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  2. Shooting at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    Shooting was one of the nine events at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896. Early competitions included some events now regarded as unusual, such as live pigeon shooting in 1900; dueling in 1906 and 1908; and numerous events restricted to military weapons. After the 1900 games, the pigeons were replaced with clay targets.

  3. ISSF Olympic skeet - Wikipedia

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    Olympic skeet is a variant of skeet shooting, and the specific variant used in the Olympic Games. The discipline is sanctioned by the International Shooting Sport Federation . Two throwing machines at different heights launch a series of 25 targets in a specific order, some as singles and some as doubles, with the shooter having a fixed ...

  4. ISSF Olympic trap - Wikipedia

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    Olympic trap is a shooting sports discipline contested at the Olympic Games and sanctioned by the International Shooting Sport Federation.Usually referred to simply as "trap", the discipline is also known in the United States as international trap, bunker trap, trench or international clay pigeon. [1]

  5. Skeet shooting - Wikipedia

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    Skeet shooting is a recreational and competitive activity whose participants use shotguns to attempt to break clay targets which two fixed stations mechanically fling into the air at high speed and at a variety of angles. [1] Skeet is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay shooting—alongside trap shooting and sporting clays.

  6. Shotgun (shooting sports) - Wikipedia

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    Trap and Double Trap: Either one (trap) or two targets (double trap) are thrown from 16 meters in front of the shooter. [3] The Fédération Internationale de Tir aux Armes Sportives de Chasse (FITASC) Compak Sporting is a type of shotgun sport shooting similar to sporting clays, trap and skeet. Other shotgun sports with (at least partial ...

  7. Shooting sports - Wikipedia

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    Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, [1] rifles [2] and shotguns [3]) and bows/crossbows.

  8. ISSF shooting events - Wikipedia

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    The first ISSF World Shooting Championships were held in 1897, and while the Olympic shooting program changed heavily until the 1930s, the World Championship program was quite stable. The early events were 300 metre rifle, 50 metre pistol (added 1900), and 300 metre army rifle (added 1911).

  9. List of Olympic venues in shooting - Wikipedia

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    Råsunda Stadium hosted the shooting events for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. The Beijing Shooting Range Hall hosted the pistol and rifle portion of the shooting events for the 2008 Summer Olympics. For the Summer Olympics, there are 38 venues that have been or will be used for shooting sports.

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