Talk:Skeet shooting

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[edit] Editing request for trap, skeet and sporting clay articles

The trap, skeet and sporting clays articles refer to each other near the beginnning, saying they are similar but different.

There is a lot of text explanation of each, but no clear explanation of what the differences are between them. Two have (unclear) explanations of their differences, but seem to contradict each other.

Can someone please write one-sentence explanations of each of these, which also makes clear their differences, and place all three explanations at the beginning of all three articles?

I am willing to do peer review on the explanations to make sure they are unambiguous to someone not familiar with the subjects.

Andrew8 23:52, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

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Please add a picture of skeet shooting with the clay pigeons.

Two types of skeet? In Britain there is also English Skeet. This involves no station 8, and an extra pair on station 4. I would guess there may be other variations, the claim of two forms certainly needs amending in some way.--richieb 17:42, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Indeed it does. This article (just like Trap shooting, for that matter) is extremely US-centric. By the way, would it be a good idea to split Skeet shooting and Trap shooting up into separate articles on each (major) form? The templates only apply to what would then be Olympic Skeet and Olympic Trap, which would be more obvious in such an organization. The risk, of course, is that the main articles (only outlining the basic principles of Skeet and Trap respectively) will become too short. What do all of you think? -- Jao 17:48, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I acted on the silence and went ahead (with this article). Please, let me know if I have made any mistakes, as I'm not knowledgeable at all in rule differences between the versions, and so forth. -- Jao 11:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] US-centrism (again)

As much as I like the amendments of late, they have also added to the US-centrism of this article. There is absolutely no reason to have a section named "History, general principles and modern American competition": modern American competition (i.e. American Skeet) is a nationally recognized version, and there's already a section about those. There is now so much information about American Skeet in this article that I propose creating an American Skeet article, and linking to it from the "Nationally Recognized Versions" section. This section should of course itself contain a brief comparison between different versions, but mainly, this article should focus on things that all skeet events have in common. Does this sound good? -- Jao 18:20, 9 November 2007 (UTC)