SHOTGUNNING MASTERY: Rudy Etchen's Records
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Member of 14 All-American Trap and Skeet teams.
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Winner North American Clay Target Championship.
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Winner Open Championship of North America.
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Winner North American Doubles Championship - 5 times.
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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.
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Winner High Over All Championship of North America - 5 times. 1950 score of 980x1000 was a record at the time.
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Winner High All Around Championship of North America - 5 times.
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Winner of more than 100 state and regional trap championships.
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Youngest State Trap Champion - Kansas - 14 years of age. Repeated as State Champion the following year.
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Winner High Average on Doubles in North America - 3 times.
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First 100 Straight on Doubles ever shot at the Grand American.
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Winner of 20 state and regional skeet championships.
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Winner National Sub Small Bore (.410) Skeet Championship.
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International Skeet - 2nd place in Championship of the World.
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International Trap - 3rd place in Championship of the World.
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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.
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Winner World Live Pigeon Championship High Over All, Mexico City, 1966. Second place in the individual event among some 478 entrants.
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Match of Nations, Cairo, Egypt - Member of winning live-bird team competing with 25 other countries.
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Winner World Live Bird Grand Prix, Monte Carlo, 1955.
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Winner Live Bird Championship of Madrid, 1965.
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Winner Live Bird Championship of Paris, 1955.
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Winner Open Flyer Championship of Guadalajara, 1974.
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Winner Columbaire Championship of Seville, Spain, 1965.
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Winner Columbaire Championship of Madrid, 1966.
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Winner Columbaire Championship of Egypt Open, 1955.
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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.