Show BURGESS SETTLES VEXED QUESTION Impossible to Break Sta Stationary Stationary Blue Rocks Straight at Yards The best trap shot In the world cannot break a hundred blue rocks straight It If the targets are stationary at a distance of yards He may do It while the clay bIrds are flying through the air alrIn In fact may have hae done so but when It comes to what looks like a cinch proposition proposition with the targets set up and the marksman taking an absolute rest It cannot be done This is the latest scientific scientific prInciple In target shooting that President Dorse Dorsey Burgess of the local focal hot air club has successfully demonstrated in inan inan an actual test Yesterday morning several local gun en enthusiasts enthusiasts gathered at the local clubs grounds as they thought to see one of Burgess theories on trap shooting ex exploded exploded Instead as In the rooster shoot shootIng Ing contest Dorsey again showed he knew something about the speed pattern and penetration of shot as fired from a shot shotgun gun That Looked Easy at First yards ards were measured off from the score and upon a box with the back ot of the target raised to an elevation of one Inch the blue were placed one at a time Mills one of tile the local crack shots was seated at a table and resting his gun in a fork tork rest took aim at the exposed target He used No 7 shot the regular trap load and the tar target target get presented the same size It would If Ie sailing salling through the air Mills began by the first targets shot at The fourteenth bird did not break In all MIlls fired at fifty blue rocks and four escaped Injury Then Burgess shot at fifty un under den der the same condItions and missed two AU All of the targets showed the they had been hit but with not enough pellets or force to break the six which were missed n the rules of trap shooting Mills Wants Match Shoot The crowd was satisfied that It could not be done don AI A a result of the test Mills wants to bet that he can break more tar targets targets gets thrown from the trap than any shooter in th the state can break with the targets placed In a stationary position Burgess contended that the holes In a trap load were more liable to mIss a stationary target than one moving through the air In yesterdays test there Is no doubt that Mills with the rest al allowed allowed lowed held a dead centro on every tar target target get shot at and had a rifle instead of a shotgun been used would have hae broken all The gun used by Mills was tried out be before before fore the shoot and showed remarkable of the load for that dIstance |