GUNS Magazine March 1956 - Jeffersonian

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shooting. Here lies succor, and a chance for
rejuvenating the shooting game. The military
make possible the National Matches at Camp
Perry, Ohio, each year, and at scarcely no
expense at all the NRA can participate. As
long as there is an annual revival of the Big
Matches, there is hope.
The arms companies have the wherewithal
for the development of new targets, ranges,
courses of fire and guns. Such mighty organizations
as the Olin Mathieson-Winchester
combine have research and development
facilities capable of whipping up a shooting
sport so new it would bedazzle the most hardshelled
old belly-flopper on this or the other
side the Mississippi. Only drawback is the
probable attitude of the arms peoples.
Present sales to the target clan represent
such a piddling part of the annual take that
the company big wheels would need a lot of
persuasion before they could be induced to
put their research people on anything as
problen~atical as originating a new shooting
game. Sales to those 16,000,000 hunters are
so sweetly profitable, why diddle around with
a little fraternity that whangs away at paper?
A shotgunner named William Harndon
Foster didn't wait for some company to act.
In 1926 he invented a new and quite original
shotgun game. As a clay target trap shooter
for many years, he became dissatisfied with
the sameness of the game. He observed that
regulation trap attracted very little new
blood, it was in a state of advanced stagnation,
and it became apparent to Bill Foster
that something needed to be done to give the
game a much needed shot in the arm. He
proceeded to do that very thing. His game,
once it was known to the shotgunners of the
country, was an overwhelming success. It
caught on like wildfire. So intense did interest
grow that a national magazine conducted
a contest to find the new sport a suit-
able name. Skeet it was called, and it
flourishes to this day.
The game was originated neither by an
association of marksmen nor by the arms and
ammunition manufacturers. It was the brainchild
of a sportsman who was dissatisfied
with shotgunning as he found it, and was determined
to do something to better the situation.
There is no reason why some bright
young chap today cannot find a similar answer
for our expiring rifle sport. @
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