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The climax of shooting honors, the goal and ambition of professional trap- 
shooters throughout the year—The Official Professional Season’s Average—has 
been won by 
JOHN R. TAYLOR, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO 
whose score of 2038 out of 2100 targets, an average of over 97%, tops those 
made by all other shooters. He won this difficult and hard-earned victory with 
WINCHESTER 
Repeating Shotgun and Loaded Shells 
Fred G. Bills was second high professional for the year with a total of 2036 
targets, and Charles G. Spencer was third with a credit of 2035 targets. Both 
Mr. Bills and Mr. Spencer also used exclusively Winchester Repeating Shotguns 
and Winchester Loaded Shells. The Season’s Average for double targets was 
also won with Red W Goods, Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, Iowa, who shot 
Winchester Shells, scoring a total of 490 out of 550 targets, and leading all 
other shooters by a good margin. Consequently the professional honors are 
massed on the reliable Red W Brand. 
Post Season Tournament 
Away and above the best shooting at this wind-up tournament of the Inter¬ 
state Association was done with Winchester Guns and Shells. They were 
used exclusively by Fred G. Bills, who not only won High Professional and 
High General Average for the 800 single targets, but also for all targets 
shot. His scores were 780 x 800 singles and 954 out of 1000 singles and 
doubles. John R. Taylor, the average winner for the year, was second for 
800 singles with 775; and Charles G. Spencer, the average winner two years 
in succession, was third with 771. Mr. Spencer also had the honor of 
making the highest average for any one day—199 x 200. The longest 
amateur run of the tournament was made by H. B. Potinger, whose score 
of 108 was made with a Winchester Repeating Sliotgun and Winchester 
Loaded Shells. 
An Unequalled Record 
A retrospective mood calls forth some 
startling and pervading facts: The Sea¬ 
son’s Average has been won 10 times 
out of 12 with Winchester Loaded 
Shells. The World’s Long Run Rec¬ 
ord of 565 Straight was made with 
Winchester Loaded Shells; The Na¬ 
tional Amateur Championship for 1911 
was won with Winchester Shells; and 
—Winchester Shells are the only ones 
that have ever held at one time all the 
World’s Target Championships. 
Facts Brought Out By The Above 
The high records and better shooting of Winchester Loaded Shells is all-powerful proof of the superiority of the cor¬ 
rugated head over any other form of shell construction. This is a patented feature which has been used on Winchester 
Shells for years, and is the only successful method of reducing the shock and preventing the separation of the metal 
and paper parts of the shell. The Winchester Repeating Shotgun still remains in the lead as the hardest and closest 
shooting shotgun on the market. In looking over the field of shooters, an analysis of each shooter’s success shows that 
he has been consistent in the use of his shooting material. Instead of changing around with every wind that blows, as 
do some of the lesser shooters, he has consistently shot one brand of shells, and it is .a matter of record that Win¬ 
chester Loaded Shells have had the preference among this class of shooters. 
In The Showdown Red w Goods Always Lead 
