Live Pigeon to Clay Shooting -100Years:

Heads up - both ISIS and Ebola are coming - meanwhile here in NZ - The North Canterbury Clay Target Association is celebrating a hundred years of good sport in healthy outdoors locations in the fresh air.

They are holding an "Old Time Shoot" in full period costume at their Fernside Rangiora club site on Saturday October 11. - Let's hope they have a good day as we had overnight snow up here last night!

The club was founded at a meeting held 15th June 1914. - The members shot clays from the outset - but for many years into the 1940s - live bird shooting was popular. The live bird traps were located in sunken bunkers operated by young boys sitting in a confined box being paid to operate the traps. On hot days it was sweltering and in cold weather the wee lads would shiver as they pulled live pigeons from cages and inserted them into the birdcage-like traps of netting and wire hinged to release the birds mechanically when the shooter called "pull".

- A lever would be pulled to randomly select a trap and release the shooters live bird.

Live Pigeon shooting was an Olympic games sport in 1900

Modern skeet and clay shooting are much evolved sports:

For some time glass balls filled with feathers were used as targets.

Antique Glass Targets now Rare and Collectable.

Marty K.
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