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FOREST AND STREAM 
AUGUST, 1917 
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Don’t Miss Trapshooting’s Biggest Event | 
August 20th to 25th | 
All aboard for Chicago—the i8th Annual Grand Amer¬ 
ican Handicap—trapshooting’s greatest classic. Clean up 
your gun—get your eye in trim—and pit your skill against 
the Country’s “cracks.” j 
Win the Nations’ shooting honors and the handsome 
trophies that go with them. | 
At this year’s biggest and best event | 
Conditions Will Be Ideal | 
The tournament will be held on the spacious grounds 
of the South Shore Country Club—Chicago’s million dollar 
club house. Sixteen traps will spring the elusive targets 
into a perfect background—over the blue-green waters of 
Lake Michigan. j 
Get Ready Now 
Make up your mind to go—then go! You’ll get five days of 
the cleanest, keenest sport you ever had and five evenings 
amid perfect hotel accommodations and the unlimited hos- j 
pitality and entertainment of Chicago. It’s a trip that’s 
a treat. § 
Write Today for Particulars | 
Address E. Reed Shaner, Secretary Interstate Asso¬ 
ciation, 219 Coltart Avenue, Pittsburgh, or Sporting 
Powder Division: I 
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. | 
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A Gentleman's Gun 
should be so engraved as to proclaim his personality. 
I furnish original designs and execute engraving of a 
high order. My work has proven most satisfactory. 
Let me give your 
gun, rifle or revolver 
that exclusive, personal 
touch. 
R. J. KORNBRATH 
Engraver and Designer 
26 State St. 
HARTFORD, CONN. 
“Why I Took 
Up Trapshooting’’ 
By MRS. ADOLPH TOPPERWEIN 
Mrs. Topperwein lives in San An¬ 
tonio, Texas. She is the only woman 
professional trapshooter; considered 
the peer of all woman shooters, and 
as good as the male experts with the 
shotgun. She earned distinction last 
December by breaking 1,952 out of 
2,000 targets thrown in succession, 
and without changing guns. 
S HOOTING is like everything else—you 
have got to try it to like it. Once you 
get interested in this great sport of 
outdoors you will understand why so many 
men and women take up trapshooting. 
They say once a shooter, always a shooter. 
To learn to shoot firearms of any sort 
means “out of doors.” Out of doors means 
to anyone good health, especially so women. 
Of the outdoor games played nowadays 
trapshooting is the most fascinating, the 
most invigorating and an accomplishment 
of which anyone should be justly proud. 
I have been asked many times how I be¬ 
came interested in trapshooting. The an¬ 
swer is very simple. My husband is a 
shooter and I concluded that I would like 
to do the same things he did. Once started, 
I discovered that there were so many little 
interesting points to learn that I have been 
at it ever since. That was ten years ago. 
At that time I was among the few women 
who took kindly to firearms and was 
looked upon as a freak. Today, however, 
we see things changed everywhere. At 
every transhooting event we find women 
facing the traps, and we have now a 
standing army of over 500 women who 
can handle the gun, a large number of 
whom can hold their own with the best 
shooters of the sterner sex. 
Anyone with systematic and intelligent 
practice can, in a short while, make won¬ 
derful progress. As a general rule most 
women have a natural horror of firearms, 
and are too timid to try, simply because 
they have never been encouraged in that 
line, but there is absolutely no reason why 
a woman should not shoot just as well as 
a man. 
Nowadays a woman need not hesitate to 
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