'''Thomas J. Knapp''' (September 30, 1950 – April 26, 2013) was an American exhibition sharpshooter.<ref name="ah20130"/><ref name="Sharpshooter Tom Knapp Dies At 62">{{cite news|title=Sharpshooter Tom Knapp Dies At 62|url=http://www.inquisitr.com/647807/sharpshooter-tom-knapp-dies-at-62-video/|accessdate=5 May 2013|newspaper=The Inquistr}}</ref>
==Television and media== Knapp was featured on several television channels including The History Channel, Outdoor Channel, and Discovery Channel.<ref name="Tom Knapp, Crowd-Pleasing Sure Shot, Dies at 62">{{cite news|title=Tom Knapp, Crowd-Pleasing Sure Shot, Dies at 62|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/sports/tom-knapp-crowd-pleasing-trick-shooter-dies-at-62.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0|accessdate=5 May 2013|newspaper=New York Times}}</ref> He also hosted Benelli’s American Birdhunter for 8 seasons.<ref name="Sharpshooter Tom Knapp Dies At 62"/>
==Records== Knapp holds three world records for clay shooting. Those records included breaking ten simultaneously tossed clays while using a semi-automatic (a Benelli M2 Field),<ref name="youtube.com">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/ajRydkuRPlg Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140107122656/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajRydkuRPlg Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajRydkuRPlg| title = Tom Knapp Tribute | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/UcpB2l-ljnc Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100731190240/http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=UcpB2l-ljnc Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcpB2l-ljnc| title = Tom Knapp breaks record 10 clays in 2 seconds | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> shotgun in 2.2 seconds, as well as breaking eight with a pump-action shotgun<ref name="ah20130">''Foreever the Showman'', American Hunter, p. 32, August 2013.</ref> (a Benelli Nova Pump, in 2000).<ref name="Tom Knapp ‘World Record Holder’ Remembered"/> He also won a world record for shooting nine clay targets thrown with a Benelli M1 Super 90 in 1993.<ref name="Tom Knapp ‘World Record Holder’ Remembered">{{cite web|title=Tom Knapp 'World Record Holder' Remembered|url=http://www.ammoland.com/2013/05/tom-knapp-world-record-holder-remembered/#ixzz2SQbwDUeB|publisher=Ammoland.com|accessdate=5 May 2013}}</ref>
World Record No. 1 Knapp joined Benelli in 1993 when he set his first World record with his Benelli M1 Super 90 by throwing nine standard clay targets (using no assistance) and breaking them with individual shots in less than 2 seconds.
World Record No. 2 On July 19, 2000, Knapp, with his pump shotgun in one hand, threw eight clay targets in the air with his other hand and broke every one of them with individual shots in 1.87 seconds.
World Record No. 3 In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on October 20, 2004, Knapp, while using a 12-ga. Benelli M2 Field<ref name="youtube.com"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/> Semi-Auto Shotgun and extended magazine tube, launched ten clay targets into the air with one hand and shot all ten with individual shots in 2.2 seconds.
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