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Always have ammo handy with these clay shooting vests and shell bags.

Made of durable materials and featuring camo patterns, these vests and bags help simplify the process of carrying ammo and shells out on the trail. Explore our selection of magazine pouches as well for alternative methods of carrying ammo and other shooting gear. Protect your ears from loud gunshots and improve your perception out in the wild with powerful hearing protection and enhancements. With the right shooting glasses, you can help keep your eyes safe from UV rays , and help to ensure clear vision on the shooting range or out on the hunt.

Shooting Vests and Shell Bags

Hone your skills with this diverse array of shooting targets. From bull's-eyes to animal targets, this equipment is here for practice. For more advanced training, consider our selection of trap throwers. These shooting sticks and bipods help simplify the process of setting up the shot. For additional methods, take a look at our selection of bench rests and bags. Our Price in Cart. Although such competitions were made illegal in the United Kingdom in , a target may still be called a "bird", a hit may be referred to as a "kill", and a missed target as a "bird away"; the machine which projects the targets is still known as a "trap".

Clay pigeon shooting has at least 20 different forms of regulated competition called disciplines, although most can be grouped under the main headings of trap, skeet, and sporting. The English Sporting discipline has the sport's biggest following. While the other disciplines only use standard targets, in Sporting almost anything goes. Targets are thrown in a great variety of trajectories, angles, speeds, elevations and distances and the discipline was originally devised to simulate live quarry shooting, hence some of the names commonly used on sporting stands: This discipline can have an infinite variety of "stands".

English sporting is the most popular form of clay shooting in the UK, and a course or competition will feature a given number of stands each of which has a predetermined number of targets, all traveling along the same path and speed, either as singles or doubles. Each stand will feature a different type of target; e. International FITASC sporting gives a much greater variety of targets in terms of trajectory and speed, and is shot by squads of six competitors in rounds of 25 targets at a time.

Super Sporting is a hybrid of the two preceding varieties. There are also other formats such as Compak sporting and sportrap in which five cages are surrounded by a number of traps, and shooters fire a specific combinations or singles from each stand according to a program displayed in front of the cage.

This is possible by using a movable support system that carries the release buttons wired or wireless setup from 6 to 9 traps and the dual safety screen in any place on the field.

As a result, the shooter can shoot in safe conditions upon target presentations in varying range 10 to 60 yards and varying angles sharp to wide. The most common disciplines in this group are:. Also known as DTL, this is a popular trap shooting discipline. Targets are thrown to a distance of 45 to 50 metres at a fixed height of approximately 2.

Each competitor shoots at a single target in turn, but without moving from the stand until all have shot five targets. Then they all move one place to the right, and continue to do so until they have all completed a standard round of 25 birds. Scoring of each target is 3 points for a first barrel kill, 2 points for a second barrel kill and 0 for a miss maximum 75 points per round.

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Variations of this discipline are single barrel, double rise, and handicap-by-distance. As its name indicates, this is one of the disciplines which form part of the shooting programme at the Olympic Games.

A trench in front of the shooting stands conceals 15 traps arranged in five groups of three. Shooters take turns to shoot at a target each, before moving in a clockwise direction to the next stand in the line. Scoring is on the basis of one point per target killed, regardless of whether this is achieved with the first or with the second barrel unless it is a final where the top six scorers shoot off as a single barrel event, regardless of local club grades if any.

A simpler and cheaper to install variation of this discipline is known as automatic ball trap ABT where only one trap is used and target variation is obtained by the continuous oscillation of the trap in both horizontal and vertical directions in order to give the same spread of targets as in Olympic trap. Similarly, the targets are also thrown to a maximum of 76 metres. A variation on the theme of trap shooting, sometimes known as five trap.

Five traps are installed in a trench in front of the shooting stands, all set at different angles, elevations and speeds, and upon the call of "Pull! Horizontal angles can vary from 0 degrees to 45 degrees either side of the centre line and target distance is between 60 and 70 metres.

Elevations can vary, as in other trap disciplines except DTL , between 1. Skeet is a word of Scandinavian origin, though the discipline originated in America. Targets are thrown in singles and doubles from 2 trap houses situated some 40 metres apart, at opposite ends of a semicircular arc on which there are seven shooting positions.

The targets are thrown at set trajectories and speeds.

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In NSSA discipline, targets are released in a combination of singles and doubles, adding up to a total of 25 targets per round, from the High and Low trap houses on a fixed trajectory and speed. Variety is achieved by shooting round the seven stations on the semicircle, followed by an eighth station, located between stations one and seven. Scoring is on the basis of 1 point per target killed, up to a maximum of In English skeet by far the most popular of the skeet disciplines , the gun position is optional i.

In Olympic skeet, the targets travel at a considerably faster speed, the release of the target can be delayed up to 3 seconds after calling and the gun-down position is compulsory. There is also an eighth shooting station, midway between the two houses. NSSA and English version of Skeet have the concept of option targets, where the shooter has to repeat the first missed target. In the situation where the first 24 targets are all hit, the last target is considered the option.

Here is a representation of Skeet sequences for all variations. Originating in Belgium during the s, Electrocibles is similar to trap shooting, but the clays are equipped with a helice that will give the clay an erratic and unpredictable flight.

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The helice is composed of two winged plastic propellers with a white clay in the centre. Plastic propellers holding a detachable centre piece are rotated at high speed and released randomly from one of five traps. They fly out in an unpredictable way; so-said buzzing through the air. It is designed specifically to simulate as closely as possible the old sport of live pigeon shooting.