FOREST AND STREAM 
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Most people go in for trapshooting on account of 
sport or pleasure. They like to shoot and go to the 
nearest trapshooting club. Often they take their friends 
and they in some cases join the same club. Such in¬ 
terest is putting trapshooting in the first rank of sport- 
dom. There is a new club formed every week. 
In Sedgwick, Col., the city authorities have hired a 
professional trapshooter to give exhibitions every Satur¬ 
day afternoon during 1916. Surely the sport has 
flourished in that locality to make civic authorities 
take a hand. In most cases officials have to be begged 
into submitting to new ideas or the “people’s” wishes. 
Only 700 of the 4,500 gun and trapshooting clubs in 
the United States are members of the State associa¬ 
tions.. It behooves the secretaries of the State asso¬ 
ciations and the Interstate Association to find out why 
such a condition exists, and then show the clubs that 
are outside of the fold the light. 
The country clubs in and about Chicago, Ill., have 
taken to trapshooting enthusiastically, and as the sj>ort 
knows no season the members of the clubs can enjoy 
themselves at the traps when they can’t do anything 
else out of doors. 
The Topperweins (Mr. and Mrs. Ad.) are again tour¬ 
ing the Western States giving exhibitions of their 
prowess with the gun and rifle. In her first three 
appearances Mrs. Topperwein broke 144 out of 150, 97 
out of 100, and 98 out of 100 at 23 yards, which we 
might add is “some shooting.” 
Members of the New York Stock Exchange are in¬ 
terested in trapshooting to such an extent that they 
conduct an annual championship tournament. The sixth 
titular event was recently held before the traps of thd 
Westchester Country Club and was won by Howard 
Boulton with a 93 score. 
The Wausau, Wis., Game and Gun Club—the club 
that has on its roster the oldest living trapshooter, Joe 
Heineman—has 125 members and is only one year old. 
The Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association has 
a membership of 135 clubs, and is making a determined 
effort to have every gun club in the Keystone State 
become affiliated. 
There is a lot of space being taken up these days in 
various sporting publications on the subject of handi¬ 
capping, and every writer has his own solution of the 
problem—for it is a problem. It is one that cannot 
be solved in a day. 
Virginia has just enacted a law which provides for 
a State game department, with a paid warden system. 
Hon. George Black, Lieutenant-Governor of Yukon 
Territory, was one of the participants in the recent 
shoot of the St. Hubert Gun Club, Ottawa, Ont. The 
Lieutenant-Governor proved himself a very capable per¬ 
former at the traps by breaking 66 out of 75 targets—an 
AS average. 
The Kissimee City Council and the County Commis 
sioners have appropriated money and trophies to make 
•the Florida Trapshooting championship at Kissimee one 
to be remembered. 
Trapshooting is a favorite sport among the Elks 
lodges on the Pacific slope. Alameda and Oakland 
lodges now have target-breaking branches, and a move¬ 
ment is under way to form an Elks’ Trapshooting 
League. 
Gun clubs connected with the Elks of San Francisco. 
Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and Alameda, Cal., have 
signified their intention of forming a trapshooting 
league. 
Chicago has 38 gun clubs and Philadelphia has 30. 
but the Quaker City clubs have more members than 
the Chicago clubs. These two cities are the leading 
trapshooting centers. 
Providence, R. I., is coming back. In the early days 
of trapshooting Providence was one of the most en¬ 
thusiastic cities. With the revival of interest in the 
Providence Gun Club, the hustling Rhode Island city 
as again coming to the front. 
One hundred and twenty-five trapshootng tournaments 
—the greatest number ever registered in any 011- 
month since the birth of the Interstate Association tor 
the Encouragement of Trapshooting took place during 
the month of May. 
Not so many years ago 125 trapshooting tournaments 
would have been a goodly number to take place dur 
ing an entire year, but that was before trapshooting 
was recognized as a sport. For 15 years trapshooting 
has been coming along, but it has grown more in the 
past three years than in the dozen years previous. And 
it is growing each month. There will be just as many 
tournaments in June as in May, possibly more; and it 
was only a few seasons ago that trapshooting was only 
looked upon as a fall and winter sport. Now it knows 
no season. 
In the 35 tournaments registered during the months 
of March and April there was but one State cham¬ 
pionship. During the month of May there were 15 
State championship tournaments and one sectional cham¬ 
pionship. Kentucky, which was out of the fold last 
year, is back again, so that every State will be repre¬ 
sented by its champion in the Amateur Championship 
shoot in St. Louis, in August. Woolfolk Henderson is 
most likely to be the representative of the Blue Grass 
State, and if he is the winner of the amateur cham¬ 
pionship will have to do as well as Newcomb did last 
year to carry away the title, maybe a shade better. 
Sixteen “Newly Organized Gun Clubs” were presented 
Trophy Cups by the Interstate Association during the 
month of April. 
On April 18th 115 trapshooters crowded the Herron 
Hill range for the opening of the Western Pennsyl¬ 
vania Trapshooters’ League in one of the best repre¬ 
sentative gatherings in its history. N. G. Painter of 
Pittsburg, last year champion of the league, was high 
with 118 x 125 in a high wind. 
New York friends of Lieutenant Ercole H. Locatelli, 
who sailed May 17th to join his regiment, and W. H. 
Yule, who is leaving for Ohio, arranged a special day 
shoot for these two trapshooters and later at a dinner 
given in their honor by the New York Athletic Club 
both were presented with a diamond-studded Mercury 
Foot. At the shoot R. L. Spotts of New York was in 
his old-time form dropping only one target in his las f 
25 of the 100 target program. 
Guncraft. 
We have been hearing for sometime now of the “Over 
and Under Double Barrel Gun.” Recently we held one 
in our hands—not an easy thing to do even in the 
metropolis of the country. The weapon was fitted with 
a single trigger and detachable locks, withal, the last 
word in gun building. When lined it has the appear¬ 
ance to the shooter of the usual single barrel “trap- 
gun.” The breech end of the barrels is not so heavy 
as we are accustomed to seeing on the usual Ameri 
can double gun while the muzzles of the barrels are 
a bit heavier. As it takes in the neighborhood of $650.00 
to own and try out one of these guns we await the re¬ 
port of some one of our readers who has been fortunate 
enough to add one of these guns to his arsenal. 
Style of Trap-Gun of the Atlantic Coast. 
It would be interesting to know what type of clay 
target smashing weapon is most in vogue in different 
sections of our land. An accurate count has been 
made during a popular shoot embracing contestants 
from Philadelphia to Boston and it was found 64J2 per 
cent, used the special single barrel weapon, called 
“trap-gun,” 2oj£ per cent, used double barrel guns and 
15 per cent, used repeating guns. It is quite likely 
that in the middle west, say, St. Louis or Kansas 
City the order would be reversed and on the Pacific 
Coast another order of choice would prevail. For 
the present the Over and Under Double Gun is con 
spicuous by its absence. 
A Bit of Practice at This Season With the 
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Those of you who own a 20 or 28 gauge will find it 
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light little guns into a grove of these tiny trees and 
toss empty cartridge shells over their tops and try to 
drive the little 8’s or 9’s through the elusive little 
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