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The first casino at Monaco opened in 1856 on a different site. The Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo opening in 1864 and the current Casino de Monte-Carlo in July 1865, with additions in 1878-79 and 1880-81.

The first Grand Prix du Casino was in 1872, won by Mr. George Lorillard, of New York.

It appears likely that a new clubhouse and the platform for the new ring was built in the late 1890s.

The ring at the Casino was in continuous use until 1960, when it was converted to a Helice (ZZ) ring. The ring was demolished in 1972.
The straight-away boundary was only 21 yards.

Serious money was involved, not counting the side bets. The Grand Prix du Casino of 1895 was $76,000 which would be > $2,500,000 today
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The ring was a platform built below the Grand Casino

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and the pigeons were kept beneath the ring. An 1894 magazine illustration.

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The Grand Casino with the ring and the walk-way above the ring

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History of Monaco, Monte Carlo and the Casino
https://archive.org/details/monacomontecarlo00smit/page/n7/mode/2up

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The ring

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Grace Kelly put the kabosh on the pigeon shooting at Monte Carlo.

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For fun "The Monte Carlo Story", 1956 is on youtube; with Italian actor Vitoria de Sica and Marlene Dietrich

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There is a short shooting sequence at 28 minutes


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"Schultze" 1898

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Mullerite and Ballistite 1901
https://books.google.com/books?id=SvZYAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA2&lpg

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Adolph Hohenstein, 1900

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I couldn't find the rules for Monte Carlo, but at least in the 1880s, before the platform and new ring were built, with an only 21 yard boundary and short fence, it was 5 birds at 26 meters and 7 birds at 27 meters
https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll17/id/51484/rec/2

1890 American Shooting Association Rules
https://archive.org/stream/fieldcovertrapsh01boga#page/458/mode/2up
No limit on powder
In single bird (target) shooting the rise shall be:
Eighteen yards for ten-bore guns; limit 1 1/4 oz.
Sixteen yards for twelve-bore guns; limit 1 1/8 oz.
Fourteen yards for fourteen and sixteen bore guns; limit 1 oz.
Thirteen yards for twenty-bore guns; limit 7/8 oz.
Rules for Live Bird Shooting - same load limitations
The rise shall be:
Thirty yards for ten-bore guns.
Twenty-eight yards for twelve-bore guns.
Twenty-six yards for fourteen and sixteen bore guns.
Twenty-five yards for twenty-bore guns.


The Art of Wing Shooting: A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Shotgun, William Bruce Leffingwell, 1895
“Rules for Live Bird Shooting”
https://books.google.com/books?id=e34EmE3tkfkC&pg=PA177&vq
Notting Hill Boundary 65 yd
Hurlingham Boundary 90 yd

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Wow...
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