Live Bird shooting was a non-Olympic 'demonstration' event, once and only, at the 1900 Olympics. A prize purse of 20,000 Francs was awarded to the winners, though the top four finishers agreed to split the winnings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_at_the_1900_Summer_Olympics Later image of the Gold Medal winner, Léon de Lunden of Belgium, who won 5000 francs (about $20,000 at the time!!)
Inanimate Targets were used at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, and the U.S. team took the Gold Medal:
Charles W. Billings, Ralph Lewis Spotts, John H. Hendrickson, James R. Graham (on 3rd station), Edward Francis Gleason, and Frank Hall
The individual Gold was by Jay Graham, using a Remington PUMP (oh the shame!!
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