Sanity arrived about 1902
http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/SportingLife/1902/VOL_40_NO_04/SL4004014.pdf Some of the crack shots are discovering that "pigeon loads" are not necessary for long distance flying target shooting. When distance handicap was first tried many of the experts came out with big charges of powder. Lately the work of W. R. Crosby
at 22 yards on the stiffest kind of shooting has astonished the followers of trap shooting.
It will surprise many to learn that Crosby’s load was only 3 drams of "New E.C." powder, when he won high average at Cincinnati recently, shooting from 22 yards on the back mark, in a field of 150 crack shots, he had his old Smith gun and, Winchester Leader shells.
