Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-02-08
'SKEE'T' Club
ORGANIZED
Gunners to Get Real
Practice Twice
Each Week

A Gun club has been organized
IN Brownsville. and viii he known
As the "Skcet club" under the aus
/ pices of the Batseil-Wells Sporting
Goods Store, who nave been urged
to sponsor such n club by sportsmen
all over the Valley.
There will probably be two
! shooting afternoons a week and no
shooter will be allowed or permitted
u shoot more than twenty-five times
at each shooting Hurt Batsell sad
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 "Skeet club" which
wifi be a new kind Of trap shooting
club In this city. Mr. Batsell says.
The same kind OF clay pigeons
are shot at as IN the old sport and
they are thrown from regular traps,
however, two traps are used in skeet.
The shooting grounds are laid out
in a 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
doubles from four different stations.
his last shot being shot from any
station he wishes.
"Skeet gives the sportsman an op-
%portunity 10 shoot at the pigeons
| from every angle that a bird might
fly. as he gets birds going straight
away; then an incomer; a going
away quartering bird and quarter
ing incomer; he gets cross shots
and fast incoming shots. The dou-
bles are quite difficult brt give
wonderful practice. The nice part
about Skeet shooting is that the
sportsman car use his regular gun
that he is used too. whether IL be
a 10, 10 or 20 guaCe as II does not
take q regular trap gun nor does u
specially necessitate a 12-guage gun
70 be effective as the range of the
targets isn't as great aS II Is in reg
ular trap shooting. The regular
trap loads using Z 1-2 shot Is the
most commonly used. although nun
erous shooters use No. 5 and 2 shot
in the l6 and 20 guage guns which
have proves very effective.
"Skeet provides a form of wing
shooting practice that appeals 20
the srortamen who hunt With shot-
guns and all the shots in Skeet have
q direct tie-up with the shots met
with in general bird hunting. A
group Of Skeeters can get more real
wing shooting tests in n afternoon
on the Skeet grounds thsn they can
/ during the average shooting season.
Every time the Skeeter sees his tar
get 20 into dust he has the satisfae-
! ton 81 knowing that. bad II been q
game bird. IL would be his.
"Skeet teaches the shooter 20 be
very quick, in fact two Of his shots
are really snap shots and toe. he
doesn't put his gun TO his shoulder
! and Get his body rs well as face. all
set as he does in regular trap shoot
inr. After he calls pull. and really
after the bird has already left the
trap does he throw his gun to his
shoulder. in bird shooting. the bird
doesn't as a q rule. lie IN the grass
and wait until the shooter gets his
gun already before flying. nor does
he oftentimes fly out the way you
expect him 70 fly. therefore. skeet
is patterned as near after bird shoot
ing as il possibly can be. IL il tax
ing the place Of trap shooting all
over the country
Frankie Armstrong. Vincent Stew
erscn ard q number az ether local
srortsrner. have been holding sun