Skeet-shooting places large numbers of skeet into hazardous and traumatic situations. The skeet are allowed to fly for their lives, but many are gunned down immediately. Many skeet are shattered by the experience. Others are merely winged, fluttering to the ground, never to fly again. Survivors may land physically whole or they may crack upon landing.
All survivors lie in fields, neglected and forgotten.
Additional trauma seems to be inflicted prior to the event, when skeet are stacked like cordwood and are forced to watch their fellows become targets for shooters. It has been observed that some skeet cannot cope with the stress, cracking even before they can try to fly. This study investigates the experience of skeet following such episodes in order to establish the existence of PTSkeetD and to guide further studies. The skeet were those that could be located in fields following their use as targets. Procedure Six graduate students took clinical observations of skeet behavior immediately following each skeet's flight.