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2021 KEYSTONE OPEN REPORT BY JOSH BUCHIERE The Keystone Open was hosted by the Pennsylvania State Shotgunning Association in Elysburg, Pennsylvania, from May 14-16, 2021. This three-day tournament, consisting of 800 program targets (300 on Friday, 300 on Saturday, and 200 on Sunday), kicks off the trapshooting season for the PSSA.

FRIDAY The shoot started off at 10am Friday morning with the Jan Diefenderfer Memorial Singles. Shooting conditions were excellent with light winds, partly cloudy skies, and high scores. Ten shooters posted perfect scores, and the results were as follows—Brandon Deal, Champion TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

(after two rounds of carryover); Ian Darroch, Class AAA Champion; Vincent Barranco, Class A Champion; Nicholas Wertz, Junior Champion; Patrick Monaghan, Veteran Champion; and Luigi Liberato, Senior Veteran Champion. In Friday’s Lee Crupi Memorial Handicap, Bruce Morris, shooting from 21½ yards, topped the field of 500 by a two-target margin with an impressive score of 99 to take Champion. The second through sixth place trophies would be taken with scores of 95 and, with the ammunition shortage, no shots were fired to settle these trophies. Kory Shissler was the event runner-up after winning a coin flip over Kenneth Dunkle (3rd place), Shenan Rose (4th place), Brent Spear (5th place), and Michael Fox Jr. (6th place). Martin Reed was the Sub Veteran Champion following his lone second high score of 97. Jason Love topped the Junior

category also with 96. Due to the large number of shooters in the day’s previous two events, the lighting was difficult by the start of the afternoon’s Bob Fieo Memorial Doubles event. The challenging visibility did not deter Justin Slater who topped all shooters with 99 and was event Champion. James Hoffman won Class AA with 98, and Nicholas Wertz led Junior ranks with the same score. Ian Darroch and Thomas Clarke took Class AAA and A Champion, respectively, with 97s.

SATURDAY Saturday started off calm and clear for the Joel Etchen Guns Singles Championship, but by the start of the second hundred in the afternoon, winds intensified and no shooters remained straight in the day. High

scores of 199 were turned in by Matthew Rebuck, David Shaeffer Jr., Nicholas Wertz, Donald Alderson, and Jamaal Brown. Alderson and Brown opted to forfeit the shoot-off and took Veteran and Class AA Champion for the event with their respective 199s. Alderson’s and Brown’s forfeit left Rebuck, Shaeffer Jr. and Wertz to shoot off for the Champion title. Shaeffer Jr. dropped one target on his third post while Wertz and Rebuck would remain straight. After brief discussion, both competitors opted to flip for the Champion title and save valuable shells. Rebuck won the flip and was the 2021 Keystone Open Singles Champion, and Wertz fell back to take Junior Champion. Shaeffer Jr. ended up as Class AAA Champion with Rebuck moving up to the Champion slot. Jon Zadzora and Michael Blaisdell were 1st and 2nd in Sub Veteran ranks with 198s and one shoot-off round, while Ian Darroch

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JOEL ETCHEN GUNS SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

MATTHEW REBUCK DAVID SCHAEFFER JR. JAMAAL BROWN MICHAEL WINIGRAD ANDREW BAKER RONALD CATENA JOHN DONAGHY HEIDI WOMER DIANE ARNER BRAYDEN COSPER NICHOLAS WERTZ WESLEY BEAVER JON ZADZORA DONALD ALDERSON STEVEN FITCH WILLIAM ROSS

PA MD MD PA NY NY PA NY PA PA PA PA PA NY PA PA

199 199 199 196 196 196 193 196 196 196 199 198 198 199 197 180

and Frank Pascoe were Class AAA and Veteran runner-up, respectively, also with 198s. The start time of the Steve Amarant Memorial Doubles was earlier than the previous day’s Doubles event and, as a result, the lighting was better. Justin Slater again led the field with a 99 to take Champion, while Ian Darroch took Class AAA and Christopher Burn Class A following their second high scores of 98. Nicholas Wertz was the Junior winner and Don Neilson Jr. the Sub Veteran high gun after scores of 97.

SUNDAY Shooting conditions were ideal Sunday morning for the Silver Seitz Doubles Championship. High scores of 99 were posted by Kenneth Darroch and Donald Schaffer Jr. Following one perfect round of 20, Darroch was the event Champion, and Schaffer Jr. fell back to take Class AAA Champion. Michael Fox Jr. topped Class AA following 98, and Shane Biser and Michael Blaisdell led Junior Gold and Sub Veteran standings, also with 98s. Clouds rolled in but winds remained light by the start of the

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Fantanarosa Insurance Handicap Championship. Wesley Beaver turned in a 98 from 27 yards to lead the field of 465 competitors and take the event’s Champion trophy. Kenneth Burnett turned in the only noncategory 97 from 19½ yards to win runner-up. Michael Pintirsch led Sub Veteran with the only other score of 97 in the event. John Federici posted the lone third high score of 96 to take Champion in the Senior Veteran category.

HAA & HOA Wesley Beaver, once again, topped the field for a championship title, this time taking High All Around with 391. One target back was Michael Fox Jr with a 390 to earn Class AAA honors. Michael Blaisdell and Joel Etchen led Sub Vet and Veteran HAA standings with scores of 389 and 388, respectively. Nicholas Wertz led the 800 target High Over All with 776. Three behind Wertz was Justin Slater who took AAA honors with 773. The Keystone Open is a great way to start the registered shooting season in the Northeast. As usual, the PSSA ran an excellent shoot. In spite of the shortage of ammunition, the turnout for this shoot was the largest the PSSA has seen in a number of years. The chance to catch up with shooting friends, many not seen since

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FANTANAROSA INSURANCE HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

WESLEY BEAVER KENNTH BURNETT MICHAEL FOX JR. CHRIS COHOON JEFFREY KIRKLAND KORY SHISSLER STEPHANIE WRISLEY MICHELLE SHAFFER LUKE DUDASH NICHOLAS WERTZ JACOB BONSER MICHAEL PINTIRSCH JOEL ETCHEN JOHN FEDERICI WILLIAM ROSS

PA NY NY PA PA PA PA PA PA PA PA PA PA RI PA

98 97 95 95 94 93 94 94 95 90 91 97 95 96 88

SILVER SEITZ DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

WESLEY BEAVER MICHAEL FOX JR. GREGORY SMITH SCOTT BOWERS CHRIS COHOON JEREMY MISSIMER LUKE DUDASH M. ARCHAMBEAULT DEB OHYE-NEILSON BRAYDEN HECKMAN NICHOLAS WERTZ TYLER BROWN MICHAEL BLAISDELL JOEL ETCHEN JOHN FEDERICI WILLIAM ROSS

PA NY RI PA PA PA PA MA PA PA PA PA NH PA RI PA

391 390 382 379 380 371 367 375 374 375 386 374 389 388 386 337

the previous fall, and the generally mild weather in central Pennsylvania this time of year, definitely makes the

99 99 98 96 95 97 92 93 93 92 97 98 98 97 97 69

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KEYSTONE OPEN HIGH ALL AROUND CH AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

KENNETH DARROCH PA DONALD SCHAEFFER JR. PA MICHAEL FOX JR. NY CHRIS LANDON NY MICHAEL DIXON PA ANDREW BAKER NY STEPHEN BURICK NJ KATELYNN DECKER PA DEB OHYE-NEILSON PA BRAYDEN HECKMAN PA NICHOLAS WERTZ PA SHANE BISER MD MICHAEL BLAISDELL NH JOEL ETCHEN PA JOHN FEDERICI RI WILLIAM ROSS PA

KEYSTONE OPEN HIGH OVER ALL CH AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

NICHOLAS WERTZ JUSTIN SLATER JAMAAL BROWN THOMAS CLARKE ED ARCHAMBEAULT CHRISTOPHER BURN LUKE DUDASH KATELYNN DECKER DEB OHYE-NEILSON DAVID BROWN JR. CHASE WOJTANIK WESLEY BEAVER MICHAEL BLAISDELL JOEL ETCHEN LARRY SHADE WILLIAM ROSS

PA NY MD NJ MA NJ PA PA PA NJ NY PA NH PA PA PA

776 773 751 744 745 741 729 728 743 736 746 770 766 763 740 666

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2021

MISSOURI STATE SHOOT

If the 2021 Missouri State Shoot could be described with a single word, it would have to be CHANGES. A change in management, improvements to the grounds and an upcoming sporting clays opportunity to be offered at Linn Creek. The annual Missouri State Trapshoot, held May 17-23, saw nearly 2000 registered targets offered to each of the competitors who were shooting for a share of over $6000 in added money and trophies for both in and out-ofstaters. Over 4300 entries were registered during the 17 events. Shooters were eager to get back to trapshooting after so many TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

cancellations last year. Attendance increased in nearly every event over participation in 2019. While the state shoot was combined with the Southwestern Zone in 2020, the number of registered entrants was still increased this year. By the week’s end, Junior Gold shooters set the pace for High Over All honors. St. Louis resident Hunter Spruill took away the Champion’s trophy with 1164/1200. Darrell Farr ranked runner-up with 1155. Out-ofState Champion, Ian Lawrence, Junior Gold from Illinois, posted 1172/1200 to tie with runner-up Keith Ditto and Sub Veteran Scott Gens, of Minnesota. Wenig Custom Gunstocks donated $2000 in Lewis money for

the HOA payout. Always a tough competitor, Darrell Farr was MO High All Around champion with 392/400. Zach Nannini was runner-up with 388. High All Around awards went to seven Missouri young guns, off of the list of 16 trophies. Out-of-stater Ian Lawrence topped all scoring with 397/400. C.L. Fulton was runner-up with 394 and Keith Ditto claimed AAA with 393.

PRELIMINARY DAYS Dark skies loomed over the opening day of the tournament, keeping entries low. The President Todd Albers

BY KARLA HARRISON Day began with Richard Wilson besting David Hull, both with 99 in the Singles event and settled with carryover scores of 125/124. It took two rounds of carryover for Luke Yagos to outlast Austin Stoner for Junior honors, both with 99 in the program. Jimmie McKinnnon claimed Senior Veteran with his 99. The President’s Handicap drew the largest number of entries for the day. Daniel Whalen (IL) was top gun with 95. Yardage groups and categories were open trophies. The President’s Doubles put a spotlight on both ends of the age yardstick. AA champion was Sub

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Junior Landon Chandler (AR) with 96. Senior Veteran Ed Powell (MO) broke 93 to claim Class A. Sub Junior Jayden Dalton (AR) bested the field and his category with 98. Junior Luke Yagos (AR) took category with 94 while William Van Nieuwenhuyzen (MN) claimed Senior Vet, also with 94. Tuesday’s events each honored Hall of Fame inductees Bobby Chambers and Dennis Alkire. In the singles, AAA shooters Richard Wilson and David Hull carried over their perfect scores, with Wilson eventually coming out victorious. Not to be outdone, Elijah Wilson matched his dad’s 100 straight to win the Junior category. The HOF Handicap ended with a very petite overall champion. Sub Junior Anna Rawe won with 99. Andrew Stone was close behind with his 98 for Junior honors. Hunter Spruill made his presence known in the HOF Doubles. His 98 tied Zach Nannini, with Spruill taking AAA in the carryover. William Van Nieuwenhuyzen’s 98 was best for Senior Veteran. Class AA Mitchell Germany (NE) and Lady I shooter, Payton Detavernier (NE), each with only a single miss, took class and category awards.

CHAMPIONSHIP DAYS Storm clouds Wednesday morning didn’t dampen the entries for the David Wommack Singles, as shooters strived for All-American points. Perfect scores were broken by Missouri residents Zach Nannini (AAA champ), Andrew Stone (Junior champ) and Kent Frost (Sub Veteran champ). Out-of-State 100 straights were turned in by George Hass (carryover AAA champ), Jayden Dalton (Sub Junior champ), Mitchell Germany (Junior Gold champ), Marvin Rustad (Sub Veteran champ)

and Ricky Marshall Jr. In the Cain Sadler Handicap, George Hass bested all entries by three birds with his 100 from the 27. For Missouri, Senior Veteran Ron McGee was champion with a 97. Also posting scores of 97 were 27-yard shooter Chase Horton (IL), winning his yardage group, Jack Knaus (Junior champ), Garrett Helms (Junior Gold champ), Frank Haynes (Sub Veteran champ) and Larry Brown (Senior Veteran champ). Missourians Darrell Farr and Hunter Spruill each tallied 99 for Class AAA and Junior Gold respectively in the Joseph Leonard Doubles. MTA has a reputation for offering many trophies to out-of-staters. NonResidents Bruce Davis (AAA champ), Gunner Gens (Junior Gold champ) and Mitchell Germany all turned in top scores of 100. Elise Baker (IL) claimed Lady I, Wyatt Debrie (NE) was Sub Junior champ and Scott Gens (MN) won Sub Veteran, all with a score of 99. Hart Manufacturing Singles Class Championship was the first 200 target event of the week. Zach Nannini bested all Missouri scores with 198, winning AAA champ over David Hull in carryover. George Hass broke the only 200 for Non-Resident AAA winner The WFJ Fienup Handicap was sponsored by Gipson Ricketts Lead Reclamation. David Hull’s 97 was good for the Missouri Champion’s trophy. Katelyn Cross (Lady I champ), Jackson Murphree (Junior champ) and Hunter Spruill (Junior Gold champ) each broke 96. From outside the state’s borders, 98s were high on the scoreboard. Ian Lawrence went three rounds of extras for the champion’s trophy against Scott Gens (Sub Veteran champ) and Jake Siegfried (Junior champ). Dr. Chris Franklin (past MTA Director and state president) Memorial Singles was sponsored by

his family on Friday. It took a nearly perfect score to take home a trophy. Missouri shooters with scores of 100 who won their respective categories included Anna Rawe (Sub Junior) and Tyler Mudd (Junior) after carryovers with Steven J. Fuller (Veteran), Nels Hanson (Class A) and Jackson Murphree. Bob Graf’s Memorial Handicap was sponsored by Graf & Sons. In addition to trophies, 300 boxes of ammunition were divided amongst the winners of their respective yardage groups. Three scores of 99 topped the scoreboard. Louise McGee was the Missouri champion. Non-Residents Tyler Moreno (AR) and Eric Munson (MN) shot one extra round to declare Moreno champ and Munson the long yardage group winner. Missouri Class Doubles Championship trophies were won by nearly 60 shooters. In-state, Zach Nannini was Class AAA champion with 99 while Brett Robinson was runner-up with 95. Bruce Davis, Gunnar Gens and Scott Messenger all scored 100 for Non-Resident honors. Davis was overall champ, Gens took Junior Gold and Messenger was Senior Veteran champ.

