"In the Apparently Simple Matter of Holding a GUN"
Sporting Life Nov. 12, 1898
Rich. Oliver, a well-known English shot, speaking of grouse shooting, says he does not recommend a too rigid attitude. A military position, be declared, quite wrong. He said if it could only be impressed upon young sportsmen that
they should lean well forward upon their guns, with their heads also thrown forward, they would shoot much better. It is better to keep the left arm down toward the trigger as much as possible for this kind of shooting, as the leverage of the arm is so much better in that attitude.
The Americans, as a class, are inclined to strike an attitude in which the
left arm is stretched out toward the muzzle of the gun. The English style is the happy medium of all others. The greatest gunners are, of course, the English and Americans, but the Italians, shooting with English guns, have made rapid strides of late.
A manufacturer made a collection of photographs of the members of a first-rate gun club, taken as they faced the trap, and at the word "pull." Of these crack shots there are not two who hold the gun exactly alike. Each shooter in some measure adapts himself to the gun he prefers.
Charles Grimm, Clear Lake, Iowa won the Live Bird Tournament at the 1892 Chicago World's Fair and held the "Cast Iron" medal. He used a L.C. Smith in 1896-1899 and was second to Tom Marshall at the 1899 GAH.