Gun Club Notes

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 84, 14 August 1923, Page 3

Gun Club Notes

NORTH CANTERBURY GUN CLUB. GRAND NATIONAL HANDICAP. The North Canterbury Gun Club (held a '£loo Grand National live | pigeon handicap match on Friday on ! their grottnds. East belt, Rimgiora. The weather was all that could beulej"sired. On the wholo the .shooting I was good. J. Skilling and &• Marshall each shot all fourteen birds, and six other competitors shot twelve birds each. First prize £55 second £25, third £ls, and fourth £5. The results was:— J. Skilling (23yds)— 11111111221111—14 It. Marshall (22yds)— 12311111111111—14 F Frampton (23yds)— 11111111111100—12 F, Truscott (22?ds)_ 11121011111011—12 T. Hedley (25yds)— 112U010111111—12 B. Burgess, (22yds)— 21110110111111—12 E. Landstall (25yds)— 11111111111100—12: D. McGregor (28yds)_ j 0:111121101111—121

R. H. Chapman (23yds) and A. Dobson (30yds) missed their birds in the last round, and went out with a score of 11 each. "E. F. Stead ' (27yds) and L. Hushes- (31yds) drop»cd out in the thirteenth round. The scorers of the possible decided to divide the first and second pri7£B Iby "taking £4O each, and the fiix with 12 to their credit divided the third and fourth money, a sum of £2O. i A second event was a £1 sweep for an eishtbird match, in which .25 competed. R. Marshall (23 (Is), B. F. Stead (27yds); and E. Lanj stall (25yds) killed all their birds j and divided the priz© money, teking £6 6s 6d each. C. Hickinbottom (21yds) G. Bruere (22yds), L. Mofr fatt (22yds), F. Truscotv (22yds), R. [Chapman (23yds), T. Henderson I (21yds); A. N. Turner (23yds), L. Hushes (31yds), A.B.Kerr (23yds), and L.Kerr (22yds), .killed seven birds | each.

Another £1 eight-hire sweep was shot off, 22 competing. J. Gorton (2'.yds), R. Marshall (24yds), L. Hushes (31yds), E, Lanstall (26yds), D. McGregor (21yds), and C. Tmscott (27yds), shot all their" birds and divided the prize money, amounting to £l7 12s. Eleven of thd other competitors grassed seven birds each R. Marshall, who belongs to Palmorston North, never missed a bird during the day. The Stratford Glub hold a members' shoot on Thursday afternoon. y What do you consider good shooting with a pocket gun? asKs a correspondent of Sportsmen's Bulletin. The reply was as follows: A pocket gun is essentially a weapon for self-defence, and I would call it good enough shooting to t>o able to hit an S-ineh circle 20 feot away, nine times out of ten and without having to take too long in aiming. The question has often been asked "What is the average life of a shotgun?" and the answer is usually "Whatever you want to make it " In o'her words (states the Sportsmen's Bulletin) there is no limit to its life provided it is given care, which is necessary in prolonging the life of anything. YVe have on record authentic instance of shotguns still in uso which have been fired over 200,000 times, without a chance of barrels. We have in mind a particular gun which »s still d'Jng good service at-the traps and recently won a cup at a tournament in the Canal Zone.