My family was from Cheshire and they hunted at the Quinnipiac Rod and Gun Club.

Family legend states that my Grand-Uncle (the dentist) hunted there regularly with one of the Parker Brother descendants.

I'll have to talk to my Dad and see if he can remember anymore details.

I have silver ash tray won by one of my grandfather's setter pups in a Puppy Derby in 1951 at the Quinnipiac Rod and Gun Club.

Lordship was one of if not the most beautiful shooting clubs in America. Situated on a peninsula on Long Island sound in Stratford Ct. They had a huge club house / restaurant and rented guns to the public for shooting . You could rent a 3200. 1100 or 870 in either trap or skeet in any gauge you wanted. It was where I and thousands of others first learned to shoot. They even had an industrial skeet and trap league on Wednesday nights if I remember correctly. The property is still there but all the target houses are torn down. There was talk of starting back up many times in the past 25 years or so but environmentalists always loomed in the backround

Lou, what is an “industrial” league?





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They were skeet and trap teams, formed at the local manufacturing plants and offices, that competed against one another in a league format. For instance Sikorski aircraft could have had a team, Bullard Machine co and Bridgeport milling machine and other companies could all have had teams that competed until a championship would decide the 1st 2nd and 3rd place winners . I think it would last all summer until it started getting dark earlier.

Similar to Industrial Bowling leagues that used to be common. As well as softball teams here in the South.

[QUOTE=Dean Romig;342693]Lou, what is an “industrial” league?

Think Remington, Winchester, DuPont, Link (aviation). Remington filmed a lot of their D. Lee Braun instructional skeet & trap videos there.

Yeah, there were a lot of those industrial leagues in the factories around Detroit. I've got several really great patches from them, both gun and archery both.