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Re: Live Pigeon Shoot
Tamid #356253 02/03/14 08:13 PM
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Well I can tell you that in parts of PA the low gun single shot rules still live. Wooden traps are still used along with trap and handle pigeons which are rigged. This is much more difficult then jump box shooting. This is a 10 bird race and is often own with as few as 7. There are also still teams that pit one shooter against another and each team has their bird men who try to fly bird away on the opposition. The model 12 is still the most popular fun for this game.
Re: Live Pigeon Shoot
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Stumbled upon an interesting article in Gunsmagazine 1958:

Gunsmagazine p. 19

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Re: Live Pigeon Shoot
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Originally Posted By: Tran65
Well I can tell you that in parts of PA the low gun single shot rules still live. Wooden traps are still used along with trap and handle pigeons which are rigged. This is much more difficult then jump box shooting. This is a 10 bird race and is often own with as few as 7. There are also still teams that pit one shooter against another and each team has their bird men who try to fly bird away on the opposition. The model 12 is still the most popular fun for this game.


This is a pretty good book on PA shoots. The whole book isn't about the shoots, more about the authors childhood, but what is there is pretty informative. I think Fair Chase had some copies also.
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Pigeon Book


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Re: Live Pigeon Shoot
Hoof #356887 02/08/14 08:41 PM
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Inanimate - not alive…!!!!! you can do that with a pump! ;-)


In the 1901 Grand American Handicap at live birds, held at Interstate Park on Long Island, Ansley H. Fox, shucking a Winchester Model 1897, was one of 22 men who went 25 pigeons straight. Actually Ansley was 68 straight as he hadn't missed a bird in any of the preliminary events that week. But, he then missed the first bird in the shoot off!!
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The Canfield book is worth a read. It tells about the lifestyle of the Anthracite region in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Re: Live Pigeon Shoot
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Even though the model 12 is most common for low gun rules we still frequently see Parker's and some O/U at the shoots.
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And the occasional Model 37 Winchester.
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