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Show SHOOTERS USE SINGLE BARREL Be9t Trap Experts Today Have Special Made Guns in Big Events. This Is getting to lie an age of specialism spe-cialism In firearms as well as In everything every-thing else. Manufacturers nowadays. Instead of trying to turn out the "all-around" "all-around" gun. which was used bv tho pioneers, and which resulted In hybrid arms like tho three-barreled gun and the combined rifle and shotgun, are now turning out special articles for each branch of iport. Ton years an, at the grand American Ameri-can handicap, a repeating shotgun was a rarity and a single-barrel gun would have been laughed at. Today as many repeaters and single-barrel ' guns aro shown as double-barrels In fact, manufacturers man-ufacturers of the latter type of arms are encouraging the promotion of double target 'events In the effort to boost the sale of their products. Something Some-thing of a surprise was caused last year at the Chicago Gun club, however, how-ever, In a match where two shots were allowed at a single target, by the first threo men all shooting repeaters. Of course, tho grand American was shot at live birds ten years aso and this mado the double barred of value. Nowadays the average trap contest Is limited to a single shot at each target This brought the sluble barrel gun Into groat favor and many are seen at tho traps. One of the most noted British firms Is turning out a gun of this sort, (which shows that thoy must have' a good American market for in England Eng-land the use of two barrels Is permitted permit-ted In trap events on most occasions. When the American Bqnad went abroad a few years ago, including Tom Marshall, "Bill' Crosby and J. A. R. Ellott, they met the English undt-r rules which permitted the Britons to uto both barrels, but whU-K limited tho Americans to one. At the coming grand American more single barrel guns will be seen than ever before. The automatics will also be much In evidence, as they havo proved highly effective In fact, many regard thc-m as the best gun for trap w-ork In evc-nLs whoro two. shots aro allowed |