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trap shooting

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The sport of shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons launched into the air, from a trap.

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Catherine Skinner overcame her habit of falling just short in major competitions to win the women's trap shooting event.

(AP) SHOOTING An Emotional Victory Michael Diamond of Australia broke down in tears with thoughts of his father after winning his second consecutive Olympic trap shooting gold medal.

"This should transcend all politics and all wars," said Sgt. First Class Erickson, 43, a three-time Olympian in trap shooting.

The morning front pages were dominated by Bradley Wiggins, but Thursday threw up a host of new soon to be household names and gave rise to a breed of instant pub experts on judo, canoe slalom and double trap shooting.

There's finding the local angle, and then there's overlooking half a century of societal progress: As well as being a wife, amazingly Corey Cogdell-Unrein is also a bronze-winning Olympian in trap shooting.

His father suggested he visit the national shooting centre at Bisley to try double trap shooting.

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Unlike trapping, shooting or poisoning, it works.

The government plans to reduce this number by 2 million by 2020 through trapping, shooting and a new poison bait.

Controls include trapping, shooting, poisoning, hazing, and exclusion in order to protect the wetland from excessive vegetation destruction by these rodents.

Options include poisoning (e.g. herbicides, pesticides, piscicides), manual removal (e.g. pulling plants), capturing and killing (e.g. trapping, shooting), and release of additional species that may provide biological control of the invader.

A total of 228 medium-sized mammal carcasses, consisting of 78 raccoons (Procyon lotor), 71 Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana), 59 coyotes (Canis latrans), 7 red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), 6 striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis), 5 feral cats (Felis catus), and 2 badgers (Taxidea taxus), were obtained by trapping, shooting, or collecting fresh road kills during October 2003 through April 2004.

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