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I really enjoy my clays, much prefer ESP to skeet though, but each to their own! You'll be shooting down the drain, sorry, line next.....

I got some disapproving looks when i took my S1 Benelli to Steve Smiths next to the airport but the staff themselves weren't bothered. Would probably cause a few heart attacks if i took the Bora there

So what's the difference? Don't make me Google it!

ESP - English Sporting. Basically a game shoot simulation so the traps could be positioned anywhere, fire towards, away, quartering, crossing, from behind, in front etc etc

Skeet - There is an arc of 5 (IIRC) fixed shooting positions between two fixed towers whcih each contains a trap. One fires high, the other low. You work your way around the arc shooting a pair of clays each time.

The Bora, now that would be a giggle..... But as Adam is in on it now, I'll let you know how his goes! Hobbsey also has a full tactical Mossberg 500 pump with more s*** hung off it than a Swiss Army Knife!

For us rifle shooters, skeet is perhaps the way into clays. I went with the former European Ladies Sporting Champion, as she said, skeet wil certainly teach us to swing the gun all the way through, instead of swing, stop, bang, swing....

I have actually used my Bora at my local strawbaler as they couldn't give a monkeys what you use as long as you're safe (as it should be) . Only ended off with 28/50, its really not the best tool for the job. One of the main problems was the hood around the red-dot was often in the way of the clay for significant parts of the clays flight so sometimes i was just having to guess where it was. I was only putting 2 in the mags at a time, if i'd been able to have the full 10 at each clay/pair i'm sure i would've got the lot