| NOUN | clay pigeon shooting | - | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- The triple jump, freestyle swimming, clay pigeon shooting, pole vault, and archery events were previously featured in "Hyper Sports".
- Todd was named the first Master Instructor for the National Skeet Shooting Association, has been trained by the UK's Clay Pigeon Shooting Association (CPSA) and is an Honorary Fellow in England's Institute of Clay Shooting Instructors.
- In 2006, the NSRA founded the National Association of Target Shooting Sports working group in association with the National Rifle Association and Clay Pigeon Shooting Association, to explore the practicalities and benefits of a merger between the bodies.
- It has a golf course, and it offers clay pigeon shooting and corporate activity days, as well as the more traditional activities of agriculture, forestry and property lets.
- It is home to some horse riding facilities, a clay pigeon shooting club and a Maltese cuisine restaurant specialising in traditional rabbit stew.
- He also represented his country at clay pigeon shooting and was a keen player of lawn bowls.
- Small catapults, referred to as "traps", are still widely used to launch clay targets into the air in the sport of clay pigeon shooting.
- Jill is participating in a clay pigeon shooting contest.
- Clay pigeon shooting, also known as clay target shooting, is a shooting sport involving shooting a firearm at special flying targets known as clay pigeons, or clay targets.
- Trap shooting, or trapshooting in North America, is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting, which is shooting shotguns at clay targets.
- It includes a pistol range, rifle ranges, clay pigeon shooting, and an ATV track.
- The area has a clay pigeon shooting club, west of the M60.
- Wye College students used it for clay pigeon shooting and spectacular parties, causing marginally less disruption than the machine gun training there during World War II.
- 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.
- Shooting may also refer to the culling of vermin with guns. Clay pigeon shooting is meant to simulate shooting pigeons released from traps after live birds were banned in the United Kingdom in 1921.
- Side-by-side shotguns were traditionally used for hunting and other sporting pursuits (early long-barreled side-by-side shotguns were known as "fowling pieces" for their use hunting ducks and other waterbirds as well as some landfowls), whereas over-and-under shotguns are more commonly associated with recreational use (such as clay pigeon shooting).
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