Lady with Parker Single Barell Trap

[Pat Dugan]

These pictures were taken at Radium Springs, Albany Ga., in 1955 or so. It must have been A state tournament , there are a lot of people with ATA Patches. The lady third from left has a Parker single barell trap gun. During this period of time a lot of women were Trap shooters.

PDD

[charlie cleveland]

a fine looking group they are...and such a good number of them...and that one lady looks like shes shooting a gun a few sizes to big for her..ha fine pictures they are.... thanks for them charlie

[Bill Murphy]

The guy third from the right is Fred Missildine, the pro at the Sea Island Gun Club. I could probably figure out a couple more, but not off the top of my head. The lady to Fred's left may be Evelyn Primm. I am fairly sure it is she because she is sporting a Sports Afield All-American patch. They are great pictures.

[Pat Dugan]

one more picture, These pictures were found in the trash at the New location of now Called flint Skeet and Trap in 1964. They were kept in a file in the home of John Hogg a locol retired DA of Dougherty County, Albany Ga.

[Bill Murphy]

Sorry, I don't recognize any of those folks, who seem to be local members of the club.

[Bob Jurewicz]

Sorry Bill. Thought I moved it.
Senior moment

[Bill Murphy]

Bob, nice picture but wrong thread.

[Ed Blake]

The guy third from the right is Fred Missildine, the pro at the Sea Island Gun Club. I could probably figure out a couple more, but not off the top of my head. The lady to Fred's left may be Evelyn Primm. I am fairly sure it is she because she is sporting a Sports Afield All-American patch. They are great pictures.

I have Fred Missildine's little book on Better Trapshooting. It was published back in the '70s by Winchester Press. Great little book. He's pictured on the cover shooting in white bucks with breton red slacks. Vintager in his own way. Love those pictures. None of the trap guns being used look like a space gun or some other alien contraption.

[Pat Dugan]

What I was amazed about was all the silver Trophy's and the number of Women Trap shooters in 1955, around Albany and the State of Ga. Flint Skeet and trap in Albany moved from the original site in 1964.
The now location is a paid for site with a club house, 4 trap ranges , a 5 stand with 8 machines, 5 skeet fields, and approximately 80 acres and now less than 60 members. If the membership gets down to nothing the area is to be sold and the money donated to charity around Albany, Ga. But who is going to want it with all the lead.

[Chuck Bishop]

The lady, 3rd from the left in the first picture looks to be holding an Ithaca not a Parker.

What do others think?

[Ed Blake]

You might be right Chuck. I thought it might be a LC Smith.

[Bill Murphy]

Good eye, Chuck. Looks like a Grade 7 Knick.

[Dean Romig]

But who is going to want it with all the lead.

The lead can be reclaimed and the revenue generated by a reclamation is substantial. It is also a proven fact that where there is little or no "acid rain" fallout there is no lead leeching at all... in fact, here in the Northeast where there is a lot more acid rain there is still no measurable lead leeching in the groundwater beneath shooting fields.

[WmRike]

The lady third from the left is Frances King in about 1960. She shot a Knick and won the women's GA Champion of Champions race in '62. I'm pretty certain hers is a Grade 4.

[Bill Murphy]

Great observation, but which picture?

[WmRike]

Sorry about that. The first pic, "Scan2."

I don't know if it still exists, but back in the fifties and sixties King put up the money for a v nice silver trophy that went to the Grand American women's high over-all winner.

[WmRike]

Frances King also appears in the third photo, fourth from the right.

I did a little more digging. She hailed from Atlanta and was an active shooter at least back into the forties. I had previously thought that the King trophy given to the Grand American High All Around woman was a revolving trophy, this based on its generous size, about 18-20" in height. But in the past week or so of researching I have seen the trophy in several forms, so it must have been individually crafted each year.

I found one picture of her with the ubiquitous Model 12, but all others show her with the more familiar Ithaca