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Well, you can find out this Saturday, when the Harvard Shooting Club hosts its latest shotgun skeet and trap shooting outing. Everyone—including you, even if you’ve never touched a gun before—is encouraged to attend. Need a reason? Here are a few offered by the club...
...wait a second. If you’re like us, you may be a little alarmed (especially by this last reason). And you may be wondering just what “skeet and trap shooting” actually involves. Well, read on, because we’ve jumped the gun (ha!) and uncovered the answers for you after the jump...
Tian Wang ’11, co-president of the Harvard Shooting Club, gave us this explanation of skeet and trap shooting...
...goal of skeet and trap shooting is to use a shotgun to hit clay pigeons thrown by an automatic thrower. In trap, shooters face a semicircular field and the pigeons are sent away from the shooter straight or angled toward the left or right. In skeet, shooters shift between seven positions on the semicircular field and targets are thrown to cross from a high house and a low house. Skeet is the more challenging...
...today everything is public, and in the tut-tut world of expos? journalism, astronauts-particularly women-misbehave at their peril. Nowak's NASA bio includes a seemingly focus-group-tested list of 10 wholesome hobbies, such as running, skeet shooting and raising African violets-pastimes somewhat at odds with a 900-mile pursuit in a wig and diapers. For now, Nowak will have time to return to those hobbies: NASA has placed her on a 30-day leave. The space agency will move beyond this episode but has already publicly resolved to keep a closer eye on-and take better...