CHAMPIONSHIP SINGLES The Robert L. Burg Memorial Missouri Singles Championship, drawing the largest number of entries (597), was sponsored by Tom Endres. Endres was also a major contributor to the road improvements on the grounds. Hart Systems Machining and Automation put in $6000 in added Lewis Money. 97 trophies were awarded in/out-ofstate. Champions also received an additional payoff to apply toward competing in the Grand American Champion of Champions race. A lone 200 in-state put the

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MISSOURI STATE SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

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200 199 199 198 196 195 193 194 196 182 196 199 196 197 196 198 200

champion’s crown upon Shelby Leann Odom, Lady I shooter from Mansfield, MO. Lee Rucker was runner-up with 199 plus 25 extras over Michael Brown. Non-Residents carding 200s included Champion Greg Ferguson (CO), runner-up CL Fulton (KS), Class AAA George Hass (WI), Marvin Rustad (WI), Isaac Gregory (AR) and Ricky Marshall Jr. (NE). Missouri High School/Junior High team trophies were determined in this Singles Championship event. The Arnold Junior Shooters team consisting of Jordan Ziercher, Quentin Chung, Austin Stoner, Maddie Cutler, and Andrew Stone won the high school division with 964/1000, just one target over the Wildcat Trap team. The Gateway Claybusters TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

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places. Marvin Beumer opted for Sub Veteran honors for his 98. Ian Lawrence opted for Junior Gold All-American points/trophy for his 99, making room for C.L. Fulton to claim out-of-state runner-up with 98. Troy Collier (TX) also carded a 98 for Sub Veteran honors.

Junior High team were champions with a combined score of 908.

DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP The Missouri Doubles Championship, sponsored by White Flyer, offered $500 added money donated by Gateway Gun Club. Hunter Spruill was the out-right champion with 99. Darrell Farr was runner-up with 98. From out-of-state, Scott Gens posted the lone 100 for champion. Chase Hunter (runner-up) shot off his 99 against Greg Ferguson (AAA) and Ricky Marshall Jr. (AAA runner-up). The Dave Dove Memorial Youth Fund awarded an MTA life membership to top Junior Andrew Stone and top Sub Junior Derick Gerding.

CHAMPIONSHIP HANDICAP The Missouri Handicap Championship, sponsored by Wenig Custom Gun Stocks also included $1300 added money donated by MTA Directors, Officers and Management. Missouri 20-yarder Ian Kutilek took top place with 100 while Justin Daugherty (IL) claimed Non-Resident

MISSOURI STATE HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

IAN KUTILEK DARRELL FARR BOBBY CHAMBERS RANDY STITT TODD ALBERS DONNIE WONDEL HALEY ALBERS BETH TEEGARDEN LEVI BOLLING WALKER JACOBS HUNTER SPRUILL MARVIN BEUMER STEVEN FULLER JERRY OLIVER JUSTIN DOUGHERTY (IL)

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99 98 97 95 94 92 93 87 96 71 94 96 96 96 90 93 100

champ with his perfect 100. Darrell Farr and Bobby Chambers each posted 96 for runner-up and 3rd IAN KUTILEK

The annual state meeting was held on Friday evening. Missouri State teams and members of the ATA All American Teams were recognized. The traditional Hall of Fame induction ceremonies honored 2020 inductee Dempsey Gottschalk and 2021 inductees Bobby Chambers and Dennis Alkire (posthumously). Each year the MTA awards a $4000 scholarship. Youth Director David Hart presented Hayden Miller this year’s funding. After the program shooting, several fun and social events were held throughout the week. A free hot dog roast was sponsored by Bob Schultz Target Shotguns. A Pump ‘Em Doubles Shootout was sponsored by Graf & Sons in remembrance of Bob Graf. Charlie White was the winner. Complimentary bingo games were played in the clubhouse on Friday and Saturday. Shamrock Leathers sponsored a shootout for Sub Juniors and Juniors, awarding the winners a

leather bag. Outgoing MTA President Todd Albers and incoming state President John Farrell worked alongside board members, directors and management staff to offer a well-run program on updated facilities. That work continues as the MTA looks forward to the Fall Handicap, which will be the last tournament for retiring club manager Lyndle Pruett, plus his longtime staff of Bob and Jeannie Rush. Newly hired club manager, Skip Klinger began working alongside the current management May 1. He brings years of experience, most recently coming from the Pennsylvania Sportsman Association. His ATA shooting began in 1974 and he has been actively involved in shoot management since 1985. His plans are to expand the shooting opportunities by adding a sporting clays course, with support from the Lake Area Chamber and Visitors Bureau. A sporting clays tournament has already been set in motion to occur in conjunction with the Fall Handicap. Other plans are to build a new clubhouse, upgrade camping facilities with new sites on club property south of A Road, build skeet houses and in general, create bigger and better trap shoots! Ammunition and reloading components availability have become the newest concern among shooters.

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TRAP CAMP Summertime fun at camp gets even better when it’s a trapshooting camp! On June 9-11 at the Prairie Grove Gun Club near Columbia, Missouri, the Mid America Trap Academy offered nearly 60 new shooters an opportunity to sharpen their trapshooting skills. New coaches/parents joined into the oneday sessions, alongside young shooters ages 12-17. Boys and girls from all corners of Missouri (28 different communities) and three Illinois towns presented a diverse mix of experience levels. Each day a different group of twenty arrived to learn from four instructors. Dr. David Vaught, who established the camp in 2013 under his association with the University of Missouri. He has since retired from his duties at MIZZOU but continues to organize the camp as part of his work with the Missouri Youth Shooting Sports Association (MYSSA). Instructors Tyler Schwab, Mark Brownlee, and Karla Harrison, along with Dr. Vaught divided each day’s shooters into four squads. Squads rotated from trap to trap, with a different topic of instruction presented before shooting, then moving to the next field. Lessons included basic fundamentals such as stance, hold points, eye focus, foot positions, and gun mount. Shooters concentrated on straight away targets, right and left angles. Going beyond the physical aspects, shooters were informed about proper etiquette, mental focus and sportsmanship. At midday, the group used their lunch break to hold an informal question and answer session in the clubhouse. Kim and Bristol Jones were additional helpers. Bristol, a past attendee, is currently preparing to shoot for the MIZZOU club team, while she is enrolled as an incoming freshman. Shooters heard about collegiate shooting opportunities and scholarships to various schools. Before ending each day, parents were invited to return and watch as students put all their new knowledge into action by shooting a full round of 25. Ammo was made available by Federal and Winchester. Federal also sponsored caps, towels and pins for all participants to take home.

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2021 EMPIRE GRAND

BY CHERYLL PITTERA 17th Annual

The Empire Grand was held on May 19 -23 at the NYSATA Home Grounds. The weather was beautiful for the warm-up events on Wednesday. Frank Pascoe (PA,) David Gonyeau (NY) and Claire Schaffer (PA) began with straights in the Singles. Champion by carryover went to Pascoe, A Class to Gonyeau and Junior to Schaffer. High guns in the Handicap with scores of 96 were Champion Jerry Quintal (NY) and new out of the gate Junior Gold shooter Evan Wirth. Last year’s New York Hall of Fame Inductee Jim Flint led the Doubles with a 99.

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for the area. Six of the eight straights filled in Thursday’s Empire Singles. Champion Jake Levin (QU), AAA Donald Schaffer Jr. (PA), Lady I Heidi Womer (NY), Junior Chase Chance (PA), Junior Gold Jerry Osborne III (GA) and Veteran Frank Pascoe (PA). Junior Gold Evan Wirth broke 96 along with John Cannillo (NH). In the shoot-off, two rounds awarded Wirth a second Champion Handicap title and another yard of real estate. Michael Fox Jr. (NY) was the Empire Doubles champ over J.T. Allnutt (MD) tied with 98s.

FRIDAY Temps moderated for Friday’s Empire Grand Class Singles. Nine perfect scores filled in class and category

with four going into carryover with Jake Levin (QU) taking AAA and Bradley Heath (NY) as the runner-up and David Bills (NY) was the Senior Veteran with William Kutch (NY) the runner-up. James Singer (PA) and Evan Wirth claimed Class A and Junior Gold honors respectively with their first registered 100 straights. A high gun tie of 97 was posted for the Empire Grand’s Caesar Guerini Preliminary Handicap between Michael McLatchie (NY) and Nancy Patterson (MA). Held in that no man’s land of dusk where the lights do not take effect, the shooters matched the first box at 21 and in the second McLatchie prevailed for Champion with Patterson to become the Lady I victor. Jerry Osborne III landed the Junior Gold trophy and Triple A Class was earned by Jake Levin breaking

99 in the Empire Grand Class Doubles with Michael Fox Jr. in the runner-up spot just one target less at 98. Debbie Ohye Neilson (PA) claimed the Lady II title with her 98.

SATURDAY Cloudy and cool was the start of the Empire Championship Singles on Saturday. The second 100 came with a good bit of wind. Nonetheless, Brad Heath (NY) and Dave Shaeffer Jr. (MD) tied one bird short of perfect. Seven more with 198s would face off as well. The wind had moderated for the calls to the shoot-off line. Shaeffer and Heath went one box with Shaeffer the Champion and Heath the runner-up 25 to 24. Cooper

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BRAD HEATH (SINGLES RU) AND DAVID SCHAEFFER JR. (SINGLES CHAMP)

EMPIRE GRAND SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

DAVID SCHAEFFER JR. BRADLEY HEATH JUSTIN SLATER TIMOTHY CORRENTE HUNTER MCCUMBER MATTHEW WAHL JOHN CANILLO HOWARD DAILY ALEXCIS CONINGSBY DEB OHYE-NEILSON DAVID BROWN JR. COOPER NYSTROM SHANE BISER GREGORY SMITH FRANK PASCOE PETER EATON WILLIAM ROSS

MD NY NY NY NY CT NH NY NY PA NJ PA MD RI PA NH PA

199 199 198 196 195 197 196 191 194 196 196 198 198 196 197 195 193

Nystrom (PA) achieved Junior honors with his 198 while Shane Biser (MD) and Travis Foose (PA) would go two rounds placing Biser as Junior Gold

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Champion and Foose the runner-up. The remaining 198s battled for AAA. Jamaal Brown and J.T. Allnutt went out in the first MATTHEW WAHL SHOT round HIS FIRST 100 STRAIGHT leaving Jake Levin and Justin Slater (NY) to go one more time with Slater earning the title. Lady I competition held Heidi Womer (NY) and Alexcis Coningsby (NY) settled in one round with JAMAAL BROWN SHOT HIS FIRST 100 STRAIGHT AT NYSATA Coningsby the winner.

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Fox Jr. became the Champion in shoot-off by one bird over Jake Levin as the runner-up and Chase Wojtanik (NY) landing Junior. Brad Heath claimed AAA with 97. The Empire Grand Handicap Championship was won by Joseph Kopacz (NY) who posted a field high 95. Runner-up thru 5th settled in shoot-off in one round with Michael Rice (NY) landing runner-up and J.T. Allnutt in 3rd, Simon Grech (NY) in 4th

and Thomas Murphy Jr. in 5th also winning the Hall of Fame trophy. Evan Wirth received another ½ yard and the Junior Gold title with 93. Brad Heath won the High All Around and J.T. Allnut the AAA winner settled in shoot off tied with 386. Jake Levin was the clear winner in the High Over All with 968. Michael Fox Jr. claimed AAA with 964. Congratulations to shooters who TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

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CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

MICHAEL FOX JR. JAKE LEVIN BRADLEY HEATH URBAN WOMER JAMAAL BROWN ROGER STODDARD SALVATORE SCHIAVO DENNIS BOBBETTE HEIDI WOMER DEB OHYE-NEILSON DAVID BROWN JR. CHASE WOJTANIK WESLEY BEAVER JOHN KIRKSEY RICHARD SAUER MICHAEL WASCHITZ WILLIAM ROSS

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JOSEPH KOPACZ MICHAEL RICE JAMES ALLNUTT SIMON GRECH THOMAS MUROHY JR. MICHAEL FOX JR. DONALD CHRYSLER JR. NANCY PATTERSON EDITH PAGE ALLYN JOSEPH BRECK IV JACOB EDINGER EVAN WIRTH KEVIN BRODEUR PAUL RAPOLI RICHARD BAKER WILLIAM ROSS

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BRADLEY HEATH JAMES ALLNUTT SHANE BISER ROGER STODDARD SALVATORE SCHIAVO JOHN CANNILLO THOMAS MURHY JR. NANCY PATTERSON DEB OHYE-NEILSON JOSEPH BRECK IV JACOB EDINGER WESLEY BEAVER DONALD NEILSON JR. DONALD ALDERSON JOHN FEDERICI WILLIAM ROSS

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Despite the weather, The Great Lakes Grand’s attendance was up. The Great Lakes is known for its unpredictable weather and this year didn’t disappoint. This year’s GLG was held at the Michigan Trapshooting Association Grounds on May 25-30, 2021. Tuesday, in the Township Howard Conservation Club Singles, shot over two banks, there were six one hundreds broken—Joe Ramos, Douglas Damron, Carl Chadwell, Breydon Paxson, Dagen Voigtman, and Jim Walkowiak. It took two boxes in the carryover to finalize the results with Chadwell being Champion, Ramos taking AA, Paxson Junior, Voigtman Junior Gold, and Damron Senior Veteran. Everyone breaking the 100 received a trophy, which made everyone happy. The wind picked up a tad in the Reed City Sportsman Club Handicap, but Carl Chadwell topped the field with a 96. Continuing the windy and warm weather for the Birmingham Club Doubles. Jerry Osborne III was high over the field by two over Dagen Voigtman with 196. Wednesday started with a slight rain and overcast, but they added another bank for the increased shooters. All events were named after 2019 Champions.The overcast skies definitely played a part in the scores, as only four 100s were broken in the Craig Blank Singles—Charles Priddy (Jr Gold), Ian Lawrence, Leo Brand (Sub Jr), and Gary Gerhartz (Senior Vet). Lawrence broke the next hundred in the carryover to win the Champion title and the rest fell back to their respective categories. The Alex Hoffman Handicap had better weather when the rain cleared and Steven Byrd broke 98 edging out the rest of the shooters by one. Breydon Paxson showed off his skills in the Ian Lawrence Doubles with the perfect century. Weather was good again for Thursday with just a slight wind and

sunny weather, but still cold. They shot over four banks, again due to the increase in shooters. Ian Lawrence won the High All Around in 2019, which is how the Event 7 Handicap was named and he just happened to win this event with a 96. He did have to work a bit for it, but he did, with a perfect 25 in the shoot-off over Brian Andrews, who placed runner-up. Carl Chadwell was the Sub Veteran winner and David Moan took the 22-24.5 yardage trophy. In the MTA Singles, Dagen Voigtman, Chase Horton, Ian Lawrence, Jerry Glisson all broke the 100s. After one round into the carryover Voigtman was named Champion. The sun didn’t come out for the Ryan Denes Handicap (2019 High Over All Champion). Ian Lawrence and Chase Horton were high with 96. In the cold twilight, Lawrence once again became victorious with a 24 over Horton’s 22. Horton ended with runner-up honors.

