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Sperry Trap Shooting Team Takes Aim at a New Season of Competitions
Sperry Trap Shooting Team Takes Aim at a New Season of Competitions
The Sperry High School Trap Shooting Team competed at Connors State College on October 25th. The team participated in two different competitions, trap shooting and skeet shooting.
While people generally think of all shooting of thrown clay targets as “skeet” shooting, these two types of competition are quite different from the perspective of the shooter. The Sperry High School Trap Shooting Team actually practices and participates in both types of clay target shooting.
Trap shooting is the target shooting format that most people think of when they hear about shooting. In trap shooting, clays are flung from an oscillating thrower that is 16 yards in front of the shooter; the shooter is unaware of where the clay will be thrown. The clays can be thrown straight away, hard left, hard right, or anywhere in between. The only control the shooter has in trap shooting is when the clay target is flung out. The shooter cannot control the direction the target will fly, but it is not flung out until the shooter calls, “Pull.”
In skeet shooting, clays are thrown from towers to the left and right of the shooting field, while the shooter rotates through eight different stations after shooting a series of shots at each station. In skeet, the shooter knows where the clays are coming from and in what direction they are going to be thrown
Jeremiah McNeely was Sperry’s top shooter in trap competition, hitting 21 of 25 targets. Benji Hewitt was Sperry’s top shooter in skeet competition, shooting 19 of 25 targets.
Below, Autumn Clampitt prepares for a clay target to be thrown.
Above, Benji Hewitt takes his turn at the targets
Below, Jake Sutherland sets his sights on a target
Above, Matthew Watts prepares to fire at his target.
