The Olympic and Parasport - Trap disciplines use over and under style shotguns that fire 24 grams of pellets at ~ 10 centimeter orange discs. Each athlete stands one of at 5 different stations that have 3 machines below ground level situated 15 meters in front of the athlete. Machines throw each target at variable heights and angles at speed near 90km/ hour away from the athlete. Each time an athlete calls for a target, one of the three machines throws the target and the athlete has 2 shots to break the target. Each round is 25 targets and an event is 125 targets plus a final.

Skeet is the shorter range discipline of the Olympic Shotgun sports. Two machines throw the 10 cm targets in fixed and opposite directions. The athlete moves to 8 different stations in a semicircle from the "high house" to the "low house" and are required to shoot single and pairs of targets at these stations. The variety of angles from which the targets are shot and the requirement of the athlete to not shoulder the shotgun until the targets are visible makes this an enjoyable challenging sport. Five rounds of 25 targets make up an event in this sport with a final consisting of only pairs to determine the winner.

Two targets are thrown simultaneously, or with a variable delay up to 1 second, but at slightly different angles from the station bank of machines. The target speed is about 80 km/h.

These events are available for a wide range of Shotguns and are accessible In trap shooting, participants attempt to break clay targets that are launched from a single "house" or machine, generally away from the shooter.