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...Skeet, skat, skat, skeet, skat, skoo...
...Chesapeake Bay, Arkansas's White River bottoms and Suynsun Marshes in California will have good shooting this year-if they can find anything to shoot with. Luckiest hunters of all are U.S. Air Forces pilots along the Alaska Military Highway. To keep their eyes in by skeet shooting, they are well supplied with shells. By switching from clay pigeons to live ducks they will be saving their own skins: duck feathers are used in flying suits...
...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...