For The Love Of the Sport

You will find a very welcoming and tight knit community around sport shooting. Trap has been around since the days where the very wealthy/nobles used actual pigeons and they said pull when the pigeon cage was opened.

We have progressed to clay pigeons and being more affordable for your every day person. And now over the past 10 years we are getting more and more young people into the sport. There were over 34,000 students on team in the USA last year, and it all started right here in Plymouth, MN.

Many times, firearms get a bad rap for their ability to do harm. Firearms should not be taken lightly in any form as is the case with any piece of machinery that has ability to have large amounts of stored energy.

Safety is of the utmost concern with focus on properly caring for and maintaining the equipment and using proper PPE, Personal Protective Equipment (Eye wear, hearing, clothing). This is a great teaching moment for our youth that may not be around machinery with learning to respect machinery.

In the case of trap and clay sports, a shell with small shot beads is used with a limited distance and trajectory. These shells are very different than a bullet used in rifles or handguns. They spread out and make a pattern towards the target and dissipate at a distance of 50 yards. While bullets are meant to be very high speed and long range or impactful.

The shot guns used come in several forms with many team members using their field guns as they prefer hunting. There is also trap specific shot guns or versatile over under shot guns. It is key to note and emphasize that in trap team we are making sure guns are always unloaded. Also, the trap discipline requires/mandates that only one shell be put in and only when it is the players turn to shoot.

Many of our coaches have multiple guns so new team members can try or use a gun. For smaller individuals a lower gauge gun such as a 20 gauge can be use to minimize kick and weight of the gun.