FRIDAY Starting at around midnight Friday it started to rain and it didn’t stop until about noon on Saturday, which is when the management decided to

GREAT LAKES GRAND SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

IAN LAWRENCE AUSTIN JACOB CHASE HORTON FRANK CLARK TANNER BECKER THOMAS HART ERIC KUHN CHARLES GOTT SUMMER GOBRECHT DEB OHYE-NEILSON JAYDEN DALTON CHET ORICK DAGEN VOIGTMAN DONALD NEILSON JR. WILLIAM HAGERTY MIKE ADRIANSE MARK OLEARY

IL OH IL MI SD OH MI OH OH PA AR AR NE PA MI MI MI

199 198 195 196 193 193 191 187 193 194 196 197 198 196 194 193 138

start shooting the Lake Huron Class Singles Championship. The temperature may have been 45 degrees, but with the dampness that overcame the field, it felt more like 30s. Chase Horton was the only one to break 99 for AAA honors. The Caesar Guerini Preliminary Handicap came next and it was still cold and windy. Dagen Voigtman was the Champion with his lone high score of 93.

SATURDAY The Lake Ontario Doubles Class Championship that was supposed to have been shot on Friday, was postponed until Saturday morning. At 8am, 124 shooters were ready to shoot Doubles. The sun at least came out, which helped Ian Lawrence break 99. However, since he’s Junior Gold he had to take his category. Next in line was Jayden Dalton with a 97. Again, since he was a Junior he took his category. Chase Horton and Austin Jacob were next to fight over the top class, AAA. In the carryover, Austin ran the first 50 to snare the Class Championship.Then the Browning Singles Championship started at 10 am with 338 shooters over eight banks. Chet Orick was the only one who broke the first 100, but he backed that up with a 97. This allowed Ian Lawrence who only

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missed one on his third box of the first hundred to dominate with his 199. This marked an important achievement for Lawrence, as he hadn’t won a Singles Championship until now. Then the MTA threw another event, this time it was the MTA Directors Handicap. It’s not part of the High Over All, but if you wanted to get a handicap in you certainly could. 24 yard shooter, Jarred Carpenter, was high all by himself with a 95.

DOUBLES AND HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIPS Sunday was the best day, weather wise, for the 202 shooters who came out to play. Doubles seemed to hang in the air and it showed with three 100 straights leading the way. Austin Jacob, AJ Brenner, and Charles Priddy were all perfect. In the shoot-off Jacob missed one in the first round. Brenner and Priddy went back out for the second round, both missing the second target on the first post. In the third round they cleaned them. Out for the fourth round and Brenner clinched it with a perfect round. Priddy fell back to his category, Junior Gold. He wasn’t unhappy at

GREAT LAKES GRAND DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET

AJ BRENNER AUSTIN JACOB CHASE HORTON SCOT SMITH DOUG TRIERWEILER SCOTT WILEY DAVID MOAN ANDREW BARRETT CHRISTINA BYRD DEB OHYE-NEILSON JAYDEN DALTON TUFF HUTCHINS CHARLES PRIDDY DEAN TOWNSEND JERRY GLISSON KEN SMITH

OH OH IL MI MI IA MI MA IN PA AR OH KY OH MI MI

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all, considering it was the first hundred he’d had in Doubles. In the Winchester Ammunition Handicap Championship, the sun warmed up everything and the scores rose, which the 244 shooters who participated were thankful of. Ian Lawrence, Dagen Voigtman, and

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Chase Horton rose to the top with 97s. Lawrence dropped four in the first round of the shoot-off, dropping him out. Horton and Voigtman ran them. In the second round, Horton missed a hard left on his last station to give Voigtman the Handicap Championship.

GREAT LAKES GRAND HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH 7TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET

DAGEN VOIGTMAN CHASE HORTON TERRY MAVIS RONALD SMITH SCOTT WILEY MICHAEL BERRY RON LAMPING AVA LARSON DEB OHYE-NEILSON JAYDEN DALTON COLTON PHILLIPS IAN LAWRENCE KEVIN DAWSON THOMAS HAMSTREET CRAIG BLANK

NE IL OH OH IA MI IN MI PA AR TN IL OH MI OH

97 97 96 96 96 95 95 93 92 93 94 97 93 94 93

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GREAT LAKES GRAND HIGH ALL AROUND CH AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET

IAN LAWRENCE CHASE HORTON RONALD SMITH SETH COOPER THOMAS HART LOUIS SCHULTZ COLIN HOTCHKISS BEVERLY SCOTT DEB OHYE-NEILSON JAYDEN DALTON TUFF HUTCHINS DAGEN VOIGTMAN DONALD NEILSON JR. HUGO RINKE MIKE DEHABEY

IL IL OH OH OH OH MI OH PA AR OH NE PA MI OH

395 389 383 381 380 367 367 374 378 387 381 391 382 374 372

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THE 2021 WESTERN GRAND

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The Western Grand was held at the Vernal Rod and Gun Club June 1st through the 7th and despite concerns over the availability of ammunition as well as lingering COVID worries, the tournament went off without a hitch. Shooters from 20 states came to the small town of Vernal, Utah, to participate in what has become, over the years, equal parts major ATA Satellite Grand, after hours game shoot and weeklong party. The weather cooperated for TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

the most part with occasional breezy conditions that made things challenging from time to time. Extracurricular activities included a cornhole tournament, ladies bingo, three nights of Annie Oakley shooting (with added money), a free pizza night and a potluck appetizer night.

PRELIMINARY TUESDAY Vernal resident Sharred Oaks

hometowned everyone in the first event by breaking the only 100 straight in the opening Singles event to win the AAA class trophy. Justin Debrie (NE) was just one bird behind to take home the AA class award. In the Event 2 Preliminary Handicap, 21-yard Rick Vogel (NE) was high on the board to earn the short yardage trophy with a 98. Mia Malcom, another Nebraska shooter, carded a 97 to earn the Lady I prize. There were four scores of 99 in the last event of the day, the Preliminary Doubles and Sharred Oaks broke three consecutive scores of 48 to win the carryover with Tim Reed for the AAA trophy. Perry Weiner (ND), Jeff Nostrom (WA) and Jimmy Heller (CA) each had the near

perfect score of 99 to earn AA, A and Veteran awards. Tuesday evening, folks headed over to The Lodge to sign up for the cornhole tournament. It was the second year the club has hosted the event and there were quite a few teams involved and lots of laughs as well.

WEDNESDAY Event 4, the Craig and Sharon Hart Doubles was the first event of the day on Wednesday. Gregory Ferguson (CO) and Ian Lawrence (IL) each smashed 99s to take home the AAA and Junior Gold trophies.

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Event 5 was the beginning of the High Over All targets for the shoot and Ian Lawrence was the only shooter to break a perfect score, winning the Junior Gold trophy without a shoot-off. Steve Johnson (UT) was one target behind for the Veteran win and Cody Eye of Kansas had a 98 to snare the Junior prize. Tim Reed (SD) broke a 99 to lead the way in the Friends of the VRGC Handicap and Mitchell Pierson (NE) shot a personal best, from the 27, score of 98 to win the Junior award. Ian Lawrence and Gabby Fischer (ND) also broke 98s to claim Junior Gold and Lady I trophies.

THURSDAY The weather was outstanding for the Event 7 Singles Class Championships and the scores showed it. Nearly a quarter of the 207 shooters broke scores of 98 or higher, with 13 shooters punching the perfect 100. After a 175 target carryover, Quint Sudbury (UT) claimed the AAA award with Richard Marshall Jr. (NE) finishing in the runner-up position. Chance Carter (UT) broke the lone 100 in AA Class and Rick Vogel carded 99 to take the A class trophy. Kelly Brinkerhoff (UT) broke his first 100 in Singles to earn the B class award, while Jason Blackwell (CO) and Nickolas White (UT) had 98 and 99 to claim the C and D class trophies. The weather continued to be nice through the Event 8 Krieghoff Handicap and the scores were through the roof. Mitchell Pierson, Justin Schooler (CA) and Tim Reed all broke 100 straights. In the shoot-off that evening Tim Reed forfeited and Pierson and Schooler took the line. After one round it was settled, with Schooler breaking a 22 to take mid yardage and Pierson breaking 24 to claim the Champion’s trophy. Pierson’s 98 in the Handicap the day

before had been his high score from the fence until he broke the 100. Congratulations! Barbara Camps (ID) was the Lady II Champion with a 99 from 22.5 yards.

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FRIDAY The Doubles Class Championship was first up Friday morning. Richard Marshall Jr. and Ian Lawrence each broke perfect scores in the event to win the AAA class and the Junior Gold trophies. Jayme Anderson (UT) had a 99 and won his carryover to claim AA class, while Bobby Street broke a 97 to earn the A class award. Bob Tomlin (WY) had a 94, Tye Cook (UT) had a 95 and Dana Ideen (WY) had a 93 to win B, C and D classes. Jarrett Carlisle was the Junior Champion with his 99 and Joe Sudbury (UT) took home the Veteran trophy with his 98. There were six scores of 98 atop the leaderboard at the end of the Caesar Guerini Preliminary Handicap. Colorado Senior Veteran shooter Claude Hemsi broke 50 straight in the shoot-off to secure the Champion’s award. Richard Magnussen (WA) had a 23 and then a 25 in the shoot-off to finish in the runner-up position and Quint Sudbury ended up in third place with his score of 98. James Schooler (CA) carded a 97 and an additional 24 in the overtime round to net the 4th place finish, while Steven Eichler (CO) rounded out the places in 5th. Carson Schlimmer (WA) and Chase Wojtanik (NY) each broke 98s to win the Junior Gold and Junior trophies, while the Sub Junior trophy went to Wyatt Debrie (NE) for his 98. Debrie made it to the 27-yard line for the first time.

200 straight in this year’s Western Grand American Singles Championship. Hardy Musselman (WY), Ian Lawrence and Gregory Ferguson all took the line for the championship shoot off. Musselman dropped one on the first round and finished as the event runner-up. Ferguson and Lawrence needed seven more rounds to decide the issue. In the end it was Ferguson’s

200 straight in overtime that won the day. Lawrence missed in the eighth round to fall back to the Junior Gold champion. Colorado shooter Ashley Teal broke a 195 to win the Lady I title, while Pam Wright was two targets behind to earn the Lady II award. Tyler Marshall (NE) and Grayson Stuart (UT) had 194 and 199 to win Sub Junior and Junior trophies, while Brett Despain (UT) had a 197

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to win the Sub Veteran category. Joe Sudbury and Gerry Williams (AZ) each shot 198 to win the Veteran and Senior Veteran trophies.

DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP Jeremy Summers (UT) broke the only 100 straight of the day to win the Doubles Championship. Richard Marshall Jr. was one target behind to capture the runner-up trophy, while Chandler Brown (AR) broke a 98 and an additional 20 straight in the shoot-off to win AAA class. Grayson Stuart was the AA winner with 96 and Nico Elardi (WY) had a 98 to win A class. Wyatt Pizinger, Joe Holcomb and Bradley Peay broke 95, 98 and 90 to earn B, C and D class awards. IAN LAWRENCE AND CHANDLER BROWN

WESTERN GRAND SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

GREGORY FERGUSON HARDY MUSSELMAN JAYME ANDERSON JACE PENNEY RICK VOGEL BRADYN CARTER TANNER VOORHEES MEGAN STOUT ASHLEY TEAL PAM WRIGHT TYLER MARSHALL GRAYSON STUART IAN LAWRENCE BRETT DESPAIN JOE SUDBURY GERRY WILLIAMS DAVE PIZINGER

CO WY UT UT NE UT UT CA CO UT NE UT IL UT UT AZ AZ

200 200 199 197 197 194 192 92 195 193 194 199 200 197 198 198 164

WESTERN GRAND DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

JEREMIE SUMMERS RICHARD MARSHALL JR. CHANDLER BROWN GRAYON STUART NICO ELARDI WYATT PIZINGER JOE HOLCOMB BRADLEY PEAY HAYLIE PEAY SANDRA JO JACK WYATT DEBRIE CODY EYE IAN LAWRENCE MATT NICOL JIMMY HELLER ALLEN PINOLI DAVE PIZINGER

UT NE AR UT WY AZ CO UT UT WI NE KS IL TX CA CA AZ

100 99 98 96 98 95 98 90 94 91 98 98 98 97 95 97 79

HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP A lone 99 paced the field in the Western Grand’s main Handicap. Junior Gold shooter Carson Schlimmer smashed all but one from the 27-yard line to win the title without the need for a shoot-off. Tim Reed was the runner-up with 98 and 3rd through 5th places were filled with scores of 97. Britt Dalton (AZ) broke 24 and then won the coin flip with Scott Abo (ID) to take 3rd place. Richard Marshall Jr. had broken a 97 as well but elected not to shoot-off and was relegated to 5th place. Justin Debrie broke 96 and then 25 in overtime to secure the 6th place finish, while Garrett Schlimmer broke 23 and 25 in the overtime to take the 7th and final place. Daxton Cook (UT) and Gary Bonetti (CA) broke 98 and 97 respectively to earn the Sub Junior and Sub Veteran titles. Daxton also won an ATA Life Membership for having the highest score among Juniors and Sub Juniors in the Handicap Championship.

