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SHOTGUNNING MASTERY: Rudy Etchen's Records

  • Member of 14 All-American Trap and Skeet teams.

  • Winner North American Clay Target Championship.

  • Winner Open Championship of North America.

  • Winner North American Doubles Championship - 5 times.

  • Winner High Average on 16-Yard Targets in North America twice.

  • 1952 with 99.20% average, a record at the time.

  • 1953 with 99.12% average.

  • Winner High Over All Championship of North America - 5 times. 1950 score of 980x1000 was a record at the  time.

  • Winner High All Around Championship of North America - 5 times.

  • Winner of more than 100 state and regional trap championships.

  • Youngest State Trap Champion - Kansas - 14 years of age. Repeated as State Champion the following year.

  • Winner High Average on Doubles in North America - 3 times.

  • First 100 Straight on Doubles ever shot at the Grand American.

  • Winner of 20 state and regional skeet championships.

  • Winner National Sub Small Bore (.410) Skeet Championship.

  • International Skeet - 2nd place in Championship of the World.

  • International Trap - 3rd place in Championship of the World.

  • International Trap - winner gold medal at Olympic tryouts in 1972. Broke the first 100 straight ever shot on the Rochester, MN, field enroute to a 196x100.

  • Winner World Live Pigeon Championship High Over All, Mexico City, 1966. Second place in the individual event among some 478 entrants.

  • Match of Nations, Cairo, Egypt - Member of winning live-bird team competing with 25 other countries.

  • Winner World Live Bird Grand Prix, Monte Carlo, 1955.

  • Winner Live Bird Championship of Madrid, 1965.

  • Winner Live Bird Championship of Paris, 1955.

  • Winner Open Flyer Championship of Guadalajara, 1974.

  • Winner Columbaire Championship of Seville, Spain, 1965.

  • Winner Columbaire Championship of Madrid, 1966.

  • Winner Columbaire Championship of Egypt Open, 1955.

  • Grand National Quail Championship, Enid, Oklahoma - high score three years in a row.

Long Run Skeet Record - 104 targets straight. If that doesn't impress you, consider that Rudy Etchen shot it while standing on one foot . . . atop the post at each skeet station . . . using only one hand . . . with a Model 12 pump shotgun.