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Show FERFECT TRIGGER FINGER! x mm ,. , m SQUEEZING AT RIGHT TIME "TACKHOLE" LEE'S SECRET X LT "', WhAT -TMtJt S jf " dT I OTBau TCefik) B-pSTs .IJS A-E-F. CHlPli Hqueeaing the trigger at tha right v a sHiTTi H il Jl flTIl I time Is his secret (or hitting the bull s- - r j 1 llVrn I V I LJ fl I I IS '"l shoots ona firearm Juat about as l if W I Lll Illill I lit well aa another. The rifle, pistol, re- f s. fJr:4 nilrtlfr jowar and ahotr-n-.h r. aU alik. to UkAII U R RRT lie hits the bull's-eye ao regularly that VVl.M.r lV tin Ulllllll It geta monotonoua to tha galleries, but " m 3 vwillli. not to him. Iee enjoys thla kind of wa monotony. 1 r T' ' s BlftMINOHAM, Ala., Feb. 1 The moat perfect tiiger ringer In tha world: It belongs to T. K. Lea of Birmingham. Bir-mingham. He a tha beat all around hot of them all. Mqueesmg the trigger at tha right tlma la hla secret for hitting tha bull's-eye. bull's-eye. lee shoots ona firearm juat about as well aa another. The rifle, pistol, re rolrer and shotgun they're aU alike to him. lie hlta the bull's-eye ao regularly that It geta monotonoua to tha galleries, but not to him. Jaa enjoya thla kind of monotony. , Hit RECORD!. With the small bore rifle he holds twelve world's racord. fourteen with the pistol and revolver. Here's how he hlta 'em: From IBIS 10 1920 Inclusive he scored 17.003 out of 17,010 In Indoor rifle shooting shoot-ing the bull's-eye being only two-thirds the siae of a dime. J-irlng distance Is seventy-five feet. Won revolver and pistol championship In 1819. Bet werld's record; with pistol In In-dnor In-dnor oh noting In nil and nqualrd rT Tri ltt. Won pocket revolver championship tn mo. Home of his scores with the rifle: 1M0 out of a possible ZH0, 4600 out of 44000, 2200 perfect, and m out of 1000. WKARt CHIATKRt. Lee wears glasses when ho shoo, a. "I have to wear 'era.' be says. "H hooting hoot-ing under artificial lights In Indoor tournaments tour-naments has weakened my lookers. Hut I seem to be able to looate the old bull's-eye bull's-eye juat the same. "A lot of shooters think I use ebeat era to keep the dust out of my eyes. Many of the big leaguers do. But It's more than dust and smoke that bothers mo. "Th right kind of a trigger finger more than offset weak yes. "The pointing, you know. Is largely dona by Instinct." He's a fanry shot, too, , In exhibition shooting at Birmingham he made the smallest group record with a 22 -call bar rifle at 100 yards. He put ten shots so close together that a half dollar covered them all. Also he made th smallest officii aJ group ever recorded Indoors In regular competition at twenty-five ysrdo, put-tins; put-tins; twenty-five ahota Inside a Quarter of an Inch circle. At traps ha hasn't won ao many rhm- pionship. But sixty days after taking up shotgun shooting he tied for second place In the Alabama shoot, breaking M out of a possible 100 clay birds. He's the only big lessrue trapohooter who use a sight on a ahotrun. H had to make hla own eight and fit It. Factories Fac-tories don't make 'em for shotguns. Everything hs knows about shooting he found out for himself by practice and observation. HITS TACKHOLE. When he was a kid neighbor boys used to shoot at the head of a tack put In th old bam door or on a tree. Los went them one better ond used1 the hole made by (he point of the tack for a bull's-eye and hit It. Ho was nicknamed 'Tack hole ties after aft-er that. Th nam ailll sticks. Leo Is now II. He enters aU th bl r shoots every year. 1 Mayb "TackhoJe Tse can't shoot 1 He th best ail -rounder In th world |