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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

July 23/24

  Provincials and western zone summary. Thanks to Big Slick Ag Service, Perrazzi Alberta, Darin Schuller Oilfield Consulting and Dvine Trap range we were all allowed to compete in the western zone. These sponsors covered all the target fees associated with the westerns and you only had to pay the gst to enter.  The targets for shoot offs were generously covered by the Edmonton gun club.  We won 42 of a 108 trophies at the westerns. Brad Johnson was high in the Hoa and doubles.  There were 742 competitors involved in the zone.  It is no small feat to win, some of the best there are compete for western Zone titles.. Provincials saw a lot of personal bests and new champions. Lynn Smiths 6 year streak ended as Tamara Hunt shot her first 50 straight and went on to win the ladies singles championship, after a shoot off with Carmen Tebbs,  both had scored a 192.  Jacob Johnsons two years of 200 straight ended and Mike Kwan won the singles with a 199. Mike was the only one to hit all 25 in the first round of the shoot off with Barry Johnston, Mike Degiano, James Maclean, and Derek Clayton. All five had never hit the 199 mark before.  Lorne Umscheid hit 98 in championship cap to move back to the 27 yard line for the first time.  In the preliminary cap Herby Nickerson from Nova Scotia shot a 99 and said it was his best anything. Janaya Nickerson, Herbies daughter,  shot her best singles 97, best doubles 94, and her best cap at 94. They were loving Alberta targets.   Jordon Peterson shot his first 25 straight and had the biggest smile you ever saw. Jessica and Julia Marthaller won the juniors and sub Juniors. Julia had to have a shoot off with Hunter Maclean before she could claim her title.  Brad Johnsons 977 HOA score and 394 HAA winning scores are among the highest ever shot in Provincial competition.  In the HAA only Larry Ivany and Allan Day have shot higher numbers.  In my 9 years of shooting I can't remember shooting in four continuous days of blue sky and no wind.  The target setting committee did a great job of setting consistent targets. The scorers and trap help were great and the facility was clean and well maintained.     

July 16th/24 to

A great turnout of 64 people shot at the Stampede Grand. Some terrific personal best were achieved. Julia Marthaller shot her first 100 ATA straight and it wont be her last. Good job Julia.  James Mclean shot his first 100 st and followed it with another to win the two hundred singles with a perfect score. Jacob Johnson was runner up with a 199. Hunter Mclean a sub Jr set personal best with a 99 in singles 90 in doubles and a 97 in the cap which just happened to win event 9. His new Perazzi Mx 6 sure seems to be shooting where hes looking, good work young man. Trevor Dawe and Ron mcconnell both had hundreds on Day one singles that Ron followed up with another day 2. Event 2 cap winner was James Mclean with a 97. His 97 in Doubles was good for the win in event 3. Again a 97 was the winning number by Les Myers in event 5 handicap. James Mclean won doubles again with a 98 in Event 6.  In event 9 doubles,  Brad Johnson had a 99 and missed on last post he got a flat left and went over top of it. HOA was a tie between Bob Grusecki and Jesse Smith with 943s. Bob was gracious enough to shoot off, after running a shoot all week long, I can understand it was the last thing he wanted to do. He was a good sport and the people that stayed to watch enjoyed the entertainment.   

   On a side note about the provincial league.  I was lucky enough to watch Ashton Haulderson shoot his first 25 ever.  He did it last night and he was so excited. It is why we do the league. He has been shooting for 10 years, he was 14 when he started. Its what makes all the work worth while. A Dvine green hat is coming his way his old won got the ceremonial toss in the air.

  Wednesday is prelim doubles in Edmonton see you all at provincials.

July 8th/24

   Great weather for the Edmonton shoot. Even better attendance, 58 shooters wow.  That is the most i can recall, for a 2 day shoot, since i started shooting in 2015. The previous high I think was Wainwright with 52 . 7 new shooters is awesome. The APTA welcomes John Mon, Mohamd Gewaily, Ben Evans, Jessica Dinner, Corolyn Wang, Tracey Penner, and Wendy Parr, to competitive trap shooting.  Shawn Mcneil took HOA honors with a 551. A tie for 2nd with 544s was Darin Schuller and Gary Tebbs. Shawn won both day singles with 99s and Gary Tebbs won both day doubles with 91 and 92. Day one handicap was Trevor Dawe with a 94. Day two cap saw Darin Schuller get back to the 24 yardline with a 94. Next shoot is Calgary and starts on Thursday

