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fair
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T:
i HE vernacular
of snorts is
most mystifying
to the uninitiated.
As a gamr grows in
popularity there is
created a jargon, a
cant, and a slang
'SS lK'ciiiiuriy its own.
PHj Baseball furnishes
t h o most familiar
fHL example in this re
nflMSJw spect, and when an
old lady watching a
game of tennis de
plored the fact that
those who accumulated "Love" the
most, were the grouchiest. Had she
known that "Love" means nothing,
and nothing is so exasperating as
nothing, she would have understood.
Trap-shooting is the youngest of
all the great sports; but It Is increas
ing in popular esteem by jumps and
bounds. It is estimated that there
are over two hundred thousand men
and women who face the Trap during
the season. Gun Clubs exist In all
cities and towns In the country. Like
Baseball, Golf, Tennis and other
pastimes, Trapshooting has risen to
the dignity of a language of its own.
When you hear a group of men and
women discussing "Bulk" and
"Dense," "Pull choke," "Drop,"
"Comb," "Pull," "Regulation birds,"
know ye, they are Trap-shooters.
For "Bulk" and "Dense" mean the
smokeless powders used by the
shooters. "Pull choke" explains the
special boring of the gun-barrel;
"Drop," the Inches the heel of the
stock Is below the sight when the
gun is in position at the shoulder.
"Comb" Is the crest of the stock.
"Pull" the power required to release
the trigger. "Regulation birds," the
speed, height and angle of the
saucer-like targets known as "Blue
rocks," "White-filers," etc., when
thrown from the trap.
The flying target pastime makes
many appeals to the lover of sports.
It Is a wonderful developer of self
reliance. It Is your own game, and
no one can do it for you. It Is not
a sport for the vacillating; for it
requires great concentration and a
happy blending of mental and
physical attributes. The exercise in
lifting to the shoulder, an eight
pound gun hundreds of times dally
is a muscle-building factor and a
sure death to insomnia. The recoil
of the gun acts as a stimulating
massage for tired nerves and muscles.
It has one great advantage over
field shooting. There are many to
whom It is abhorrent to destroy God's
leathery creatures for sport. At the
traps you shoot at Inanimate clay;
and to the most tender hearted, there
can be no compunction In smashing
the little black discs. All one's
'mental faculties aro quickened, for
the bird thrown from unknown
angles with varying speed, made
as
illusive by the
force of wind cur
rents keeps one
keenly allvo to new conditions. Shoot
ing whoro they ain't" successfully,
adds to the exhilaration of the game.
As a promoter of correct living It Is
ever on the job. Local option and
Pletcherlsm are not In it as deter
gents of one's appetites. A contestant
desiring success must be temperate
in all things. A foggy brain or a
gorged, overworked stomach, means a
sluggish shooter, and a sluggish
shooter means a defeated con
testant. Spartan abnegation is
absolutely necessary to success.
I recall some six years since,
while attending an Important tourna
ment in the Middle West, a young
shooter led the field at the close of
the first day. He shot with such
splendid rhythm and accuracy that
he was picked by the experts as the
probable winner of the trophy. That
night he proceeded to "paint the
town." When he appeared at the
traps next morning he was blear
eyed, nervous and sluggish, and at.
the end of the day he was at the
tall-end of the field of over two
hundred shooters. I have shot with
him many times since, and nothing
can persuade him to put another coat
of paint on the town. The humilia
tion of defeat was the greatest
temperance lecture possible.
Trap-shooting Is a splendid pas
time for women. It Is a tonic for
the nervous system and makes a
woman agile and alert. I have shot
In many matches with women and
have never seen an ungraceful one at
the traps. The sport Is most suit
able to the gentle sex, for woman's
quick perception both of eye and
brain are splendid factors in the
make-up of the shooter. In the be
ginning, women did not take to the
shot gun because It was synonymous
with death to the feathery denizens
of the air. She who we call Grand
mother, Mother, Aunt, Sister, Wlfo
nnd Daughter love Innocent naturo
too much to destroy it for sport.
With the coming of the clay bird
women shooters have become nearly
as numerous as women golfers and
tennis players. In tho shooting gamo
she is not segregated; she is not
classified as a woman, but as a
shooter. She meets all men shooters
on an equality and there is nothing
in which she so delights as beating
mere-man at his own game. Among
the growing number of women
trap-shooters, it is significant that
two prominent eastern clubs are
composed of women members
exclusively.
The trap-shooting world embraces
all from potentate to peasant, from
octogenarian to callow youth, from
grizzly warrior to sweet sixteen; and
all are happy when they call "Pull"
and hear the referee announce
"Dead."
On the Firing Line at Pinehurst Mr, Sousa is No. 2
IseeuTRARSHODTINGc
The Sport Alluring jfor Everybody
TRAPSHOOTING is tho "open door" loading to
hours of pleasure and instruction.
Thousands of men and women aro regular attendants
at tho traps of tho threo thousand active gun clubs
located in nearly every city and town. Tho country
air, tho zest of competition, tho excitement attending
tho actual shooting at tho elusive clay targets and
the keen delight following a well-aimed shot account
for its tremendous popularity. Learning to shoot
Is Not Difficult
as every club wolcomcs tho visitor. Instructions, puns and
encouragement mako tho first trial a pleasure and frequently
astonishes coachor because of unexpected ability of tho novice.
Go out to your pun club. Try a shot at tho licet llttlo clay tarpets.
"There's a reason" why Trapshooting is tho "Sport Alluring."
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