Two shooting records that may never be broken

I shoot @ Robinson Ranch ,On field #4 there are two memorial stones One for Gerald Burkhart and the other for Ashley Jones their target totals are listed.

But here is the break down of their records:

Ashley Jones
719400 singles
83400 caps
141500 doubles

Gerald Burkhart
1629600 singles
67500 caps
3850 caps

They shot together @ Robinson Ranch and they died within a week of each other

 

Out of curiosity, I looked them up.

Ashley Jones shot 1969 - 2011

Gerald Burkhart shot 1976 - 2011

 

If my memory serves me well I believe that Tony Olivito was the first shooter to shoot one million 16yd targets. I see in the average book that he ended up with1,374,600 16yd targets.

Dave Berlet

 

You are correct Dave

 

These are truly great achievements for these individuals. Someone else who I believe had an amazing number of 16yd targets was Adolph Nelson. For many years Adolph had the record for 16yd targets registered with a total of 411,500 according to the average book. All of these targets were shot at regularly scheduled shoots. For example if there was a 1000 bird marathon today at Vincennes's Indiana Adolph would be there and tomorrow he would possibly be shooting a 500 marathon at Camp Troy, Ohio and the next day he could possibly be doing another 500 birder at the Detroit Gun Club in Michigan and then maybe down to Fisher Brothers Shooting Park at Findlay, Ohio for another marathon. He shot all but about 50,000 of these targets after he retired. In a conversation with Adolph at the Grand he told me that in the previous target year he had registered over 50,000 16yd targets and he and his wife had put on over 50,000 miles on their car going from shoot to shoot. As I understand it Tony, Gerald, and Ashley shot the vast majority of their targets at one gun club on one trap and they could register targets all day long. I'm not saying that this was wrong it was just a whole different type of ball game. Much like breaking 100 on Saturday and 100 on Sunday in the NRA Singles at the Grand and it being considered the same as breaking a normal 200 straight in a one day program. What I am trying to say is that these should be listed as different events.
Dave Berlet

 

Is there a typo? Listed as both 67500 caps and 3850 caps. Could the last figure (3850) be for doubles? Take care.

 

Yep- the 3850 is his total doubles.

 

Looking at totals for the year is pretty impressive for these guys, too. Tony Olivito shot at 101,400 singles in 1985. That’s a wild number- a lot of folks don’t get to that number in a lifetime.

 

im not even to 25,000 singles and I’ve been at it since 1999

 

at $50+ for 100 targets who can afford to shoot 'em.

 

George levkowitz also shot with those guys.

 

When you purchase new Remington shells by the PALLET, as in a garage full of pallets, you really don’t even think about what the club, Allegheny Rifle, is charging you and your squad for targets. Especially when your squad is shooting 1000 targets each on Saturday and another 1000 each Sunday. Add another 1000 each if it was a holiday weekend.
And because you shoot the majority of those targets with an 870, Remington gives you
a special one at the 1985 Grand. When it WAS the Grand.

BTW, If you didn’t have enough shells Tony would give you all you needed to keep shooting.

 

Gerry & Ashley would shoot 1000 -1500 targets each at RR, 5 days a week--they were shooting machines