October, 1922 
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in Los Angeles, that a little diversion 
might be brought about by asking some 
of my friends down there to show what 
could be done at Fred Tecple’s night 
shooting place at Venice on the pier, so 
here is what they actually did ; 
Number of 
targets shot at 
25 25 25 25 Total 
Henry Pfirrmann. . . . 19 22 21 21 — 83 
Frank Melius 21 22 21 21—85 
Guy Holohan 19 21 24 23—87 
Dr. Fitzgerald 23 23 23 21 — 90 
Targets scored 345 
Pfirrmann, Melius and Holohan shot 
borrowed game-guns that they had never 
seen before, all much too bent in the 
stock, too short, and ill adapted to target 
shooting. Doctor Fitzgerald used his 
own gun, one he shoots exclusively 
afield, and right well does he point it at 
any kind of game. All shells were 
loaded with 2 drams of bulk nitro 
powder and of an ounce of No. 8 
chilled shot, and quite 90% of the 
targets hit were pulverized. The elec- 
tric lights being properly placed, the re- 
flectors show'ed up the white target 
perfectly, and I feel certain that on a 
second trial, instead of the quarter scor- 
ing 86.2% it would have reached 90% 
or better. Barring that the rise was 10 
instead of 16 yards, all the other con- 
ditions were regular, and the little guns 
with their Selby factory-loaded shells 
worked admirably all the way through. 
To say that these men are all good 
shots is a mere platitude, as it would 
have been worse than folly to have en- 
listed any other kind when desirous of 
exhibiting what the guns and loads 
could accomplish. But it is not as a 
target-shooting gun that the 28 gauge 
shines, as no reasonable person could 
expect ys of an ounce of shot to make 
any showing against the standard load 
of ly ozs., so that even the 20 bore 
with its of an ounce is always handi- 
capped when pitted against the justl) 
famous 12 gauge — the “regular fellow” 
in trap guns. 
Personally, being only a mediocre shot 
at game and a very poor one at targets, 
I lay no claim to being able to dem- 
onstrate what guns of any gauge can 
actually do, and while I have always 
shot my 28 gauge at quail,- and often 
at duck and doves, with very satisfactory 
results, yet it has been when pigeon 
shooting, strictly under rules, that I have 
done my best work — simply because I 
shoot better there than in any other way. 
All told, in California I have shot my 
28 gauge at 96 pigeons, nearly all at 28 
yards rise, a few at 26 yards, and more 
at 30 yards, and out of the lot I have 
scored an even 90, which is 93.5%. As 
a rule the birds were mixed, many of the 
average quality, some screamers, some 
duffers, and so on — but at no time have 
I felt that when the little gun was 
pointed straight did it fail me, and of 
the six I lost, quite as many as half of 
that number fell beyond the short 
boundary sometimes only 30 yards from 
the center trap. 
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