NOBELS AMMUNITION.
Mr. D. Fraser has for come time pest been advertising a challenge to dhoot a match. (100 live birds) .with any other member of a registered New Zealand Crun Club for £100 a Bide. I*6 main condition was that Fraser'was to use cartridges manufactured, by the Colonial Ammunition Company, and bought in the open market, while his opponent had to use some imported cartridge, also purchased in the open market. Thi« challenge was accepted by Mr. ,E. F. Graham, and the match was fired in ChrietchuTch yesterday, and resulted in a win for Graham by 85 to 78 birds shot by Fraeer. There.was a strong wind blowing, which accounts for the coimparatively large number ill birds which got away. Granam in this match used Nobel's Primrose 2 J inch Ballistifce cartridges . . ~....'
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 55, 6 March 1911, Page 7
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133NOBELS AMMUNITION. Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 55, 6 March 1911, Page 7
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