Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Telegraphic Championship began to come in. The Izaak Walton League of Los Angeles had won the Telegraphic Team Championship with 473. Two Westerners-E. S. Neusch-wander of Los Angeles and George Debes of Houston-shooting under better weather conditions, had bettered Watts' 98 by one target each and Thomas Mairs of Utica had tied...
...traps, one ten feet high, the other at ground level, are stationed off either end of the semicircle. They are pulled by remote control. One shooting stand (No. 8) bisects the diameter line, seven others are at equidistant points around the semicircle. Shooters fire from each stand at two targets thrown alternately from the two traps, then from stands 1, 2, 6 and 7 at two thrown simultaneously. The 25th target may be shot at from any stand. The skeeter's ideal: to break all 25 targets, win membership in the "Twenty-Fivers' Club...
Skeet tries to duplicate the typical hunting situation of pointing dog, tense gunner, unpredictable game birds. Unlike trap-shooters, skeeters may not raise gun to shoulder until the target appears. That may be any time within three seconds after the shooter cries "Pull." Skeeter Henry Bourne Joy, onetime president of Packard Motor Car Co., has invented an electric variable timer which throws targets with unbiased irregularity...
...throwing an ax Captain Butler stands four to eight yards from the butt end of the log target. The beginner should first try to put the ax edge into the log. Later he can try driving spikes into the wood with the ax head. Adroit Captain Butler can cleave a piece of garden hose three out of five times at eight yards...
...some double-bitted. Others are firemen's axes. The axes which Captain Butler uses are short-helved 3½ or 4 pounders. Longest convenient length for ax and handle is 16 in. A greater length interferes with the tumble of the ax on its way from hand to target...