Simple Explanation of Skeet

Useful references

General

National Skeet Shooting Association — Official website of the NSSA, where you can learn more about the organization and join, look up members and their records and upcoming registered shoots, order professionally drawn blueprints for a Skeet range and even buy once-fired shotshell hulls.

USA Shooting — The national governing body for the Olympic Shooting Sports.

Armed Forces Skeet Association

History of Skeet — Slightly more detailed account of the game’s beginnings.

Instruction

Videos by top competitors

Skeet Fundamentals — Good basic instruction from the Remington website.

Skeet 101 — Good advice from the Virginia Skeet Shooting Association website.

Skeet Shooting, International Style — Step by Step — Excellent advice on shooting the more difficult International variation of American Skeet — the style shot at the Olympics.

Match Nerves & Pressure — Overcoming it

Basic Skeet by Max Weston. (PDF file)

Score Better at Skeet — Excellent book by champion shooter Fred Missildine, now out of print but usually one or two are up for auction on eBay.

Skeet Shooting with D. Lee Braun and the Remington Pros — Another excellent book by a champion shooter, now out of print but also can often be found on eBay.

Skeet scorecards

Skeet scorecard (.PDF file, 188 kb)

Doubles Skeet scorecard (PDF file, 216 kb)

Firearms, ballistics and shooting calculators

Shotgun & shotshell facts — shot sizes, pellet counts, dram equivalents, chokes, game/gun selection, etc.

Shotshell Reloading Cost Calculator

Shotgun Recoil Calculator

Shotgun Pattern Density Calculator

Standard Deviation Calculator

Clay target manufacturers

Champion Targets

White Flyer Clay Targets

Remington STS Clay Targets (Guess the Blue Rocks have been consigned to history.)

Trap manufacturers

Atlas Traps

Champion Traps

GMV Super Star Traps

GP Traps

Hunters Pointe Traps

LaPorte Traps

Lincoln Traps

Pat Traps

Pro-Matic Traps

Trius Traps

Skeet releases (remote wireless and cord)

Shoot alone with the Autopuller by Clay Delay — Easily adapt your Skeet, Trap or Sporting Clays cord to use either the standard button switch or this unique voice release.

Clay Delay Voice Release

Canterbury Voice Release Systems

Ventriloquist Voice Release Systems

Three-button release sets, foot pedals, electrical wire and parts

Typical (Winchester-Western) 3-button Skeet release schematic