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SHOOTERS! 
Raise Your Averages 10% 
HOW? By Joining the A. A. T. A. 
Records of hundreds of medal winners prove that our 
system of trapshooting positively increases averages from 
5% to 15% within a few months and makes dependable 
high scores out of unsteady shooters. 
The 1916 G. A. H., The Preliminary, 
and The Amateur Championship 
Were All Won By A. A. T. A. MEDAL SHOOTERS 
Why rock along as an 80 percenter 
when you can get and stay in the 
90 per cent, class? 
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WHAT IS POWDER FOULING? 
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days. When, after a few days elapse, the bore 
is inspected it often shows up a black fouling 
more dense than the original one. The residue 
has gone into solution with the solvent. 
In order to give a general idea of the ingredi¬ 
ents of a “solvent” the formula of Dr. W. G. 
Hudson is taken as an example: 
Kerosene (tested and found 
free from acid).2 fluid oz. 
Sperm oil .1 “ “ 
Acetone .1 “ “ 
Turpentine .1 “ “ 
It is the acetone (made up of carbon, hydro¬ 
gen and oxygen) which gives to these cleaners 
their strong, peculiar odor and which is used 
as the solvent. Sperm oil is frequently used as 
one of the components with the idea of prevent¬ 
ing rust after the use of the solvent. 
The foregoing has been written with the 
smooth-bore in mind. It is well to know the 
kind of fouling you have in your barrel and in 
the case of rifles using bullets jacketed with 
cupro-nickel, tin plated copper or bullets of mild 
steel or lead alloy, a planting of the bore oc¬ 
curs which calls for a metal fouling solution or 
a mercurial ointment. The shot gun artist 
knows little of the trials of the high powered 
rifle enthusiast. 
ANOTHER WESTY HOGAN IS HISTORY. 
RESIDENT NEAF APGAR and his associ¬ 
ates are to be congratulated on running an¬ 
other of their tournaments smoothly and 
successfully from the first “pull” to the last 
“out.” Moreover, hats should be lifted to the 
weather man for his gift of five perfect Sep¬ 
tember days. 
More than two hundred shooters were already 
on hand at Venice Park when the big match on 
practice day was staged. It was the race for the 
Hercules Amateur All-round Championship tro¬ 
phy, and rightly named, since it calls for 50 tar¬ 
gets from 18 yards, 50 from 20 yards, 50 from 22 
yards and 25 pairs. The cup was placed in open 
competition for the first time at St. Louis when 
the Grand American was shot there in August. 
E. L. Barlett, of Baltimore, who won the cup 
at that time, was the holder, and Fred Plum, of 
Atlantic City, the challenger. Plum in this con¬ 
test gained a lead that increased throughout the 
race and he finished with a score of 144, while 
Barlett handed in a 131. 
Two popular events of the first regular day 
were the State team race and the doubles race 
for the Gillespie trophy. In the team race New 
Jersey’s five was victorious, New York taking 
second place, while Pennsylvania and Ohio tried 
for third. The Gillespie trophy was carried to 
Canada by Joe Jennings of Tormorden, but not 
till he had shot himself through a three-cornered 
tie. 
The second day developed a thriller. R. D. 
Morgan bagged every one of his 175 birds. The 
nearest danger was two targets awa}', three men 
having allowed two targets each to alight in 
safety. 
A big feature of the third day was the contest 
for the Atlantic City Cup. C. H. Newcomb won 
this cup when it was first shot for in 1910 and 
Frank S. Wright is the only man who has two 
legs on it. It is valued at $300 and must be 
won three times to become personal property. 
Fred Harlow edged Wright out by one target 
this year. 
The much-talked of team race, East vs. West, 
based on 500 16-yard targets was decided this 
day, and East triumphed by the narrow margin 
of 16 targets. 
The 88 percenters opened the first act of the 
last day. J. L Wright broke away from his 88 
gait and ran up a score of 95,for first place. 
The DuPont 18-yard Mark Championship 
trophy brought out some excellent scores in the 
face of a troublesome wind, and G. N. Fish’s 
96 showed fast work. 
Darkness settled down on the Westy Hogans 
Handicap before it was over and F. A. Landis 
and J. G. Martin shot off for first place in what 
developed into a guessing contest, Landis guess¬ 
ing one better than his associate. 
THE SUNSET TOURNAMENT OF THE 
INTERSTATE. 
The Pacific Coast Handicap. 
HE Interstate’s last classic for 1916, the 
Eleventh Pacific Coast Handicap Tourna¬ 
ment, was held at Everding Park, Portland, 
Oregon, September 12, 13 and 14, under the 
auspices of the Portland Gun Club. 
The 60 entrants who turned out practice day 
disappointed the railbirds by not handing ia as 
high scores as expected, due, perhaps, to a slight 
northeast wind and to the fact most of the 
shooters were new, to the conditions at the shoot¬ 
ing park. Two 95’s were high. However, 25 
finished with 90 per cent, or better, among them 
Miss Glaydes Reid, who ran her first event of 
23 straight. Her work was the feature of the 
day. Squad 2, known as the “Native Son 
Quintet”—all Californians—didn’t have a mem¬ 
ber who turned in less than 90 per cent, answer. 
The Pacific Coast Introductory was won, after 
a battle royal, by the veteran O. N. Ford with 
a score of 96 and four shoot-offs—four men 
were tied on 96. The professionals turned in for 
a high score 98. Seventy-four participated in 
the introductory event. 
The scores of 96, 95 and 93 in the Pacific Coast 
Special were considered high considering the 
high wind which grabbed the target at the trap 
house roof and floated it here and there. 
Ninety-ones were high in the Pacific Coast 
Overture and the Preliminary Handicap. Sixty- 
nine shooters entered the Pacific Coast Special 
and one less participated in the Preliminary 
Handicap. 
Ninety entered the main event and after one 
of the most exciting races ever seen in the local 
yards, Frank M. Templeton, secretary-treasurer 
of the Portland Gun Club, took first money and 
first trophy in the Pacific Coast Handicap with 
91 out of a 100 from the 20-yard mark. 
In all the eleven years of the Pacific Coast 
Handicap never before has the winner been 
handicapped to 20 yards. Three times it has 
been won from 19 yards, three times from 18, 
three times from 17 and once from 16. One 
98 has been lecorded, two 97’s, one 96, one 95, 
four 93’s and one 89. 
This is the third time Portland has staged the 
tournament and every shooter who has been to 
Portland is anxious to play a return engage¬ 
ment. One of these years the Portland Gun 
Club hopes to run the tournament during the 
Rose Festival week in June in order to prove 
that “In Portland grows for you a rose.” 
SUCCESS OF THE SUBSIDIARY HANDICAPS 
FOR 1916 . 
T HE Southern was the only one of the four 
subsidiary handicaps given by the Interstate 
Association for the Encouragement of 
Trapshooting in 1916 that had a larger number 
of entrants in the main event than in any pre¬ 
vious year, although one of the tournaments— 
the Eastern—while not having as many entrants 
in the main event as on two previous occasions, 
was the greatest trapshooting tournament ever 
