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Article: Sporting clays are 'infinitely variable,' shooter says
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- July 26, 2004
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NICK KRUG/THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
From left, Alan Gillespie, 50, Richard Schultz, 65, and Bill
Morris, 73, watch as Steve Bittel, 56, walks away with a grimace from
a tough round of sporting clays at the Sunflower State Games.
By Randy Fisher
THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
Ken Corbet, Sunflower State Games commissioner for sporting clays,
calls the event "a lifelong sport."
Topekan Vern Dow, who has been shooting since he was 12 and says
he has been accused of being a "pretty old character out here
sometimes," is a living example of Corbet's description.
"When I was in Iowa as a boy, I grew up shooting rabbits and
pheasants and quail," Dow said.
Dow received his first shotgun for Christmas when he was ...