In 1895, the California Inanimate Target Association formed in San Francisco and held its first annual trapshooting tournament at the shooting grounds of Clabrough, Golcher, & Co., in Oakland. In 1896, the Association’s third tournament occupied the Pacific Tournament Association Shooting Grounds at Alameda Junction. The facility comprised three semi-circles, three trap houses, and a grand two-story clubhouse complete with a spectators’ pavilion.
By 1912, over one hundred independent clubs had formed around the state, and on May 10, 1912, 135 club representatives gathered at Burbank Hall in Los Angeles to form the California-Nevada Trapshooters’ Association and organize the first annual California State Shoot.
The first venues to host the State Shoot during the 1910s and 1920s included the Los Angeles Gun Club, the Owl and Gun Club in Modesto, the Blue Rock Gun Club in San Jose, the Tulare Rod and Gun Club in Visalia, the Sacramento Gun Club, the Olympic Gun Club in San Francisco, and the Del Monte Gun Club built on the grounds of the Del Monte Hotel in Monterey. The Sacramento Gun Club (not affiliated with the Sacramento Trapshooting Club) held its shoot in 1922 on a trap range built specifically for the event on the grounds of Del Paso Country Club, a private golf club located about two miles east of Del Paso Park.
By 1912, over one hundred independent clubs had formed around the state, and on May 10, 1912, 135 club representatives gathered at Burbank Hall in Los Angeles to form the California-Nevada Trapshooters’ Association and organize the first annual California State Shoot.
The first venues to host the State Shoot during the 1910s and 1920s included the Los Angeles Gun Club, the Owl and Gun Club in Modesto, the Blue Rock Gun Club in San Jose, the Tulare Rod and Gun Club in Visalia, the Sacramento Gun Club, the Olympic Gun Club in San Francisco, and the Del Monte Gun Club built on the grounds of the Del Monte Hotel in Monterey. The Sacramento Gun Club (not affiliated with the Sacramento Trapshooting Club) held its shoot in 1922 on a trap range built specifically for the event on the grounds of Del Paso Country Club, a private golf club located about two miles east of Del Paso Park.
