Membership Information

The Helena Trap Club is a member and volunteer-operated shooting club based out of Helena, Montana.

The Club has nearly three hundred and ninety active members, with an annually-elected board of directors and officers. The board meets at 6 PM the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Club members are encouraged to attend, to bring questions or suggestions for consideration.

The Club also holds an annual membership meeting, which typically occurs in the early Spring.

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

Membership cost is $75 a year. This includes spouse and immediate family members under the age of 21. Shooting cards are available for $60 to members.
- Single Membership
- Family Membership (you get only 1 vote per membership)

One round of shooting is 25 shells. A member will pay $6 a round and non-members will pay $9 a round.

Membership is required to participate in leagues.

League Information

Note that membership in the club is required to shoot league events

VIEW LEAGUE RULES

The Helena Trap club offers leagues in the Spring, Fall and Winter, in addition to Women’s and Five Stand leagues.

Singles leagues at the Helena Trap Club run eight weeks. Doubles and Continental run for 4 weeks.

Individual shooters do not need to have a squad to sign up for leagues, we can add you to a squad during signup.

PRICES:
Annual Membership (Jan 1 – Dec 31) = $75.00
Singles (100 targets) = $65.00
Doubles (200 targets) = $65.00
Continental (100 targets) = $35.00
5-Stand (200 targets) = $80.00
Women’s League Singles (200 targets) = $90.00
Women’s League Double Trouble (100 targets) = $35.00
Women’s League Challenge 22 (100 targets) = $35.00

Practice Rounds:

Members - $6.00 per round
Trap Shooting Cards are $60
5-Stand Shooting Cards are $70
Non-members - $9.00 per round
Box of shells - $10 per box

League Scoring

League singles shooters receive a handicap based on their scores for the first two weeks. League scores that aren’t handicapped are called “scratch” scores and are scored separately. Trophies are given for both handicapped and scratch scores.

The highest score possible for 8 weeks of singles is 200 targets. The highest score possible for Doubles is 200 targets, and for Continental is 100 targets.

LEAGUE INFO:

Spring & Summer Practice for Trap and 5-Stand

Starts March 30th - Mondays from 5pm-8pm

Spring Trap League

April 1st - May 20th, Fun Night on May 27th

Spring & Summer 5-Stand League

WEDNESDAYS April 8th - June 10th

Women’s Trap League (Part of W.S.S.A.)

June 3rd - July 15th

Fall Trap League

Wednesdays at 5 pm, August 5 - September 23, Fun Night September 30th

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Five Stand

Spring & Summer 5-Stand League

WEDNESDAYS April 8th - June 10th

In 2018 we began offering a new league, Five Stand. Five Stand is similar to sporting clays, trap and skeet. There are five stations, or stands and six to eighteen strategically placed traps. Shooters shoot in turn at various combinations of targets. Each station will have a menu card that lets the shooter know the sequence of targets he or she will be shooting at (i.e. which trap the target will come from).

The shooter is presented with 5 targets at each station, first a single bird followed by two pairs. Pairs can be either “report pairs,” in which the second bird will be launched after the shooter fires at the first; or “true pairs” when both birds launch at the same time.

After shooting at the 5 birds on the menu at that station, the shooter proceeds to the next stand, where they find a new menu of 5 targets. Typical five stand targets are a rabbit, chandelle, overhead, standard skeet high house and low house shots, teal (launched straight up into the air), trap (straight ahead from ground level), and an incoming bird.

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Women's League

Women’s Trap League (Part of W.S.S.A.)

June 3rd - July 15th | 5pm - 7pm

Annual Membership (Jan 1 – Dec 31) = $75.00
Women’s League Singles (200 targets) = $90.00
Women’s League Double Trouble (100 targets) = $35.00
Women’s League Challenge 22 (100 targets) = $35.00

Early sign up for Women's league will be Sunday, May 31st at 12:00pm with an INTRODUCTORY and ASSISTANCE clinic for beginners or extra help needed. Including: Safety, shooting stance, proper gun placement, etc.

This is a great opportunity for our women shooters to spend time on warm summer evenings doing what they love – trap shooting!

For info about Women’s League contact Kashia Herring at (406) 370-0477.

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