Skeet: A Good Tune-Up for Bird Hunters
It’s time to get ready for the fall game-bird hunting season, and I know of no better way than to visit a skeet range. While skeet shooting is, in fact, an enjoyable pastime anytime of the year, now is an opportune time to get the kinks out before venturing afield.
The shotgun-shooting sport of skeet originated in its current form in 1923. The name skeet is derived from the Norwegian word for “shoot.” Skeet was meant to simulate the action of bird hunting more closely than the existing, and still more popular, related shooting sport of trap. Trap targets are all
