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shooting

As a competitive sport, shooting can be divided into two disciplines, clay pigeon and target.

Clay pigeon

the art of shooting at flying clay discs, known as clay pigeons or clay targets, with a shotgun. The discs are propelled upwards at various angles by a spring mechanism.

Target

shooting using air rifles and pistols to hit specified targets.

Clay pigeon shooting, also known as ‘skeet shooting’ originated from ‘trapshooting’, releasing small birds from traps as practice targets. Trapshooting began in the USA in 1830 and quickly spread to Europe. The use of live birds was banned in Britain in 1921, and the substitution of clay discs (in use since the founding of the Inanimate Bird Shooting Association (1893) created the modern sport.



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