The wound cavity is the internal space destroyed by a bullet’s passage.

Windage is the left to right adjustment one can make on a gun site or scope.  This is also known as azimuth.

Trap Park Setup

Trap House

One person sites in the Trap House and loads clays one by one. The puller (or scorekeeper) has control of the trap. The thrower constantly moves back and forth, and it is the job of the person in the trap house to continue feeding it.

• use orange clays for day shooting
• use white clays for night shooting

The “pull” mechanism differs by trap park. In some, the puller has a corded button that runs from the trap house. However, voice activated traps are becoming more popular, with a voice activated mic in front of each shooter.

A mechanism for quickly loading the cylinder of a Revolver.

Using a Speed Loader:

• Turn dial to counterclockwise
• insert rounds into speed loader
• turn dial clockwise, rounds are now “locked” into the speed loader.
• store speed loader
• open Revolver cylinder and hold Revolver in left hand
• line up and insert speed loader into empty cylinder
• once your rounds are in, twist dial clockwise to release
• close cylinder and away you go

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Definition

Snap-caps are non-firing, practice ammo. Generally, it’s a bad idea to dry fire any firearm that has a hammer. In this case, you would use snap-caps to be able to dry fire the firearm and not cause damage to the firing pin.

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Vendors

Lyman Products

A ”’side by side”’ is a type of double barrel shotgun where the barrels are even to each other horizontally. While most shotguns run anywhere from 26 inches to 30 inches in barrel length, there are a wide variety of side by sides known as Coach Guns with 20 inch barrels.

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T denotes the shot size of .20 diameter (in inches) with approximately 53 pellets in 1 oz.

A Semi-automatic Pistol is a pistol capable of firing multiple shots by pressing the trigger alone. This can be either a Revolver or an Automatic Pistol.

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Semi-automatic means that a single bullet will be fired each time the trigger is depressed, until empty or jam. Capable of very high rates of fire depending on the shooters ability to repeatedly press the trigger.