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Welcome to
The Rapid City Trap
& Skeet Club
Come visit us, for a place to compete,
practice, learn or just have fun shooting clay targets.
Trapshooting at its best!
At the Rapid City Trap & Skeet Club you'll find one of the best environments in the midwest for shooting
trap and skeet. Join us at one of our 9 trap fields for both casual shooting and registered
competitions.
We also offer periodic training clinics and are happy to arrange
individual training.
Click Here for Map & Directions
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♦10 Week Summer League starts Tuesday June 27th! ♦Annual Club Shoot and Election August 28th |
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Our trapshooting club is open to the public, however, field availability may be limited on weekends that have been scheduled for registered shoots or during league. We may be closed during inclement weather, so please call when weather conditions are a concern.
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Rapid City
Trap & Skeet Club
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Trap Shooting
Trap shooting is one of the two major forms of competitive shotgun shooting
at clay targets (the other is Skeet shooting). There are many versions including
Olympic Trap, Double Trap (which is also an Olympic event), Nordic Trap, and
several national versions such as American Trap.
The sport is in some ways a replacement for a game where the targets were live
pigeons. Indeed, one of the names for the clay targets used in shooting games is
clay pigeons. The layout of modern trap shooting is different from skeet
shooting in that there is only one house that releases targets and the shooters
only move through 5 different positions.
Trap shooting has been a sport since at least 1793 when it used real birds,
usually the then-extremely abundant Passenger Pigeon. Fake birds were introduced
around the time of the American Civil War as the Passenger Pigeon was nearing
extinction and sufficient numbers were not reliably available. Clay targets were
introduced in the 1880's.
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Please send questions or comments about this web site to Site Design Services Please send questions or comments regarding the club to bcbartholow@rap.midco.net
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