Vintage Du Pont Powder Advertisement. ?

[Boxbirder]

Here's one story I love and laugh about.
http://tinyurl.com/6cww9ug
Now I could just get a hold of Clydes Parker. hint hint.

[Mike Stahle]

WOW $$$$
Cheaper to collect Parker's

http://www.icollector.com/SPECTACULA...OSTER_i5323998

Thanks all

[TARNATION !!!]

Originally Posted by Mark Parela

Here's one story I love and laugh about.
http://tinyurl.com/6cww9ug

Fun read. An old gentleman who lived near us when I was a kid used to take bets on shooting sparrows on the wing with a .22 He would let the competition shoot and miss and finally tell them to watch how it is done. Using the same rifle, he would pop a few sparrows on the wing. I used to mow his grass when I got a little older. One day he was talking about the sparrow ruse. He admitted he had a pocket full of .22 shot shells (lead dust for shooting annoying birds in a barn). So, the young rancher in the story may have had an unknown advantage with him or he was a damn good shot.
Cheers,
Jack

[Autumn Daze]

Upon further research I don't think that great piece of sporting advertising is the famed Remington Gun Club. This poster is from around 1911/12 Remington opened the Lordship shooting facility in 1920.

[Mike Stahle]

Next question,
Do y'all think any of those fine well dressed people
were shooting a Damascus or twist barrel with that
new fangled DuPont smokeless powder?

[Old and Reliable]

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"!!