May 4,5 | Calgary | Holdsworth-Nattrass |
May 10,11,12 | Dvine Trap Range | D Hazen All Peace Shoot |
May 18,19 | Edmonton | Memorial Shoot |
May 24,25,26 | Medicine Hat | Rattler Classic |
Jun 1,2 | Calgary | Fuller-Manning |
Jun 8,9 | Athabasca | Andy Wood Memorial |
Jun 14,15,16 | Castor | 37th Ann. Trophy Shoot |
Jun 22,23 | Stettler | Rob Docherty Memorial |
Jul 6,7 | Edmonton | City Championship |
Jul 10,11,12,13,14 | Calgary | Stampede Grand |
Jul 17,18,19,20,21 | Edmonton | 73rd Alberta Provincials/ Western Zones |
Aug 2,3,4 | High Prairie | Northern Lights |
Aug 9,10,11 | Medicine Hat | Mad Hatter |
Aug 16,17,18 | Calgary | Rose Bowl |
Aug 23,24,25 | Wainright | Bert Brumwell Mem. |
Aug 31 to Sep 1 | Edmonton | Gold Leaf Shoot |
Sep 7,8 | Athabasca | unkown |
Sep 14 | Castor | National Trap Day |
Sep 15 | Calgary | National Trap Day |
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New Shooter Mentorship program
This program is designed to help new shooters through there first Alberta ATA shoot. The shooter will be contacted by their mentor and arrangements will be made to meet at the shoot. The mentor will help with registration and explain the classing system. They will explain the bank board and get the new shooter to their first trap round and answer any questions that they can about trap shooting. Any questions a new shooter may have about being mentored or becoming a mentor please contact Jesse Smith a text is preferred 780 523 6032
Oct 28th/23
I have all the all stars from 1983 to 2022 loaded on the all star page. We have Jim Thompson to thank for saving this piece of Alberta trap shooting history. I find it fascinating to sift through this kind of stuff. I want to know Who had the most appearances? Who had the longest continuous streak? Who was the captain the most times? What lady held the highest composite average? Try and guess who they are. It is all there, one thing it doesnt tell you is why the 80s and 90s they had some of the best numbers ever. They were button pressed targets, no pat traps and they were not all hunting to eat so why? That will have to be a different debate, lets go with what we know. Joanne Wing in 1995 on 2900 targets had the highest ladies composite average ever 92.69. the top 3 most appearances were Allan Radway 33 time and 31 in a row from 1988 to 2018. I have been married along time, but not that long, that is truly impressive. Neil Burbidge is second with 24 and a record 20 times as captain. The next most captained years is Larry Ivany with 5. Rounding out the top 3 is Ron Mcconnell with 23 and a record 38 years between his first in 1985 and his latest appearance in 2022. I dont know if any of these records will ever be beat. To think Barry Johnson is the youngest shooter on the all star team at 39 years old and soon to be 40 he has made the team twice. He has has to shoot 31 more years in a row at all star level to tie Radway. It is mind boogling to think about
Oct 19th/23
I recently was sent a list of all 879 Canadian trap shooters, 2023 stats. The Canadian Trapshooting Association uses this list to acknowledge its All Stars from across the country. In order to Qualify for the CTA all stars you need to shoot a 1000 of each Discipline in Canada and attend your provincial championship targets or the Canadians championship targets. There were a few things I found interesting from this list. Most All Americans shoot very little in Canada and that's a shame. They should be seen by the 859 of us who have no hope of being that good. They are what you want to aspire to shoot like and yet they don't make the team. The 2nd interesting thing is that the list lead me to see, is that nobody in the top 20 has a higher average in Canada than the USA usually a full percent back on aggregate average. Some were 4 full percent back. Why this is I have no idea but my hat goes off to Randy Hunt and Sylvain Rossignos who will be CTA All Stars and shot all Canadian targets. That last tid bit is a shout out to Alberta shooters and the numbers we put up. Of the top 100 there are 26 from Alberta of those 26, ten are in the top 20. Of the 12 CTA all stars (10 open and 1 jr and 1 Lady) we have 8 people that are set to Qualify. At this time we are still waiting for the PITA season in BC to end (Oct 30th) to make the official list. I willn post the 8 when its official. These 8 people took the time to meet the criteria and shoot in Canada. Thank you for supporting Canadian Trap Shooting
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APTA LEAGUE
HANDICAP CHART |
|
Team 16 Yard Score |
Team Handicap Yardage |
115 – 125 |
27 Yards |
110 – 114 |
25 Yards |
105 – 109 |
23 Yards |
100 – 104 |
22 Yards |
95 – 99 |
21 Yards |
90 – 94 |
20 Yards |
85 – 89 |
19 Yards |
84 or less |
18 Yards |