Ep. 157: Ad and Plinky Topperwein, the Texas Sharpshooters
In December 1907, San Antonio marksman Adolph “Ad” Topperwein spent ten days shooting at small pine blocks tossed into the air. He fired at 72,500 and missed nine. In Episode 157 of Wise About Texas, Ken Wise tells the story of Ad and his wife, Elizabeth “Plinky” Topperwein (Toepperwein), the husband-and-wife exhibition shooters from Leon Springs in the Texas Hill Country. Plinky was loading .22 cartridges at the Winchester plant in New Haven, Connecticut, and had never fired a gun when she married Ad in 1903. She became a champion trapshooter whom Annie Oakley called the greatest…
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