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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

Oct 28th/23

 I have all the all stars from 1983 to 2022 loaded on the all star page. We have Jim Thompson to thank for saving this piece of  Alberta trap shooting history. I find it fascinating to sift through this kind of stuff. I want to know Who had the most appearances? Who had the longest continuous streak? Who was the captain the most times? What lady held the highest composite average? Try and guess who they are.   It is all there, one thing it doesnt tell you is why the 80s and 90s they had some of the best numbers ever.  They were button pressed targets, no pat traps and they were not all hunting to eat so why?  That will have to be a different debate, lets go with what we know.  Joanne Wing in 1995 on 2900 targets had the highest ladies composite average ever 92.69. the top 3 most appearances were Allan Radway 33 time and 31 in a row from 1988 to 2018. I have been married along time, but not that long,  that is truly impressive. Neil Burbidge is second with 24 and a record 20 times as captain. The next most captained years is Larry Ivany with 5.   Rounding out the top 3 is Ron Mcconnell with 23 and a record 38 years between his first in 1985 and his latest appearance in 2022.  I dont know if any of these records will ever be beat. To think Barry Johnson is the youngest shooter on the all star team at 39 years old and soon to be 40 he has made the team twice. He has has to shoot 31 more years in a row at all star level to tie Radway. It is mind boogling to think about

Oct 19th/23

I recently was sent a list of all 879 Canadian trap shooters, 2023 stats.  The Canadian Trapshooting Association uses this list to acknowledge its All Stars from across the country.  In order to Qualify for the CTA all stars you need to shoot a 1000 of each Discipline in Canada and attend your provincial championship targets or the Canadians championship targets. There were a few things I found interesting from this list.  Most All Americans shoot very little in Canada and that's a shame. They should be seen by the 859 of us who have no hope of being that good. They are what you want to aspire to shoot like and yet they don't make the team.   The 2nd  interesting thing is that the list lead me to see, is that nobody in the top 20 has a higher average in Canada than the USA usually a full percent back on aggregate average. Some were 4 full percent back. Why this is I have no idea but my hat goes off to Randy Hunt and Sylvain Rossignos who will be CTA  All Stars and shot all Canadian targets.   That last tid bit is a shout out to Alberta shooters and the numbers we put up. Of the top 100 there are 26 from Alberta of those 26, ten are in the top 20. Of the 12 CTA all stars (10 open and 1 jr and 1 Lady)  we have 8 people that are set to Qualify.  At this time we are still waiting for the PITA season in BC to end (Oct 30th) to make the official list. I willn post the 8 when its official.  These 8 people took the time to meet the criteria and shoot in Canada. Thank you for supporting Canadian Trap Shooting

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APTA LEAGUE

1. The APTA league will run from the week of May 15^th, to July 15 2023 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.
10. Everyone is welcome to participate! This is a fun league and these targets will not be registered.