Clay pigeon shooting
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"Clay bird" redirects here. For the Bangladeshi film also known as The Clay Bird, see Matir Moina.
Clay pigeon shooting, also known as clay target shooting, is a shooting sport involving shooting at special flying targets known as clay pigeons, or clay targets, with a shotgun.
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Clay shooters often use terminology from the past, when live pigeons released from a trap were shot, a practice banned in the United Kingdom from 1921. A target may be called a "bird", a hit may be referred to as a "kill", and a missed target as a "bird away"; the machine which projects the targets is still known as a "trap".