July 2nd/24

  The Vancouver Canadians made we ask what makes a good Canadians? If you just go by how many attended its the best Canadians in 3 years with 170 people attending. If we go with how well your province shot. It was freaking historical for Alberta. Our juniors won just about everything you could win.  Congrats Connor Bish, Julia Marthaller and Hunter Mclean. They were all in shoot offs, and experienced the agony of defeat and the thrill of victory.  They handle it with class and dignity, Their parents and our shooting community should be proud. Lynn Smith won Ladies singles, handicap and HAA. Brad Johnson winning 4 out of five major titles was a performance for the ages. I dont know if any Albertan has ever done that. He won singles 199 doubles 99 HAA 391 and the crown jewel the HOA 952. James Mclean was runner up in the HOA and shot the lights out all week long. These good scores were shot at one of the toughest place i have ever seen to score. We won a little side bet with BC on which province would finish higher in an event. We won 8 to 3.  BC shooter Dave Jeffery will be wearing an Edmonton Oiler jersey at the next Dvine Shoot. Tom Foss made the 27 yard line, congrats Tom, you earned it. Alberta won the 5000 dollar Canada Cap Connar Bish 96 Shawn Mcneal 96 Colin Crumb 94 Brad and Nolan Johnson 93s. The two young guys thanking the sponsors of the event and the team spirit, pulling for your province was great.  Was the ATA PITA thing an issue? no. These were all great things that could have you saying it was a good Canadians.

    If your criteria for a good Canadians is, was the facility well maintained?  Did they pick up garbage?  Were there experienced scorers and trap help? Did they have food all day?  Were shells readily available? Were they able to set targets to a center stake on all fields? Were their Fields and walk ways even? Was registration open early enough to not cause a big back up?  Were practice targets reasonably priced? If The answer to all of these question is no you would have to say it wasnt a good shoot.  5 good men tried to do what 15 couldnt have done. To those five I tip my hat and applaud your efforts, you tried.  The 300 members of that club should be embarrassed they left these guys out to dry. The people of the Atlantic  Provinces should be proud of there shooters these men and women jumped in tried to help from entering scores, to picking garbage and hulls. No bitching just helping out.  Next shoot Edmonton

