AllDisciplines

The five main clay disciplines, plus the international and national formats that sit alongside them.

The Main Five

• Sporting ClaysA walking course of stations with varied presentations set by the course designer.
• SkeetTwo houses, crossing targets on fixed flight paths, shot from a semicircle of stations.
• TrapGoing-away targets with unknown angles, thrown from machines in front of the line.
• 5-StandSporting-style variety compressed into five cages on a single fixed field.
• Hélice / ZZSpinning propeller targets inside an enclosed ring, with a genuinely erratic flight.

Other Disciplines

These formats are shot under their own national or international rules. Dedicated pages are on the way; the summaries below cover what each one is.

• Olympic Trap

  The ISSF trap discipline shot from five positions in front of a trench of machines, with targets released across a range of angles and elevations. It is contested at the Olympic Games.

• Olympic Skeet

  The ISSF branch of Skeet, shot from a gun-down ready position with the target released after a variable delay following the call, so the exact release moment cannot be anticipated.

• Compak Sporting

  A compact sporting format governed internationally by FITASC, which formalised it in 1991. Five shooting positions face a set of traps on one field, with the targets for each position posted on a menu card.

• Universal Trench

  A FITASC trench discipline, formalised in 1960, in which a group of machines set in a trench throws targets to its own published scheme of angles and elevations.

• DTL (Down-The-Line)

  A British trap format administered by the CPSA, shot from five positions at a single machine. Targets are scored by value rather than simply hit or lost, so the promptness of the kill affects the score.

• Hélice / ZZ

  Also listed above with its own page. Governed internationally by FITASC, it uses propeller-style targets that must have the white witness detached and falling inside the enclosure to count.