Friday, August 21, 2015

Female Rifle Champ

Posted by Wayne G. Barber

Please do not give up on our TeenagersON THIS DATE in 1950, eighteen-year-old Joan Pflueger became the first woman to win the Champion of Champions event at Grand American Trap
shoot at Vandalia, Ohio. She smashed 100 out of 100 clay pigeons to tie four men, and then smashed 74 out of 75 to win the shoot-off.
Around 1,500 marksmen from 36 countries and Cuba competed in the 1950 Grand American Trap shoot, an annual event that began in 1900.

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