HAA AND HOA Carson Schlimmer won the shoot-off with Richard Marshall Jr. and Tim

WESTERN GRAND HIGH ALL AROUND CH AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SJ JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET

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CARSON SCHLIMMER WA RICHARD MARSHALL JR. NE GARRETT SCHLIMMER WA JARED PEAY UT DYLAN HAFER NE BILL SANDBORG CA DAXTON COOK UT HAYLIE PEAY UT PAM WRIGHT UT WYATT DEBRIE NE MITCHELL PIERSON NE IAN LAWRENCE IL GARY BONETTI CA TIM ROBB AZ KENNETH SEIDEL CO

WESTERN GRAND HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH 7TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

CARSON SCHLIMMER TIM REED BRITT DALTON SCOTT ABO RICHARD MARSHALL JR. JUSTIN DEBRIE GARRETT SCHLIMMER HAYLIE PEAY PAM WRIGHT DAXTON COOK MITCHELL PIERSON AARON VOSSEN GARY BONETTI CRAIG JONES KENNETH SEIDEL DAVE PIZINGER

WA SD AZ ID NE NE WA UT UT UT NE WA CA UT CO AZ

99 98 97 97 97 98 96 95 90 98 96 94 97 96 96 68

Reed after the three had tied with HAA score of 393x400. Aside from

WESTERN GRAND HIGH OVER ALL 393 393 391 387 377 375 374 379 372 386 389 391 390 383 388

CH AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SJ JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET

RICHARD MARSHALL JR. TIM REED GARRETT SCHLIMMER AARON VOSSEN BRADYN CARTER JAMES EICHLER JR. DON GIBSON GABBY FISCHER SANDRA JO JACK WYATT DEBRIE MITCHELL PIERSON IAN LAWRENCE GARY BONETTI JOE SUDBURY RAY STAFFORD

NE SD WA WA UT CA MT ND WI NE NE IL CA UT CO

977 975 962 955 933 923 913 912 926 943 975 975 967 958 954

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the normal Satellite Grand trophy he was also awarded a ½ ounce American Eagle gold coin. Marshall Jr. broke 977x1000 to win the High Over All and was also awarded a ½ ounce gold coin for his efforts. Ian Lawrence, Mitchell Pierson and Tim

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Reed were all two targets behind Marshall for the Junior Gold, Junior and AAA trophies. Pierson was also awarded an ATA Life Membership for having the high score among Sub Juniors of Juniors in the HOA.

FINAL THOUGHTS The Western Grand at the Vernal Rod and Gun Club is an experience. A lot of folks say that the shoot is definitely on their bucket list because of all the fun things that they have

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BUCKEYE OPEN 2021

Many were worried about the background, as the shot curtains were down, but they were replaced in time to begin the 2021 Buckeye Open at the Cardinal Center in Marengo, Ohio June 2nd through the 6th.

EARLY ON Event 1, Legacy Restaurant/Bar Singles only had two 100s—Seth Cooper and Dale Bertuzzi Jr. Cooper took Junior Gold and Bertuzzi grabbed Veteran since there wasn’t a Champion trophy offered.The highest class, AAA, was won by Charles Hensley with a 95. In Event 2, the Red Bird Handicap, Gunner Hall from Circleville, OH had the high score of 98 from the 24 yard line.The final event of the day was the Event 3 Fishburn 100 Pair of Doubles. Junior Gold shooter Seth Cooper broke 195 TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

to top the field. There were no competitors for the highest class in this event. Everyone figured it was due to the windy weather and the rain. Thursday started with the Quality Inn Handicap and there was a 100 broken! Junior Gold shooter Emanuel (Manny) Butdorf had it for the win. In the Comfort Inn Singles, Tank Lunsford, Tate Hedrick, and Joe Charnigo each broke 100s and Charnigo won AAA class in the carryover. In AA it was Craig Blank, Ryan Denes, and Steve Corwin. Denes was victorious for the AA class. Dan Schock, Carl Schultz, and Donald Petroff had perfect centuries in A class with Schock winning it. Manny Butdorf broke his second 100 of the day and of his career winning Junior Gold. Michael Roese was the only one in B, as was Richard Henry in Class C. In the second Handicap of the day, the Event 6 Quality/Comfort

Inn Handicap, Kevin BY JACQUE SNELLENBERGER Sigler, a Sub Veteran, was high with a 97. Friday saw beautiful weather and (Sub Vet), Joel Etchen (Vet), and it showed in the rising number of Gunner Hall (Jr Gold). There was no entries. The first event of the day was carryover, because Charnigo was the the Summer Gobrecht Class Singles. only non category shooter in AAA There were 17 100s broken—five in class. The other top scores took their AAA, seven AA, two in A, two in B, respective categories. and one in C. After the fall out from EMANUAL BUTDORF the carryover into the Championship Singles, Michael Wengerd walked away with AAA, Richard Zombek AA, Dan Schock A, and Scott Berry in B. The category winners with 100 were Madison Oswalt (Sub Jr), Andrew Collins (Jr), Kennet Darroch (Sub Vet), Mike Fredericksen (Vet), Michael Stephenson (Senior Vet), and Summer Gobrecht (Lady I). Mike Federicksen had the high score of 98 in the Joseph Charnigo Handicap. Joe Charnigo broke the high score of 99 in his own Doubles event, along with Dean Townsend

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SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP Saturday was a gorgeous day with sunshine, mid 80 degree weather and a light breeze. Only 13 of 871 shooters broke the first 100 in the Browning Singles Championship. Twelve broke them in the second hundred, but Aaron Willoughby, Dirk Meckstroth, and Rick Springer (Sub Veteran) were able to put both of them together to break all 200. Springer went out in the first round of the shoot-off. Meckstroth missed his first bird in the fourth box to give Willoughby the Championship, while he fell to runner-up.

DOUBLES AND HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIPS It was another great day for Sunday’s Doubles Championship and 377 competitors took the line. In the end, there were four 99s—Michael Wengerd, Ian Darroch, Andrew Collins and Mark Isner all broke the near perfect score. Darroch broke a 20 in the shoot-off for the Championship, Wengerd took runnerup, Collins fell to Junior and Isner, who didn’t show up for the shoot-off, took Sub Veteran outright. In the Eagle Golf Cart Handicap Championship, William Sheward Jr., Rodney Crump, John McCormick, and Ronald McGinnis earned a “ticket to the dance” with scores of 98. After a pair of 24s in the shoot-off, Crump won the Handicap title. McGinnis was the runner-up, McCormick took 3rd and Sheward ended as the Senior Veteran champion.

HAA AND HOA Ian Darroch of Aliquippa, PA was this year’s High All Around Champion with the score of 393x400. Four

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BUCKEYE OPEN SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET

AARON WILLOUGHBY DIRK MECKSTROTH MICHAEL WENGERD JAMES JOHNSTON ROBERT ZIMMERMAN RIFE DENLINGER RONALD GEESLING JEFF MILLER SUMMER GOBRECHT PEGGY ANN WISE MADISON OSWALT AUSTIN POHLMAN WYATT MILLER RICK SPRINGER TOM NEAL BOBBY HUBBLE

KY OH OH PA OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH IN IN

200 200 199 198 198 197 196 194 199 197 194 198 198 200 199 198

targets behind Darroch were runnerup Michael Wengerd, AAA winner Tate Hedrick and Sub Veteran winner Tank Lunsford. Joe Charnigo broke 971 of the 1000 target High Over All to win by five targets over runner-up Wengerd. Lunsford was again the Sub Veteran champion with his score of 962. The Buckeye Open may have started off slower than they have been used to, but the attendance growth for the remainder of the shoot put them back into the comfort zone that is expected of a shoot at the Cardinal Center. n

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BUCKEYE OPEN DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET

IAN DARROCH MICHAEL WENGERD JOE CHARNIGO ELAINA MCCARTHY MARK BAILEY TIMOTHY MCMILLAN TIM BURRIS DAVID FISH ELIZABETH TERNES BETTY PETERSON DYLAN HALL ANDREW COLLINS SETH COOPER MARK ISNER JOEL ETCHEN RICHARD PARTIN

PA OH OH OH OH OH OH PA OH OH IN KY OH WV PA OH

99 99 97 96 97 96 94 93 98 93 89 99 96 99 98 96

BUCKEYE OPEN HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH 7TH 8TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET

BUCKEYE OPEN HIGH ALL AROUND CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET

IAN DARROCH MICHAEL WENGERD TATE HEDRICK KEVIN DAWSON TUFF HUTCHINS RIFE DENLINGER ALEX OHR ZACKARY ANDERSON SUMMER GOBRECHT PEGGY ANN WISE LANE ADKINS ANDREW COLLINS SETH COOPER TANK LUNSFORD JOEL ETCHEN MIKE DEHABEY

PA OH OH OH OH OH PA OH OH OH OH KY OH IN PA OH

RODNEY CRUMP RONALD MCGINNIS JOHN MCCORMICK RONALD SMITH IAN DARROCH AUSTIN CAMPBELL TATE HEDRICK AARON WILLOUGHBY JENNIFER HEDRICK SHARON COGAN LANE ADKINS ETHAN GIBSON BRENNAN KAMER DEAN TOWNSEND STEVE CORWIN WILLIAM SHEWARD

KY OH OH OH PA OH OH KY OH OH OH OH KY OH OH OH

98 98 98 97 97 97 97 97 96 96 97 97 96 94 97 98

BUCKEYE OPEN HIGH OVER ALL 393 389 389 384 382 382 371 371 384 379 375 384 385 389 388 386

CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET

JOE CHARNIGO MICHAEL WENGERD AARON WILLOUGHBY KEVIN DAWSON DAN SCHOCK RIFE DENLINGER RICHARD HENRY KAYLEE JOSEPH ELAINA MCCARTHY SHARON COGAN DYLAN HALL TUFF HUTCHINS SETH COOPER TANK LUNSFORD STEVE CORWIN ROBERT DYER

OH OH KY OH OH OH OH OH OH OH IN OH OH IN OH KY

971 966 961 946 946 945 931 927 959 907 932 945 940 962 941 946

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THE 2021 US OPEN

BY KARLA HARRISON Following a long and difficult struggle with state mandated health safety guidelines, the US Open was allowed to return to the World Shooting and Recreational Complex (WSRC) near Sparta, Illinois on June 2-6. Complex Director Lauren Mueller put her staff in motion to prepare for the over 600 shooters who were anxious to get back on the line. A large group of young shooters shot on Saturday as part of the Southern Illinois Youth Shooting Sports Association (SIYSSA) swelling the number of total entries to nearly 500 for the Singles championship event. Vendors were hustling to prepare their permanent buildings in advance of the upcoming AIM and Grand American tournaments and campers took advantage of all the opened TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

campgrounds to be able to stay close to the action.

PRELIMINARY DAYS Wednesday kicked off the ATA program with a modest number of entries in the Budweiser Singles. Perfect scores topped the board, awarding trophies to Reid Winn (Champion), Jack Holland (Sub Junior), Dagen Voigtman (Jr-Gold), Frank Payne (Veteran) and David Sickmeyer (Class A). Little Egypt Golf Cars sponsored the opening Handicap event where Dagen Voigtman bested all others with 95 for the Champion’s award. Kent Frost (runner-up), Tony Jones (3rd), and William Ausbrooks (4th) settled their placements after each

broke 93 in the program. Kenny Wyatt placed 5th with a score of 92. Doubles concluded Wednesday’s program, sponsored by Graf & Sons. Iowa Junior shooter Cole Henning claimed the Champion’s title with 98 while Jack Holland (Sub Junior), Jacob Duren (Junior), Dagen Voigtman (Junior Gold) and Chase Horton (Class AA) all won trophies with scores of 98.

ALL AMERICAN POINTS EVENTS Reid Winn (Champion) continued his winning ways in the Trap & Field Singles on Thursday by breaking a 100 straight. Also taking a trophy with 100 were Ryan Loveless (Junior Gold), Frank Payne (Veteran), Joe

Nehrt (Senior Veteran), Austin Jacob (Class AAA) and Michael Hathaway (Class A). The Trapshooting Hall of Fame Museum has reopened for visitors during shooting events and DAGEN VOIGTMAN

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sponsored Thursday’s Handicap. Dagen Voigtman only dropped two for the Championship. Jack Morris was Senior Veteran champ with 96. Austin Jacob (95) earned runner-up over Patrick Lowe (3rd). Others with scores of 95 were Chloe Jacobs (Lady I), Wyatt Newby (Junior), Kevin Polson (Sub Veteran) and Steven Moore (Veteran). Fourth and 5th places went to Breydon Paxson and Gary Gooch, respectively with 94s. There was stiff competition in the Red Bud Chamber of Commerce Doubles. It took a perfect round by Austin Jacob to clinch the Champion’s trophy. Elise Baker (Lady I), Jack Holland (Sub Junior), Cole Henning (Junior), Hunter Spruill (Junior Gold) and Gary Gooch (Senior Veteran) each broke 99 to win their categories. Twenty-seven category and class championships were awarded in the NRA Class Singles on Friday. Among those winning trophies with perfect scores were Landon Chandler (Sub Junior), Breydon Paxson (Junior), Don Budd (Sub Veteran) Frank Payne (Veteran) and Reid Winn (AAA). Dagen Voigtman carded a 98 for the Champion’s trophy in the Federal Ammunition Handicap. Squad mate, Chase Horton (98) was the runner up. Additional 98s were turned in by Don Budd (Sub Veteran), Steven Moore (Veteran) and Steve Everly (Senior Veteran). The Kubota Class Doubles Championship gave shooters the opportunity to take home a class or category trophy. Austin Jacob (AAA) and Justin Dewitt (A) left no unbroken targets to claim their classes. Shooters with 99 picked up awards in Junior (Colby Lancaster), Sub Veteran (Ed Schlotfeldt), Veteran (Bob Felber) and AAA (Caleb Fischer). The ATA provided complimentary food and drinks following the last event on Friday and Saturday. The Remington Handicap found Tyler Mudd and Dagen Voigtman tied

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with 98. Using scores by sub-event, Voigtman was named Champion and Mudd chose the Junior champ award. Shane Heister, breaking 97, was event runner-up after Samuel Wilson opted for the Sub Junior honor. Bobby Fowler (3rd), Kenny Wyatt (4th) and Jeremy Beasley (5th) filled out the top spots, each with 96.

