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Hi. I'm Don Snyder, the Executive Director of the National Skeet Shooting Association,
and I am here on behalf of Expert Village to give you a little of the history of skeet
shooting. Skeet shooting is an American game, started circa 1920 in Andover, Massachusetts,
and it was developed by outdoors sportsmen that enjoyed upland bird hunting. And it was
a game originated primarily to hone their skills on the off-season. It basically started
by being able to launch clay targets. I'll give you some examples of clay targets, which
were thrown in the air at various and different angles, and it was called shooting around
the clock. And there was a point in the center where a trap was located, and it launched
targets in different directions, simulating what you would experience in the field. It
turned out to be a very successful game. There was a contest in outdoors magazines, and the
person from Montana who named the game skeet, which is a Scandinavian word meaning "to shoot."
The game has progressed over the years and has become a very competitive game, but still
skeet fields are used to hone your skills for the hunting season and can be used during
the off-season to hone those skills.