Pro clay shooting promo YouTube link

[Darkside]

Here is a like to the pro tour promo clip on YouTube,

http://m.youtube.com/watch?sns=fb&v=N-EmjyyH7XU

 

[Darkside]

As you'd expect from our American cousins, very slick marketing!!! Phil Coley, show them/us some great coverage from the Worlds next weekend!!!

 

[Bryn12]

One to watch the sound off. Should lead to a growth spurt in the sport over the pond.

 

[psych4shooting]

As you'd expect from our American cousins, very slick marketing!!! Phil Coley, show them/us some great coverage from the Worlds next weekend!!!

Dont you worry on that front - check out the daily "Today at the Worlds" programme that will be aired each evening from Wednesday, including some fantastic shots and images from the clayshooting.tv team. 

 

[** Pending Removal **]

Yes I am glad that people on this side of the pond are now realising how good this Pro Tour is. Their coverage is spot on because they have NBC in the mix....so very slick camera work.

We need to have similar set up over here. I have mentioned before when first introducing the PSCA Pro Tour on here....that we could even end up with a Ryder Cup type situation. But we need big business sponsors to step in over here.

Fiocchi has been a part of the major sponsorship in the PSCA and you can see in the video how serious they take it.

We need big sponsors over here to do similar....and ones with a connection to mainstream TV sports channels....if we ever want to achieve the same.

Best of luck to Phil's gang next week, if they do a great job....it might show the mainstream sports channels that it is worth looking at our sport. I hope that they can get the right angles so that people can see the shooter breaking the clays because it is not as exciting to see a shooter just firing into the air.

 

[PhilS]

This looks really good.  would be good to see this sort of thing done over here.

 

[Bryn12]

I have a real problem shooting at low level clays as I once (long long ago) saw a guy shot in the face due to someone else shooting at a low bird (long story faults all round), this is probably why Sporting won't be a discipline I pursue

 

[DavidJ]

I don't think the number of low targets on that trailer represents a typical ESP set-up in the UK. I was quite surprised by how many of these targets they seemed to be. 

Can someone also confirm if a different type of clay is used at this level of shooting. They seem to be loaded with a powder!!!

 

[Bryn12]

To me shooting at ultra low clays into leafy undergrowth or at a low trajectory onto water goes against everything you're taught right from before the very first time you pick up a gun.

 

[Jeremy Baker]

I have a real problem shooting at low level clays as I once (long long ago) saw a guy shot in the face due to someone else shooting at a low bird (long story faults all round), this is probably why Sporting won't be a discipline I pursue

So you're going to shoot what?
Trap Low fast going away birds?
Or Skeet crossing birds at 20 yards?

 

[Jeremy Baker]

To me shooting at ultra low clays into leafy undergrowth or at a low trajectory onto water goes against everything you're taught right from before the very first time you pick up a gun.

Flash clays that enhance the visual effect of the hits.
Used at spectator based events.
Finals Olympics etc.

 

[HDAV]

The powder clays are used in high level comps a "kill" is drawing powder,

 

[Bryn12]

So you're going to shoot what? Trap Low fast going away birds? Or Skeet crossing birds at 20 yards?

I really don't know yet, it depends on the back-stop or & or safety area, and before you say its a clay ground so its safe, can you guarantee 100% that in deciduous woodland with dense leafy undergrowth that someone hasn't wandered unseen onto the ground from outside? Don't know about England but we have a right to roam in Scotland.

As far as I can see the downrange areas of all disciplines except sporting are clear of visual obstructions so I don't have a problem with them, but I have asked myself a couple of times in the last fortnight "If I was out shooting game with other guns, beaters and pickers about, would I take that shot?"  and the answer has been absolutely not. Not saying they aren't challenging and exciting targets, just that I really don't feel comfortable shooting at them.

 

[EEB]

I really don't know yet, it depends on the back-stop or & or safety area, and before you say its a clay ground so its safe, can you guarantee 100% that in deciduous woodland with dense leafy undergrowth that someone hasn't wandered unseen onto the ground from outside? Don't know about England but we have a right to roam in Scotland.

As far as I can see the downrange areas of all disciplines except sporting are clear of visual obstructions so I don't have a problem with them, but I have asked myself a couple of times in the last fortnight "If I was out shooting game with other guns, beaters and pickers about, would I take that shot?"  and the answer has been absolutely not. Not saying they aren't challenging and exciting targets, just that I really don't feel comfortable shooting at them.

Target presentations in that promo are typical of what you would see on a course set in the woods. Low crossers, rabbits, and flushing targets that mimick game found in that environment.  And no, people are not walking in those woods, and the layouts face away from each other so there is no danger of shot fall.  I like the English presentations of high overhead targets, but when the course is set in the woods its hard to make those high targets work.  I look forward to this program and hope that Americans get the chance to see English sporting.