MOULTRIE — Colquitt County’s Shane Slocumb shook of some of the best competition in the country and some freezing rain to boot to win the trap competition in National Shooting Sports Foundation’s first Scholastic Clay Target Program International Shotgun Championships.

Slocumb, a member of the coach Mike Simpson’s Bridge Creek Clay Busters, hit 113 of 125 targets to defeat Daniel Shineovich of Pueblo, Colo., and Ethan Heiden of Clinton, Mich., to win the senior division, made up of shooters in grades 9-12.

Shineovich and Heiden each had 110 out of 125, with Shineovich taking second in a shootoff.

The competition was held Oct. 7-8 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and drew some 100 young shotgunners.

“Shane was awesome,” Simpson said. “That was the best round I’ve ever seen him shoot.

“And it was under adverse conditions. It was horrible.”

The Bridge Creek Clay Busters team of Slocumb, Josh Webb and Michael Henry, all of Hartsfield, finished second in the team competition.

The Arnold Junior Shooters from Missouri were first with 306 out of 375 targets.

The Colquitt County team hit 298 of 375 targets.

The Colorado Bunker Busters were third with 283 of 375 targets.

“We beat them at their home,” Simpson said. “That was great.”

The trip was a great experience for the students, Simpson said. They got to eat at the Olympic Village and have meals with Olympic shooters.

“That was the most enjoyable trip I’ve ever been on,” said Simpson, who has carried young shotgunners from Colquitt County to numerous competitions around the country over the years.

The competition included individual and team matches in the international versions of trap and skeet shooting, which are shot in the Olympics and in other world events.

Other winners included teams from Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan and individuals from those states as well as Oklahoma and Tennessee.

“Some of SCTP’s best came out this weekend and took part in something that few their age have experienced — competing at an Olympic facility in the international shotgun sports,” said Zach Snow of NSSF.

U.S. Olympic and national shotgun team coach Lloyd Woodhouse said SCTP’s growth and involvement in international shotgun games are encouraging.

“Some years ago, I started a junior Olympic shotgun team because we didn’t have a resource for young people who wanted to pursue the Olympic dream,” Woodhouse said.

“And now, my heavens, the Scholastic Clay Target Program has 8,000 people participating this year.”

SCTP was developed by the NSSF to offer students in grades 12 and under an opportunity to compete as a team in trap, skeet and sporting clays.