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Trap - 2 Person Team Shoot |
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 08:45 |
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The 2 Person Team Shoot is over. There was 8 teams that shot for eight weeks. Congratulations to the winning teams: 1st. Place Norm Richmond Anthony Bricker 2nd. Place Marion Carrel Bill Wisnor
3rd. Place Kevin Chandler John Starp Your participation is welcome. Thanks Jerry Jeffers
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Trap Shooting: An Overview |
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Monday, 21 April 2008 15:48 |
Trap shooting is one of the three major forms of competitive clay pigeon shooting (shotgun shooting at clay target). The others are Skeet shooting and sporting clays. There are many versions including Olympic Trap, Double Trap (which is also an Olympic event), Down-The-Line, and Nordic Trap. American Trap is most popular in the United States and Canada, primarily as sanctioned by the Amateur Trapshooting Association.
The sport is in some ways a replacement for a game where the targets were live pigeons. Indeed, one of the names for the clay targets used in shooting games is clay pigeons. The layout of modern trap shooting is different from skeet shooting in that there is only one house that releases targets and the shooters only move through 5 different positions.
Trap shooting has been a sport since at least 1793 when it used real birds, usually the then-extremely abundant Passenger Pigeon. Fake birds were introduced around the time of the American Civil War as the Passenger Pigeon was nearing extinction and sufficient numbers were not reliably available. Clay targets were introduced in the 1880's.
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