A target for clay pigeon shooting

Trap shooting - one of the subspecies of the shooting sports. Competitions in clay pigeon shooting are conducted on the open range. Shooting is conducted with shotguns short charges charges for special targets-Skeet. In contact with even a few pellets in a plate, it is broken.

Target made of a mixture of bitumen pitch (the component used for the production of asphalt) and cement, and are thrown into the air using a special machine (they are mechanical, where the launch takes place at the expense of physical effort (you need to press the pedal or pull the rope) and electric with remote control).

Roots clay pigeon shooting competitions are the hunters who shot the birds from hunting rifles. Such competitions were held in Europe (primarily in England) is already in the Middle ages. In the late XIX — early XX century, including in the first few Olympic games, arrows fired at the toss in the air living pigeons. Then the pigeons were replaced with clay plates (called a Clay Pigeon or "clay pigeon"). Such plates made from bituminous sand and cement.

It is worth noting that from live birds to the plates moved immediately, there was a period when the targets for humanitarian purposes used glass containers filled with feathers.

Depending on the size, allocate these types of round targets:

• standard (110 mm);
• MIDI (90 mm);
• mini (60 mm);
• Batu (very thin);
• hare (very strong).

The standard color is orange, but there are a variety of colors, for example, with the special bright powder inside (called "Flash targets").

A UFO can be taken accidentally or intentionally. As the object for intentional fraud may be used as the target, and iron moulds for their castings.

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