This may come as a surprise to some people.  I sort of think this would be fun for the wedding or honeymoon, altho some people may faint in surprise. LOL!!

Ok, for those of you who do not know, I am the skeet shooting bride. 


Yes it is a traditionally male sport, in fact severely male dominated since few women have  taken an interest in skeet or gun sports in general.

There is actually nothing better than spending mornings out doing skeet.

People are normally so surprised to find out that I do this.  But I know girls (women) who fly helicopters, drive hobby racecars on the weekends. It is not that odd to me.

At first I truly was a bit nervous.  Yes, skeet is recreational, but it is also competitive, and I am competitive in all things, especially anything to do with  guns.  I guess that comes from growing up with brothers.

Shooting at clay objects, disks flying into the air, may seems stupid to some people, but that is only because you have not tried it.  The high speed alone is a challenge. 

For me I find it both entertaining and pleasurable.

When I first started I didn’t even know would I be strong enough to hold the gun up for the day.  Would it backfire.   I didn’t let on, but I was concerned.  Now I know that is no biggie.  The sport accepts you whoever you are. It is very forgiving, as the sport lets you learn gradually.

For me I find it a good way to relax.  If you are feeling aggressive, you can spend the day testing  your shooting by being tough on yourself, and pushing your skills.  Other days you can be more relaxed if you just want to take it easy.

You take 25 shots. Move in a semi circle. One clay flies from a high howser and one from a low. Talk about wild.

It does require perfection if you are to play at peak levels. The appeal of skeet is that skeet shooting is very much highly and particularly involved with a person’s emotional reactivity level, and how that impacts performance.   Even if you do not want it to and are trying to control your emotional reactivity to the event, skeet shooting can get the shooter’s darn adrenaline going. 

But I flow with it.  I practice til I feel like I’m perfect, or at least til I am tired. Haha.  You do have to truly concentrate, and focus on what you are doing. It involves the trinity of  concentration, shooting precision, and flexibility and  dexterity.

The other nice thing about skeet is that the skeet gun shooting stand is typically located in some idyllic wooded area, cleared just for the skeet event. So the environs are very pleasant, and the air is pure.

Depending where you live you can’t shoot all year, so it is something I look forward to around here from about June through August.  Skeet allows you to let go of the daily details, because you really have to focus on what you are doing.

We have thought about a skeet shooting honeymoon but don’t really know where we might do that.  Still looking in to it.

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