LINE AND TRIGGER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 703, 27 August 1903, Page 13

LINE AND TRIGGER

(By

“ Gillie.”)

For the fifth New Zealand championship pigeon shooting match, which took place at Heathcote, Christchurch, there were twenty-eight competitors and a fair attendance of spectators, but the wind made good shooting difficult. Mr E. P. Graham (Starlight), who won the championship medal and 60 per cent, of the stakes, killed twenty-one birds straightout without a miss. H. Price and A. .W. Barnard tied for second place with nineteen kills each, and E. H. Eccles and F. Redwood were equal for fourth with eighteen kills. “ Starlight,” Eccles and Redwood used the Colonial Ammunition Company’s “Favoutire ” and “Invincible” cartridges', loaded with l£oz shot, and patent concave wad. .

A gale of wind blew during the Melbourne Gun Club’s £lOO handicap on the 7th inst., and so fast did competitors miss out that the whole handicap was disposed of in seven rounds. The winners of stakes were as follows : —“Craigie,” £22 10s ; A. J. M'Donald, £22 10s ; C. Mitchell, £22 10s ; and A. M'Millan, £22 (on second round), £lO, with six kills.