Trap shooting is one of the three major forms of competitive shotgun shooting at clay targets (the others are Skeet shooting and sporting clays).
The sport is in some ways a replacement for a game where the targets were live pigeons.
There's a very good reason why Sid Meier is one of the most accomplished and respected game designers in the business. He pioneered the industry with a number of unprecedented instant classics, such as the very first combat flight simulator, F-15 Strike Eagle; then Pirates, Railroad Tycoon, and of course, a game often voted the number one game of all time, Civilization. Meier has contributed to a number of chapters in this book, but here he offers a few words on game inspiration.