trapshooting: see shooting shooting, firing with rifle, shotgun, pistol, or revolver at stationary or moving targets. The term shooting is also used in Great Britain to mean small-game hunting.

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trapshooting

Shooting sport with moving targets. A shotgun (usually 12-gauge) is used. The targets are clay disks (called pigeons) that are sprung into the air from a trap. A later variant is skeet shooting. Trapshooting's origins date to the 18th century, when marksmen shot at live pigeons released from cages or box traps. The modern clay-pigeon variety has been included in Olympic Games competition since 1900. A single trap throws 25 targets at varying angles; each competitor fires four 25-target rounds.

Trapshooting

a shooting sport in which the targets are clay pigeons sprung from traps. The gunner stands at one of several stations located directly behind and a little to each side of a single trap or, in skeet, located along a semicircle with a trap at each end.

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This was an odd mistake for an old trapshooter, because I prefer straighter stocks and higher-shooting guns.

Clays=quail: when it comes to shotguns, it's never too late to get ... by Boddington, Craig / Guns & Ammo

Her Best Shot contains 34 illustrations of women with guns, including the androgynous Calamity Jane posing with her shotgun in buckskin pants, jacket, and necktie and the quite feminine trapshooters of a Wisconsin women's shooting club, whose guns test alongside their corset-like bodices and long skirts (both from the late 1800s).

Women and Guns in America by McCaughey, Martha / Journal of Social History

Young Creswell trapshooter sets record Cade Miller of Creswell last week became the youngest trapshooter in Pacific International Trapshooting Association history to break 100 straight clay targets in a sanctioned singles handicap competition.

OUTDOORS BRIEFLY by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

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