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Article: Gun show treasure. (Shotgunner).
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- Guns Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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Littlest Shotguns
It wasn't so many years ago when there were a variety of miniature clay target systems on the market. MOSKEETO was one of the most popular brands. Most were designed around smoothbore .22s and the little, long rifle shot cartridge packing 1/15-ounce of No. 12 shot. The miniaturized clay targets were "more fragile than eggs," and they were tossed gently by tiny, scaled-down traps.
As I remember, the Canadian Air Force used the MOSKEETO system successfully to train their WWH Air Cadets in the intricacies of calculating leads and hitting fast moving (and cheap!) flying targets. Indeed, it worked.
A bit later, Crosman marketed a ...