Show I I HERE ARE SOME HINTS FOR THE TRAP SHOOTERS SHOOTER'S Game Garne M May y Look Easy but It If Takes an Eagle Eye to 0 v Be Bel Exp Expert rh r. r rn T. T TO q o othe the the casual ob observer ery r trapshooting I may look easy ealY When It lt cometo come comes to fa mastering the sport p however one 1 pretty o often ten apt to to experience a- a change ch so of mind It It Is not aa simple e a. a as It It looks s. s only onty actual par parl participation l ton Inthe Inthe In Inthe the the sport can can unravel all ali the kinks still perhaps a few tew w words ds to the tho b beginner may bo ho q Quito o apropos s Trapshooting essentially an American Amerl Ameri- can sport recruits its its It devotees de from practically tw two classes of ot beginners beginners- 1 field flold shooters h oters who hn have e been bean lured to the traps by the challenge chal lenge lengo of tho the flying targets and 2 tr true novice novices novices-enen men or w omen who have AV never before been accustomed to a 3 gun un I The sport c of shooting with a shotgun at clay targets thrown into or through th the a air r with Incredible albl rapidity by n a a machine known as a n. trap The clay target or pigeon Is a n 9 gb- gb c composed of silt alit and tar Tho The trap I Is s a m mechanism cb nl m propel propelled by a a. strong oni spring and and operated by two attendant attendants one one to reload the trap a as each target is 15 thrown and ad one n w who hO springs spring the trap at tho command of or the shooter Th The trap is located In a h half burled in the ground d. to protect tho trap boy It Is 1 boarded with heavy huy timberon timber timberon on on tho the roof and three sides Id nearest the eh Tho The front of ot course la is left op open n to make 1 possible the tho throwing of r the tho targets J tC feet back b of ot tho the tra S Sand AntI arran arranged god in the lie form torm of ot on n arc i Is la situated the tho first firing liPe with jive five stands for tor the shooters ers placed ten teat feet apart flock Back of thou those stands at in intervals in- in of a yard are arranged the handicap cap marks for for use ue In handicap tournaments As Indicated bY Uy the tho numb num- num b r of stands stands' five lve men form torm the usual firing squad These men shoot In ro tation tatton changing their positions position at the score after a certain number pf shots shot have been burt fired by each eti participant from his hi original position For instance c. c the tho man at nt S 6 changes to peg 1 1 and each of or t the tha e other men men move mota correspondingly until each one has hs shot from all five stands or p cOgs gs A. A As Aa tho the hooters take their positions at t the score shooter No 1 l' prepares for his Ms shot by covering with hi his gun unan un an ry spot Just above bova th the roof root of the trAP trip house house-at at a a. point where Ji ex cx- the clay target to start When ready for tor the t target h he h. give gives a sharp command pull T The e puller springs spring the trap and the clay pigeon whirls through the air If It the shooter hooter sUCCeeds away awny In b break breaking ng the target he is J credited with a no dead ded If It he falls fails he 1 Is' I ac ae ac- cordingly charged with a a. lost if It the target is Is not l legal lega ga for tor various re rons ona prescribed prescribed It I Is termed termed- no bird and I the shooter hooter is 18 is' is permitted another trial Thus each ench participant shoots hoota In turn From the above It might seem m that I was sort of ot R It lack Tu 8 I S t But Ut if anYone one i 18 mi Impre impressed wild Bed tW this wa way sport it ft a trial Is hr only necessary to l to SI give gJ the I Perhaps the 1 first thing thIn that thit bothers lh th the bly must give ciVil the tn command I f pull b Is J. J gun at hU hoal- hoal I dor der and covering tho the sp spot t above th the trap trap from from which the target will wUl spring spring- To th the e field hooter shooter a 3 this pol tio tion Is is unnatural To th the tha mere it ft is disconcerting Nevertheless Nc it 1 11 an essential If It ifon ono would become a real j The quickness with which hieb the average aver aYer age clay pigeon travels makes it nece necessary sary to cover the target at nt the tho start tatt of ot its flight Its flight tup Up to guns gunshot ot range rengo Id Is much quicker than that of ot the fastest bird To be scored it must bt broken before It falls to the ground Therefore prompt action is la necessary Also It is II practically essential that t thA bird b be hit at t a a. time when your patter Is ls at its it best or within say a distance of within forty yards 7 2 I II |