clay pigeons!!!
WOW! Sporting clays is a blast! I never had much interest in shotguns, but bought an 870 express mag to cover my hunting needs. one day i was at the range, and met a guy up there who was gonna shoot some clay pigeons, and asked me if i had ever done it. i rushed home, and grabbed my shotgun, (still unfired) and met him at the range with a box of clay pigeons and a 100 rnd pack of 8 shot shotshells. I wasn't very good at first, hitting about 1 clay in 5, but buy the end of the second box of clay pigeons, i'd only miss about 1 in 10. Haha now that u all know the background for my newly developed interest, i'm lookin at buying a Remington 1100 classic trap in 12 gauge. love the way the gun looks, but is it reliable. Like i said, rifles are my game, and know little bout shotguns?
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by a bonified sporting clays gun. the stock dimensions and options available will cover all angles of the game. classic 1100 trap guns are for trap. find a remington sporting clays gun to make the right decision.
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Or if you got the money get a browning Citori [:D]
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Or a Beretta, 686 Onyz, O/U, comes in a sporting model as does the AL391 semiautomatic... but as recommended above, stick with the sporting models for sporting clays. The castoff, drop, etc. are all different. 
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I been selling a lot of Lanber sporting clays model 2097 12/28 and for the money people love them..
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As a newbie to shooting clay targets I wonder if you know the nomenclature? Helps when asking about a shotgun.
sporting clays is shot using several traps and clays of various sizes that come at ya,over ya,and bounce in front of ya.
'Trap' is shot over one trap house and the clays go up and away at various angles.
Skeet has 2 trap houses and as you move between them they are coming at ya or and crossing in front of ya.
Most folks use a specific gun for each type of clay game if they'reserious about it...and have a lot of money of course.
ie: a lot of serious trap shooters use single shot guns with up to 32" barrels...not the gun for trap doubles.;)
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If you think clay pigeons are fun you should try the real thing.
Its even more fun pigeon pie anyone
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Sendero,
You can shoot all the gongs, steel, silhouettes and poppers you like-nothing is as reactive a target as a piece of orange asphalt!
If you liked sporting clays you'll also enjoy a game called 5-stand; very similar to sporting: inners, outers, crossers, rabbits but shot 5x5 from 5 adjacent positions. Due to the last, it takes less space and the ranges are often easier to find.
Use your 870 until you decide to buy a target over/under. All the comments about fit are absolutely accurate; length of pull, drop at comb & heel, cast off/on are quite different from field guns. You can shoot sporting and 5-stand with a 28" or 30" target O/U easily and well and use it for trap and skeet just fine. The reverse is NOT true. A 32" or 34" trap gun is for trap ONLY and no amount of stock work will change that.
I'm a fortunate average 6', rt. handed, thin built man. Browning Citori's fit me very well out of the box. I'm partial to them but Beretta and SKB also make fine mid-priced target O/U's. I don't know any Lanber shooters but their prices are good. Remember that a target shotgun might get as many shells thru it in a year as a field gun gets in a lifetime. XS's (slightly less $) and 525's are the current Citori target guns but there are a lot of 425's and 325's out there and they're not all that different. Buy a 12 ga. to start but soon you'll want a 20 ga. for most everything but trap (strictly a 12 ga. game). Remember that Olympic and most good club skeet is a 4 gun game (12, 20, 28, .410) and sub-gauge (28 & .410) skeet, sporting clays and 5-stand are a real test of skill.
Go into lots of shops and mount and swing lots of shotguns-some ranges will rent you try guns. Then try online. I recently sold a Citori 325 28" 20 ga. for a thou right here!
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if you are seriously looking into shooting trap, and /or sporting clays, stay away from the Remington 1100. Don't get me wrong, Remington makes fine guns, and their 1100 is by far and away one of the best, but it does not hold up to the every day pounding of shooting trap, or sporting clays. You would be much better off investing the money in a good Browning, in whatever model you choose, that is expressively designed for that sport.
And once you get to the point that you are shooting every week, and possibly twice a week, you are hooked for sure. Trap is one of the better shooting sports out there, and is more fun than anything you can imagine!
Good luck,
BigBarn[:o)]
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I use a benelli competition black eagle that comes with stock angle shims. I can shoot any style of throw (sporting clay, trap, skeet) and it is also a very fine hunting shotgun which holds more than 2 rounds[;)] and it ejects it's own shells.[:D] My .02
why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
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