1927 Skeet? shoot
 

Here is an interesting video on Youtube --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqLK...ature=youtu.be

It is a Trap Video. Very Cool!

There are a couple of familiar faces there.

I remember sitting in the trap house loading birds. The part that sucked about that was, When the round was over they would forget come to get you and you did not want to sick your head up out of the house to see what was going on. :shock:

Absolutely 'been there, done that' Scott!

It's definitely not trap although they are shooting over a standard trap house. It looks like a 5 team flurry, they are all shooting randomly. The trap is not osculating so it's trowing the same target path over and over again as fast as possible.

I recognize Sparrow Young with the round glasses and the suspenders and Mark Arie. Mark Arie was one of 3 who won Olympic gold in trapshooting for the USA. James Graham won in 1912, and my friend Don Haldeman won in Montreal in 1976.

When I was a teen, I set trap at my local club. I'll always remember that Winchester trap had a half moon platten and a skinny throwing arm. There was a pin driven by a solenoid that would come up and stop the arm rotation allowing you to put the bird on the trap. This damn pin would sometimes not come up in time and the arm would not stop. Scares the hell out of you when this happens. You learn real quick to come straight down from overhead when you place the bird on the trap!

or if someone keeps there finger on the button :eek:

1920 US Olympic Team
 

Chuck, here is a pic of the 1920 United States Olympic Team...

RD

Thanks Randy. The 1912 & 1920 Olympic reports are here
https://docs.google.com/a/damascuskn...jEdR4j_E9l4HLw
Troeh used a Smith; Arie a Marlin repeater.
Arie used a Parker SBT as an industry rep in 1921 but returned to the amateur ranks after one year. At the 1921 Grand, he tied for the professional championship.

More on Troeh here http://www.traphof.org/Inductees/Troeh-Frank.html

He used a Model 12 for most of his career. Here with Bart Lewis who was Amateur Championship of the US with 195x 200 at 22 yards at the 1913 GAH. He used a Crown grade Smith to win the Grand American Doubles in 1926

http://pic20.picturetrail.com:80/VOL.../410682588.jpg

love the shell and pictures...charlie