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FIT OF THE GUN. 
(Continued from page 41.) 
delayed shot fired and the target smashed. 
“Ha! so that’s what’s the matter!’’ 
whispered Sam to himself. It was, indeed, 
just the pointing necessary. The score ran 
higher when the target was covered and 
the barrels lifted still higher, accurately 
guessed out by Sam. And in the grouse 
cover, too, success became even neighborly 
so that in a few seasons Sam had developed 
a sixth sense, no longer covering, lifting 
and guessing. 
UT the trapshooting germ had bitten 
deep, and a new gun, one built to or¬ 
der, to cost into the three figures be¬ 
came a partner to the old gun. The new 
gun was very thick in the comb where the 
old gun had almost a knife edge, its stock 
was longer by an inch, its drop less than 
half the old gun’s. However, at clay tar¬ 
gets the new gun, since plenty of time could 
be taken showed its superiority at once and 
Sam’s score jumped into the o’s rather 
often. Moreover, the new 12 gauge was 
much smaller in bore since it was made for 
nitro powder. The old gun had been bored 
12 gauge for black powder and for the new¬ 
fangled nitro it showed its contempt by 
snorting a flat blast as does a cork when 
it parts company with the mouth of a 
bottle. 
Still loyal to the old warrior for field 
work it was with much misgiving that Sam 
added another gun to his arsenal, a 20 
gauge built on the same lines as the trap 
gun, yet modified slightly in measurements 
for feathered upland game. It was a scien¬ 
tific fit. Careful measurements had been 
made by the same skillful gun builders who 
had demonstrated their experience when 
the trap gun was built. 
The first year the little 20 was used on 
grouse there appeared in Sam’s diary: “I 
seem to be overshooting my birds,” and the 
next year;: “Has my period of poor shoot¬ 
ing begun?” True enough, the old sixth 
sense, the high pointing needed for the old 
gun, taken care of by fit in the new one, 
reasserts itself once the season is in full 
swing when a tight corner is encountered 
and the birds are going up fast or after 
the success of a kill or the disappointment 
of a miss, Sam’s nerves are running riot. 
Although the new gun is a scientific fit 
so long as it is pointed naturally, habit 
occasionally elbows it out of the way. 
A complaint most certainly demands a 
remedy and the remedy will take the surest 
form if it is applied a little at a time just 
as a habit comes on. By this method the 
stock must be gradually built up and makes 
at best an unsightly object. The alterna¬ 
tive is a change to the right fit with un¬ 
limited practice at flying targets, both live 
and clay, till the new gun feels as it should, 
as though it were a part of you. 
A SHORT GLANCE BACK OVER THE 
YEAR AND YEARS. 
HE recent interest in trapshooting has 
caused the sport to drive its nearest 
rival to the last trench. As one might 
sit down and consider how far the year 
has prospered them so may we take a 
glance over the shoulder to see how far 
we have come. 
If history has come down to us aright, 
the sport was born in England in the year 
1790, made its debut in America (Cincin¬ 
nati) in 1831, took a firm hold on the 
world of sports when sixteen years ago 
the International match between American 
and British trapshooters took place and 
now with live bird shooting eliminated 
from every state except Pennsylvania, Mis¬ 
souri, Kentucky and California, the ranks 
have swelled to 600,000 enthusiasts and 
4000 organizations. Even so, material is 
not lacking, for 5,000,000 pay licenses to 
hunt every year in the United States. 
Trapshooting’s major event, The Grand 
American, required 454 % barrels of tar¬ 
gets, 500 targets in a barrel, and the state 
of New York could produce a trapshoot¬ 
ing club for every one of those barrels 
used in the great classic. Moreover, the 
Canadian clubs are showing so much in¬ 
terest that they are seriously considering 
the forming of a Dominion wide associa¬ 
tion. Their International Trapshooting 
Tournament held in connection with the 
Canadian Exposition was a wonderful 
success. 
M ORE than 700 gun clubs were formed 
this year in the United States. It took 
773 watch fobs, 193 sterling silver 
spoons, 92 loving cups, 400,000 targets, and 
the same number of shells to stage the Be¬ 
ginners’ Day event and made 11,625 new 
shooters; 907 individuals were given in¬ 
instruction at the trapshooting school at 
Atlantic City in August and 888 in Sep¬ 
tember. A bulletin board and grandstand 
had to be erected. Instructors are being en¬ 
gaged by the larger gun clubs to teach the 
art of trapshooting. 
Already the sport is an old institution 
with the colleges. Columbia, Williams, 
Cornell, Penn State, Yale, Harvard, Dart¬ 
mouth and Princeton have adopted the 
sport and most of them have instructors 
the same as in other branches of sport. 
Yale has won the Intercollegiate Trap¬ 
shooting Championship 8 times in as many 
years. 
The importance of trapshooting may be 
shown from the dollar mark side from the 
fact that the contestants at the G. A. H. 
expended $15,907.50 and at the Westy 
Hogan 98 per cent, of the guns used were 
designed for clay target shooting alone and 
would run to a large amount of money, and 
yet at the G. A. H. where there were 900 
amateurs, 100 professionals and the cham¬ 
pions of 44 states, not a cent’s admission 
was charged spectators. 
The best average—amateur—for one 
season is the 95.50 by Woolfolk Henderson, 
of Lexington, Ky. He broke 2731 of 2800 
targets. The best -professional record is 
held by C. G. Spencer—97.50 at 5620. 
The longest run ever made by a trap- 
shooter was compiled by Charley Spencer 
at the Viola (Ill.) shoot in June, 1913, 
when he broke 528. Ray Kingsley, of 
Omaha, has a run of 518 to his credit, and 
Jay Graham once hit 477 before missing. 
A record for shooting at 1000 targets was 
made when Alex Mermod, of St. Louis, 
and Fred Stone, the comedian, met in St. 
Louis on a cold day in April, 1908. 
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