I'm no help Dave, but this might be of interest
https://www.trapshooters.com/threads/189...ip-tour.826665/C.W. Dimick of United States Cartridge Co. and other manufacturers' reps (including Winchester and U.M.C.) founded the American Shooting Association in 1889. S.A. “Tuck” Tucker, Parker's sales agent and Capt. A. W. duBray (then a sergeant in the U. S. army) were consulting board members of the newly formed ASA, and “Tuck” wrote the handicap rules. (Dimick was President and L.C. Smith was a Director.)
Announcement in
Forest & Stream, February 7, 1889
https://books.google.com/books?id=TUchAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA54&dqO.R. Dickey, winner of the 1896 GAH at Live Birds, was the best known USCC professional rep
March 28, 1896
Sporting Lifehttps://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll17/id/47169 O. R. Dickey, of Boston. Mass., winner used a very handsome Parker Bros, hammerless gun, of the pigeon model, and his load consisted of 50 grains, or about 3 1/2 drams by measure, of American “E.C.” powder, 1 trap wad, one 3/8 inch pink felt, one 1/4-inch pink edge, and 1 1/8 ounce of No. 7 chilled shot in the United States Cartridge Co.'s “Rapid” shells, 2 3/4 inches in length.
The great Rolla Heikes, long time Winchester and Remington rep, became a USCC rep (again) late in his career
Sept 20 1913
Sporting LifeThe latest addition to the ranks of the representatives of the United States Cartridge Company is the veteran Rolla O. Heikes, of Dayton, O., known the country over for his shooting feats and still a 95 per cent. shot. The Black Shell; which Heikes will sell is not unfamiliar to him, for when the Climax shell was loaded with black powder, a quarter of a century ago, he made some remarkably good scores.