| Show ONLY WAY TO LEARN LEARN TRAP GA GAME PLAY GAME E- E PLAY IT Like Baseball Bursting Blue Rocks Cannot annot Be BeI I Absorbed ed Through Correspondence CorrespondenceS S G like baseball b cannot be learned through a H correspond Spond- Spond J J- J Jenco enco course nor from any other printed description If It you OU want to become a you cm must get out on the firing line lino and master the game to the extent of your our ability by actually playing it S Jn In general trapshooting trapshooting- consists of shooting with a shotgun at disc- disc targets thrown from irom froma a n trap propelled b by a n. strong spring An open field preferably with the sk sky as is a n background is tho the shooting S. S grounds The trap is located in a n trap house a n low low-l lying low ing structure half underground Tho The back top fop and sides of the trap house are made of iJ heavy ay timber to protect the trap boy boys bOYr who places the targets in the trap 5 The front of course is open ope to permit pel n. n lt it the flight of the targets t The he first firing line Is 16 yards 16 yards in th the rear of ot the trap house otise The TIie vega vega- pegs stands for tho the shooters shooters five five In number num- num ber bert are lore spaced ten feet teet apart In a a. circular circular cir cir- cular sweep Handicap stations for uS usa usain in handicap tournaments aro ato arc located o on arcs corresponding with the tho yard 16 or first firing line and at 17 17 18 IS 19 1 20 0 21 2 22 and 23 3 yards ards back of ot tho trap house which u is on a R. line lino with the center center conter cen con ter PCS peg peg-No No 3 of 3 of all the arcs The TheS S trap is set and sprung b by a 0 puller operating a 0 lever lc back of tho yard 23 S. S line I a Tho The targets aro thrown a distance of ot ott t 80 ZO feet from the tho trap in directions controlled con- con 4 trolled by b- tho the trap boy and find unknown P beforehand to the shooter The three I types types of targets deriving the tho r p. p r from the direction in which the they t f ar ere are thrown are aro right-quartering right left- left i ci quartering a and straightaway The target tar- tar get gel et resembles a n. saucer being round And hollow It Is made of ot river silt and tar tr molded to shapo shape under pressure and andIs Is is approximately 4 41 H Inches outside dim di- di 5 arneter m ter 1 11 Ii Inches high outside with p. p Inch Iii walls 5 After the shooters have taken their j positions at the score each cach in turn calls Pull the Pull the command to theS tho the S puller uller to spring tho trap that throws t 1 mo ie The Tho result it of the tho shot is announced S by th the tho referee as dead lost or no bird respectively if u the tho target Is 54 f broken missed or the target Is not le leal legal le- le gal al f for r various prescribed reasons In the latter case caso the shooter is permitted 1 to to shoot again 5 The shooters usually shoot In squads of of five fI firing tiring In rotation After a certain cor- cor tam tain number of shots have been fired tired by br C- C each contestant from his original L position tho the man on No Xo 5 peg changes I I ito to No 0 1 and the other four shooters move down a a. peg No o. o 4 1 goes to peg 5 5 I No 3 to peg 4 etc After the required number of ot shots have o been fired In Inthis this order the shooters again move mo A down one with Ith the man who had p moved from No Xo 4 I to No 5 going to i No 0 1 station and so 80 on until each shooter ha has shot an equal number of S shots from all five tle tl e positions This is IsS S done to equalize the conditions under which all aU the participants shoot i r- r I rI T ROM I the tho foregoing one Is lIkel likely to toH FRO i. i H get the Impression that trapshooting ing Is exceedingly simple but when it Sit comes to mastering all alJ the thc details of of the shooters shooter's part In the sport It Is quite as Intricate and scientific as baseball baseball base base- ball or on an any other game However an any anyone anyone one with instruction and practice can acquire some degree of ot proficiency in busting em while class shooting and the eral several systems of distance and target added ha handicaps give the novice no a chance along with the tho mot most expert As to the scientific phase of the sport the shooter begins with the tho mechanical advantage antaJe of a gun and ammunition that will wilt do their part If he docs does his The personal equation comes In when th the shooter must decide what he Is goI goA goin go- go S I in A Ar tn r 11 nf of t a tars target I uv v v nu u its through the thc theair that Is streaking wa way air at a speed that would dismay tho the swiftest bird Instantly tho shooter must determine whether he will ill shoot direct directly at the thc target ahead of It It above It both above c It and ahead of It below It It ahead and beIo below It It etc His Ills decision mn may be further complicated by the effect of wind on both