Impressive Red, White & Blue Banner

I sure like that beautiful red, white and blue with stars advertisement at the top. That mud-saucer has been around for a few years.

Here's an advertisement from May 1898.

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Enjoy Our History !

HB

 

Thanks for sharing so much of our trap shooting history !as a new trapshooter my interest in where we came from grows with your every post! Iam in your debt. At 72 I wish I could've been there!!!!!!!!

 

GA.trapshooter,

Be sure to see History Buffs threads in his Forum, he has tons of history about Trapshooting.

 

You're very welcome Ga.trapshooter, glad your a fan of our wonderful and exciting history.

Here's a little more for you. I was just talking about the above advertisement with a friend and noticed the last name on the list of agents is J. C. Porterfield, of Columbus, Ohio.

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Mr. Porterfield was a game warden, trap shooter and inventor. Most won't recognize his name.

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Many have seen the old DuPont Hand Trap featured below. Its patent was granted Aug. 5, 1902, but not to the DuPont Company.

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The hand trap was originally called the JC Hand Trap (JC Porterfield). His trap was sold under the names: Mitchell Hand Trap; Rock Island Manufacturing Co. (RIMCO) Hand Trap and DuPont Hand Trap.

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Enjoy Our History !

HB

 

WHAT? 80 yard harder targets? Fool the best? Make it a challenge?

What Blasphemy!

 

From the DuPont book "The Sport Alluring" ….

Trap3

 

HB... I Agree! Dug out an early White Flyer Scoresheet...

Trap3

 

Thanks Trap3,

Appreciate it greatly when others add to my historical posts.

I should mention that John S. "Sharkey" Fanning demonstrated the JC style Hand Trap thrower for many years and was considered the toughest guy to break those sporting targets he threw. Jack Fanning is in my personal "HistoryBuff's Hall of Fame."

I'm pretty sure one of the Hebbard brothers, Charles C., came up with the White Flyer target design for the Western Target Co. at East Alton, IL. Franklin W. Olin established the Equitable Powder Co. and Charles C. and Albert H. Hebbard were hired to manage clay pigeon manufacturing.

Charlie Hebbard, formerly with the W. F. Quimby Co., of New York, also with the Empire Target Co., has come out with a new target, the “White Flyer” and has located a plant at East Alton, Ill., where he will manufacture them. Charlie is quite a hustler and will be in evidence this coming season.

[ SPORTING LIFE, January 8, 1898, page 20 ]

So many greats who contributed to our sport have never been inducted. I've always wondered why the great Adolph Topperwein, Plinky's husband has never been inducted. He registered a few targets but due to his rugged schedule conducting exhibitions across the country annually, he didn't have time to compete. If he had, he would have surely been an Inductee. His contributions by attracting thousands to trapshooting events is reason enough to have his likeness hung next to Plinky's picture in the THOF.

HB