"Bottles" Ketchum - World Champion Skeet Shooter

"PULL !!"

My father was an extrordinary shooter. He was an expert marksman with rifles, shotguns and a pistol expert as well. He was a member of the St. Louis Skeet & Trap Club, the Peekaway Skeet Club of Miami, Florida, and the Jabberwock Gun Club of Reno, Nevada.

These are some of the titles and awards he earned:

Missouri Valley Skeet Champion - Springfield (1935)
Illinois District Skeet Champ - Decatur (1935)
NSSA Missouri State Team Skeet Champions (1935 & 1936)
Missouri State Skeet Champion - 20 Guage (1937)
National Skeet Championship (1938) in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Mississippi Valley Skeet Champ (1938)
Class AA Champ - Mexico, MO (1938)
NSSA Missouri State Skeet Championship (1938)
Missouri Eastern Zone Class-A Two Man Team Champion (1938)
NSSA National Champion Five-man Team World's Record (1938)
High Standard Pistol Marksman Championship (1938)
Champion - Mexican Open (1939)
Florida State Skeet Champion - Miami (1939)
Champion - Cuban Invitational, Havana (1940)
Missippi Valley and Missouri State Champion - Central Zone (1935 - 1938)
The Joseph Werner Trophy - All State Championship (1935 - 1939)

The Ozark Angler
Veteran of the US Navy

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