Skeet?

[AnotherVirginCruiser]

I don't know if this is outdated, but do the still have Skeet Shooting onboard? Specifically the Infinity?:confused:

[tbelian]

No. Not anymore.

[superjerryw]

They used to, but not anymore. I keep lobbying to have it brought back using chair hogs instead of clay birds. Did I hear someon say PUULLLLLLLL.....

[FreesiaE]

I'm quick on the trigger, with targets not much bigger than a pinpoint I'm number one; but my score with a feller, is lower than a cellar, no you can't get a man with a gun.

[Druke I]

I don't think skeet has been offered since about the time of the Achille Lauro affair, way back when . . . .

[kitty9]

Environmentalists stopped the skeet shoot because the clay was polluting the water and hurting the fish. It's the same reason why you can't shoot golf balls off the back of the ship anymore.

[Spender Nui]

I'm quick on the trigger, with targets not much bigger than a pinpoint I'm number one; but my score with a feller, is lower than a cellar, no you can't get a man with a gun.

 

 

Annie Oakley lives!

[FreesiaE]

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to pick up on that line! Very impressive!

[raudacruise]

I think it was the lead in the shot more than the clay that caused them to abandon things. Steel shot is now normally used but I don't think too many folks brandishing shotguns on board.

 

Only time we saw skeet and golfing was on a cruise to nowhere on Sea Escape back in 1986 or so.

[FreesiaE]

My family and I took one of those 5-6 hour cruises from Miami to the Bahamas for my HS graduation in 1997. They did indeed have skeet shooting.

[tbelian]

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to pick up on that line! Very impressive!

 

Yes, google is a wonderful thing. Thats how I got it. Dont know about the first person to make the connection . From the 1946 play, music by Irving Berlin

 

From "Anything you can do i can do better":

 

FRANK: I can shoot a partridge with a single cartridge

ANNIE: I can get a sparrow with a bow and arrow

FRANK: I can live on bread and cheese

ANNIE: And only on that?

FRANK: Yes

ANNIE: So can a rat

[jcrandle]

I don't know if this is outdated, but do the still have Skeet Shooting onboard? Specifically the Infinity?:confused:

I the late 1980s the Skeet was declared an endangered species, and by international treaty, the killing of it was outlawed. :D

[jcrandle]

I the late 1980s the Skeet was declared an endangered species, and by international treaty, the killing of it was outlawed. :D

The RCI Ranch Steak, to all intents and purposes, is virtually identical (other than the steak is tougher) to the Skeet. :eek: