Unclebuck257
Platinum Member
Pennwalk,
I think you've already gotten the info you need about setting up to shoot, so now please let me make another suggestion to you that your Grandmother may appreciate.
I have 50 acres and my buddy, down the county road, has about 100 acres. We shoot skeet on both places, since we're both well out in the country and close neighbors are no real problem. My suggestion to you would be NOT to buy your boxes of clays at Wal-Mart for $3.99 a box. Spend a little extra money and get the little more expensive clays that will disinegrate after time, into the ground, and be no problem to wildlife or livestock. Those clays that Wal-Mart sells are made with tar pitch to hold them together and they, or their pieces, can lay on the ground surface for quite a long time. If a calf eats one by mistake, it can kill the calf. Oh yeah, and be sure to pick up all your spent shot shells after shooting too. They will definitely kill cattle too.
BTW, I'm from Pa. ( Montgomery County) originally and I sure used to do a lot of hunting out in the Lancaster area. To show you how long ago that was, we hunted NATURAL Pheasant and there were plenty of them to hunt too. Lancaster was mostly big old farms back then. I've seen what that area has turned into now on my visits back up there and it sure looks different. I only wish you could have seen it back when it was so beautiful and not so crowded.
I think you've already gotten the info you need about setting up to shoot, so now please let me make another suggestion to you that your Grandmother may appreciate.
I have 50 acres and my buddy, down the county road, has about 100 acres. We shoot skeet on both places, since we're both well out in the country and close neighbors are no real problem. My suggestion to you would be NOT to buy your boxes of clays at Wal-Mart for $3.99 a box. Spend a little extra money and get the little more expensive clays that will disinegrate after time, into the ground, and be no problem to wildlife or livestock. Those clays that Wal-Mart sells are made with tar pitch to hold them together and they, or their pieces, can lay on the ground surface for quite a long time. If a calf eats one by mistake, it can kill the calf. Oh yeah, and be sure to pick up all your spent shot shells after shooting too. They will definitely kill cattle too.
BTW, I'm from Pa. ( Montgomery County) originally and I sure used to do a lot of hunting out in the Lancaster area. To show you how long ago that was, we hunted NATURAL Pheasant and there were plenty of them to hunt too. Lancaster was mostly big old farms back then. I've seen what that area has turned into now on my visits back up there and it sure looks different. I only wish you could have seen it back when it was so beautiful and not so crowded.
, the lead 
