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SATISFACTION. 
What a satisfaction there is in running across 
a trapshooter whose gun actually fits him as 
closely as his own skin! The number of shoot¬ 
ers who complain bitterly that their guns do 
not fit is legion. 
It was our good fortune to shoot lately in a 
squad with a man whose gun not only fitted 
him but he had the courage of his convictions; 
it was a $500 gun, made, of course, by an artist. 
“Yes,” said he, with a smile in which love 
and satisfaction blended, “that stock”—and it 
was a wonderful piece of wood—“is a replica, 
so far as measurements go, of the stock of an 
old gun which I padded and whittled till it was 
just right. It’s fifteen and one-half inches long, 
the comb has a drop of one and three-sixteenth 
inches and the heel, one and one-eighth; you see, 
the heel is higher than the comb.” 
This sportsman stands without a peer in the 
trapshooting activity of his state and to watch 
the pair, sportsman and gun, stop targets is a 
treat. 
“TRADE REPRESENTATIVES CORDIALLY 
WELCOMED”. 
Where is there a man who is so, let us say, 
queer that he isn’t perfectly glad to speak a 
complimentary word for the “professionals”; 
those thorough sportsmen who gladly run hither 
and yon to do you a favor, who shoot it out 
through foul weather and fair whether they feel 
like it or not. Verily, a “professional” shooter 
must needs be a man of many parts. He must 
be a good target breaker, a good “mixer,” be 
able to step into a vacancy in the office, to teach 
others to shoot, to unoffensively insinuate the 
goods he demonstrates are par excellence, and he 
must be a clean sportsman in every sense of the 
word. Many are the gaps they fill. The hands 
of the clock have not travelled far since a trap 
broke down during a tournament. The “pros” 
stepped in with a vaudeville sketch that many of 
the contestants of that tournament would be 
glad to pay real money to see again. Two rival 
hand traps were brought out and a demonstration 
of high, low, wide, and fancy throwing was in¬ 
augurated that fascinated the entire field of 
shooters to the extent that the wait was a glad 
surprise. 
“Look at that one!” cried “pro” number one, 
“it’ll reach the creek.” 
“There’s one that’ll catch it and push it along,” 
grated number two as he warmed up to the 
distance contest. 
In the dim distance was a house; a white speck 
on the landscape. 
“Pro” number one had stopped in the act 
of throwing a target, seemingly fascinated by the 
distant speck of white. 
“The lady is trying to move,” he exclaimed. 
“There’s a lady on the porch over there trying 
to get out of the way,” he persisted. He motioned 
toward the house for caution and started to— 
but the auto traps were again working. 
All but six of the State Associations have held 
their “State Shoots” and the winners will line 
up at the G. A. H. to see who is who. Their 
individual efforts at their respective shoots are 
recorded below. 
Cal.-Nev. 
. 100 
Col.-N. Mex .. 
. 100 
Ill. 
...C. G. Burmeister. 
. 100 
Iowa . 
... Wm. Ridley. 
. 100 
N. Y. 
.. .H. J. Pendergast. 
Pa. 
.TOO 
Utah . 
.... 100 
Indiana ... 
.... 99 
Kansas ... 
.... 99 
N.J.-. 
. C. Speer.. 
.... 99 
Ohio . 
.M. S. Hootman. 
.... 99 
W. Va. ... 
.W. A. Weidebusch .... 
.... 99 
Miss. 
,... 99 
Georgia ... 
.... 98 
Idaho . 
... 98 
Kentucky . 
...98 
Maryland . 
.M. G. Gill. 
... 98 
Mich. 
... 98 
Missouri . 
... 98 
Montana .. 
... 98 
Nebraska . 
... 98 
Oregon .... 
... 98 
Mass. 
. G. L. Osborn. 
...97 
N. Dak. ... 
•••97 
Tenn. 
• •- 97 
Wash. 
• •• 97 
Minn. 
...96 
Texas .... 
• ••95 
N. H. _... 
.H. E. Thompson. 
• ••94 
Okla. 
...94 
Vermont .. 
...94 
Florida ... 
...91 
Mrs. Harold Almert, of Chicago, is a real 
champion. She won the title in the recent Illinois 
State tournament in which the first State cham¬ 
pionship for women was conducted. She broke 
94 targets, and in the three days’ shoot she broke 
368 out of 400 targets, the best average ever 
compiled by a woman amateur shot in a register¬ 
ed tournament. 
John G. Martin, of Harrisburg, Pa., has a run 
of 229 straight in registered tournaments. He 
broke 150 at Catawissa, had carried over a few 
from Allentown and then smashed some more 
at Newmantown. He is still going. 
A row of giant cotton wood trees on the new 
grounds of the Los Angeles Gun Club prevents 
the sun from reaching the shooter at any time 
during the day. 
Thomas Hale, with a score of 97 , won the 
Tennessee State championship for the third time. 
He is the only trapshooter who has been able 
to put over a triple win. 
Traphouses have been erected on the grounds 
of the Portland (Ore.) Gun Club that will hold 
30,000 targets. 
70,000 targets were trapped in the two days’ 
tournament of the California-Nevada State asso¬ 
ciation on the San Jose (Cal.) grounds. 
Shooters who had the pleasure of attending 
the amateur championship tournament of the 
New York Athletic Club and the Southern handi¬ 
cap in Memphis say that these were the best 
managed tournaments in years. 
Trapshooting is the one sport where luck 
doesn’t figure. You have got to deliver the goods 
in shooting at the targets. Close doesn’t count. 
Every break favors the shooter. 
