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Sporting clays is a form of clay pigeon shooting, often described as "golf with a shotgun" because a typical course includes from 10 to 15 different shooting stations laid out over natural terrain. 

Unlike trap and skeet, which are games of repeatable target presentations, sporting clays simulates the unpredictability of live-quarry shooting, offering a great variety of trajectories, angles, speeds, elevations, distances, and target sizes. Highly recommended.

Compak Sporting is a "compacted" form of sporting clays, which is a shotgun sport usually spread over 12 to 36 stations (shooting areas) occupying around 200 acres (0.81 km2), presenting 2 or 3 different clay targets at each station. One shooter will shoot the targets, followed by the next and so on. With Compak Sporting the space requirement is considerably less, and a squad of up to 6 shotgun shooters, (5 actively shooting), will stand in a straight line, each on a marked square (1 meter by 1 meter) and spaced 3 to 5 meters apart (i.e. the shooting line will be 12 to 20 meters long). In front of them will be the "target area". This is a rectangle 40 meters wide by 25 meters deep and positioned 4 to 5 meters in front of the line of shooters. (If the shooters are numbered 1 to 5, the rectangle will be centered on shooter 3) One of the fastest growing disciplines 

Trap shooting is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting. The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays.

Trap shooting is distinguished by the targets being launched from a single "house" or machine, generally away from the shooter, compared with skeet shooting where targets are launched from two "houses" crossing in front of the shooter. Sporting clays involve a more complex course, with many launch points..

Down-the-line (DTL) clay pigeon shooting is a variation of trap shooting which is very popular in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

Its origins stem from live pigeon shooting as well as the very beginnings of the clay target sort. DTL now forms part of the family of trap disciplines and in number of competitors is undoubtedly the largest variant, especially in the Commonwealth countries where it is most popular. Competitors use a double barrelled shotgun, usually 'under-and-over' type, and are allowed to fire both barrels at a single target released on the traditional call of 'Pull!'. The maximum load permitted is 28g per cartridge, slightly larger than the Olympic disciplines which use a standard 24g load.

 Olympic discipline
This discipline is carried out with the gun "shouldered" before the target is pulled.
Trapshooting  involves five groups, one group per shooting post, of three launchers  who distribute the targets at different angles, according to a  regulation pattern.
The clay pigeons are launched randomly at the shooter's signal. 

Also known as “Five Trap”, Universal Trench (UT) is an international shooting discipline governed by FITASC.

Targets are thrown from one of a group of five traps installed in a trench in front of the shooting stands. The machines are set to release the clays at different angles, elevations and speeds so the shooter never really knows where the next clay is coming from, its projection or how fast it will fly through the air. While this sounds very random, each UT layout is based on one of 10 official schemes established by FITASC and are controlled by a computer. This means that although the sequence of the targets will vary between each competitor, they will all receive the same targets by the end of the round.

• Each round consists of 25 single targets
• Two shots are allowed at each target
• A single point is awarded for each hit, regardless of whether it was the first or second shot
• Squads consist of six shooters positioned over five stands using a ‘shoot and move’ method i.e. the shooter moves to the next stand to their right after taking each shot (stand five moves round to wait behind stand one after the first round)

Skeet shooting is a recreational and competitive activity whose participants use shotguns to attempt to break clay targets which two fixed stations mechanically fling into the air at high speed and at a variety of angles.

Skeet is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay shooting—alongside trap shooting and sporting clays. There are several types of skeet, including one with Olympic status (often called "Olympic skeet" or "international skeet"), and many with only national recognition.