If you could pick a person on your squad (trapshooter)?

If you could pick a person, any trapshooter, dead or alive, who would you pick for a 200 bird event?

 

I would pick LEO, He was one of the best squad mates I ever had. Roger C.

 

Frank Little. Great guy!

 

Dan Orlich

 

History Buff or Annie Oakley.

 

Trap Wife


By the end of the day I would know the plan!

 

WPT and Gipson on my squad.

 

Any questions?

 

Ken Oakley. Ken got me started in trap in 63, and would take me to Dover Bay on saterdays. Also gave me a MEC 400 For Christmass.

 

Is thism a heshe, a female or male, Im see no mammarys TITS

GB....................DLS

 

WOW, I can think of so many greats I would love to squad with besides the ones I already have had the pleasure of being on a squad with ... Damn, tough question, and even harder to answer ... I am flattered that Smithy would like to be on a squad with me, you never know, you know ..? "Touche" ... WPT ... (YAC) ...

 

Is that Pres. Barrack Obama shooting SKEET or Sporting Clays, not good enuff to shoot TRAP

 

I would like to squad with Dave Berlet, Brad Dysinger, Willie Anderson

GB..................................DLS

 

Anyone but Dick Cheney!

 

I WOULD HAVE RATHER SHOT WITH DICK THAN RODE WITH TEDDY . ROGER C

 

You would shoot with Kaboom Dick Cheney? What if Dick was on the 27 and you were on the 25?

 

I would like to shoot with that McCarthy gal.

 

Erie1, A friend of mine was in that hunting party with Mr Cheney. The guy that was sprayed was at fault. he got ahead of the main line of hunters, he should not have been where he was. The press blew it out of proportion. Roger C.

 

An afternoon of shooting with Bogardus. Great name Bogardus. Latin I think for bong hog. And he liked glass balls. We had a different name for them in 70's. Cool guy that Bogardus.

 

If I could pick a squad just grins and a good story it would be Neil, Doc, Big Don, and Brad.

 

Doc>>>you sound interested! Even heart broken.

 

Stevenson72, She is a real sweetheart is she not. She is one of my favorite people. Roger C.

 

I had the pleasure of shooting the 200 events with History Buff, Terry Jordan, Bill Wylie, and Chris Vendel over the years.

Tough to choose one over the other, as they are all great shooters.

If I were to have these four on my squad, I can guarantee I would be the caboose.

 

Green Bead: How were the Glass balls launched and to what distance could they be thrown?


GB.............................DLS

 

They were smoking!

 

While there were a few different types of glass ball traps, the most widely used were the catapult and rotary traps. The first two ball traps mentioned in use in the USA were both simply an elastic band with ball cup strung between two posts. The first was used by Charles Portlock and the second by Ira Paine.

When Bogardus patented his trap in 1877, he went with a spring steel catapult type trap bolted to a piece of oak. There's one in the Trapshooting Hall of Fame and it was valued at $5,000.

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I knew they didn't throw balls nearly as far as the rules for clay pigeons (50 yards) and there is not much mentioned about the distance and height glass balls were thrown. In fact, the only mention I'm aware of was by Bogardus himself. Here's what he wrote :

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Here's a couple of scans from Bogardus' 1878 book.

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Enjoy Our History !

HB

 

HB:Close to the target settings of today, so easy and not competitive enough by Trap Standards of the 1950s, Fluff Targets is what ATA trap targets are today.

GB...................................DLS

 

History Buff,

We continue to learn the history of trap shooting from all the hard work and research you do.

Thanks ever so much for your contributions to this site, and the hobby of collecting trap shooting memorabilia YOU got me into.

Dave

 

I am not sure the ball targets would be as fluff as todays flyers, maybe but I sort of doubt it being as they would not be as apt to fly (loft) as the targets with the new designs for stability do ... It would be very interesting to know all of the particulars compared to the disc design ... You have to hand it to some of them old guys, ( I am officially one of them ) for all of the innovative ideas even back then ... WPT ... (YAC) ...