Sporting clays
| First played | Early 1900s |
|---|---|
| Characteristics | |
| Type | Clay pigeon shooting |
| Equipment | Shotgun |
| Presence | |
| Country or region | Worldwide |
Sporting clays is a form of clay pigeon shooting, often described as "golf with a shotgun" because a typical course includes from 10 to 15 different shooting stations laid out over natural terrain.
Unlike trap and skeet, which are games of repeatable target presentations, sporting clays simulates the unpredictability of live-quarry shooting, offering a great variety of trajectories, angles, speeds, elevations, distances, and target sizes.