Gent's was out at Remingtons Lordship shooting grounds today. Here are some pictures as promised. Sorry about the quality I took them with my phone.

First picture is the storage building for targets

Next is the armory where you picked up your rented Remington..$5.00/day and shells were $5.00 a box. A round of skeet or trap cost $2.50.

Next is where the trap house USED to be.

Next is the main clubhouse

Next a view heading up to the main clubhouse.

Last picture...Just another view of the main road in...Spent many a great day at this facility :cuss:

Pretty good pictures for a cell phone.

Thanks Dave.

I'll search for my Skeet book which has a picture of Lordship taken in the mid-thirties.

Carola Mandel- wowie
 

If I had been Mr. Baldwin I would have told that "Prima-Donna-Senora"- Si usted quiere la paloma muerta, pues- employeda su escopeta y cartogas"> Killdeer are protected species- talk about being a spoiled lady- to order him to shoot a nesting bird- if that killdeer was such a problem, then close that field and move to another and repeat the last 25 targets- Another reason why, IMO- shooting is a gentleman's sport- live birds in KY and TN in my Granddad's day sure were- just like the saloons before that stupid Volstead Act foisted upon a thirsty America by the likes of Carrie Nation--

I have a portfolio of Hy Watson's work- and the 1911 trap shooting scene, whether at Lordship, Dukeship, Baronship or even Earlship is indeed his masterful brush strokes-- "Uncle Dupey" did indeed own Remington Arms at one time- not so today--

As to the lad who broke 2/3's of 25 clays at 16 yards with his single shot .22- I believe that. The late USMC legend Gunny Carlos N. Hathcock of rural AK- grew up dirt poor and hard working- he was give a Stevens single shot .22 at age eight- fed the family on squirrels, rabbits, and later on ducks and quails he shot "On The Wing" in the head- he had 20/10 or better vision when he entered the USMC in 1959- and shot a record 248/250 with the M-1 Garand on the Parris Island MCRD rifle range (see the Kubrick movie- "Full Metal Jacket"--) when Carlos was 12, a neighbor gave him a 20 gauge Iver Johnson hammer shotgun-and he was head shooting birds on the wing with that, but went back to the .22, as the shells were cheaper and he damaged less eating meat with the little rifle- Show me a farm boy who can keep the larder filled with wild game with a single shot weapon- and I'll show you what we call in my USMC- A "Dinger"!!:cool:

There aint no Quail in rural AK, or anywhere else in "The Great Land." Try again Francis!!

Gotta believe Hathcock could make the shots mentioned.
As for AK Quail, I only know what I can read, never having been there, nor have I ever even seen "Gentleman Bob" (should amend the bucket list to fix that). It appears there once was significant population. Some interesting reading on the cause of the decline and what it might take to bring 'em back.

ARKANSAS QUAIL RESTORATION

HEMMINGWAY

HATHCOCK

Alot of grouse and ptarmigan. I figure he was probably shooting those which is still a good shot. I was walking down a trail outside Talkeetna, Alaska to our famous fishing hole and a spruce grouse flew up in a spruce tree a good distance away and all i had was my 44 pistol. I figured it would make a good treat for lunch. I shot and blew his head off and then a couple more flew up and landed in the same tree. My buddy said gosh shoot a couple more heads off and i said oh i think one is enoughf.

A true gentleman. Nice pistol shooting. Tasty enough too, I'll guess. All my spruce grouse were taken with large bore rifles while big game hunting. Better decapitate or there would be nothing to eat.
Cheers,
Jack

"Marine Sniper" by Charles Henderson
 

- OK-- try this- pages 28-29 of this great book about L'ong Tran (Gook for "White feather") Berkley Books NY ISBN No.0-425-10355-2 and I quote: "Now with a shotgun, Carlos' Grandmother thought, he could hunt dove and pheasant and QUAIL, when they came in season"- This was Geyger Springs AK in the late 1950's- further quote-page 28-29 "Carlos never mastered the knack of hunting with the shotgun, although he tried shooting dove, pheasant and QUAIL---- He always wound up getting his old single shot rifle to bring home the game"

Now then- I'm not the ONLY Gyrene (NO EX or Former either) on the PGCA, but when I talk about USMC legends like Gunny Hathcock or General Lewis B. Puller Jr.("Chesty to us- FIVE, count them- Navy Crosses) I am "A-J squared away, and not only have my ship together, I can law it out for a "junk on the bunk" like I can field strip a M-14-blindfolded--:cuss::cuss::cuss:

Francis, You are by far the resident expert of veering threads. My hat is off to ya.....:bowdown: