Origin of Skeet

[Louis Rotelli]

The original version was called around the clock. 2 shots were fiored at every station each station being like the position of the hour on a clock face. the last shot was fire similar to station 8 coming, directly overhead while standing in the middle. it was changed to the layout we know today to save the space required to shoot it and also for the safety of the growing number of spectators. The name skeet was given by a Scandinavian woman who won the contest for coming up with a name for the new sport It translates to shoot

[Drew Hause]

The original 'clock'



Which was cut in half to avoid the chicken houses in the background on right. I think Dean has a pic of what is left of the houses.



As skeet fields were built in a line, the targets were changed to be thrown at a 15 degree angle to protect shooters in the adjacent fields, and spectators - see Dean's first post skeet field diagram.