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Was it customary for some of the male participants to wear dresses?

"An Afternoon At Wormwood Scrubs", A.B. Frost in "The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News" April 6, 1878.

Well, and this is the Champion himself, L�on de Lunden from belgium:



They shot clays also at Paris, this are the winners, from left:
Roger de Barbarin, Ren� Gyot and Justinien Clary from France:



Gunwolf

I don't recall where I read it, the National Championships in KCMO around the turn of the century there were so many entrants they had to have preliminary shoots with sparrows to make the championship rounds. Mark

Jan. 16, 1897 Sporting Life
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1897/VOL_28_NO_17/SL2817018.pdf

Phil Daly Jr. writes us that there will be live bird shooting on the new grounds at Elkwood Park. Long Branch. N. J. every Saturday. In a few weeks Daly expects to have the three sets of traps in operation and will throw the grounds open to the public. Live crows will be shot on one set, live blackbirds on another and live pigeons on the third. There will be a main event at 25 live pigeons. $25 entrance, handicap from 25 to 33 yards, with good added money.

"Sparrow" Young got his handle shooting...sparrows
Bats were also used.

The one old gal in the picture seems to have a rare 12" Heikes hand protector. I've seen a few of the standard ones, but never a 12" version. How did they ever get enough crows for a shoot?

Bill,

Were the Heikes hand protectors developed or marketed by Rolla Heikes?

SRH

Yup, he's the guy.

I guess this "old gal" would have shown some of us up with her gun�.. ;-)

Gunwolf

In 1900 they got them from the streets of Paris and so did some good at the same time�!
Doves often are called "rats of the air" and nobody missed some hundred!

Gunwolf