Word: shotgun
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Shooting Club has been given a cup to be awarded for excellence in "all-round" shooting with the shotgun, pistol and rifle. The shot-gun competition will be held at Watertown this afternoon, when each competitor will shoot at fifty clay birds. The pistol and rifle competitions will be held at Walnut Hill on May 26. Entries are free...
Cups and medals will soon be awarded to past winners in the shotgun matches of the Shooting Club...
...WHIPPLE.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB. - Two shotgun matches will be opened this afternoon to run through three competitions. Winners in each will be determined by the aggregate of their two best scores. Entries in each match 50 cents. Conditions as below. Match A, open to all. 10 clay birds, 5 angles, 18 yards rise. Match B, open to all. 10 clay birds, straight away, 21 yards rise. The prizes in each match will be a cup and a medal. Cars for the grounds at Watertown leave every half hour. Those desirous of joining can do so at the grounds...
...speaks well for the energy of the shotgun men that so large a number reported at Watertown in the face of the squally afternoon. The scores ran high, and are the more creditable when the trying weather conditions are taken into consideration. The first match was called early, and by quick shooting it was found possible to shoot an additional match for practice at the close of the regular matches announced on the programme. The work of the afternoon may be seen by a glance at the following summary...
...prizes in the series of shotgun matches just closed will soon be placed on exhibition...