Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...body had always been magnificent and versatile. In the Olympic Games of 1912, he won third place in the modern pentathlon-the five sports, horseback riding, cross-country running, swimming, fencing, shooting. He had loved polo, squash, tennis, skeet shoots, bird shooting, game fishing, fox hunting. Always he had done these things, if not superbly, at least with a flair. His rule for taking ribbons at horse shows: "If it's a civilian horse show, turn up in dress uniform, decorations and all; if it's a military show, wear civilian habit...
...ground training at deflection shooting, Fort Myers' gunners first fire compressed-air BB machine guns at moving model planes, soon move on to the skeet range. There, under the instruction of onetime civilian skeet-shooters, they learn how to lead the sailing birds from the traps. But the schools' ranges have modifications no gun club ever...
...Wing shooting and aerial machine-gunnery are basically the same: the mark is a flying target whose speed and direction must be gauged instantly and automatically. The Army Air Forces is using skeet in training. A team of ten officers and enlisted men from the Flexible Gunnery Schools is entered this week in the national skeet championships at Syracuse...
...Marksmen Ed Wylie, of New York City, and S. L. Hutcheson, of Greenwich, Conn.: the North American .20-gauge and all-bore skeet championships, respectively; from a field of 114 shooters at the Remington Gun Club, Lordship, Conn. Both broke 100 straight...
...Antonio's Charles H. Poulton, 41 : the national all-gauge skeet championship; outshooting 28-year-old Alex Kerr of California in a 175-bird shoot-off, after each had broken 250 straight in the regular event; at Indianapolis...