Sporting clays
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Sporting clays is a form of clay pigeon shooting, often described as "golf with a shotgun" because a typical course includes from 10 to 15 different shooting stations laid out over natural terrain. [1]
Quick Facts First played, Characteristics ...
First played | Early 1900s |
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Characteristics | |
Type | Clay pigeon shooting |
Equipment | Shotgun |
Presence | |
Country or region | Worldwide |
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Unlike trap and skeet, which are games of repeatable target presentations, sporting clays simulates the unpredictability of live-quarry shooting, offering a great variety of trajectories, angles, speeds, elevations, distances, and target sizes.[2]