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Bibliography: Bibliography: This page explains how to shoot and safety of sporting clays. This page explains the difference between sporting clays, skeet, trap, and five stand.

What Sporting Clays was used for: Sporting Clays was originally used with live pigeons in the early 1900s, until they started using clay targets. When clay target began being used the sport became more popular. Rather than using standard distances, target angles and sizes, sporting clay courses are designed to to simulate the hunting of ducks, pheasants, and even rabbits. Sporting clays makes it easier to practice bird hunting in the off-season because you can practice a flight pattern you struggle with or just practice for fun. After it became more popular it became a competition sport.

How to Shoot Sporting Clays: Targets are thrown from any angle or distance, to simulate the flight of a bird and sometimes rabbit. There are six different sizes of targets, ranging from minis to standards. Sporting Clays is typically shot in squads of two to six people. A normal course ranges from 10 to 15 stations laid around a field or a trail through the woods, every course will be different. Targets can be thrown as a report pair where the shooter calls for the bird and the trapper throws the first target, the shooter fires, and the second target is thrown directly after the first bird is shot. The other way a pair can be shot is a true pair which is when both targets are thrown are at the same time and the shooters picks one to shoot first and then the second one.