Gertrude Hurlbutt
The May 1926 issue of
National Sportsman announced the winner of the competition for naming the new shotgun game; Mrs. Gertrude Hurbutt of Dayton, Montana, and the new name, "Skeet," from an old Scandinavian word for shoot.
Remarkably, the Ithaca NID Skeet Special was advertised in the
July 1926
National Sportsman, only two months after the game was named! Was the Ithaca Gun Co. tipped off in advance of the announcement in order to accelerate production of a designated skeet gun?
The L.C. Smith “Skeet Upland Special” was not introduced until 1928, and a Parker advertising brochure showing a "Special Skeet Gun" with “skeet-in/skeet-out” chokes not until 1932.