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Early version of the pigeon "cannon"?

I think Jon is correct that the barrier is on the shooter side of the pigeon trap/launch/throw.

BTW one the of best turn-of-the-century Live Bird shooters was Donald Mackintosh (correct spelling) of Australia - scroll down a bit to the 1900 Olympic Games
https://docs.google.com/document/d/185YOyQl7GIB9OYLs9Hr3tnMLHqs4rjEdR4j_E9l4HLw/edit

Then again........they could be shooting at live pigeons.

Preacher, it appears to me that the shooters are probably standing in line to take their turn at shooting bats that are attracted to the bugs near the shoreline close to dusk. I'd assume the net is possibly to entangle and catch the dead and wounded bats. Or perhaps some sort of divider line, with bats shot further out garnering a higher score.

I kinda doubt if the purpose of the net is to catch unbroken glass ball targets, as skeetx speculated. Since the net is oriented vertically, the unbroken glass balls would simply fall off due to gravity, and get broken anyway. Of course, such a spectacular design failure would have contributed to the demise of this game. So I'm going with bat shooting from the evidence I see. If the bats caught in the net were collected to be sold in the "Wet Market" in Wuhan, China, this might have been the real origin of the Covid19 virus pandemic.



Despite the fact that this event has drawn a large crowd of spectators, you may be quite concerned that this is an illegal activity as you did here:

https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=56078&page=1

So you may wish to report this possible game law violation to the authorities in New Zealand, on the remote chance that the violators are still alive, and the statute of limitations has not expired. No person is above the law, except Hunter Biden!

Other than that, I see no point in playing guessing games and engaging in wild speculations based upon an old photo with no details. We can't even see what sort of guns are being used. Just think... If Dave Weber had Image Hosting here, he could pay to store every gun and shooting image you find during obsessive searches on the internet. Of course, he would need more data storage space than the Summit Supercomputer, or the Servers owned by Google.

It must be a 24 gauge competition.

Double chuckle. I get a Facebook fellow asking people in Times Square all sort of questions the average American should know. Like where is Canada? Where is Aukland? How many hours in a day? Pitiful answers.

Judging by the amount of dunnage on what could be the trap house it was manned with some mother's son!

Having spent a considerable amount of time inside a trap house I estimate the game to be clays, the house is too small to have boxes of birds ready to set. The shooters are on-deck indicating a quick shooter progression. To bring birds would be slow, the gunners would slower to the mark.

Aren’t they just standing in line?
Like, stand on this spot to await your turn, so as not to crowd the man shooting?

You probably won't get too many people who can tell you where Auckland is. Now New Zealand- that's another thing.