Trapshooting is a game of movement, action and split-second timing. It requires accuracy and skill to aim repeatedly, firing each time and breaking the 4¼- inch disc as it flies through the air at 41 miles per hour like a bird fleeing a hunter.

Trapshooting is easily the most popular shotgun shooting sport in the U.S., universally popular, mainly because people of all ages, incomes and abilities can compete. The sport’s participants come from all walks of life. They are millionaires and hourly wage earners alike. Among them are inventors and businessmen, past and present sports figures, farmers, truck drivers, musicians, actors, students and homemakers. That’s why the Boston Marathon is the only single-person sporting event in America that is larger than ATA’s Grand American Trapshooting Championships.