FOREST AND STREAM 
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Forest and Stream is an Honorary Member of tbe Interstate Association for the Promotion of Trapshooting. 
THE SPORT IS ENTER¬ 
ING A BETTER ERA. 
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Edited by Fred O. Copeland. 
T HE first rain storm of spring buffeted 
the window pane and the open grate 
fire snapped more smartly with the 
sudden stronger draft up the chimney. 
Jones speculated absently on the occurrence 
and rocked to and fro in the low-seated 
rocking/chair. It occurred to him to knock 
the ashes from his cigar into the fire. But 
as he reached for the weed the ashes fell 
by their own weight to his vest, whereat 
he changed his intentions and brushed the 
miniature landslide, which had started for 
his lap, to the floor with happy abandon. 
His wife was out for the evening. That 
was why Williams was there. 
‘It’s going to be interesting watching 
the progress of trapshooting during 1917,” 
suggested Jones with the air of a man who 
is holding something back. “If it surpasses 
1916 it will be unique, and if it equals last 
year it will be a gain.” 
“I suppose you mean the price of shells,” 
deducted Williams. “Well, I don’t know, 
there’s been a lot of easy money made the 
last twelvemonth. Whether it extends to 
the middle west and the Pacific coast no 
one has figured out, but from the way the 
big classics were bid for I should say the 
prosperity got clear across.” 
‘ I lay that to the fact that a trapshooter 
is a tenacious individual; he’ll indulge 
himself to the last cigar in the box—it isn’t 
a game he will putter with nor is it a 
game that allows puttering.” 
“Ah, that’s the beauty of the sport; it’s 
democracy, where wealth and economy 
shoot shoulder to shoulder, with never a 
question as to any disparity in the matter 
of affairs.” 
“But it’s going to be a year when those 
same economy fellers glue one eye on their 
expenses,” persisted Jones, “and club man¬ 
agements will have to be diplomatic, offer¬ 
ing inducement to attend their tournaments, 
with an eye to the distance the club may 
go in the matter of trophies and added 
money.” 
“The small clubs,” reasoned Williams, 
‘may well look to systems of trophy divi¬ 
sion and not money division, for only a 
sizable sum of money added to a program 
will entice shooters out of their own neigh¬ 
borhoods, while artistic and useful prizes 
equitably distributed will have a very fetch¬ 
ing effect on the large army of beginners.” 
“But it’s money a lot of ’em want,” put 
in Jones. 
“Let that contingent open their pocket- 
books and shoot for the ‘pool,’ thereby 
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TRAPSHOOTING 
is a real American game—the sort of sport 
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your veins and makes your very heart re¬ 
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eye and aim—and each shattered disc a 
tribute to your gun skill. 
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It’s a pile of fun whether you practice with 
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or shoot over the most elaborate club lay¬ 
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