Excerpt from The Sport of Trapshooting: Information for Shooters, Hints for Organizing and Conducting Gun Clubs
No naturalist discovered the clay "bird". Like many other good things of the earth, it was invented in America.
For more than forty years this inanimate, mechanically propelled, swift and fragile little flying target has afforded keen sport with the gun for thousands of virile men and women the length and breadth of the land. Every day in the year trapshooters with levelled guns are calling for its catapult flight from its roosting place in gun club "trap-houses."
"Pull!" That's the call of the shooter.
The puller pulls.
Out of the open trap-house, propelled by the strong "trap," darts a speedy clay target - skimming, soaring,....
Bang! Hit or miss. The thrill of satisfaction or of disappointment is there.
That's trapshooting, the sport that holds everybody through its fascination - the sport, few sportsmen ever forsake.
How Trapshooting Started
The motive behind trapshooting is as old as the human race. It is the instinctive human desire to hurl missiles at targets, which men have had ever since they have been able to hold any object in their hands.
When bow and arrow supplanted the sling of antiquity the same human instinct was satisfied in a different way - the hand and eye directed the missile though the hand did not propel it.
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