WINCHESTER US OPEN SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D L1 L2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

LANDON CHANDLER CHASE HORTON AUSTIN JACOB BRADLEY GRAY JAYCE WELLEN KENNY WYATT DANIEL HOLT BRADEN CLEM LAUREN MUELLER SHELLY HEITNER BRAXTON DENT LUCAS MCVAIGH KAMERON MARTIN MARVIN BEUMER DEAN NEUMANN MIKE JORDAN LARRY NORTON

200 199 199 199 197 197 197 195 199 195 199 200 200 199 199 200 181

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SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP The US Open Singles Championship, sponsored by Winchester, was a race that had the pace set by a Sub Junior, a Junior, a Junior Gold and a Senior Veteran. Landon Chandler, Lucas McVaigh, Kameron Martin and Mike Jordan each went to the shoot-off field with a program 200. Chandler, an Arkansas Sub Junior who had only recently broken his first ever 200 straight at the Florida state shoot, claimed the Champion’s title. McVaigh and Martin opted for Junior and Junior Gold respectively. Jordan was declared the Senior Veteran winner. Event runner-up was Chase Horton with a score of 199. A total of 17 shooters posted scores of 199.

SUNDAY The US Open Doubles Championship,

sponsored by White Flyer, had two familiar shooters going head-to-head on the same squad. Caleb Fischer and Austin Jacob broke the only 100s, with Fischer winning Champion and Jacob settling for the runner-up trophy when the shoot-off dust settled. Shooters with 99s captured category and class trophies—Cole Henning (Junior), Chase Horton (AAA), Reid Winn (AA) and Zach Bryant (AA runner-up). At the conclusion of the US Open Handicap Championship, sponsored by Browning, there was a 3-way tie among the scores of 98. Macy Donoho, a Junior Illinois resident, took her new gun of two weeks to

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WHITE FLYER US OPEN DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D L1 L2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

CALEB FISCHER AUSTIN JACOB CHASE HORTON REID WINN HAYDEN MILLER ANDREW FEIG CALEB DELP LEVI RENSING LAUREN MUELLER SHELLY HEITNER JACK HOLLAND COLE HENNING RYAN LOVELESS DAVID DEITCH BOB FELBER GARY GOOCH LARRY NORTON

100 100 99 99 95 96 94 89 96 91 98 99 98 96 97 96 92

join Caleb Fischer and Sub Junior Landon Rainey on the shoot-off field. MACY DONOHO

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MACY DONOHO CALEB FISCHER HEATH WHITNEY ETHAN CHEEK WYATT NEWBY KEEFER STEELE CHASE HORTON HANNAH MARTIN SHELLY HEITNER LANDON RAINEY TYLER MUDD DAGEN VOIGTMAN DON BUDD MIKE DENNIS VERNON ANDERSON LARRY NORTON

98 98 96 96 96 96 96 94 96 98 97 97 97 94 94 82

Miss Donoho was crowned Champion. Fischer placed as the runner-up and Rainey was Sub Junior champ.

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HAA The High All Around, sponsored by Browning, listed multiple Illinois residents who would be claiming a trophy. Chase Horton was the Champion with 394x400. Lauren

Mueller was Lady I champ. Landon Rainey earned Sub Junior, Brandon Schneider took Class C and James Covert Class D. Larry Norton was the Chair champ. Kansas resident Caleb Fischer also posted a 394 to pick up the Class AAA trophy.

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Ohio Resident Austin Jacob was Champion within the high-over-all rankings, sponsored by White Flyer. His 982/1000 bested squad mate Chase Horton’s 976 who ended up with the class AAA award. Next up for the WSRC will be the National AIM tournament beginning July 30. The Grand American begins August 4. Pres-quadding is encouraged and the ATA has provided a new way to classify, squad and cashier. PRIOR to the Grand, shooters must first request classification, July 16-28, by using the link under “Latest News” at www. shootata.com Once classified (replies will be sent by August 3) remote squadding is available DURING THE GRAND at no charge. Remote

US OPEN HIGH ALL AROUND BY BROWNING CH AAA AA A B C D L1 L2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SRVET CHAIR

CHASE HORTON CALEB FISCHER ZACH BRYANT BRAYDEN ROUSE CALEB DELP BRANDON SCHNEIDER JAMES COVERT LAUREN MUELLER SHELLY HEITNER LANDON RAINEY COLE HENNING DAGEN VOIGTMAN DAVID DEITCH DEAN NEUMANN BILL DAYTON LARRY NORTON

394 394 386 387 385 380 371 380 382 384 388 390 386 384 378 355

US OPEN HIGH OVER ALL BY WHITE FLYER CH AAA AA A B C D L1 L2 SUB-JR JR JR GOLD SUB-VET VET SR-VET CHAIR

AUSTIN JACOB CHASE HORTON FRANK HAYNES COLBY LANCASTER BRADY DUREN PAYTON WOTTOWA TIMOTHY HAYS LAUREN MUELLER SHELLY HEITNER JACK HOLLAND COLE HENNING DAGEN VOIGTMAN DAVID DEITCH FRANK PAYNE GARY GOOCH LARRY NORTON

982 976 958 953 948 928 896 946 943 958 960 967 959 960 954 877

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NORTH CAROLINA

STATE SHOOT 2021 BY JOHN CAFFEY

The 108th North Carolina State Trapshooting Championships were held at the North Carolina homegrounds in Bostic, North Carolina June 9 -13, back on schedule after having to be rescheduled last year due to COVIS-19. As shooting starts to get back to what might be the new normal, 280 shooters from 15 different states were in attendance to shoot the program. This year posted some of the highest scores seen.

PRELIMINARY DAY Wednesday Event 1 Singles kicked off the week with sunny North Carolina weather. 101 shooters in the event was an increase over last year, three TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

posting 100 straights, and every category winner having a score 95 or above. John White from Alabama bested the pack to start the week off in Singles with 100 and won Champion honors with 25x25 in the shoot-off with Tyler Honnold of Tennessee. The Event 2 Handicap had 98 entries. North Carolina’s own Caleb Dancy took Champion with a 96 from the 23.5 and John White kept his streak going with a 96 from the 27 to take runner-up. Event 3, the last event of the day was the Lewis Wyatt Doubles. 80 shooters participated and Tennessee lady shooter Brook Barnett took Champion with John White finishing out a great day by taking AA with a 92 after a three-way shoot-off.

THURSDAY Thursday started off with Event 4, the Steve Woods Singles and there were 144 shooters involved. In the end, Logan Denman from Wisconsin emerged as Champion with 100 straight and a shoot-off with Tennessee shooter George Reese. This event was the one to shine with every category being won with no score less than 96. In total, nine shooters had to go into shoot-offs with 99 in order to secure a position. Congratulations to the survivors John White (AA) Alabama, Caleb Mathis (Junior) North Carolina, Ted Carwile (Senior Veteran) Virginia, Michael Burnette (Sub Veteran) Tennessee and George Reese (Veteran) Tennessee.

Event 5, the Jacob Beauchamp Handicapwith 135 shooters, saw Kentucky Robert Dyer take Champion with a 97. Andy Clayton (NC) was runner-up with 95. The Event 6 Doubles finished off the day with 110 shooters. North Carolina Junior shooter Tyler Cox shot a 95 to take the champion trophy with John White posting a 92 for AA honors.

FRIDAY Friday started off with the Event 7 Single Class Championship which had 168 entries. Despite some warm North Carolina weather, shooters were able to post some impressive scores with shoot-offs determining

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JESSE BURGHER SHOT HIS FIRST 100 STRAIGHT

many of the class winners. James Hughes was North Carolina AA winner with a solid 98, with Kentucky shooter Robert Dyer taking out of state AA with 99 via a three-way shoot-off and a score of 25/25. Event 8 was the Hall of Fame Handicap. After some very impressive scores this morning the Handicap event kicked off with 155 shooters from all over the East Coast competing. When the smoke cleared two shooters emerged as Champion. From North Carolina, Nathan Snyder took champion accolades from 23.5 yards with a 97. The Out-of-State bragging rights went to Logan Denman from Wisconsin with a 97 from 23 yards. North Carolina shooters John Williams took Sub Junior with 95 from 22 yard line while Robert Dyer won Senior Veteran with a 95 from the 27 yard line. Event 9, the North Carolina Double Class Champion, finished out the day with 117 shooters shooting 100 Doubles. Of the 48 North Carolina shooters, Caleb Dancy took AA with a 93 followed by Tyler Cox taking A class with 89 via a shoot-off posting a 47/47. Junior Shooter Caleb Mathis captured his class with a 95 while Senior Veteran Gregory High shot a 94 for his win. Out-of-State John White broke 96 and won AA, while Lady I shooter Brooke Barnett

from Tennessee took honors with a 96 for her category win.

SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP Saturday started off with a threat of early rain but that didn’t deter 222 shooters from taking to the line for the North Carolina Singles Championship. At the end of the day, Noah Gouge won the North Carolina state title with 199. The Out-of-State winner was Robert Dyer, who matched the North Carolina 199 for champion followed by Thomas Campbell of South Carolina with 198.

NORTH CAROLINA STATE SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

NOAH GOUGE CALEB MATHIS DOUGLAS MONJEAU NATHAN SNYDER WILL PRICE JASON DANCY AUSTIN CASEY TAYLOR HORNER CONNIE BELL JOHN WILLIAMS TYLER COX GABRIEL MARTINEZ MORGAN SHAW WILLIAM MORTENSEN ESWARD GIDEON ROBERT DYER (KY)

199 193 193 193 192 192 192 196 179 195 195 192 196 192 197 199

Sunday was a great day to shoot Event 11, the North Carolina Doubles Championship, that kicked off the last day of the North Carolina State Shoot with 152 entries. The top of the leaderboard among North Carolina shooters was Brandon Cantrell taking the champion title with 97, followed by last year’s winner Tyler Cox, who shot 94 to take runner-up. George Reese from Tennessee claimed Out-of -State Champion with a 97 while John Whit posted 95 for the AA title. Event 12, The North Carolina Handicap Championship, followed the Doubles Championship and featured 172 shooters, 94 In-State and 78 Out-of-State. Leading North Carolina shooters from the 20 yard line was Sub Junior shooter Hunter Scott taking the champion position with a 97. The Out-of-State champion was Junior shooter Jonah Wyatt from Tennessee shooting a 95 from the 19.5 yard line

HAA AND HOA The High All Around championship winner for North Carolina based on events 10,11,and 12 was Junior Gold

NORTH CAROLINA STATE DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

BRANDON CANTRELL TYLER COX ROBERT SCHULTZ THOMAS GALLOWAY JR DANIEL TOLLISON JR MARK COX DANIEL TOLLISON MEGAN SMITH DONNA CORNETT STEVE SCOTT CALEB MATHIS NOAH GOUGE JAMES HUGHES ROBERT HILL JR GREGORY HIGH GEORGE REESE (TN)

97 94 89 92 87 91 87 90 64 92 95 95 95 90 91 97

NORTH CAROLINA STATE HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

STEVE SCOTT BRANDON CANTRELL DANIEL TOLLISON MARK COX JOSHUA BRAFFORD THOMAS GALLOWAY JR TAYLOR HORNER JILL KAUFMAN JOHN WILLIAMS NOAH YOUNG NOAH GOUGE MORGAN SHAW ANDY CLAYTON EDWARD GIDEON JONAH WYATT (TN)

97 93 93 93 92 92 91 89 93 94 92 88 93 95 95

shooter Noah Gouge with a 386.

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Johnathon Miller took AA with 365. The Non-Resident High All Around Championship was a battle of Sub Veteran shooters, with Ted Carwile (VA) edging out Robert Dyer (KY) both with 385. Noah Gouge won the Resident High Over All title with 946 ahead of Junior Shooter Caleb Mathis. Out-of-State honors went to Robert Dyer who posted 957.

FINISHING UP This year’s North Carolina State Shoot showed better than expected attendance, despite the challenges associated with the ammunition shortages and fuel shortages in some areas. It’s always a pleasure to visit the North Carolina homegrounds. The targets are good, with new fields being added to accommodate the

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NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGH ALL AROUND CH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

NOAH GOUGE TAYLOR HORNER DONNA CORNETT JOHN WILLIAMS BRANDON CANTRELL JAMES HUGHES WILLIAM MORTENSEN EDWARD GIDEON TED CARWILE (VA)

386 367 314 377 376 377 361 380 385

NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGH OVER ALL CH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

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2020 HALL OF FAME 2021 INDUCTEES

BY KARLA HARRISON

As the world becomes healthier and lives have slowly returned to “normal” it is now business as usual for some gun clubs and that includes the World Shooting and Recreational Complex and the Trapshooting Hall of Fame near Sparta, Illinois. The celebration of the 2020 Hall of Fame inductees was put on hold due to the pandemic but its back on the calendar to be held on August 10, 2021. Willis Corbett, Mike Fisher, Robert (Bob) Malmstedt and Jennifer Rutger will officially be welcomed into the elite group of shooting greats. No additional 2021 inductees will be added. Tickets for advance reservations are for sale at $65 each. Contact Laurie Penford at www.traphof.org All tickets must be picked up by NOON on Tuesday, August 10 at the HOF Museum. A social hour prior to the banquet will be held in the Events Center at the WSRC. Induction ceremonies will follow the meal. TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

WILLIS CORBETT 2020-2021 has had other challenges in addition to the COVID crisis with racial unrest and cries for diversity rising to prominence. It is fitting that incoming inductee, Willis Corbitt led the march to include fellow minority shooters into the ranks of the Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA). He was the first of his race to receive an ATA life membership, opening up opportunities to compete at clubs that had previously been closed to him and other shooters of color. Corbett went on to work with Winchester-Olin, the National Rifle Association and major corporations to further benefit trapshooting. As a field representative for WinchesterOlin, his friendship with John Olin was the beginning of many associations with other businessmen including Harvey Firestone (Firestone Tire) and Jimmy Plinton of Trans World Airlines (TWA) plus other

celebrities and political dignitaries thus opening doors for both men and women of color. In 1968, Corbett represented Winchester Rifles on a big game African safari sponsored by TWA. Articles written about that hunt appeared in various publications (including Ebony Magazine) and put a spotlight on African-American hunters. His association with the Missouri Department of Conservation led to developing new opportunities for youth shooters. As one of the founders (2006) and past president for the Missouri Youth Shooting Sports Association, MYSSA continues to promote youth involvement in various shooting sports. Corbett’s connection with the Busch family eventually brought in large sponsorships for many events including the Budweiser Handicap at the Grand American. According to past ATA President, Tom Arvis, “Willis was the first link between the ATA and Budweiser.” That support to the

Grand has continued from a local distributor in southern Illinois. In 2011, Willis Corbett was the 39th member inducted into the Missouri Trapshooters Association Hall of Fame. He and his wife, Jo reside in St. Louis, Missouri.

