Popular science monthly . an thirty-five million ofthe little saucers each year. Forty-fivehundred clubs fallow the game of thetrap. Four hundred thousand men shootonce or more each year at the clay birds. While the beginner marvels at theimmensity of the space surrounding thelittle birds, and the shortness of thetime available in which to locate theflying saucer and judge its angle offlight, put the gun on the right spot andpull the trigger, yet the skill acquiredby the shooter following the game iswonderful. Breaking ninety of theclay birds out of one hundred in a bigtournament would not put
Popular science monthly . an thirty-five million ofthe little saucers each year. Forty-fivehundred clubs fallow the game of thetrap. Four hundred thousand men shootonce or more each year at the clay birds. While the beginner marvels at theimmensity of the space surrounding thelittle birds, and the shortness of thetime available in which to locate theflying saucer and judge its angle offlight, put the gun on the right spot andpull the trigger, yet the skill acquiredby the shooter following the game iswonderful. Breaking ninety of theclay birds out of one hundred in a bigtournament would not put one withinthe first ten per cent of the men enteredin the shoot unless the conditions wereunusually bad. There are hundredsof instances where a hundred of thebirds have been broken without a miss,while a professional shot has the recordof more than fi\e hundred straight record for 1915 was three hundredand seventy-two in competition, withouta miss, four hundred and ninety-nine outof five hundred bv the same The puller reclining in his little house. He watches eachclay bird as it leaves the machine and he knows thathis slightest hesitation will balk the best shooter 534 Popular SciciKT Moiitlilj/ Eliminating One of the Tortures of theDentists Chair
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