CLAY BIRD SHOOT: SEVENTEEN EXTRA TO DECIDE PLACING
Seventeen extra birds were necessary before a decision for third place could be reached in a 20-bird shoot conducted by the West Coast Gun Club at Ahaura last week-end. The standard of shooting was exceptionally good and the shoot-off one of the best seen on the West Coast for many years. In the 20-bird match, .J. Howatt and T. Heiniger both shot 18 birds and divided the first two prizes. Five other competitors each shot 17 birds. In the shoot-off D. Scott and J. Shaw were eliminated at the fifth bird. The three remaining shooters, all of one family, continued until the fifteenth bird, when G. Hahn was eliminated. At the sixteenth bird, J. Hahn went out, and A. G. Hahn won with the seventeenth. The third prize was a gun-cleaning outfit. Conditions were good for the meeting and there was a good attendance of spectators. The results of the other two shoots held were:—-
Challenge for Buttons. —J. Howatt and J. Hahn (holders), 18; G. Hahn and C. Deakin, 17. Five Bird Trophy.—T. Heiniger alone shot the possible to win.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1949, Page 2
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