Popular Victory Won By Trapshooter

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29189, 27 April 1960, Page 15

Popular Victory Won By Trapshooter

VO win at the recent New Zealand Trapshooting tournament held on the Christchurch Gun club’s grounds at Yaldhurst was more popular than that of the Christchurch sportsman, T. A. Everett, when he won the New Zealand double rise clay target championship. This event, the most difficult type of trap shooting, comprises 15 pairs of clay targets. The targets are thrown from traps at a speed of 60 miles an hour, and a shooter must be quick of eye and reflex to break a target with each barrel of the shotgun.

With superb shooting, Trevor Everett missed only two targets, and was a clear winner from a field of 139 of the best trapshooters in the Dominion. Although this is his first national clay target title, he has been very unlucky in many other major shoots. He was runner-up in the South Island single rise championship early in March at Invercargill, after a shoot-off which went to the forty-ninth target. Everett has been trapshooting for more than 20 years and it naturally follows that all mem-

bers of his family are also keen shooters. A member of no less than six Canterbury gun clubs, he is the present holder of nine club championships, having won the Belfast Gun Club’s double rise championship five times in succession. He is club captain of the Belfast Gun Club, and on the committee of the Christchurch Club.

Almost any week-end will find him refereeing, scoring or taking part in trapshooting tournaments on one of the many gun club grounds in Canterbury. He is also a keen rifle sportsman and in the season he excels at deerstalking, pig hunting and duck -shooting.