Venice, CA Trapshooting School
 

Metropolitan Magazine, April 1916
https://books.google.com/books?id=7z...J&pg=PA288&lpg

The first trapshooting school with small gage guns has been in operation for a number of months at Venice, Cal., one of the chief amusement places for Los Angeles, 18 miles distant, via the Pacific Electric Railway.
http://www.virtualvenice.info/visual/pier.htm
https://www.kcet.org/shows/departure...musement-parks

The gallery is located at the end of a pier and is probably 50 yd. long. At the farther end of it is set up a high wooden shot stop, painted yellow and probably 20 ft. high. An old fish net slopes down from its top to the floor of the pier at a gentle incline, to catch the clay birds which are unhit. Forty yards from the backstop is a regulation traphouse, and 10 yd. from the center of the trap a 20-ft. counter a la shooting gallery. Back of this is a railing to keep out the crowd while inside are benches for the shooters while awaiting their turn.

The clay bird rises 10 yd. instead of the regulation 16 yd., and travels 38 yd. instead of 50 yd. It is always a straightaway. The trap is set to throw the bird very high in comparison with the distance it travels.

The guns are 20 bores alone, double non-ejector Parkers with lace up recoil pads. The load is a cheap shell with two drams Du Pont and 3/4 oz. of 8's.

The gun, birds and ammunition are furnished as the would-be shooter steps up, precisely like the rifle gallery.

The cost is 25c for five shots, $1 for 25 shots, $4 for 100, everything included.

I've been trying to find if the Venice Trapshooting School was affiliated with the DuPont Trapshooting School at Young’s Million Dollar Pier, in Atlantic City, managed by H.H. (Hank) Stevens, without success

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January 29, 1916 Sporting Life
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL6622027.pdf

Opened March 25, 1916
https://books.google.com/books?id=Dp...AJ&pg=RA2-PA35
https://books.google.com/books?id=Dp...AJ&pg=RA4-PA13
https://books.google.com/books?id=VFIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA97

January 6, 1917 Sporting Life
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL6819024.pdf

Ithaca 4E ordered in 1916 courtesy of Walt Snyder

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20g Parker ordered 1917
https://jamesdjulia.com/item/2554-373/

1918
https://books.google.com/books?id=DZo7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA257

1919
https://books.google.com/books?id=FykDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA115
https://books.google.com/books?id=0s...AJ&pg=RA1-PA82