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APTA SHOOTING LEAGUE 2024
TEAM NAME	POSITION	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Post Progressive Total		Notes:
A Category
Calgary No-Stars
Calgary	Singles
Larry Ivany	Post 1	25	23	23	23	24	22	140
Mike  Silver	Post 2	21	23	24	22	24	25	139
Bob Gruszecki	Post 3	23	23	24	25	25	25	145
Les Myers	Post 4	22	22	23	23	24	24	138
Shane Vaughan	Post 5	22	22	24	23	25	23	139
	S W Total	113	113	118	116	122	119	701	701
	Handicap
Larry Ivany	Post 1	19	18	21	22	22	18	120
Mike  Silver	Post 2	14	13	20	13	16	19	95
Bob Gruszecki	Post 3	22	23	23	23	24	24	139
Les Myers	Post 4	18	17	22	18	23	18	116
Shane Vaughan	Post 5	21	20	22	19	22	23	127
	H W Total	94	91	108	95	107	102	597	597
	Overall Total							1298
Wainwright
Location	Singles
Ross	Post 1	24	24	24	24	25	22	143
Luke	Post 2	24	22	23	23	24	24	140
Gary	Post 3	20	20	23	23	22	23	131
Doug	Post 4	20	22	24	24	23	25	138
Jake	Post 5	25	23	25	25	25	25	148
	S W Total	113	111	119	119	119	119	700	700
	Handicap
Ross	Post 1	17	16	24	24	23	19	123
Luke	Post 2	15	17	19	19	18	18	106
Gary	Post 3	18	20	21	21	20	24	124
Doug	Post 4	20	20	21	21	21	20	123
Jake	Post 5	22	18	23	23	23	23	132
	H W Total	92	91	108	108	105	104	608	608
	Overall Total							1308
Dvine Wine
Peavine Metis Settlement	Singles
Jesse Smith	Post 1	24	24	20	25	25	24	142
Justus Smith	Post 2	22	23	21	24	23	22	135
Lynn Smith	Post 3	22	25	24	23	23	24	141
Ashton Halderson	Post 4	15	23	20	22	25	22	127
Tanasity Smith	Post 5	20	23	20	21	23	24	131
	S W Total	103	118	105	115	119	116	676	676
	Handicap
Jesse Smith	Post 1	24	21	22	18	22	24	131
Justus Smith	Post 2	21	23	19	16	23	20	122
Lynn Smith	Post 3	23	18	22	18	22	19	122
Ashton Halderson	Post 4	16	18	10	12	17	21	94
Tanasity Smith	Post 5	23	14	13	16	10	18	94
	H W Total	107	94	86	80	94	102	563	563
	Overall Total							1239
Stettler Pronature
Stettler	Singles
Kyle McNally	Post 1	22	23	20	20	18	19	122
Ross Brown	Post 2	22	23	24	19	25	20	133
Greg Tschriter	Post 3	17	20	17	19	17	19	109
Todd Tschriter	Post 4	15	22	22	20	22	22	123
Ken Ried	Post 5	16	20	21	22	21	20	120
	S W Total	92	108	104	100	103	100	607	607
	Handicap
Kyle McNally	Post 1	24	16	21	21		22	104
Ross Brown	Post 2	22	22	19	22		12	97
Greg Tschriter	Post 3	13	17	15	11		15	71
Todd Tschriter	Post 4	11	20	15	20		20	86
Ken Ried	Post 5	24	15	18	21		20	98
	H W Total	94	90	88	95	0	89	456	456
	Overall Total							1063
Castor Raiders
Location	Singles
Doug Hays	Post 1	20	20	21	23	19	21	124
Kathy Oram	Post 2	11	21	17	17	24	23	113
Ethan Meade	Post 3	22	22	19	17	20	17	117
Royce Bull	Post 4	19	21	21	21	22	22	126
Andrw Boxma	Post 5	22	22	24	21	20	22	131
	S W Total	94	106	102	99	105	105	611	611
	Handicap
Doug Hays	Post 1	19	15	19	21	13	17	104
Kathy Oram	Post 2	13	19	14	17	16	18	97
Ethan Meade	Post 3	19	14	13	15	14	15	90
Royce Bull	Post 4	19	21	21	19	18	20	118
Andrew Boxma	Post 5	16	22	21	21	19	16	115
	Weekly Total	86	91	88	93	80	86	610	524
	Overall Total							1221
B Category
Rooster Boosters	Singles
Russel Henther	Post 1	22	25	20	21	22	18	128
Josh Olberholtzer	Post 2	17	19	18	17	15	16	102
Alex Weibe	Post 3	24	23	20	21	23	18	129
Travis Deitz	Post 4	21	19	23	21	13	22	119
Wes Deitz	Post 5	17	20	14	17	20	21	109
	S W Total	101	106	95	97	93	95	587
	Handicap								587
Russel Henther	Post 1	17	22	15	13	13	21	101
Josh Olberholtzer	Post 2	18	17	15	15	15	11	91
Alex Weibe	Post 3	20	20	12	18	21	21	112
Travis Deitz	Post 4	22	18	16	17	15	15	103
Wes Deitz	Post 5	19	18	12	19	18	17	103
	H W Total	96	95	70	82	82	85	510
	Overall Total							1097	510
The Dusters
Location	Singles
Neil Deitz	Post 1	20	20	23				63
Chris Burtsch	Post 2	17	23	21				61
Leigh Vooys	Post 3	19	19	20				58
Byron Thompson	Post 4	19	18	16				53
Keith Deitz	Post 5	23	23	24				70
	S W Total	98	103	104	0	0	0	305
	Handicap								305
Neil Deitz	Post 1	19	17	17				53
Chris Burtsch	Post 2	9	17	10				36
Leigh Vooys	Post 3	18	14	15				47
Byron Thompson	Post 4	15	13	19				47
Keith Deitz	Post 5	21	21	18				60
	H W Total	82	82	79	0	0	0	243
	Overall Total							548	243
EGC QUACKERS
Location	Singles
Randy Shantz	Post 1	20	17	19	15	12	18	101
Roland Kee	Post 2	23	24	24	23	21	19	134
Richard Sherrman	Post 3	22	14	14	19	25	22	116
Dennis Chrystian	Post 4	25	19	22	25	22	22	135
Grahm Shell	Post 5	23	24	19	23	25	24	138
	S W Total	113	98	98	105	105	105	624
	Handicap								624
Randy Shantz	Post 1	11	15	17	17	17	19	96
Roland Kee	Post 2	18	19	19	18	22	18	114
Richard Sherrman	Post 3	8	14	15	21	19	20	97
Dennis Chrystian	Post 4	15	17	15	14	20	13	94
Grahm Shell	Post 5	17	19	19	20	19	22	116
	H W Total	69	84	85	90	97	92	517
	Overall Total							1141	517
Clay Crushers
Location	Singles
Peter Wyatt	Post 1	17	18	23	16			74
Role Umscheid	Post 2	20	12	20	19			71
Kevin Umscheid	Post 3	14	11	15	13			53
Doug Headrick	Post 4	12	12	14	14			52
Ken Fetkenher	Post 5	17	18	20	22			77
	S W Total	80	71	92	84	0	0	327
	Handicap								327
Peter Wyatt	Post 1	13	16	14	17			60
Role Umscheid	Post 2	15	18	14	20			67
Kevin Umscheid	Post 3	13	9	11	15			48
Doug Headrick	Post 4	11	13	10	9			43
Ken Fetkenher	Post 5	10	14	15	23			62
	H W Total	62	70	64	84	0	0	280
	Overall Total							607	280
Clay Smokers
Location	Singles
Lewis Green	Post 1	17	21	16				54
Will Green	Post 2	20	12	10				42
Colin Lepp	Post 3	14	17	16				47
Josh Henly	Post 4	14	13	15				42
Deron Scott	Post 5	12	14	12				38
	S W Total	77	77	69	0	0	0	223
	Handicap								223
Lewis Green	Post 1	19	15	16				50
Will Green	Post 2	18	12	8				38
Colin Lepp	Post 3	14	17	11				42
Josh Henly	Post 4	15	12	9				36
Deron Scott	Post 5	15	10	8				33
	H W Total	81	66	52	0	0	0	199
	Overall Total							422	199

