SCENES DURING A BUSY DAY’S SHOOT AT GLEN EDEN.—Side inset, W. J. Turner, who won the rose bowl presented by Mr. F. Kay-Stratton at a 15-bird shoot at the Auckland Metropolitan Gun Club’s shoot at Glen Eden on Saturday. Above, left to right, the trap release, the firing base with the clay trap house in the distance, and in the air a clay-bird. Bottom left, a collection of standard shot-guns used at the shoot, worth round about £l,ooo. Bottom right, the ingenious automatic trap which hurls the clays out and up at a tremendous speed, automatically directing the point in an angle slightly larger than a right angle at which the clay appears.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 12
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113SCENES DURING A BUSY DAY’S SHOOT AT GLEN EDEN.—Side inset, W. J. Turner, who won the rose bowl presented by Mr. F. Kay-Stratton at a 15-bird shoot at the Auckland Metropolitan Gun Club’s shoot at Glen Eden on Saturday. Above, left to right, the trap release, the firing base with the clay trap house in the distance, and in the air a clay-bird. Bottom left, a collection of standard shot-guns used at the shoot, worth round about £l,000. Bottom right, the ingenious automatic trap which hurls the clays out and up at a tremendous speed, automatically directing the point in an angle slightly larger than a right angle at which the clay appears. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 12
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