Belle Meade Gun Club

The Belle Meade Gun Club was a sport-shooting organization founded in 1897 on the grounds of Belle Meade Plantation on the west side of Nashville, Tennessee. The land, a small parcel of the farm's vast acreage, was donated by its owner, former Confederate General William Hicks Jackson, who enjoyed the sport of shotgun live-bird wing shooting. Jackson created a shooting club with the purpose of hosting competitions and increasing its members' skill in trap shooting. The targets included live pigeons as well as artificial targets. The members were primarily young society men, but there were also

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