APTA LEAGUE

1. The APTA league will run from the week of May 15^th, to July 15 2024 in which you have time to enter 6 sets of scores
2. There will be 5 shooters per team. Any shooter may shoot on multiple teams but must pay a separate league fee for each team.
3. Each shooter on a team will shoot 25 targets from the 16 yard line for a total of 125 targets. The team's 16 yard total score will determine the team’s handicap yardage (refer to the Handicap Chart below). Each shooter on a team will then shoot 25 targets from the team’s handicap yardage for a total of 125 targets. Handicap yardage is only valid for one week and will be re‑established each week based on the team’s 16 yard total score for that week and where a shooter is absent, the score of the spare or the absent shooter’s previous week’s score will be used, as outlined in 5 below.
4. If a team is participating in another league with the same structure as the APTA league (ie. at least 125 targets from 16 yards and at least 125 handicap targets shot from a handicap yardage that is the same as if determined using the Handicap Chart below), the team can submit the scores from the other league. If the other league is more than one round of singles and one round of handicap per week, the scores from the first round of singles and the first round of handicap are the scores that will be submitted to the APTA league. 
5. A spare can be used if a shooter is unable to attend one or more weeks. Alternatively, a team may submit the absent shooter's 16 yard score and handicap score from the previous week, with a penalty of two targets deducted from the handicap score.
6. Each club will decide which evening they want to throw targets for the league and the cost of targets and shells will be each club's business.
7. Scores for each week are to be submitted by Thursday night of that week so we can get them posted on the website. Please submit scores to Jesse Smith at lynn.jess3@hotmail.com or the preferred way text to 780-523-6032.
8. After 3 weeks of shooting the league will split into even numbers to compete against each other . A minimum of 5 teams per group a max of 7 depending on numbers entered. Team standings at the end of the league will be based on total team scores for all 6 weeks of the league.  The winning team from each group will each win 5 cases of shells. Ties will be decided by a count-back to scores from previous weeks. 
9. The league fee will be $25/shooter for a total of $125/team. Cheques for fees are to be made payable to the Alberta Provincial Trapshooting Association and sent to Jim Thomson 43 Discovery Ridge Mount SW, Calgary AB T3H 5G3 along with your team’s name and the names of the team’s members. Payment can also be made by E-transfer to shoot.apta@gmail.com.
10. Everyone is welcome to participate! This is a fun league and these targets will not be registered.