This skeet field was seen by very few people back then, and even fewer shot there. Through some research and conversations, we know that Olin entertained friends and national figures on that field while looking out over the Mississippi. Notables such as U.S. Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and 5-Star General Omar Bradley. Olin was a film fan, so actors such as Clark Gable, John Wayne, and Roy Rogers were regulars. Baseball greats Stan Musial and Ted Williams regularly joined John Olin on that private skeet field.
As we stood on those flagstone stations, we envisioned those U.S. Presidents standing there with the best and most modern Winchester equipment, cartridges, traps, and targets, (remember Olin owned Winchester), dressed with style and dignity, and calling “PULL” with enthusiasm. Folks, this was American clay target shooting at the absolute highest national level.
We eventually had to leave the site but decided to leave via the same trail/road that John Olin and his guests used to return to his mansion. I had to wonder about the conversations that took place. Was it "Mr. President, now that the war is almost over, what is your new foreign policy position?" Or was it "Mr. President, did you really just miss that low 7?" Who knows? But what we do know is that we were experiencing standing on the most historic, even if known of by very few, skeet fields in America where foreign policy and other areas of national interest was discussed.