SKEET — THE NEW TARGET GAME.

The game took off like a skyrocket. Many new clubs were started, and established trap fields added skeet layouts. That same year the new club in Raleigh, North Carolina, hosted the first ever National Skeet Shooting Championships. A Garner, North Carolina gunner, H. M. Jackson,Jr. became the first person to ever shoot a 25 straight, and the National Skeet Shooting Association was formed. 1926 was a big year in the evolutionary history of moving target shooting.

Modern North American skeet has changed very little from the 'Half-Clock' game of Davies and Foster. The layout remains basically the same. For safety reasons the line of target flight was, in 1936, altered 18 feet to the outside of station eight rather than have the targets flying directly at station one and seven, as they did originally. This change also made it possible to place skeet fields side by side, and added greatly to a club's ability to handle a volume of gunners. The dropped gun requirement, and the three second variable release delay, have been gone from North American skeet for a number of years. Their demise was encouraged by the many infractions and hard feeling that referees had to endure in accurately calling the rules. They felt it took away

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