Parker Double Trap.

[Holeshot]

I'm curious when the game of trap doubles originated. Assuming it was later then the game of trap itself. Any idea on the date of trap doubles.

[Autumn Daze]

David, I'm not sure when it originated.I know it has been an Olympic event since 1996.

[John Truitt]

No offense meant. Just sloppy typing.
Sorry about that.

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by David Holes

I'm curious when the game of trap doubles originated. Assuming it was later then the game of trap itself. Any idea on the date of trap doubles.

The only thing I could find quickly was the first recorded 100 straight in Trap Doubles was shot in 1926.

[Bill Murphy]

In the big, big, trapshooting state of Pennsylvania, in 1937, 494 shooters shot singles and handicap. 107 shot doubles. I mean 107 people shot at least one pair of doubles. Most doubles shooters shot 100 to 300 birds. The high volume double shooter in the state shot a Model 12. I know this because I own his gun. He shot 1450 doubles birds. Hardly anyone else shot anywhere near that many birds. Doubles was not and is not a big game in ATA. No one bought a new Parker in 1937 to shoot doubles. They bought them because they were neat guns and had a choke for 16 yards and a choke for handicap. And they could shoot doubles with them, but that was not their primary purpose. Parkers with high stocks, single triggers, and beavertails, and long barrels made in 1929 are absolutely identical to guns made to catalog specs as trap guns in 1937. The 1937 catalog entry is an advertising thing by Remington, not a new gun.