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Yesterday while searching through my many issues of “Hunting and Fishing” and “National Sportsman” magazines from the late 1920’s and 30's I came across this nice informative article by author Hy Gunn (which may have been the pen name of WHF) describing the origin of a shotgun game invented by two young men in Ballardvale, a village in Andover, MA.
I thought I would share it here for everyone’s enjoyment.
Notice the ad at the bottom for Glen Rock Kennels, 73 Dascomb Road where the Davies family lived and where Skeet was invented. I wrote an article in Parker Pages in 2012, Issue 2, titled “Davies’ and Foster’s Original Andover Skeet Field at Glen Rock Kennels” with pictures of the property I had taken just before the property had sold.
This ad was the biggest ad in the entire classified section, probably owing to the fact that William Harnden Foster was the editor and publisher of these two magazines and co-inventor of Skeet and a great friend of the Davies family.
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