Because I am so accustomed to NOT having an auto safe on my clay guns, I get caught out occasionally, and in my Competition days that would be a LOST target. It is only the same as a Trap shooter putting the cartridges in the 'right' way up etc., I feel certain that you will have a 'routine' that you adhere to when you are shooting, and if something was to break that routine, it could be enough to cause you to miss a target. Until 1974, I had never even seen a clay target let alone shot at one, after all, why shoot something that you are unable to eat ? Then I started in a job that had a clay shooting team, I was persuaded to join and shot for 12 months with a side by side weighing a shade over 6 lbs., but with an auto safe. Most comps were only 50 targets back then, BUT we were using 32 gram cartridges to shoot them. I borrowed a semi auto and soon bought 2 of them, 1 trap and 1 skeet plus a spare 1/2 choke barrel. I never put the safe on with those guns.
