Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-07 | Page 13 | Mrs. Topperwein Gives Advice to Beginners

H Mrs. Topperwein Gives H Advice To Beginners World's Best Woman Shot With All Kinds of Firearms Tells How One May Become Proficient With the Shotgun; Other Intercsting Data Ily PETBR B. ARJfEY. H On her travels through the I'nltcd flH Sfatee and CAnada, giving exhibitions HI with tho rifle and trapgun, Mrs. d" HJvfl Topperwoln answers hundreds of ques- HAfl tlons ln II about the proper rm-thod of HJHJ shooting and how a beginner should HHJ go about hit work. HJHJ In order to aid those who may not HJHJ be nblo t come in contact with her, H Mrs. TopperWeln has penned tho fol-HJHJ fol-HJHJ HJHj "The i lrt important thing for the! HJHj beginner to have Is a gun of proper, HJV in A mlslid ..ft. -n r j i -. . 1 l. tin- n..-HJHT n..-HJHT vice Is to try some gun. which, as a BHfl rule, is not suited to his particular HJHj make-sup. If a lady, the borrowed gun HJH la almost certain to be too long In the HJH Stock and as a rule too heavy. the re- HJH suit la thai It (a held In an awkw .nl H manner, the recoil deceived from the HJH shot frightens the shooter and she lose. all d her enthusiasm then and there KgjJ "liuvr Him one who known fit' you! rjJRSJ with proper gun. tench you the wtiv jgfH to stand and hold. itnd when you hae HJH learned that you must lead ' your HJH quartering birds, line up" 'ur gun HJH properly and shoot as quickly as iroU HJH W hen you have learned to 'con- Hfl cen Irate' on each and every bird. for-. HJQ getting the ones you missed and look; KM 1 forward with grim determination to ! V, Tclll' the next one then you have the HH makings of a shooter, ..kill DOM SHOOT mo MUCH. HH 'Do not try to shoot too much to - I begin wirh Twenty five or fifty shot 'arc enough at least until your shoulder Is accustomed to recoil. Shooting when I you are tired may .a use you to flinch. n hal.lt which has spoiled many a good ,shot while self-confidence and ponoeh- Itratlon nr grcHt factors. ;ou must not get the Idea that ou can learn the frame right away. Just hecause you w. re fortunate enough tO get that las' string of 2h straight does not spell that vou are a past master In the game f II have our good half-hour?: and; our bad ones, and the longer you stavj at the game you will make the wonderful wonder-ful discovery that the bad half hours' Blip In qu!tc frerjuently The missing of one or more targets In an event, every so often. Is what makes trapshootlng so Interesting andj one of the most difficult games to mas-' tef If vou could b. t so proficient that you could break them all all the time you would lose all Inil rest In the spoil, hut the fact that men like Duncan, Spencer. Tomlin and s host of others of our top-notchers who have been at the game for ytiirs and have shot thousands of targets, frequent!) bave their had half hours demonstrates that breaking targets, thrown from a trap, with a snotguu is study wnich requires a great deal of practice, pa-' tlcnee and a great deal of skill.