Below are listed the most prominent of
the Sporting Clay disciplines:
Sporting Clays, like Trap and Skeet, uses
traps and clay targets to duplicate, as far as possible,
conditions and presentations you would normally find while
hunting. A typical sporting course is laid out over a 10-,
20-, or 30- acre site, ideally in rough, hilly terrain.
Usually, the path the shooters follow will take a circular
or horse-shoe shape enabling shooters to start and finish in
roughly the same place. Along the path targets are thrown
from 10 to 14 shooting stations. Courses can be laid out
with either automatic or manual traps, usually set
out-of-sight. Six different types of targets can be used:
standard, midi, mini, battue, rocket or rabbit. Target
sequence may incorporate singles, report pairs, following
pairs and true (simultaneous) pairs. A round usually
consists of 50 or 100 targets.
The most challenging form of sporting
shooting, it is the French version of practice for field
shooting. Unlike the free and easy format of English or
American Sporting, FITASC Sporting is shot in squads of up
to six with a fixed order of stands (parcours, in French)
that are shot in strict rotation. A competition normally
consists of 200 targets shot over three days in eight rounds
of 25. In each round of 25, shots are taken from at least
three different stands. The shooter is required to hold the
butt of the gun below armpit level until the target is seen.
Great variety and lack of repetition is accomplished by use
of a number of traps. Single targets are first shot by the
entire squad. After the entire squad has completed the
singles, combinations of the singles are presented as
doubles. Here, as in English Sporting, all six types of
clays are used. Generally speaking, targets tend to be at
longer ranges with the added challenge of a continual
variation of speeds, angles, distances and target
combinations.
For more information about Sporting Clays, visit:
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Louisiana
Sporting Clays Association
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National Sporting
Clays Association |
