I'm not sure what "protection" is but I'm gonna assume it's shooting with a back up man to make the shot if the front gunner doesn't. We've done a lot of that.
We used to play a LOT of different money games back when I owned a skeet and trap range. One of my skeet ranges and the trap range were superimposed so you could play both games at the same time. If you have that situation it sets up several options for you.
Try shooting trap from the skeet pads, make the circuit just like with skeet but shoot trap instead. Or stand at station either and shoot triples, a pair from the skeet houses and one from the trap house. We played a game we called "get your gun" also. Place your gun on the ground unloaded just in front of skeet station eight. Call pull and get either a target from the trap house or from either skeet house. You can ONLY go for the unloaded gun once you see the target. You must then bend down get the gun load a shell and break the target. We shot five shot games from 37 NOT 27 yards behind the trap house. Talk about some LONG SHOTS that is for sure a long way and tests your skills big time. We played walk up where we had no clue what would come either skeet target or a double or even a trap target or when it would come.
The one game we played most for a money game we called cowpasture skeet as it began out in a cowpasture and is shoot from basically a skeet range set up. You have to have a manual pull thrower capable of throwing doubles for this game. We used really old ones that originally were used for skeet or trap. You set the machine where skeet station four is located. You then begin but standing to the right side of the thrower and calling pull. At the call a pair of doubles are thrown. With our machine at least they went basically just inside of stations one and seven. You had a back up man who had one shell and could fire ONLY after you had fired two shots AT TWO BIRDS, you couldn't repeat the same bird if you missed. As long as the back up man broke your single miss you were still straight and still in play. When you both missed and a target fell unbroken you were out. After firing at the first station you moved to where skeet stations five, six and seven are and if still in play you came back and moved to left side of station four and went back down that side to stations three, two and one in order.
At that point we varied at times whether we started back over and repeated it to get the game over or whether we started backing up on a line between stations one and seven until you got as far back from station one as 20 yards or more. It was still doubles and the back up man could have some seriously long shots if you missed that far bird and he had to take it or he might have one really close if you missed the closer bird. We'd put up a fixed sum of money and shoot until only one pair were left. They took all the money and then we did again all day until everone was tired, out of shells or out of money. Many days when shooting as front gunner I'd go thru 500 or more shells. As front gunner I often shot a 3-1/4-1-1/4-9 load using the most open choke I had. When we had to back up tho I always used an O/U and used one open and one tighter choke as the distance increased. It could get to where a modified was needed on the first shot at the far bird going away.
