The National Shooting Sports Foundation, that represents the firearms industry, founded the Scholastic Clay Target Program to promote youth involvement in shotgun sports. The program has become a tremendous success nationally, with thousands of teenage target shooters participating and competing for scholarships awarded by the NSSF.
The majority of teams winning their way to compete at the Grand American are affiliated with the home shooting ranges and gun clubs where they practice and train. But in Rutherford County, Tennessee, the trap teams represent their high schools and compete as varsity athletes. In Rutherford County High Schools Trap Shooting is a letter sport.
Our profile covers the State High School Championship and the people behind the high school team program, who convinced the superintendent and the high school principals that Trap Shooting is as safe and as beneficial to youth as baseball or golf teams. It’s a demonstration of what can be accomplished in youth shooting sports even in a time of zero tolerance of firearms in the majority of the nation’s school systems.
Plus, Exhibition Shooter, Jerry Miculek makes an appearance with this week’s Impossible Shot… but it’s actually 60 Shots Jerry has in mind as he gives his trigger finger a work-out on 10 revolvers.
