The Turning

by

Tim Winton

Skeet Trap Term Analysis

A skeet trap is used to launch clay pigeon targets, which are then shot at with a shotgun. Typically trap shooting refers to targets moving away from the shooter, while skeet shooting refers to targets crossing the shooter’s line of vision. Fenn and Vic Lang practice the former together.

Skeet Trap Quotes in The Turning

The The Turning quotes below are all either spoken by Skeet Trap or refer to Skeet Trap. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Trauma and Memory Theme Icon
).
Defender Quotes

Pull!

He led but did not fire. He thought of the boy lurking behind the curtain. The skeet hummed off into the twilight. It was important to know he could resist the urge.

Again? Called Fenn.

Yeah, said Vic. Pull.

He hit both targets and felt his face crease into a smile that tested every scab. This was different. It was strangely untroubling in its pointlessness. Fenn was right. Nothing got hurt.

He stood there firing until Keira went inside and the smell of roasting lamb wafted across the grass. He blasted away, pull after pull after pull, until he was covered in sweat and they were out of ammo and he realized that darkness had fallen around him and he was happy.

Related Characters: Vic Lang (speaker), Fenn (speaker), Vic’s Wife (Gail), Keira
Related Symbols: The Open Sky
Page Number: 317
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Skeet Trap Term Timeline in The Turning

The timeline below shows where the term Skeet Trap appears in The Turning. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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Back at the house, Fenn has set up a skeet trap and invites Vic and Gail to shoot. Vic admits that he was a cadet and... (full context)