| 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. [1]
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.[2]