the larger 10 gauge. People try smaller gauges (e.g. 20 gauge) for various reasons. North8000 (talk) 12:15, 9 August 2023 (UTC)