For
info about Derek's work as a TV Presenter/Spokesman, visit www.derekpartridge.comDerek Partridge on ATA vs Bunker: Some 25 years ago, in one of my many articles for Gun World—on ATA vs Bunker—I wrote: "If four 10 year-olds can break 100/100 and two 14 year-olds can break 200/200 at 16 yard singles. . . what is the challenge to a man?" The question received no answers and did not make me any friends! I have no doubt it will not make me any friends now! But, I am trying to literally "provoke" ATA shooters into taking up what really is a challenge—to any man or woman—Bunker shooting, known around the world as Olympic Trap, Olympic Trench or International Trap. Please
take
a
moment
to consider the facts: to
exemplify why I consider 16-yard ATA too simple, here are the results
from one event at the Grand: after Winner and Runner-Up, there were 12
categories, each with a winner and runner-up: AAA, AA, A, B, C, D,
Super Veteran, Veteran, Sub-Junior, Junior, Lady and Wheelchair. Every
single one of the 26 winners and runners-up scored 100/100! If every
single class is won with a perfect score… what is the point
of
having classes? To further illustrate my point: I know a retired Police
Colonel, a gentleman of impeccable integrity. When he was first
introduced to 16-yard ATA,
the trap shooters told him he had to have full choke and #7.5 shot. He
only had
a skeet choke and #9s… but he broke 25 straight in his first
round. . .
nuff said! DEREK PARTRIDGE ARTICLES 1968-81 European Editor Gun Digest and Guns & Ammo Annual • International Advisor Gun World Gun Digest • Guns & Ammo• G&A Annual• Gun World • Trap & Field • Sports Afield • Gun Facts Shotgun Sports • NRA Review • American Shotgunner • Hunting Annual • Popular Guns • Skeeter Clay Shooting Magazine• Shooting Times • Target Gun • Shooting Magazine • Broken Clays •PULL Sporting Gun • Sport & Recreation. Reprints: France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark Books International Style Clay Target Shooting for South African Clay Pigeon Shooting Association A.B.C. of Shooting (Andre Deutsch): Clay Shooting Guns and Ammo • Clay Sports and Techniques Shotgun Digest: International Trap Shooting • Safety • Specialized Equipment • Release Triggers Press Releases & Ads Perazzi • Winchester UK • Eley • Kemen •Kick Eez • Nitro Nobel • Gyttorp 1981 American Shotgunner Perazzi – "The Little Bomb" – Revisited 1977 Gun Digest Treasury The Trap Shooter • Guns & Ammo Annual No Bag Limit 1975 UK National & Trade Press Jackie Stewart’s Other sport • Why Jackie Stewart Shoots Eley 1975 European Press Development of the Modern Eley Cartridge 1975 Shooting Magazine How Jackie Stewart Shoots Olympic Trap 1975 The Field Live Pigeons to Sporting Clays • Guns & Ammo Annual • Company Profile: Eley 1975 Hunting Annual Come Shooting With England’s Aristocracy 1974 Shooting Magazine Gyttorp Shells•Live Bird Shooting • Jackie Stewart Shoots Olympic Trap 1974 Guns & Ammo Over and Under vs Side by Side • Gun Digest • Chokes, Chokes, Chokes!1974 Guns & Ammo Annual Olympic Clays – The Greatest Challenge 1973 Shooting Magazine Think Safe • The Case For Olympic Trench 1973 Sport and Recreation The Sport That Won Us Olympic Gold 1973 Shooting Times Plastic vs Paper Cases • Sporting Clays • Hearing Protection Revisited 1973 Gun Digest The Trap Shooter and How He Stands 1972 Shooting Times Rifle to Shotgun • Hearing Protection for Shooters • The Release Trigger 1972 Shooting Times Behind The Perazzi Legend 1972 Popular Guns Let a Woman In Your (Shooting) Life! • Watch Those Feathers Fly! 1972 Guns & Ammo Annual Clays and Hunting • The Release Trigger 1971 Popular Guns Confessions of An International Trap Shooter I & II • What’s In a Perazzi? 1971 Shooting Times Clay Clubs A Disgrace • Rough Shooter to Clay Buster • Why Olympic Trap 1971 Gun Digest Guns and Game Shooting 1971 Guns & Ammo Annual Rifleman’s Conversion Kit to Shotgunning • Profile: Perazzi & Mattarelli 1970 Sports Afield Hearing Protection - The Facts 1970 Gun World Claybuster's Survival Kit • Up-Tight Over-Choking 1970 Shooting Times Shoot British 1970 The Skeeter International Trap Shooting 1970 The Sportsman International—The Real Challenge 1970 Gun Digest Perazzi—The Ferrari of Shotguns 1970 Gun Facts Facts of Hearing Protection 1970 Guns & Ammo Annual Secrets of Championship Clay Busting 1969 Skeeter Int. Trap & Skeet 1969 Gun World Police Combat Training • Clay Birding – The Hard Way 1969 Gun World How To Be A Shotgun Coach • Shooting International Trap & Skeet 1969 Guns & Ammo Think Safe • U.S. International Trap & Skeet Association 1969 Gun World Bob Stack's columns • Perazzi Gun Tests 1968 Guns & Ammo Birth of A Shotgun 1968 Gun World Shamateur Clay Busters • A Real Trial Olympic Games • Ithaca SKB Gun Test |