5-Stand For Beginners | Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

5-Stand For Beginners | Tips, Tricks, and Techniques: When it comes to clay shooting games, enthusiasts have a wide variety of options: trap, skeet, sporting clays, and one of our personal favorites, 5-Stand. What exactly is 5-Stand? Today, we’re diving into this exciting shooting sport, discussing how to shoot it, and exploring what makes it such a fantastic game. Let's go!
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[@Spurphy]

My local shotgun club offers 5-stand in the winter. They move in a heated enclosed trailer with 5 openings cut into the side as the stations. It’s a lot of fun.

[@JoeC92]

Place by me it's enclosed as well so it's nice in the winter or rain. I haven't actually tried it yet. Might try this weekend if it's raining. Itching to shoot the new u/o I got

[@danielsullivan9865]

Great video you have exactly the same idea about shooting that I do just have fun. Two months ago I shot my last five stand target. My back broke on station number three. i’m 73 years old and have been shooting for 65 years. Sure miss it.

[@patrickbink4617]

😢

[@jeremymitchell9793]

I've just recently got back in the game after almost 12 years and have been watching your series on shotguns, it's been a real eye opener to how much I forgot, or was doing wrong. Thanks for the great and entertaining content!

[@dukebeach1]

5 stand is great fun. Shoot it every time I see one. Some people say it gets repetitive but I like that aspect. You can practice different presentations in the same game and work on your weaknesses.

[@patrickbink4617]

This is the first I have heard of 5 stand. It's an excellent introduction to it.Thank you Steve!

[@panosanthis]

Almost identical to “Compaq Sporting”, a beloved discipline, at least in my country Greece. The only difference is the semi circular lay out of the five stands, instead of the linear one used in the Compaq Sporting. Thank you so much Steve for the effort you put in your presentations!

[@johnmarkharris]

5 Stand looks fun...

[@ElijahKrause-i5q]

I love that shooting range!

[@briantrent1155]

I use my local 5 stand for practice when im on my own. I live in Bradenton Florida and we got the manatee gun and archery club that has a great 5 stand for practice in between nsca clay tournaments. They have a green for easy Blue for medium and black for hard level. I enjoy it because they put you up against 4 other opponents and after 5 shots you move over to the next station. The one thing i do differently in 5 stand is use a much shorter barrel because i have a much smaller window for picking up clays. I find a 24-26 inch barrel the best. My 24 inch mossberg 940jm pro really shines in 5 stand. I have multiple 25 for 25’s with it in the green and blue. Still trying to get a perfect black. So far i can do 22

[@omf2007]

Thank you - nice presentation and very informative. Ive never looked into 5 stand but it looks fun.

[@daveyoung7539]

Ya gotta love all those target streaming by 300 yds away....

[@johnsandell4501]

Great 5 stand introduction. 👍👍👍

[@jonathanhornbuilders]

Excellent video!!

[@AlexP-hl4wn]

My local shoot has a compact layout (UK-ese for 5 Stand?!) and I’ve found it’s a great warmup for a 50 bird sporting clay shoot - I get my eye in (or do all my missing) seeing the same few traps from a variety of angles and orders, and find it helps me hit the ground running on the sporting layout. Great video.

[@hallarcher5997]

Good advice, Good vidio. thx

[@jimedray]

What gun are you shooting? I love all clays. But shoot 5 stand, wobble and sporting most. It's 75 miles to the closest skeet feild. That's mostly why I do the others.

[@Udeus5]

Looks like a Rizzini BR110 IPS

[@enriquerivera3821]

Same question. I’m gonna demo the Rizzini BR110 next week. Any other suggestions for a Sporting, Skeet gun in that price range?

[@charleskmoon]

@@enriquerivera3821 I have one and I love it for all disciplines!

[@Udeus5]

@@enriquerivera3821 I love my Rizzini br110. Others in that price point are Beretta 686 silver pigeon 1 and Browning Citori

[@Tzimis1111]

I see that the Rizzini 110 is becoming one of your favs. I'm an O/U guy. Nice video and great tips. I think I will try 5 stand this week. Have a place 40 min away.

[@jaimeballester840]

What is the maximum distance 7.5 shot will do? This 5 stand setup shoots straight at a highway. Obviously the pellets fall short, but how short? It would make me nervous. Great video and subscribed.

[@Tzimis1111]

The energy of #8 shot past 150 yards will probably bounce off skin.

[@spacejaime]

@@Tzimis1111 - Agreed. A bit longer for 7.5 shot, which is what I use for 5 stand. Thanks!

[@BryceBorman]

Love your videos

[@bigrainbow25]

I've never seen 5 stand with open cages ...always Have shot closed cages like you do in sporting clays...different for sure...good video

[@rubydavis7119]

Could you do a comparison of the Benelli SBE 3, 12 gauge and 20 gauge? Kinda like a shotgun showdown.

