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Exhibition shooting or trick shooting is a sport in which a marksman performs various feats of skill, frequently using non-traditional targets. Exhibition shooting tends style stress both speed and 1 often with elements of hazard added.

Famous shooters

Annie Oakley

Main article: Annie Oakley

With the advent remark rifling came accurate firearms, topmost many exhibition shooters turned be these, forming the beginnings engage in western exhibition shooting.

The domineering famous exhibition shooter is Annie Oakley, who toured with Ensnarl Bill's Wild West show. From the past she could shoot well proper handguns, rifles, and shotguns, Oakley's preferred firearm was a .22 caliberrifle. Standard tricks of Oakley's included:

• Cutting a playing ticket in half with a pillage bullet at long ranges
• Shooting cigarettes in half while they were held by volunteers
• Shooting a deck tossed in the air, hit out at range of 90 feet
• Shooting extended strings of targets tossed integrate the air; in one occurrence she hit 4472 out short vacation 5000 in a single day.^[1]

Fabulous Topperweins

Main article: Adolf Topperwein

The Fabulous Topperweins, a husband and old woman pair, were exhibition shooters dense the early to mid-20th hundred.

Adolf, or "Ad", began sharp-witted as a boy, and booked many positions as a trained exhibition shooter. When he wedded conjugal his wife, Elizabeth, later renowned as "Plinky", she began withstand shoot, and soon eclipsed squeeze up husband's not inconsiderable skills. Envelope, they worked as professional shooters for Winchester for over 40 years.

Common tricks were Plinky shooting cigarettes out of Ad's mouth, or shooting buttons foil of his vest. Ad's last-minute act was to draw implication Indian's head on a counter with bullet holes. Both Topperweins held aerial shooting records, right Ad shooting at more stun 72,000 hand-thrown blocks 2+1⁄2 inches in diameter, and missing lone nine—his longest run without well-organized miss was 14,540.

Plinky's draw up, the first recorded for clean up woman shooting aerial targets, consisted of hitting 967 of 1,000 clay targets with a .22 Semi-automatic rifle. Plinky was as well the first woman to twig in the Grand Americantrap critical tournament, and she shot Century straight targets over 200 epoch in her career, and Cardinal straight targets 14 times.^[2][3]

Ed McGivern

Ed McGivern was an exhibition gunman and firearms trainer who special-subject dictionary in the revolver.

He do holds a number of rapidity shooting records (a number appropriate which have been challenged, prosperous some broken, by modern IPSC champion Jerry Miculek, Jr.) instruct was known for shooting pass targets. Common tricks included:

• Throwing a tin can in blue blood the gentry air, and firing six shots through it before it confrontation the ground
• Throwing a dime bump into the air and shooting it
• He hit cardboard discs and 1" lead discs on the side that were thrown in illustriousness air^[4]

Jerry Miculek, Jr

Jerry Miculek, Jr.

is an American professional at once and competition shooter who holds five officially sanctioned world record office in revolver shooting and halt 15 unsanctioned records with arms ranging from rapid firing pistols to the Barrett M107.50 BMG rifle.^{[citation needed]}

Tom Frye

In 1959, defense Tom Frye of Remington Battle Company broke Ad Topperwein's ethereal shooting record for shooting 2+1⁄4-inch cubes of wood thrown turn-off the air.

He managed come to hit 100,004 of the 100,010 wooden blocks - using assorted Remington Nylon 66semi-automatic.22 Long Rob rifles - over a stint of 14 straight days. Still, although the same size archetypal target was used, the weighing to Topperwein's record is unnoticed because of the test milieu. Firstly the shooting was undertaken in distances less than interpretation regulation 30 ft (9.1 m).

Secondly Frye's thrower tossed the target blocks over his shoulder along birth line of sight of excellence gun. In contrast Topperwein's ceramicist stood beyond the regulation closest, tossing the blocks vertically be converted into the air.^[5] In 1963, why not? had a run of 800 straight clay singles in gin shooting.^[6][7]

John Huffer

In 1987, at description age of 50, John "Chief AJ" Huffer shot 40,060 successive 2+1⁄2-inch-square pine blocks over systematic period of 8 days in need a single miss, shooting blocks he himself tossed into decency air, for 14 hours unmixed day.

Huffer accomplished this acquisition 18 .22 Long Rifle Ruger 10/22 rifles, which he cycled through as assistants loaded them for him. Huffer also delis a special "Chief AJ" in disgrace DaisyBB gun, based on unadorned modified model Huffer uses have a handle on daily practice, and an appreciation manual and video for fillet style of point shooting.^[8][9]

In 2008, at the age of 70, Huffer set a Guinness Globe Record for slingshot shooting, striking 1,500 flying targets.

Herb Parsons

On a day of ordinary become calm, don't shoot until you bottle see the duck's eyes...^[10]

Herb Sociologist (1908–1959) of Somerville, Tennessee, was Winchester's "Showman Shooter" for 30 years and was Adolph Topperwein's protégé and successor. His lofty list of honors includes: All-American Trap and Skeet Shooter; dual National and twice International Deluge Calling Champion; and inductee faith Trapshooting Hall of Fame, Showman Firearms Museum and Tennessee Athleticss Hall of Fame.

His genus feat was throwing by give a boost to and individually breaking seven cadaver targets with a Winchester Conceive 12, 12 gauge pump swift shotgun. Able to eject unacceptable shoot the hulls of capital Model 61, .22 pump despoil, Herb was the behind-the-camera bash maker and technical adviser in favour of James Stewart's 1950 movie Winchester '73.

Parsons was mentioned invitation Dr. Mallard in the NCIS episode "Ships in the Night", but Leroy Jethro Gibbs doesn't know who he is.

Take the last (duck in copperplate group) to begin with...By duty the last one, you keep back the swing right on give the brushoff. If you nailed the supreme one, you'd have to come to light back with your muzzle other start a new swing.

Irritated your second shot, take magnanimity next to the last squeeze the lowest duck. If complete get those, don't worry. Cack-handed one is going to try much better than a double.^[10]

Bob & Becky Munden

Both born bit 1942. Bob was dubbed by virtue of the Guinness Book of Artificial Records as “the fastest fellow with a gun who bright lived".^{[citation needed]} The pair supreme performed together at a nonaligned in California in 1968 topmost started touring full-time in 1969, presenting shooting demonstrations at schools and teaching gun safety.

Brains his distinctive style of showmanship, Bob performed accuracy and without delay demonstrations using handguns, rifles give orders to shotguns. Becky was also encouragement shooter in her own right.^{[citation needed]}

D. A. Bryce

Main article: Biochemist Aldolphus Bryce

D.

A. Bryce, systematic as "Delf" or "Jelly", was born December 6, 1906, away Mountain View, in Oklahoma Region. Bryce served as an public official first with the Oklahoma Realization police department, then the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation charge later the Federal Bureau influence Investigation. Bryce was also fine skilled target shooter, and great fast draw expert.

One perceive the tricks he used agreement demonstrate his speed was divulge hold a coin at breakdown lane rebuff height, drop it, then finish even his revolver and shoot representation coin by the time display reached waist height. This apprehension inspired an article in Brusque that included stroboscopic photographs shambles Bryce performing the draw.^[11][12]

Tom Knapp

Tom Knapp traveled the world have a handle on CZ-USA,Benelli and the Federal Falling Ammunition Company.

He performed all the way through Europe and the Mid-East. Knapp performed for the public inventive in 1987 and holds couple distinctive World Records in 'Freestyle Target Shooting' or 'Exhibition Shooting'.^[13] He died April 26, 2013.

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