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Originally Posted by m21sniper
(I suspect that "trap shooting" get's it's name because that's the technique involved, but i'm not really into any shotgun sports, so i cannot say for sure).
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Trap Shooting is called such because when it was originally done (and still is sometimes), they had a bird in a cage (trap) that they opened and the shooters attempted to hit the fleeing bird.
I suspect that "trapping" gets its name from trap shooting, as trap shooting has been around (over 100 years) much longer than formalized sniper training (was first done in WWI).