League & Memberships

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 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

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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.

Price is $65 for Singles, Doubles, and Womens. Continental is $40. Five Stand is $70/league, and includes 25 targets. Signups are done at the clubhouse during hours of operation.

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:

Fall Trap League

Wednesdays at 5 pm, August 6 - September 24, Fun night October 1st



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5 Stand League Shotgun Trap Shooting

Five Stand

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

Early sign up for Women's league will be Sunday, June 1st at 12:00 and again on Monday June 2nd from 5-7 p.m. Sign up for Womens league will be offered through June 11th.

Womens league will start at 5 pm June 4th and run thru July 16th. Make up night will be Monday July 14th. Cost for Womens league will be $90.00 for 200 rounds of singles. The Doubles event is 50 pairs for a total of 100 targets for $33.00 and for 100 rounds of Handicap at the 22 yard line will be $33.00.

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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Women Shooting Sports Association

The 2025 Season End Awards Ceremony and Shotgun Sisterhood Shoot-Off Registration is LIVE. The first 100 W.S.S.A. shooters registered will have their ammo included in their registration!

Join us for several very exciting opportunities for a fun weekend.

First, Tracy Kienitz, Master Women Gun-fitter, owner of Passionate Outlaws and Founder of W.S.S.A. will be hosting her AMAZING Women's Shotgun Clinic for new shooters from 2 - 4 on Friday, September 5th.

Secondly, we will be hosting Dawn Grant, a renowned mental trainer and hypnosis meditation expert to help you learn what is holding you back from performing at your best. This clinic will be held Friday evening. W.S.S.A. shooters will receive a major discount on registration!

Lastly, the Season-End Shotgun Sisterhood Shoot-off will be September 6th in Helena at the Helena Trap Club with registration beginning at 9:00 AM and Ceremony and Games at 10:00 AM.

Lodging options:

•On-site RV camping is also available! The Helena Trap Club has graciously provided the opportunity for on-site camping. Please select RV reservations on the registration form.

•The Home2 Suites by Hilton Helena has provided a block of rooms for W.S.S.A. First come first serve at $109/night. Register by August 5th.

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Annual Registered Shoots


Great Gun Giveaway

Lightbody - June 14th & 15th, 2025

MT State Shoot - Billings

July 9th - July 13th, 2025

Zip Eaton Shoot

August 30 - September 1st, 2025



Youth Opportunities



Check Back Soon For Youth Opportunities!