tho the charge of ot shot and k the flight ht of the target and numerous S other considerations But despite all an the difficulties of beS becoming becoming be be- S coming an expert th the Wa way of ot the beginner beginner be be- ginner Is mado made pleasant and easy b by the thc helpful advice of tho members of S the old guard of trapshooting clubs club at an any of ot which It ma naY may be bc remarked S the visitor or aspirant for honors Is 18 t sure Ur of a hearty welcome and will find guns Juns and ammunition for the use of the thc uninitiated j HE chances that a a shooter has of 1 THE T J I picking from stock Block a gun Jun that Is suited to him ideally perfeCtlY deafly perfectly are about two in a a. hundred hundred certainlY certainly not more than thane five e This does docs not mean that you ou c cannot go o into almost a an any gun store and select a gun that will m enable you ou to give gl a n. fair account of ot yourself at the traps or In the field for or you jou can because of ot the studied studie e. e e efforts forts of to strike averages aver aver- ages of ot fit Indeed this I la hi one of the thc k wonders Bonders of the art of i But Bui to attain the tho ideal of ot perfection r tion the trapshooting gun should fit 1 the shooters shooter's shoulder arms hands I Singers eyes check cheek In fact it should k fit tit him from head to foot and within small fractions of an Inch for every ery Parr pan of a mans man's bod body has half a a. bearing on his ni skill at the traps Other essentials I. I I. I pt the perfect gun proper weight balance alance and trigger pull t f t so 80 o many exacting conditions to toba took ok ba met it would seem that the tho fitting t f o. o or a gun to a shooter was a con- con able undertaking yet b by no means is this true A mechanical genius has simplified the opera ton b by Inventing the try guns lie He has worked out a system of applying sot set screws crews and lock nuts to an ordinary gunstock th thereby reby making possible an any combination combination tion of stock drop of heel or comb angle of pitch cast oft cast In etc When hen fitting a gun to a shooter the expert sizes up lh the candidate In Ina Ina ina a general way then hands over 01 the try gun to be thrown to tho the shoulder without an any adjustments having been made A critical examination will vIll sho show for Instance that the stock is too short tho the drop Is too great and that the thc oft cast is insufficient These faults aro are discovered by 11 the tho expert standing back of tho the shooter In front fronto o of him and b by having ha the shooter rest the tue theun gun un in the tho hollow of his arm and andreach andreach andreach reach for tho the trigger with his first finger Inger c HE set AH screws arc are adjusted to toI T TilE I compensate for these those faults faulls and locked In place to permit tho the shooter to tr try firing at a n few targets If It the gun fits naturally and goes back to tho the same position every time timo timothe the shooter throws it to his shoulder and a fair number of broken targets result It Is safe sae to assume that the fitting has been a success while If the gun does not handle easily and but buta a few or no targets are hit tho the adjustIng adjust adjusting Ing process Is continued When It Is decided that a good fit has been se secured secured se- se cured measurements of tho the adjusted stock are made on a card designed adjUsted for tor forthe the tho purpose and it Is sent to the gun- gun maker to guide him in iii fashioning a n stock Fortunately for the man who already I I owns o a gun un that does not fit a n. new stock can bo be made mado according to the fitters fitter's specifications or in man many I cases the old stock can be bo altered It frequently happens that but a single detail needs to be changed to tomake tomake tomake make a gun fit to perfection but that little change In the gunstock ma may make mako a big change In the tho shooters shooter's average eras Therefore the Importance of oC having the gun fitted to you ou rather than trying to fit yourself to the gun Only Onh recently a man who had tried trapshooting with Indifferent success success- s- s about twelve to eighteen out of fifty fifty fifty- went to a club and had a try gun fitted to him He immediately proceeded to smash targets liko Jlko an expert The be beginner beginner bo- bo ginner broke two twenty-two out of ty-five ty clay pigeons when his gun fit fitted fitted fitted fit fit- ted him and that Is a performance not to be bo sneered at Many Ian men havo hare I been shooting for years and are satis- satis II fled when they the theet get et a score of twenty out of ot twenty Of course courso luck was a factor in the smashing of oC the theman theman theman man who was using the try gun but on the other hand handS his showing proved that ho he was better able to Judge the course and the speed of the flying Ing birds when his shooting Iron was made to his measure |
