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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.
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