Bullseye History

I'm writing a short description of Precision Pistol shooting for my club's webpage. Anyone know when bullseye competition, as we now shoot it, started? When was the first pistol  National Championship?

http://thecmp.org/competitions/cmp-national-matches/the-national-matches-history/

Thanks!

Another interesting article about the history of pistol competitions and the pistol trophy

http://thecmp.org/wp-content/uploads/NTIPistolHistory.pdf

if you can get a copy of the pistol shooters treasury by gil hebard you can see all the history of the game and its great shooters from the start