"Shot" or "shooted"

Which is correct: shot or shooted? Where and when is the form shooted used?

Solution 1:

Shooted is an obsolete, nonstandard simple past tense and past participle of shoot. (source)

You should not use this form. Shot is proper.

It's still used sometimes, but it's really obsolete. Example:

He took his gun and shooted people just like, from one block of LePlaza and two blocks from the main police station of PAP.

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It's also common to use shooted when asking:

Have you ever shooted a gun?

Although it's also improper and the correct term is "Have you ever shot a gun?"

Solution 2:

It's related to usage.

Shooted is used when speaking of plants sending out shoots (My lilies have shooted). It's usually intransitive.

Shot is used in most other contexts. It can be transitive (I shot the sheriff) or intransitive (The kids shot out of class as soon as the bell rang).

Solution 3:

Shot is the correct past tense of shoot. Shot is also a noun referring to the firing of a gun or the projectile that is blasted out of one.