[@bobhill3941]

When you're shooting doubles, how do you get that second shot off so fast? Do you move the selector to the second barrel or does your gun have double triggers? Thanks.

[@justindeaton7301]

On modern o/u shotguns the selector is just indicating which barrel fires first. Most people shoot bottom barrel first in my experience. When you shoot a pair you just pull the trigger twice. It’ll fire whichever barrel is selected to fire first, you reset the trigger, then it’ll fire the second barrel upon the second trigger pull. No need to select anything between shots or have double triggers.

[@bobhill3941]

@@justindeaton7301 Thank you so much for the in-depth explanation. I've been looking at how to shoot doubles here. I'm excited to try and copy the techniques being demonstrated. I recently started shooting trap with my brother and we love it. More importantly (for me) I'm trying to give myself all the advantages I can, to hit the second clay, because I have issues with reaction time, coordination, and timing. Again, thank you very much.

[@AdrenalineTheory]

Are you shooting the rizzini you reviewed a while back?

[@mitchmartin9479]

Can you review the Yildiz sporting HPS 12 gauge OU from Academy

[@BBD40]

shooting sporting clays rocks

[@tuckerdunbar9398]

Can you review the ATA Arms CY Single Piston 12 Gauge/28 Max 7 Semiautomatic Shotgun PLEASE!!

[@maciejkuroczycki1863]

you could go to places like this in California many people could discover places like this

[@benjaminpalazzolo5738]

can you do a review of the tristar tt15 deluxe combo is a cool gun that i want to buy... love the vids by the way

[@RyanBridges-im8pk]

What choke tubes are you running?

[@douglaslanners6221]

best choke tube?

[@heurek1]

In Europe we called compact shoting.

[@dylanredmond759]

Over in the uk we call this sport trap

[@scottwinkle5503]

Thanks for another great video. Just out of curiosity, how far away is that interstate highway. Some of the camera angles made it look fairly close.

[@wyattschmalz8]

There’s only a field inbetween not that far it’s Alexandria mn trap range

[@Jonathan906]

I've wondered that too. Checking with the distance tool on Onx Hunt gives me 370 - 480 yards depending upon which station you are measuring from, because the highway curves.

[@mueqatrae1464]

how come those shots doesnt hit the moving cars ?

[@DanielSouba]

You didn't mention that the rules allow full use of the gun on singles. You are allowed to take up to two shots at the single. If you miss with the first shot and hit it with the second shot it is a dead bird.

[@RyanBridges-im8pk]

What choke tubes are you running for 5 stand?

[@reidzr2s10]

Carlson tubes and I don’t know what restriction.

[@HALWG51]

How can you shoot toward a road full of traffic?

[@bb5242]

the shot doesn't travel more than 100 yd or so

[@mrfofung]

5 stand kicked my a$$... only hit 6 my first time out

[@chub4141]

How would you do that with 5 shooters how would they know witch guy was calling the bird

[@bb5242]

one at a time

[@AJF4Me]

I shoot 5 Stand often and I've never seen "cages" like that used as stands and they're nowhere as safe as the type that are set up like a window with uprights on either side to stop you from swinging towards the other shooters. Look at some of the other 5 Stand videos on KZbin and you'll see what I mean.

[@TheCdnLibertarian]

Oh no! It’s something different than I’ve seen before. It must be dangerous… You have 5 across with no barriers in trap and everyone is fine. Also, unless your stations have blocking wands or frames well forward of the window you could theoretically swing your gun too far. But we don’t. Because people learn the safety rules. In my military days we would have multiple people on a range in various positions and it was safe because we all had our arcs of fire designated.

[@MagDumpGuns]

If you’re within the “V” there’s no way to swing through someone who is at or behind the firing line…it would take the same error that it takes for someone to flag another shooter on a PVC or metal window setup that are common.

[@AJF4Me]

@@MagDumpGuns Look at where he stands, it's no where near where the cage would stop him from swinging 180 degrees left or right.

[@MagDumpGuns]

@@AJF4Me right, because he’s filming a video and not playing a round of 5 stand with other people on the line.

[@hondaboy2007]

If people see something different then what they do they go crazy bc they think their way is the best and only way to do it. If it works it works🤷‍♂️

[@chaoscobraflashbacks5044]

What muffs do you use

[@jimmorwood9715]

Open or out

[@chub4141]

Steve giving you a heads up I got a text a few hours ago on this video saying I had WON and was the champ of your contest I think it's a scam you might want to tell your viewers

[@christopherwood1668]

Ummm.. is this range aimed towards the road? You can see the cars driving in the back of the range?