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Welcome to the APTA

Shootalberta.com is the online home of the APTA, and the Alberta Provincial Trapshooting Championships! Here you can find event dates, host locations and contacts, as well as past champions and current programs.

Shootalberta.com and the APTA are dedicated to the continued development of our sport, and to provide a forum for information and recognition of sponsors, contributors and past champions.

Purpose of the APTA

• To maintain an affiliation with the Amateur Trapshooting Association
• To control registered shooting in the province of Alberta in accordance with the rules of the ATA
• To yearly organize and run the Alberta trapshooting provincials by the rules of the ATA
• To promote a high degree of continuity in all ATA competitions in Alberta
• To support by any means the existence and creation of the gun clubs promoting North American style Trapshooting in our province

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 

Previous League Results

News Archive

Aug 18th / 25

   Ken Reed of the Stettler gun club would like to make a change to the program for this fridays shoot.  registration will be from noon to four with shooting starting once you are registered.   Friday is two hundred doubles  for more info kens number is 403 741 8721 

July 9th /2

  Dvine shoot, Canadians and BC provincials has had me busy for awhile and its time to catch up. First and fore most Congrats to Jake Johnson who made the 27 yard line at the Utah shoot. Not many people make to the wall good job  Jake.                                                                                    The Dvine shoot had 44 shooters in total. thank god for our 20 volunteers that kept things going. Alberta won the Alta vs BC challenge in big part to the excellent shooting of Brady Short and Barry Johnston. 20 people from BC made the journey and helped make  the shoot what it was. A lot of fun.             The Canadians in Hamilton saw Alberta bring home some hardware Barry Johnston kept up the great shooting winning the HAA and was runner up in the HOA. Garry Hill won Vet singles championship,Lynn Smith won Ladies Doubles Championship and Hunter Maclean won sub junior Doubles champioship.  Other event winners were Tom Foss, Shane Vaughan, Robert Gruszecki.  The staff that did the cashiering and Squadding were excellent the best i have seen at one of these events and they get a tip of the hat.  Dan Gris the trap director also worked like a madman all weekend long and should be commended for his efforts.  The OPTA had one director helping out thanks Emily Brown for the work you did.

  I went to the BC Provincials because I wanted to see how they ran their Provincials. I also have never been to Langley trap club and my BC friends  told me i should see it, I wasnt disappointed.  Their board is different than ours it is made up of the 18 clubs that throw registered targets.  They rent the club for x amount of dollars and set the price on targets, they buy the trophies and run the shoot.  They use the fees they collect all year to buy down the targets fees and supply complimentary water and some of the meals.  Trap clubs that throw registered targets are asked to volunteer and are designated to certain traps.  Then they score and load them and pick up hulls. They do all this in order to keep costs down. I enjoyed the shoot and would go back again dispite them getting a hold of my shells and writing go BC, go Canucks and BC rocks on top of the casings   lol.

  Calgary has the stampede shoot coming up this weekend and the provincials the next weekend after that see you there

Click for more information about the club.

Athabasca Gun Club

Calgary Firearms Center

Castor Trap Club

Edmonton Gun Club

Medicine Hat Clay Target Center

Wainwright Trap Club

High Prairie Fish & Game Association

Dvine Trap Range

Stettler Trap Club

Rule for APTA league  125 entry for league. Money  will be sent to  shoot.apta@gmail.com scores will be sent to jesse smith via text 780 523 6032.  You have eight weeks starting May 19 to July 15th to enter 6 scores for league  the chart below explains where you shoot from after your combined 5 man singles. After 3 weeks teams will be flighted shells be awarded to winning teams at provincials   Subs are allowed