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...Skeet† is trapshooting with frills, designed to make trapshooting as much as possible like game-bird shooting. In skeet's basic 25-shot round, each shooter follows an identical routine: 1) two single shots, from each of the eight field stations, at clay pigeons sprung into the air from each trap house at 70 m.p.h.; 2) double shots from stations 1, 2, 6 and 7, at birds sprung simultaneously, one coming toward him, one going away; 3) an optional shot from any station (bringing the total to 25 and usually taken wherever the gunner misses his first bird...
...Dallas last week, 400 of the best U.S. gunners met to shoot it out for the National Skeet championships (broken down into age, sex, gun-gauge, amateur and professional categories). A perfect round (25 hits, no misses) is fine shooting on anybody's skeet field. But a 25 was commonplace to the eagle-eyed marksmen who blasted away at the Dallas Gun Club's tent camp during the worst Texas heat wave in years...
...same time, the skeet club team, composed of Dave Browne, Ed Eyre, Ray Suttle, Mike Safe, and Howard Reed, lost to West Point, 470 to 447 (out of 500). Babson Institute was third with 405 in the match, which was held at the Dedham Country and Polo Club...
...teams from the Skeet Club will fire against two teams from Babson institute and a team from Army at the Dedham Country and Polo Club at 11 p.m today...
...five-team shoot Sunday the skeet team complied 446 points out of a possible 500 to take second point behind West Point...