Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — Gave Gun Club Members an Exhibition of Fancy Shooting. [ARTICLE]

Gave Gun Club Members an Exhibition of Fancy Shooting.

H. W. Catfwallader, who travels for a gun shell company and who is regarded one of the best experts in the country, gave a demonstration to a number qf the local gun dab Friday afternoon. Only a few were present as the event was not advertised. Cadwallader is both a rifle and shotgun expert and his feats of marksmanship proved very entertaining to those fortunate enough to see them. With a rifle he would hit walnuts, pieces of candy and marbles thrown into the air, he would also rim out a bullseye, planting every shot just where he wanted it. By holding the butt of the rifle at his hip and not sighting at all, he could hit walnuts in rapid fire at a distance of twenty feet. With the shotgun he rarely ever missed A bluerock and he performed a number of trick events that were “eye openers” to amateurs. One trie* was to lay a tin can on the ground, fire under it and force it into the air and then pump the remaining four shots into it before it reached the ground. With a rifle, he performed much the same trick. Laying a No. 12 shotgun shell on a board, he fired a bullet directly under it. This caused the shell to bounce into the air and the marksman would pierce it with another bullet while it was in the air. After Cadwallader had completed his exhibition he gave away a* number of samples of the shells he is advertising.