Occasionally, when we are shooting five stand just for funsies, at my local club, everyone in the five stand boxes may be loaded on every bird. 'Cause if you miss one, everybody else tries to hit it before it hits the ground. We are not unsafe in doing so, but it IS disconcerting for the shooter for which the birds are being thrown. Often he will wait until a bird almost "lights" on the ground before shooting it to prevent the other guys from having a chance. It does help prepare you for competitive five stand, however. Sorta like when Tiger Woods was a kid learning to play golf his Dad would up expectantly yell, as Tiger was putting, to teach him not to be distracted from his focus. Believe me, I know about unsafe. I have been shot twice in my life on dove fields seriously enough to shed blood, the last time as recently as last January. I'm not letting this ol' boy be in what I feel is an unsafe situation, just to shoot clay birds.
I DO appreciate Gary, and others, concern for safe shooting. and I will never be "put off" by someone pointing out unsafe practices in gun handling, as long as it is done in a gentlemanly manner.
SRH
