Definition of "trapshooting" [trapshooting]

• Sports Shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from spring traps. (noun)

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• "Although these different techniques work well in trapshooting, they don't always translate to success in the field."
• "Baited with alcohol-soaked grain, gassed with sulfur fires and loaded live into trapshooting launchers (they were later replaced with clay "pigeons"), the passenger pigeon population quickly petered out."
• "Yes | No | Report from muskiemaster wrote 28 weeks 5 hours ago are pup passed her gun dog test during the 4th while people were trapshooting in the field and she played in the pond."