For Sale - Birthplace of Skeet

[Dean Romig]

I think you're right Bill - not that I expected any replys to the thread, I only tossed it out there to let people know the place is for sale. I think a great many of the people whu read the post understood the history but, briefly, for those who don't . . .

William Harnden Foster is attributed with the 'invention' of the shooting game of skeet but this is largely untrue . . . not that he didn't have a great deal to do with it, it was actually Mr. Davies and his son (who was a very good friend and shooting companion of Foster's) on who's property the original skeet field was constructed. It originally had one trap and twelve shooting positions set in a circle and was dubbed by Davies "Shooting 'Round the Clock" but soon a neighbor started up a chicken farm and asked Davies to reconfigure the shooting field so an additional trap machine was added and the positions were reduced to eight in a half-circle. Foster, being the editor in chief of both Hunting and Fishing and National Sportsman magazines published in Boston popularized the new game through his magazines and solicited the readership for a name for the game. "Skeet" was submitted and chosen as the name and the rest is history. This is how William Harnden Foster was connected with skeet and became known as "The Father of Skeet" and it all happened on this property.

How's that Bill??

[Dave Miles]

Dean,

Too bad the place isn't located in Michigan.
That's just what the wife is looking for.
Only I'd need 39 more acres.

[Bill Murphy]

Foster was also a Parker shooter whose son went to work for Remington and held various positions there relating to shooting promotions etc. He also wrote New England Grouse Shooting and was a prolific outdoor theme illustrator who painted the covers for many Hunting and Fishing and National Sportsman magazines. Dean is a bit modest in that he didn't mention that he is researching William Harnden Foster for the benefit of other students of him and his interests.

[Bill Murphy]

Dave, your wife is looking for a run down kennel at the intersection to two well travelled roads in Massachusetts? When is the divorce final?