MIKE FISHER A young quail hunter from north Missouri got his first experience at trapshooting at a local meat shoot. But when he became acquainted with a fellow student during his university years, his introduction to trap changed his casual pastime into a passion that has taken him across the country and beyond. Mike Fisher’s study buddy just happened to be the son of a Missouri State Handicap Champion. After some coaching and practice, Fisher began registering ATA targets in 1971. Over the years, clubs such as the

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Alamogordo Trap Club in New Mexico and the Metro Gun Club in Angleton, Texas, plus tournaments at the Missouri Trap Association, Kansas Trap Association, and the Grand have propelled Fisher into the record books. In 1987, he broke 300/300 on the same day and then bested that in 1990 by breaking 400/400 all in one day. He led the nation with a Doubles average of .9906 in 2001. A member of the All-American Team 12 times since 1985, he has also been a Texas State Team member 12 times. He was the Missouri State Team co-captain in 1978 and a team member in 1977. His work relocated him from Texas to Australia in 1988 but he made sure to pack his trap guns and continued his winning scores down under. Early the following year, he claimed three National titles at the Australian/New Zealand equivalent of the Grand American (only the third American to do so). Before returning to the States, Fisher combined his computer programming skills with his love of trapshooting and created the first software to be used by the Australia Clay Target Association. He was awarded the prestigious Eley Newton Tomas Award for his gift of the software program. Today, Mike and his wife, Meryl (an Australian native) are retired and live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX area.

ROBERT MALMSTEDT Never doubt how far hard work can take you, just ask incoming inductee Robert (Bob) Malmstedt. His career as a heavy equipment mechanic within the steel industry has both benefitted and restricted his lifelong love of shooting. He grew up within a family who enjoyed hunting, fishing and shooting. During his high school years, the Somerset County (NJ)

Junior Rifle Club planted a passion for competition that would later return. The first eight years after entering the workforce, there was no time to shoot, but he missed it. A trip to the Winchester Public Range renewed his determination to perfect his scores. Friends encouraged him to join the ATA and from there the rest is history! He will be adding a third Hall of Fame plaque to his trophy case, alongside memberships in the Eastern States HOF and the New Jersey HOF. While Malmstedt has won many championships, he considers his most prized awards to be his two Grand American rings. He won the 2011 Clay Target Championship and claimed the 2015 High-All-Around honor. Bob isn’t hard to pick out of a crowd. Wearing his signature “bucket hat” he is usually among his squad mates who shoot together nearly every weekend. It was at a winter league that Bob garnered the best prize of his life. He offered some coaching advice to a lady shooter named Kate. For over the past 20 years they have been life partners and squad mates. It was fitting that Dieter Krieghoff delivered the news of Malmstedt’s upcoming HOF induction. For over the past 30 years, Malmstedt has been a dedicated K-80 shooter.

JENNIFER RUTGER Jennifer Rutger has championship blood in her veins. She will soon add the Trapshooting Hall of Fame to her

list of inductions, following inclusions in the Florida (1991) and Texas (2019) Halls of Fame. Her parents are both members of the Florida HOF, Ron in 1997 and Jeanine in 1995. Jeanine Rutger was the first woman to reach the 27-yard line in her home state of Illinois. Jennifer followed in her mother’s footsteps when she won the Florida State Handicap (at age 16) and took her place on the long yardage line. At the time, she was the youngest female in ATA history to be on the 27-yard line. While that record has since been broken, she considers that to be one of her greatest shooting achievements. Just three years after first registering ATA targets, she earned a spot on the All-American Sub Junior Team. In 1989, she was a 2nd team

All-American Junior. To date, Rutger has achieved All-American status over 32 times. Regardless of her state of residence (Florida, Louisiana, California, Texas), Rutger has won a U-Haul full of trophies. Since 1986, she has competed in satellite grands, zone tournaments and state shoots across the country. One constant in all her travels and shooting has been her family. Her third child, Delaney made the trip to the Grand in Vandalia just three weeks before being born. Over the years, her oldest daughter Lacy, and son Charlie, along with their grandparents, have served as her support team. Her family is set to expand with the birth of her first grandchild in October, 2021. n

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COLONIAL CLASSIC

The 2021 Colonial Classic was hosted by the Pennsylvania State Shotgunning Association on June 12th & 13th. The Colonial Classic is the beginning of the Pennsylvania State Shoot but is counted as a separate shoot for All-American Points and all events are shot off Sunday afternoon. The Championship Singles is determined by the total score of Saturday’s and Sunday’s Singles events, and ties are shot off Sunday afternoon. The High All Around is the combined Singles events and Sunday’s Handicap and Doubles events.

SATURDAY Shooting conditions were excellent for Saturday’s events starting off with the Deborah Ohye-Neilson Singles. The scores reflected the ideal conditions with 28 shooters posting TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

100 straights. In the day’s Sue Dunkle Handicap, Mark Ferdinand and Deborah Ohye-Neilson led the field of 499 with 98s. Ohye-Neilson would forfeit the shoot-off to take Lady II category, leaving Ferdinand as the event Champion. Jacob Edinger topped Junior ranks and Vitalino Vaz was the Sub Veteran Champion with second high scores of 97. In the afternoon’s Deborah Ohye-Neilson Doubles, Ken Darroch was the event Champion with a 99 and carryover with Joe Charnigo, who fell back to take Class AAA Champion.

SUNDAY Sunday’s conditions were good to start off with as well. Sixteen shooters were straight in the day’s Brandon Deal Singles—however, only two shooters managed to post perfect scores both days. Douglas

Worrell and Benjamin REPORT BY JOSH BUCHIERE Shope shot off following the conclusion of Sunday’s Isaac Mansoura (Class AA runner-up), events and following two rounds of Brayden Heckman (Sub Junior shoot-off, Shope was the Colonial Champion), Frank Pascoe (Veteran Classic Singles Champion, and Champion), and Danielle Green (Lady Worrell fell back to take Class A I Champion). honors. Trophy winners with second COLONIAL CLASSIC high scores of 199 were Brandon BRANDON DEAL SINGLES Deal (Class AAA Champion), Tony CH BENJAMIN SHOPE PA 200 Nunes (Class AAA runner-up), AAA BRANDON DEAL PA 199 Timothy Scott (Class AA Champion), BENJAMIN SHOPE

AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

TIMOTHY SCOTT DOUGLAS WORRELL MICHAEL WASCHITZ CHRISTOFER MAKER BRANDON HOOD DANIELLE GREEN DEB OHYE-NEILSON BRAYDEN HECKMAN CHANCE CHASE WESLEY BEAVER EDWARD DRUMHELLER FRANK PASCOE KAY OHYE WILLIAM ROSS

PA PA NY PA PA PA PA PA PA PA PA PA FL PA

199 200 196 198 193 199 198 199 199 198 198 199 198 193

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Targets were nearly perfect for the Ian Darroch Handicap and 14 shooters posted scores of 96 or higher. Dennis Cacciola Sr., Joseph Charnigo, Michael Fox Jr., and Jude Miko topped the event with 98s. Following one round of shoot-off, Cacciola was the event Champion, Miko event runner-up, and Fox Jr. 3rd place winner. Charnigo opted to skip the shoot-off and took 4th place for his score. By the start of the afternoon’s Ian Darroch Doubles, the wind had picked up and scores were lower overall. The challenging conditions did not deter Ken Darroch, Justin Slater, Osker Reynolds, and Joseph Charnigo, who turned in impressive 99s, a two target lead over the rest of the field. Charnigo had already headed for home and took Class AAA runner-up, leaving Darroch, Reynolds, and Slater to shoot off for the title. Slater let three go the first round and was the Class AAA Champion, Reynolds and Darroch each dropped one and continued for one more round. Darroch went straight this time and was the Colonial Classic Doubles Champion. Reynolds fell back to take the Class A Champion. Joe Charnigo’s excellent performance over the two days landed him both the High All Around and the High Over All titles with 396 and 584, respectively. Closest to him in the HAA was Michael Fox Jr. who took Class AAA with a 392. Brandon

COLONIAL CLASSIC IAN DARROCH HANDICAP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH 7TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

DENNIS CACCIOLA SR. JUDE MIKO MICHAEL FOX JR. JOSEPH CHARNIGO KORY SHISSLER PATRICK MCCARTHY RONALD SMITH CAITLINE BONSER DIANE ARNER WYATT READLER JACOB EDINGER DAWSON ZADZORA JAY GRIESEMER PATRICK MONAGHAN STEVEN FITCH WILLIAM ROSS

PA PA NY OH PA OH OH 95 95 PA PA PA PA PA PA PA

98 98 98 98 97 97 97 PA PA 97 94 95 97 94 96 93

COLONIAL CLASSIC HIGH ALL AROUND CH AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

JOSEPH CHARNIGO MICHAEL FOX JR. KORY SHISSLER DOUGLAS WORRELL ANGELINA MOIR WYATT READLER BRANDON HOOD HEIDI WOMER DEB OHYE-NEILSON BRAYDEN HECKMAN JAXON GRAY WESLEY BEAVER JAMES FLINT JOEL ETCHEN KAY OHYE WILLIAM ROSS

OH NY PA PA NJ PA PA NY PA PA PA PA NY PA FL PA

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COLONIAL CLASSIC IAN DARROCH DOUBLES CH AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

KENNETH DARROCH JUSTIN SLATER STEVE STEDMAN OSKER REYNOLDS RICHARD LONG ANGELINA MOIR DONNA NATCHER BETHANY BREIGHNER CELESTE MOORE DAVID BROWN JR. CHASE WOJTANIK WESLEY BEAVER JAMES FLINT JEROME STEFKOVICH JOHN FEDERICI WILLIAM ROSS

PA NY OH MD PA NJ PA PA PA NJ NY PA NY PA RI PA

99 99 97 99 95 92 89 96 91 91 95 97 97 96 96 77

JOE CHARNIGO

COLONIAL CLASSIC HIGH OVER ALL 396 392 386 381 376 373 364 378 382 378 383 386 388 383 389 363

Deal and Michael Blaisdell were Class AAA and Sub Veteran winners in the HOA with second high scores

CH AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR

JOSEPH CHARNIGO BRANDON DEAL JAMES FLINT DAVID MCMASTERS ANGELINA MOIR WYATT READLER GEORGE AINSWORTH CAITLINE BONSER DEB OHYE-NEILSON DAVID BROWN JR. KURT WILLMAN WESLEY BEAVER MICHAEL BLAISDELL JOEL ETCHEN KAY OHYE WILLIAM ROSS

OH PA NY NY NJ PA PA PA PA NJ PA PA NH PA FL PA

584 579 573 566 559 552 548 559 577 562 568 577 579 572 568 540

week’s Pennsylvania State Shoot. With a program of Singles, Handicap, and Doubles each day, the Colonial Classic is a very enjoyable weekend of shooting at one of the best facilities in the country. If you have never attended this shoot in the past, I would encourage you to put it on your calendar for next year. n

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PENNSYLVANIA STATE SHOOT

REPORT BY JOSH BUCHIERE The 2021 Pennsylvania State Shoot was hosted by the Pennsylvania State Shotgunning Association from June 14-20. The PSSA in Elysburg is one of the premier shooting complexes in the country. The facility includes 12 program banks of four traps each and during the state shoot, the entire shooting line is used for most events. Shooters from 26 states attended this year and the shoot had a competition factor of six for ATA All-American points. Monday and Tuesday are the preliminary days, and the 1100 target High Over All starts on Wednesday, with the 400 championship targets on Saturday and Sunday that make up the High All Around. TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

MONDAY & TUESDAY The shoot kicked off Monday with the Mark Deprez Handicap. The weather was excellent with only light winds and nearly full sun. Chair shooter William Ross posted a field high 96 in the first of the day’s two Handicap events to take Champion. Junior shooter Jason Love topped the USA Pork Packer Singles with a perfect score and carryover with Patrick Sokira, who fell back to take Class C. Strong storms rolled in during the afternoon’s TR Miller Handicap, and shooters would have to take shelter until the storm passed. Robert Jarvis

of New Jersey topped the event with the top score of 98. Scores of 99 were high in

Tuesday’s Royersford Foundry Singles and, following carryover with four others, Brandon Deal was the event

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Champion. Nicholas Wertz, Summer Gobrecht, and William French posted 96s in the Lonczynski Potato Handicap and shot off for Champion. Following one perfect shoot-off round, Wertz was the event Champion and Gobrecht and French fell back to take their Lady I and Junior categories. The afternoon’s L&M Lenses Doubles 200 was led by Deborah Ohye-Neilson and Benjamin Shope with 193s. Ohye-Neilson prevailed in the carryover and took Champion, Shope was the Class AA winner.

