"BJ" Johnson Memorial Shoot is August 5th at 5:30 PM
Watertown Trap and Skeet Club offers a variety of options to sharpen your clay target or hunting skills. We offer up to 4 different styles of clay target games varying in degree of difficulty.
Trap shooting is a clay target sport where participants use shotguns to break 4.5-inch clay discs ("birds") launched into the air away from the shooter from a single "trap house". It emphasizes precision, timing, and skill, often with shooters standing 16+ yards behind the machine, shooting in rounds of 25.
Skeet shooting is a clay target sport where participants shoot at clay discs ("birds") launched from two fixed houses—a high house and a low house—at varying angles. Shooters move through 8 stations arranged in a semicircle, simulating varied hunting scenarios with crossing and diagonal targets.
Wobble trap shooting is a challenging clay target sport variation where the target-throwing machine (trap) oscillates both horizontally (side-to-side) and vertically (up-and-down), creating unpredictable, erratic flight paths. It simulates real hunting scenarios, often featuring 5 stations, 25 targets per round, and faster, higher-angle targets than traditional trap.
Doubles in trap shooting is a, often fast-paced, discipline where two clay targets are launched simultaneously from a fixed house at the 16-yard line. Shooters, often referred to as shooting "doubles," "a pair," or "a doublette," engage these targets with one shot each (two shots total) in a single turn. A full round consists of 50 targets (25 pairs).