Newstead members, and are readily identifiable by the inscribed initials, N.G.C.

The gun club was still shooting on alternate Saturdays between the Heartz matches, and there was much talk about who would be the first to break 12 straight targets. All shooting now had pretty well established itself at twelve clay pigeons, equally divided into crossing, double, and straightaway shots. This was the pattern every week and, to this date, the best score accomplished was a nine.

Today, we might think of twelve targets as very few for an afternoon's outing, but keep in mind that all gunners shot at a single target in order, except doubles, and, if there were fifteen shooters, and consider that the traps had to be loaded and released manually, a large amount of time would be consumed. These gunners also took their shooting very seriously, and were very deliberate in their delivery of the shotload...Time had not changed this factor.

The third match for the 1911 Heartz Trophy was held on Saturday, March 25th, and prior to the start some members expressed a preference for the crossing targets to move from right to left, rather than the left to right that had been shot in the first two matches, Those knowledgeable in the shooting of moving targets will realize that right handed shooters naturally find left crossing targets easier than right, so one must assume that some of these Newstead gunners were pretty sharp to show a preference for the right-to-left targets. The rules committee yielded to the majority and the traps were set up right to left. The shoot proceeded with the following results:

STRAIGHTAWAY DOUBLES CROSSING

A. W. Hyndman O1l11 101131101 9/12 Major Peake 1l11liliil 1111 0000 8/12 Major Weeks 1010 101031111 8/12 J. O. Hyndman O1l1i1 0011 0110 7/12 W. E. Hyndman 0110 l1iililoil1oo 7/12 Capt. Peake 1101 11101000 7/12