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Well, you can find out this Saturday, when the Harvard Shooting Club hosts its latest shotgun skeet and trap shooting outing. Everyone—including you, even if you’ve never touched a gun before—is encouraged to attend. Need a reason? Here are a few offered by the club...
...wait a second. If you’re like us, you may be a little alarmed (especially by this last reason). And you may be wondering just what “skeet and trap shooting” actually involves. Well, read on, because we’ve jumped the gun (ha!) and uncovered the answers for you after the jump...
Wang added that the current reincarnation of the club (it was originally founded in 1883 but has been sporadically active and inactive in the years since) has not yet faced any anti-gun protests. In fact, he said, the club is “in the process of establishing a fund toward promoting firearm safety both on and outside of campus...
That's good to know. And we're relieved to find out that the Harvard Shooting Club isn’t full of gun-wielding crazies. Whew...
Another part of maturing is knowing when to shift from entrepreneurial mode, in which creativity and development trump all else, to business mode, in which adult supervision becomes mandatory. For Bossa Nova, that meant hiring a toy-industry gun, in the form of new CEO Martin Hitch, a veteran of Mattel and Hasbro. Penbo and Prime-8 were introduced in Europe this year, using local distributors. But the company, whose revenues are approaching $4 million, wants to crack the U.S. market and its big retailers. With the selling season for next year under way, Hitch will help Bossa Nova...