{"id":9909,"date":"2013-05-04T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=9909"},"modified":"2013-05-04T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T22:00:36","slug":"obit-watch-may-4-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=9909","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 4, 2013."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of surprising to see in the <strong>NYT<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/04\/sports\/tom-knapp-crowd-pleasing-trick-shooter-dies-at-62.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0\">Tom Knapp, noted exhibition shooter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/04\/sports\/tom-knapp-crowd-pleasing-trick-shooter-dies-at-62.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0\">From 1993 to 2004, Mr. Knapp made and broke his own records for the number of hand-thrown clay targets struck in a single round and for speed in doing so. His last record \u2014 10 airborne targets hit (or \u201cdusted,\u201d in shooting-speak) in 2.2 seconds, each struck with a separate round \u2014 was set at an exhibition in Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Oct. 10, 2004.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/04\/sports\/tom-knapp-crowd-pleasing-trick-shooter-dies-at-62.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0\">Mr. Knapp said he had been inspired by trick shooters of the next generation, most notably Herb Parsons, a showman who toured the country from the 1930s through the \u201950s and often worked in Hollywood as a trick-shot stand-in for stars like Jimmy Stewart in \u201cWinchester \u201973\u201d (1950), which involves a shooting contest.<br \/>\n\u201cParsons was probably the greatest of the modern era \u2014 and in my book, after him, Tom Knapp comes a very close second,\u201d said Warren Newman, curator at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyo., a site of trick-shooting exhibitions. \u201cWhat these two fellows did was always so much more than just shooting.\u201d<br \/>\nHe added: \u201cWhat they did was amaze people, put on a real show. They were outstanding professionals.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of surprising to see in the NYT: Tom Knapp, noted exhibition shooter. From 1993 to 2004, Mr. Knapp made and broke his own records for the number of hand-thrown clay targets struck in a single round and for speed in doing so. His last record \u2014 10 airborne targets hit (or \u201cdusted,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9910,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909\/revisions\/9910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}