Trapshooting is something I do every weekend. It is a sport where you take a twelve gauge shotgun (that is personally what I and 98% of the people that shoot trap use) and shoot clay targets. You may use a smaller gauge like a twenty or 410 but but no larger than a twelve.

You first load your gun, put it on you shoulder and call pull. In front of you there is a square trap house that has a trap machine in it that holds five hundred clay targets that are round and dome shaped. A clay target will then come out of the traphouse in one of seven directions doing 65 mph. You point the gun at the target and pull the trigger. Sounds hard huh?

Next you take your gun down, wait for the people beside you to shoot, and do it again twenty four more times. I shoot 100 to 200 targets a week. Some at 4H and some at the gun club I where I work, which I will have pictures of before too long.

I recommend if you want to start shooting trap, you go to your local 4H group to see if they have a trap team.  Shooting at 4H is better for a beginner because they actually will coach you on how to shoot properly and won't put pressure on you to buy an expensive gun. Many times if you go to a plain ol shoot most people will tell you you need a $1,000 plus gun.  If you want to invest in an expensive gun thats fine, but don't let anybody tell you that granpa's old shotgun thats been sitting in the closet for twenty years isnt good enough.

Have fun,

Joe