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trapshooter

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trap·shoot·ing  (trpshtng)
n. Sports
Shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from spring traps.

trapshooter n.
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Noun1.trapshooter - a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a traptrapshooter - a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap
shooter, shot - a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot); "he is a crack shot"; "a poor shooter"


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This was an odd mistake for an old trapshooter, because I prefer straighter stocks and higher-shooting guns.
Her Best Shot contains 34 illustrations of women with guns, including the androgynous Calamity Jane posing with her shotgun in buckskin pants, jacket, and necktie and the quite feminine trapshooters of a Wisconsin women's shooting club, whose guns test alongside their corset-like bodices and long skirts (both from the late 1800s).
Young Creswell trapshooter sets record Cade Miller of Creswell last week became the youngest trapshooter in Pacific International Trapshooting Association history to break 100 straight clay targets in a sanctioned singles handicap competition.
 
 
 
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