Thursday, February 15, 2007

Skeet. Reading along in Migdalski about shotgunning, I learn that, while the first recorded trap shooting occurred in 1793 in England, Charles Davies of Andover, Massachusetts, invented skeet shooting in the early 1920s. He was dissatisfied with trap shooting because the crossing and incoming shots of bird shooting were absent. His game became so popular that two hunting magazines offered a prize of $100 to the person whose name for the sport was accepted. "The lucky winner was Mrs. Gertrude Hurlbutt of Dayton, Montana. Her offering was 'skeet', an old Scandinavian word meaning 'shoot.'" Hence, when you say "let's go shoot skeet,' you are really saying "let's go shoot shoot.'"

Skeet, you learn so much reading this blog

(The game of hurlbutt will be covered in a later post.)

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