Joe Hiestand died at 97; maybe the pipe helped :) [IMG]
Andrew J. Mayer of Madison, Wisconsin at the 1918 GAH [IMG]
May 19, 2004 Union-Tribune, San Diego [IMG] At 93 and missing three fingers on his right hand, Jim Snow is still one of the best shooters in his...
The New York American, August 25, 1918 - During the recent Grand American Handicap in Chicago, Miss Lucille Meusel, seventeen years, was one of the...
"Sparrow" Young died at 85 and won the 1926 GAH at age 61 with the first 100 from 23 yards [IMG] Ol' Calvin might have lived longer if he had lived...
Medical Pickwick Volume 7, 1921 "THE SPORT ALLURING" By John D. Pollard, M. D., Chicago, Ill. A man is unfortunate, indeed, who has not a hobby for...
Very different time at the turn-of-the-century. Train and (later) automobile wrecks; and what are today easily treatable infectious diseases which...
It's Paradise Season in the desert, and Spring Training is almost here! :) http://www.traphof.rg/People-Stories/basball-and-trapshooting.html...
J.A.R. Elliott shot for Winchester with an 1893 Repeater using "Leader" shells loaded with "E.C." powder, then Hazard "Blue Ribbon" when he defeated...
1898 [IMG] Championship Trophy holders at the end 1903 The “E.C.” Cup was emblematic of the Flying Target Championship of the World, the conditions...
1895 “Men of Mark” http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1895/VOL_25_NO_11/SL2511025.pdf Sporting Life, Feb. 6, 1897 List of...
Unbelievable! We were out in Cedar Creek 1990-2002, then in Prairie Village before moving to AZ in 2004.
Sept. 21, 1907 Sporting Life http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1907/VOL_50_NO_02/SL5002027.pdf Whose Good Work at Western Handicap...
1909 http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1910/VOL_54_NO_20/SL5420020.pdf 1910...
Sporting Life, May 5, 1900 "The greatest live pigeon match every shot in Milwaukee"...
Sporting Life began publishing a Year in Review starting in 1897, and the Review provides a nice resource for the performance of individual shooters,...
1914 Dodge Brothers http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1914/VOL_64_NO_04/SL6404031.pdf Horace Dodge ordered a 12g and 20g L.C. Smith...
Winchester probably used that card for several years, but you'll see 5-06 at the bottom. “New Schultze”, and “New E.C. No. 2” were advertised by the...
BTW: Rolla Heikes probably takes the prize as the best shooter, with the most different guns, representing the most companies. He was the first...
After Fred Gilbert left Hunter Arms in 1899, he was also a professional representative of DuPont, Winchester and Parker Bros. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
HB. From the beginning most of the “Top Guns” were representatives (paid agents) of powder, shell, or gun makers; and some, like NASCAR drivers,...
Powers is also not in the HOF. He was part of the 1901 Anglo-American team and almost died of Typhoid fever 1901 International Match; 1900, 1912 &...
[IMG] https://books.google.com/books?id=6JbaHddByIUC&pg=PA506&vq DEATH OF E. D. FULFORD. Elijah D. Fulford, famous the world over as a trap shot,...
Les German is also not in the ATA HOF “The Ty Cobb of Trapshooting” http://pssatrap.org/HOF/german-lester-biography.htm...
More candidates - Jay R. Graham, H. D. Gibbs, Lester German, William H. Heer, and Charles G. Spencer [IMG] Peter P. Carney, Editor National Sports...
1904 Year in Review http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1905/VOL_44_NO_17/SL4417012.pdf High Average...
My opinion: Large game, buffalo, elk, antelope & deer were essentially removed from the eastern part of the Great Plains by the 1870s. The remaining...
Interesting how Midwestern shooters dominated the traps at the turn-of-the-century. In 1900, Iowa had 2.23M residents, Ill. 4.82M, Pennsylvania 6.3M,...
Harold Money is mentioned several times in Nash Buckingham's De Shootinest Gent'man Courtesy of David Noreen who has researched Harold extensively...
HBs Ford in 1903 with a Model 97 [IMG] 1909 image above - Ford older, likely same gun, same sweater. Looks like the someone just used an image with...
Ford in 1902 http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1902/VOL_38_NO_25/SL3825012.pdf...
The first Grand Smokeless Championship Handicap Live-bird Tournament given by the E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. took place October 22 - 25, 1895 at...
I took the liberty of enhancing HBs image of the Fulford Memorial Dedication from "Sporting Review" June 24, 1905 [IMG] The Parson looks to be...
It's probably a Marlin Model 24 with a corn cob FE [IMG]
I agree Randy, but that text is a direct quote. 1905 Marlin Model 19 [IMG] Hammerless Model 28 with a different magazine cap in the August 2, 1913...
Harold Money. I unfortunately have found no image of Harold. First mention in Sporting Life, June 25, 1898...
1903 "Captains of Shooting" Sporting Life, January 17, 1903 http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1903/VOL_40_NO_18/SL4018016.pdf
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1906/VOL_48_NO_11/SL4811015.pdf
[IMG] At the 1898 GAH at Live Birds, Capt. Money used a Greener with 1 1/4 oz. shot and 50 gr. "E.C." = 3 1/2 Dr. Eq.
Capt. Money's 1901 L.C. Smith A2 [IMG] [IMG]
Harold Money used a Parker at the 1901 GAH at Live Birds and later was a Professional Representative for Winchester, using a Winchester 1897...
Noel Money joined his father's American "E.C." & "Schultze" Co. in 1891 and was 2nd at the 1st GAH at Live Birds, 1893. Prior to the 1895 GAH ordered...
More candidates; most already mentioned March 19, 1898 Sporting Life “Men of Mark”...
Jan. 21, 1893 Sporting Life One of the published exchanges between E.D. Fulford (winner of the 1898 GAH), Thomas S. Dando (later shooting editor of...
Unfortunately I don't have the date of this ad, but it lists No.1 No. 2 [IMG]
The source for the specific term "Trapshooting" is not shared, but of interest The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 27, 1920 states the first Live...
Your are most welcome, and we are all owe you and Randy our gratitude for graciously documented the history of the sport we all care deeply about....
It could have been awarded at one of the St. Thomas' tournaments. Gilbert looks to be c. 1896 in that picture. 1898...
1896 still no Gilbert http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1896/VOL_27_NO_22/SL2722018.pdf
I couldn't find Gilbert's win of the Des-Chree-Shos-Ka medal in Sporting Life, but this is interesting...
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