Trapshooting

Trapshooting, commonly called "trap", is the oldest of the shotgun sports, and involves shooting clay targets thrown from a trap located 16 yards in front of the field with individual targets always flying away from the shooter(s) at an angle. Trapshooting consists of Singles, Handicap, and Doubles targets.

Trap Field at the National Shooting Complex

In Singles, shooters shoot from 16 yards behind the trap house taking 5 individual shots from 5 separate stations.

Handicap targets are used to 'even the playing field' between shooters of different abilities, and each shooter is assigned a distance from 18 to 27 yards from the trap house. Handicap targets are shot as 5 individual targets from 5 stations.

Doubles targets are shot from the 16 yard line as in Singles, however, the trap always throws 2 simultaneous targets at fixed angles. While Doubles targets always have the same flight path, variety comes from moving stations challenge comes from needing to break both clays instead of just a single one.

The United States Olympic shooting team has a solid history of trapshooting medals:

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