Guest post by Jack Billington, Secretstorages.com.
Skeet shooting is carried out on a semi-circular ‘playing field’ of radius twenty-one yards, with shooting points known as ‘stations’ marked along the arc of the semi-circle. The center of the circle is known as the crossing point and is marked by a stake. There are two skeet houses fixed at opposite sides of a ‘base-chord’ of 120 feet, 9 inches apart drawn six yards from the center of the circle (where the stake is). This is more easily shown in the diagram below. You will note there are a total of seven stations along the arc, with an eighth station located between the two houses. These houses each contain a skeet trap which fires skeet (clay targets) at a set angle towards the crossing point.
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