Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-08
'SKEET' Club
SCREAMED
Gunners TO Get Real
Practice Twice
Each Week

A Gun club has been organized
in Brownsville. and will be known
a. the "Skeet club under the aus-
rices OF the Ba.scil-Wei Sporting
Goods Store. who have been urged
% sponsor such a club By sportsmen
all over the Valley.
There will probably be two
shooting afternoons a week and no
shooter will be allowed or permitted
20 shoot more than twenty-five times
At each shooting" Hurt BatSell said
Friday morning. "A number OF men
have already signed UP for mem
bership; il is expected TO have about
fifty members In the club
Speaking Of the "Skees club" which
will Be a new kind Of trap shooting
club ia this city. Mr.. Batsell Gays:
The same Kind Of clay pigeons
are shot 1T ss in the old sport and
they are thrown from regular traps.
howevc-. two traps arc used IN skeet.
Tire shooting grounds are laid put
IN q semi-circle and there are eight
stations from which the shooter
shoots. shooting two shots from each
station. After shooting from these
eight stations, the shooter shoots
0EARtE ANNNM AR4A
his last shot being shot from any
station ne wishes.
"Skeet gives the sportsman an op-
%portHnity 20 shoot ~ the pigeons
from every angle that a bird might
fly. as he gets birds going straight
away; Their an incomer: a going
away quaFtering bird and quarter
tiny inconer; he gets cross shots
ard fast incoming shots. The dou-
btss are quite difficult but give
wonderful practice. The nice part
about Skeet shooting - that the
sportsman can use hiE regular gun
that nc IL used too. whether II be
q ~, is or 20 guage "a IL does not
take a regular trap gun nor does IL
specially necessitate q i2-gusge gun
10 he effective a. the range Of the
targets isn't as great a IL u In reg
ulnr trap shooting. The regular
trap loads using z IL shot is the
most commonly used. although num-
erous shooters use No. 8 and Q shot
in the rs and 70 guage guns whiea
have proven very effective.
"Skaet provides q form Of wing
shooting practice that appeals 70
the srortsren who hurt with shot
guns and ali the shots in Skeet t.ve
a direct tie-up with the shots .Aet
with in general bird hunting. A
group - SkcstcrE can get more real
wing shooting tests in m afternoon
en- tire Skert grounds than they q
during the average shooting season.
Every tire the Skeeter sees his tar
get 20 into dust he has the satisfsc-
tion Of knowing that, had u been .
game bird. " would be his.
"Skset teaches the shooter 20 be
very quick. I'm fact two Of his shots
ere really Ensp shots and toe. he
doesn't put his gun 30 his shoulder
ard get his body a. well a. face. ell
Get a. he does in regular trap shoot
inK. After he calls PAIL. ard really
after the bird has already left the
trap does he throw his a 10 his
shoulder. In bird shooting, the bird
doesnt ~ = a rule. lie IN the grass
ard wait until the shooter gets his
gun Kiready before flying. nor does
be oftertimes fiy out the way yen
expect him 70 fly. therefore. skeet
u patterned az near after bird sheet
ina "a st possibly can BE-. II In TAX
ing the place az trap shooting all
over the country"
4 Frnrkir Armstrong. Vincent Stew
'erEor ard q number cf ether loeal
spertsmsn. hsvs been holding Rur