WEDNESDAY Wednesday was the start of the shoot’s High Over All, as well as Resident and Non-Resident trophies. A stiff headwind kept the day’s scores relatively low as only six 100 straights were posted in the All American Woodworking Singles. Benjamin Shope was the Resident Champion following 100 straight and carryover with Kory Shissler (Class AA Champion), Robyn Bird (Lady I Champion), and Nicholas Wertz (Junior Champion). William Kutch and Kay Ohye were the only out-of-state shooters to break them all and, following carryover, Kutch was the Non-Resident winner and Ohye the Senior Vet high gun. Junior All-American Captain Ian Lawrence of Illinois topped the field of 446 with a 98 from 27 yards to take the Non-Resident title in the Mag-Na-Port Handicap. Jacob Raymond Bonser led Pennsylvania shooters by a two-target margin with the lone second high score of 97 to take Resident Champion. Jake Levin broke the only 100 straight in the Pine Barn Inn Doubles and was the Non-Resident victor. Ian Darroch and Joseph Breck IV topped residents with 98s. Darroch took Champion and Breck IV, the Sub

Junior trophy, following the carryover.

THURSDAY Thursday is class championship day at the PA State Shoot. In the day’s Malsnee Tile & Stone Class Singles event, Residents posting perfect scores were Ian Darroch (Class AAA Champion), Iver Gustavson (Junior Champion), Ken Darroch (Sub Veteran Champion), and Chris Vendel (Sub Veteran runner-up). Out-of-state shooters with 100 straights were Richard Marshall Jr. (Class AAA Champion), John Spicer (Class AA Champion), Klayton McGee (Junior Champion), and Ian Lawrence (Junior Gold Champion). Ian Darroch topped Resident standings in the Shamrock Sporting Arms Preliminary Handicap with 98 from 27 yards to take Champion and Richard Long had the second highest score for Residents with a 97 to win the Senior Veteran category. Bob Lindenzweig from Virgina matched Darroch’s score and was the NonResident high gun also with 98. In the afternoon’s Elite Shotguns Class Doubles, Kory Shissler led Resident standings with a 98 and won Class A honors. Ian Recla was second In-State with a 97 and took Class AA Champion. Ian Lawrence was high for the event with the only 99 and was the Non-Resident Junior Gold winner. Second high scores of 98 were turned in by JT Allnutt (Class AA Champion), David Smiley (Class B Champion), Jim Flint (Sub Veteran Champion), and Kay Ohye (Senior Veteran Champion).

outside of the Grand American. A total of 1100 shooters participated in the event this year, all with the hope of having their number drawn to shoot off for the K-80 Trap ACS Combo that is given away by Krieghoff International and Allem’s Guncraft. After all scores were entered, the numbers were drawn and all shooters with a score ending in 2 or 7 were called to shoot off for the gun. The first round usually eliminates most of the field and this year was no exception. A total of 185 shooters participated in the shoot-off and after four rounds of ten, only two shooters remained straight, Ian Lawrence and Mark Ferdinand. Due to yardage difference, both shooters shot the last round on separate fields. Lawrence dropped two for an 8 and Ferdinand lost only one for a 9 and was the winner of the Krieghoff

Challenge after five shoot-off rounds. After the conclusion of the Krieghoff Challenge, the main event scores were called to shoot off. Five scores of 97 were high for the event, three Residents and two Out-ofState. After one shoot-off round, Jacob Edinger was the Resident Champion, Anthony Pilotti was runner-up and Raymond Gourley third place. Ian Darroch and Kory Shissler were fourth and fifth place, respectively, with second-high scores of 96. Ian Lawrence and Ronald Smith posted 97s from the back fence and, following a 25-straight in the shoot-off, Lawrence was the NonResident Champion, with Smith winning runner-up. Robert Rutter and Hani Hafez took Sub Veteran Champion and Senior Veteran Champion with second high 96s.

MARK FERDINAND (3RD FROM LEFT) WAS THIS YEAR’S WINNER OF THE KRIEGHOFF CHALLENGE SHOOT-OFF, WINNING A K-80 ACS COMBO

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SATURDAY Saturday started off cool and cloudy for the Allem’s Guncraft Singles Championship. Scores for the first 100 were relatively high but, shortly after the start of the second 100, the wind intensified and heavy rain moved in. With the challenging conditions in the afternoon, no Residents remained straight on the day and scores of 199 were high. Following the presentation of the Pennsylvania State Teams, Donald Schaffer Jr., Ian Recla, and Matthew Rebuck were called to shoot off for the Singles title under the lights. All three shooters made it through the first round clean and, after reversing positions, went out for another round. Both Schaffer Jr. and Rebuck dropped one target on the second box, and Recla let two slip away and would exit the shoot-off. Schaffer Jr. and Rebuck took the line for what would be the third and final shoot-off round. Rebuck dropped one on his third post, and Schaffer Jr. remained straight to take the coveted Pennsylvania State Singles title. Rebuck was the Resident runner-up, and Recla the Class AAA Champion for the event. Second high resident scores of 198 were Ian Darroch (Class AAA runner-up), Ryan Lee Ramsay (Class AA Champion), Daniel Schaffer (Class A Champion), Nicholas Wertz (Junior Champion), Chet Karpyn DONALD SCHAFFER JR.

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(Junior Gold Champion), Bruce Schmidt (Sub Veteran Champion), Frank Pascoe (Veteran Champion) and Steven Fitch (Senior Veteran Champion). Robert Edwards and Jerry Osborne III were the only shooters out of the field of 918 to post 200 straights and shoot off for the NonResident title. Following two shootoff rounds, Osborne III was the NonResident Champion and Edwards the Veteran Champion.

SUNDAY The skies cleared and temperatures rose into the low 90s for the final day of the PA State Shoot starting off with the Geiser Guns Doubles Championship. Cody Davis posted the only 100 straight by a Pennsylvania Resident to take the Doubles title without the need for a shoot-off. Donald Schaffer Jr. was the event runner-up following a 99 and Ken Darroch was the Sub Veteran Champion with the same score. Evan Mood was the Junior Gold Champion with the only Resident score of 98. Joe Charnigo was high for visitors with 100 straight and took NonResident Champion. Jake Levin and

PENNSYLVANIA STATE SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR NON-RES CH

DONALD SCHAFFER JR. MATTHEW REBUCK IAN RECLA RYAN RAMSAY DANIEL SCHAFFER DAVID FISH ROBERT RUMBAUGH STEVE DEAL CAITLINE BONSER DEB OHYE-NEILSON LUKE DUDASH NICHOLAS WERTZ CHET KARPYN BRUCE SCHMIDT FRANK PASCOE STEVEN FITCH WILLIAM ROSS JERRY OSBORNE III (GA)

199 199 199 198 198 197 196 193 196 195 194 198 198 198 198 198 188 200

PENNSYLVANIA STATE DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR NON-RES CH

CODY DAVIS DONALD SCHAFFER JR. JOHN MANETTA BENJAMIN SHOPE JACOB MADKIFF DAVID DARROUGH RONALD WECHSLER JACOB BONSER KATELYNN DECKER DEB OHYE-NEILSON JOSEPH BRECK IV NICHOLAS WERTZ EVAN MOOD KENNETH DARROCH JOEL ETCHEN FRED WILLIAMS WILLIAM ROSS JOSEPH CHARNIGO (OH)

100 99 97 95 94 95 94 93 94 97 93 97 98 99 95 95 85 100

Richard Marshall Jr. were Class AAA Champion and runner-up, respectively, following 99s. Ian Lawrence topped his Junior Gold category also with a 99. In the Freeman Kline Jr. Memorial Handicap Championship, the final event of the tournament, Ian Darroch turned in his second 98 of the week at 27 yards. Darroch’s score would net him the state Handicap title without the need for a shoot-off. Robert Custer, Donald Schaffer Jr., Brandon Deal, and Alex Ohr took the runner-up through fifth places following 97s. Tommy Hensel, Jarod Ossman, and Joel Etchen took Sub Junior, Junior, and Veteran categories, RICKY MARSHALL JR.

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respectively, also with 97s. Richard Marshall Jr. led the event with a 99 from 27 yards and was the Non-Resident Champion. Jake Levin

PENNSYLVANIA STATE HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH 7TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR NON-RES CH

IAN DARROCH ROBERT CUSTER DONALD SCHAFFER JR. BRANDON DEAL ALEX OHR ZACKARY HALABURA KENNETH DUNKLE CAITLINE BONSER DIANA KUESTNER TOMMY HENSEL JAROD OSSMAN DAWSON ZADZORA DAVID DARROUGH JOEL ETCHEN JACK JABS WILLIAM ROSS RICHARD MARSHALL JR. (NE)

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was event runner-up with 98, and Ronald Smith matched his score from Friday and took third place.

HAA & HOA Donald Schaffer Jr.’s 395 in the Breckenridge Paper & Packaging High All Around secured him the state title by four targets over Ian Darroch, who was the Class AAA winner with 391. Cody Davis took Class AA honors with one less. Ian Darroch won the White Flyer High Over All title with 1068x1100 by a commanding 13 target margin over Donald Schaffer Jr. and Wesley Beaver, who were the Class AAA and Junior Gold Champions, respectively, with 1055s. Richard Marshall Jr.’s 99 in the feature Handicap secured him the

Non-Resident High All Around title with an impressive 397, the highest score posted in recent memory in a High All Around in Elysburg. Ian Lawrence topped the Non-Resident High Over All standings for the third consecutive year, this time with 1075x1100. If you have never attended the Pennsylvania State Shoot, I would definitely encourage you to make the trip next year. The folks at the PSSA do an exceptional job of running this impressive facility. The competition is always tough in Pennsylvania and coming away with a win at this shoot is no small accomplishment. If you enjoy being at a place that truly embodies what competitive trapshooting is at its best, I know you won’t regret making the trip to Elysburg. n

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ILLINOIS STATE SHOOT 2021 REPORTED BY JACQUE SNELLENBERGER The 145th Illinois State Trapshoot was held at the Brittany Shooting Park in Bunker Hill, Illinois over June 14-20th. Monday started with the Illinois State Vintage Championship. It consisted of 50 Singles, 50 Handicap (at your ATA yardage), and 25 pairs of Doubles. In order to compete in this event, one must shoot a firearm that was on the trap lines during the ‘50s and ‘60s—pump guns, side-bysides, or old single barrels. With a score of 49, Rodney Johnson won Singles and he won the Doubles with a 45. Handicap was won by Chris Bach with a 44. TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

Tuesday started with the White Flyer Singles. Samuel Gilman, Michael Hathaway, Alexander Miller, Thomas Rizzi and Landon Sievers came out with perfect centuries. Class trophies were given, so Sievers won AAA, Hathaway AA, Gilman took Class A after beating out Miller and Rizzi in the carryover. Then it was onto Mike’s Guns Handicap where Sub Junior Wyatt Sibley and Junior shooter, Hope Smith, broke 99s. Sibley took the Open Handicap Champion Trophy after shooting a perfect round in the shoot-off. Austin Jacob broke the only 99 on the grounds in the Sunset Distributors

Doubles for the Open AAA Trophy. After the shooting, the Illinois State Association had a Hall of Fame Induction Celebration for Jesse Hamblen, Tal Seger, and Paul Vonburg.

out over Horton with a 48 in the carryover. Hall of Fame Singles was next and there were 11 100 straights broken. Harlan Campbell Jr. won over

WEDNESDAY The Overall started Wednesday with the Baker Farms Doubles. Keith Ditto broke the only 100 for the AAA Outof-State trophy, while Chase Horton and Steven Margherio had to carryover their 96s to see who would win the In-State AAA. Margherio won

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Dan Haag in the first round of his carryover for Out-of-State AAA. Event 6 was the Illinois Gun Club’s Handicap. Keith Ditto had the lone 99 for the Out-of-State Champion, while Gavin Rynders, Lauren Dunn, and Wyatt Sibley had to shoot off for the In-State Champion with 98s. Rynders won with a 25, Dunn dropped to Lady I, and Sibley finished as the Sub Junior winner.

THURSDAY Thursday was warm with just a touch of breeze for the Singles Class Championship. Eleven shooters broke them all. Justin Dewitt was the only AAA for In-State. Out-of-State AAA Class had Austin Jacob and Michael Gooch carryover with Jacob winning it with a perfect first box. William VanNieuwnhuyzen (Senior Veteran), David Deitch (Sub Veteran), and Drake Reynolds (Sub Junior) all won their categories with perfect scores as well. In the Illinois Director’s Handicap, In-State was won by Patrick Jamagin with a score of 99. Dagen Voigtman was one less for the Out-of-State Champion. Keith Ditto broke the 100 in the Brittany Shooting Park Doubles for the Outof-State AAA win. High for In-State was Landon Sievers and Lauren

Dunn, previously known as Mueller, until March 27th when she was wed. She also has another important ring—that one for winning the HAA at the Grand American in 2013. Sievers (Junior) and Dunn (Lady I) won their categories and this left AAA, In-State, to go to Steven Margherio with a 97. The three digit temperatures had shooters in the The White Flyer Doubles Class Championship sweating. Keith Ditto led the pack again with 99 for AAA Out-of-State. There were five 98s, but they were Non-Residents as well. That left 97s to take many of the In-State trophies—Walter Barnickel (Junior Gold), Landon Sievers (Junior), Dan Staker (Sub Veteran) and Timothy Marucco (AA). Dagen Voigtman broke 100 in the White Flyer Handicap for the Out-of-State Champion (his 7th). George Hass broke a 98 for the runner-up spot. Another 98 was broken by Allison Jensen who walked away with Lady I Non Resident. Walker Sibley, Joshua Taylor, Joe Nehrt, Steve Dinkelman, Tim Lewis, and Frank Payne all broke 97s on the resident side of things. After shooting, a complimentary meal was provided on behalf of the ISTA—pork steak, baked beans, coleslaw, potato salad and drinks were provided as well as great

conversation amongst the participants. Carole and her friends always do a great job in the kitchen!

SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP The Winchester Singles Championship on Saturday was delayed for an hour due to lightning in the area. The first hundred was completed successfully, however, at about 3:30, everyone was called off the line again due to more lightning. The decision was then made that since it was a slow moving storm and headed right for them, shooting would resume at 8:00am on Sunday morning to finish. Beginning again on Sunday, there were four 200 straights, two residents and two non residents—George Haas and Dagen Voigtman were the Out-of-Staters and Joshua Taylor and Michael Hathaway led the way for the In-State shooters. In the first round of the windy Singles shoot-off, Taylor missed early, but on the last post Hathaway missed to let him back in. Everyone else ran them, in the second round Haas had a target not come up as he ran over it to give the Out-of-State Championship to Voigtman. Taylor had similar targets and took runner-up to Hathaway’s

ILLINOIS STATE SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR NON-RES CH

MICHAEL HATHAWAY JOSH TAYLOR STEVEN MARGHERIO MATTHEW LAMB SAMUEL GILMAN MACY DONOHO LOGAN RENSING WYATT RITTER ASHLEIGH PAINTER ANITA KNEAREM KYLE FABISIAK LANDON SIEVERS HAYDEN HEMRICH RODNEY JOHNSON MIKE MOORE MIKE JORDAN LARRY NORTON DAGEN VOIGTMAN (NE)

200 200 197 199 196 198 194 191 199 188 199 199 199 198 198 197 185 200

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SUNDAY The Doubles Championship had three 100s. In-State Championship went to Junior Gold shooter, Terron Williams. Prior to this, his highest score had been 94. To say he was nervous on the last ten shots was an understatement. Logan Applegate and Patrick Hopson broke them for Out-of-State shooters and Hopson missed a target in his first pair to give Junior shooter Applegate a chance,

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ILLINOIS STATE DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR NON-RES CH

TERRON WILLIAMS 100 BRAD BOMKAMP 98 CHASE HORTON 98 COLE GORDON 96 TAD HORTON 95 RYAN MATZKE 94 PAYTON WOTTOWA 94 LEVI RENSING 92 LAUREN DUNN 97 JANICE RIGLER 84 WYATT SIBLEY 96 LANDON SIEVERS 99 GARRETT HELMS 99 DAN STAKER 98 FRANK PAYNE 99 CHARLIE BICKLE 95 ZIGGY TKACZENKO 93 LOGAN APPLEGATE (AR) 100

but Applegate missed on his fourth post to let him back in. Determined to compete, they each ran the next

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round. In the third round Applegate missed his 18th target, and Hopson missed his last to let him back in. So out they went again and ran them. In the next box, Applegate achieved the victory when Hopson missed toward the end and this time the door was closed.

ILLINOIS STATE HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR NON-RES CH

GAVIN RYNDERS HAYDEN SANSON ZACHARY PAINTER WYATT WILLIAMS SAMUEL GILMAN TY LEACH LAUREN DUNN BRENDA DENNIS PAYTON WOTTOWA LOGAN RENSING GARRETT HELMS KENNETH KOESTERER FRANK PAYNE GREGORY AITKEN LARRY NORTON KEITH DITTO (KY)

98 97 97 96 96 96 95 93 95 98 97 96 95 96 93 99

Three hundred forty seven (347) shooters were all vying for the Illinois Handicap Championship sponsored by Kolar. Keith Ditto and Ryan Loveless both broke 99s to pace the

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field. A gentleman’s agreement gave Ditto the win, Loveless took his category (Junior Gold) and the Champion trophy home, and they split the money. Landon Sievers, Logan Rensing, and Gavin Rynders broke 98s for In-State honors. After the first round in the shoot-off,

MICHAEL HATHAWAY Singles Champion You would never know that Michael Hathaway didn’t shoot at all last year by his shooting at the Illinois State Shoot in 2021. With Covid and the worries of giving it to his precious grandchildren, Mike and wife of 41 years Kay didn’t take any chances and just stayed home. Now they are able to visit their grandchildren Kaitlin 7, Jade 5, Ralph 3, and Kale 1 every chance they get, with high hopes of them all being trapshooters one day. When he came out to the State Shoot this year he had one goal: Get his name in the State Program book. He’d tied the two previous years with 200s as well. The last time he said he didn’t win, but he didn’t mind it as much considering Mike Jordan, who is an idol of his, won it. When he was in this year’s shoot-off and the microphone went TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

off early, he said his gun was all around the target and he knew he let his competitor back in. He just went back to what he did to get himself there. He worked for every bird; reminding himself not to move the gun until he saw the bird, don’t move your head, and stay comfortable. Staying comfortable means, “chew your gum.” Yup, I said, chew gum. As a kid, Michael was an athlete and chewed gum in baseball. He found this to relax him. He’s carried over this into his shooting. When it’s his turn to shoot, he transfers the gum to his left cheek. After each shot he continues to chew. Michael got started in shooting like most of us, through his dad and hunting when he was young. “If it flew, I liked to hunt it,” he said. He became infatuated with ducks, geese, and then quail. He lives in Steelville,

Illinois and is recently retired from the carpenter trade which he began in 1976 then became a pile driver. So, if you’ve ever driven over the Mississippi River, you can thank him, as he’s been part of the work that’s been done on those bridges. Hathaway shoots a Kolar top single combo set with 34-32 light barrels and a Wenig stock. Extra light Federals is his preferred ammunition. He now continues to hunt and fish with his friends and wife in his spare time. He does shoot a few leagues and gets in an occasional Wednesday night shooting in Sparta for practice. Sparta? Yup, he lives super close to where The Grand American is currently held. As a matter of fact, his friend Mike Miller, and permanent squad mate, hasn’t missed an event at the new Grand in Sparta since they started!

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Rynders won with a perfect 25. Rensing and Sievers had to go two more rounds to decide their fates, since they were both Juniors. Rensing took Junior, and Sievers fell to Junior runner-up.

HAA AND HOA Sievers dominated the High All Around and Overall In-State by five and seven birds respectively. For Outof-State it was Dagen Voigtman. However, when it came to the Overall and Keith Ditto and he tied, they decided to split the added money, and Dagen agreed to take his category. n

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ILLINOIS STATE HIGH ALL AROUND CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR NON-RES CH

LANDON SIEVERS CHASE HORTON FRANK HAYNES GARRETT HELMS TAD HORTON STEVE DINKELMAN LOGAN RENSING LEVI RENSING LAUREN DUNN JANICE RIGLER KYLE FABISIAK STEVEN MARGHERIO WALTER BARNICKEL DAN STAKER FRANK PAYNE MIKE JORDAN LARRY NORTON DAGEN VOIGTMAN (NE)

396 389 383 388 385 386 383 371 386 347 380 389 389 391 391 383 363 395

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ILLINOIS STATE HIGH OVER ALL CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET CHAIR NON-RES CH

LANDON SIEVERS CHASE HORTON FRANK BENTLEY III GARRETT HELMS BRIAN HEZEL STEVE DINKELMAN LOGAN RENSING SUE STAKER LAUREN DUNN JANICE RIGLER KYLE FABISIAK STEVEN MARGHERIO WALTER BARNICKEL DAN STAKER FRANK PAYNE MIKE JORDAN LARRY NORTON KEITH DITTO (KY)

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This year’s Colorado State Trap Shoot was held at the Delta Trap Club just outside the city of Delta, Colorado. The club has been in operation since 1968 when land was donated for its construction by Charles Fairlamb. Delta has hosted the Colorado State Trapshoot 14 times over its more than 50 years in existence. There are 12 fields on the facility, all with Pat Trap machines and Canterbury voice releases. The air conditioned clubhouse and shady front patio were a welcome relief from the warm temperatures during the shoot.

WEDNESDAY Event 1 was the Warm Up Singles and Senior Veteran Mel Hensley took care of business with his 100 straight and carryover to win the Champion’s TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

prize. Cliff Haycock and Greg Church were the Senior Veteran and AA class winners with their perfect scores In the Event 2 Handicap Gregory Ferguson broke a 98 to win the top prize by two targets. Kaden Westfall and Jason Blackwell carded 96s to earn long and mid yardage trophies. Mel Hensley was back at the top of the leaderboard for the Event 3 Doubles. Hensley broke 100 straight and beat the field by three birds enroute to the Champion trophy. AA winner Greg Ferguson was next high with 97.

Scott Obenchain came out on top over Adam Rehor who ended up as the runner-up. Brennan Bringelson and Brandy Henrickson each posted 100s and were the Sub Junior and Junior winners. In the CSTA Handicap Brennan Bringelson broke a 99 from the 21.5 yard line to beat his aunt, Stacy Rehor, by a target. Rehor was the Lady I Champion. Scott Obenchain had a 97 to win the runner-up trophy and Denis Bringelson (Brennan’s dad) broke 96 to win the long yardage trophy.

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The first event on Thursday was the Stacy Rehor Class Singles. Ten shooters of the 142 in attendance managed to break 100 straight and when the carryovers were finished,

The Adam Rehor Class Doubles was the first event on Friday and Greg Ferguson outlasted three others with 99s to take the top trophy. Clinton Phipps ended as the runner-up, while

BY SEAN HAWLEY Gregory Kayl and Stacy Rehor finished as Sub Veteran and Lady I winners. In the afternoon Handicap Adam Rehor nipped his brother in law Denis Bringelson (for whom the event was named) by breaking a near perfect 99 and taking the top trophy. Bringelson finished as the event runner-up with 98. Scott Obenchain, Nicholas King, Kaden Westfall and Mike Herman all had 97s to win long yardage, mid yardage, Junior Gold and Sub Veteran. Sharon Sayles had a 96 to claim the Lady I trophy and Kathleen Starr shot 94 for the Lady II win.

SATURDAY Six Colorado shooters broke near perfect scores of 199 to tie for the

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title in the Singles Championship. When the shoot-off was finished Paul Dible was the Sub Veteran Champion and Irv Effinger was the Senior Veteran Winner. Denis Bringelson was the AA class runner-up and Gregory Ferguson was the AA Champion. Adam Rehor ended up as the event runner-up and Scott Obenchain (AKA Mr. Pink) was this year’s State Champion. Ashley Teal had a 198 to claim the Lady I title and Delores Semsack won her shootoff with Sandra Digesualdo for the Lady II prize, after a score of 190. Brennan Bringelson was the Sub Junior Champ with 195 and Elliot Bode turned in a 193 to pace the Junior division. Kaden Westfall had a 196 to win the Junior Gold category and Rahn Coonts took home the

COLORADO STATE SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

SCOTT OBENCHAIN ADAM REHOR GREGORY FERGUSON JESSE LOPEZ NIKKI HERMAN TRENT MATTICK PAUL PEDRI ASHLEY TEAL DOLORES SEMSACK BRENNAN BRINGELSON ELLIOTT BODE KADEN WESTFALL PAUL DIBLE RAHN COONTS IRVIN EFFINGER BYRON EVERT (PA)

199 199 193 197 195 192 186 198 190 195 193 196 199 193 199 198

Veteran award with his 193. Byron Evert of Pennsylvania was the NonResident Champion with 198.

The Doubles Championship saw three shooters post 100 straights on the leaderboard. Gregory Ferguson was the lone In-State shooter to break them all, while Utah shooters Sharred Oaks and Sean Hawley were the Non-Resident Champion and runnerup. Jordan Westfall was the resident runner-up champ with a score of 97, while Stacy Rehor broke 98 to take the Lady I title. Mel Hensley was the Senior Veteran winner with 98 and Glenn Zimmerman carded a 95 to lead the Veteran category. Bob Hardenburger broke a near perfect score of 99 to win the Handicap Championship without a shoot-off. Hardenburger, a Senior

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COLORADO STATE DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

GREGORY FERGUSON JORDAN WESTFALL SCOTT OBENCHAIN TIM ARRASMITH DANIEL TREAT EARL MCCASLAND NICHOLAS PRIDDY STACY REHOR KATHLEEN STARR BRENNAN BRINGELSON BRANDY HENRICKSON MATT RASKOB GREGORY KAYL GLENN ZIMMERMAN MEL HENSLEY SHARRED OAKS (UT)

100 97 96 96 94 93 89 98 86 92 94 95 97 95 98 100

COLORADO STATE HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

BOB HARDENBURGER DENIS BRINGELSON SCOTT OBENCHAIN ADAM REHOR DARRELL VANCLEAVE BRETT RENCK SHARON SAYLES DOLORES SEMSACK BRENNAN BRINGELSON CODY WASSERBURGER KADEN WESTFALL JOE LETA CHARLES COSTELLO MEL HENSLEY SEAN HAWLEY (UT)

99 98 96 96 96 93 96 92 97 98 96 95 98 95 97

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Veteran, also earned his punch to the 27-yard line with the score. Denis Bringelson, Cody Wasserburger and Charles Costello all broke scores of 98 to win runner-up, Junior and Veteran awards. Scott Obenchain, Adam Rehor and Darrell Vancleave broke 96s and finished in that order as 3rd, 4th and 5th place winners. Brett Renck was the 7th and final place winner with a score of 93.

HAA AND HOA Denis Bringelson won his shoot-off with Scott Obenchain to capture the High All Around title with a score of 391x400. The two were tied again in the High Over All with scores of 781x800. This time they flip flopped their positions, with Obenchain

COLORADO STATE HIGH ALL AROUND CH RU AA A B C D SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

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391 391 387 380 374 369 371 384 374 383 385 378 389 394

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OHIO STATE SHOOT The 135th annual Ohio State trapshooting tournament began on Monday, June 21st and ran until Sunday, June 27th at their homegrounds.

EARLY ON SCTP (Scholastic Clay Target Program) Day starts things off at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, Ohio, on Monday. They had an increase of 149 shooters from 2019 and managed 608 shooters in their 200 bird Singles event. Ryan Denes was high by himself with 200/200 for the individual award for the second time in a row. Winning for TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

the Collegiate team was Buckeye Chippewa Trapshooting Club. The Buckeye Club also won the Senior/ Junior Varsity and the Intermediate/ Entry Level. In the Senior/Varsity category Centerburg Youth Shooting Sports took the win with 955 and they also won the Intermediate/ Advanced division with 890. For the Rookie Division, it was Moulton Gun Club Youth Shooters with 756. This year they offered a high overall which combined scores from skeet, sporting clays and trap. The Buckeye Chippewa Trapshooting Club took the first award. Monday is also a fun day for shooters, as they compete in a 50 bird-22 yard Charity Handicap event. 1st place went to Kevin Sigler, 2nd

place was a tie--Breyden Paxson and Rife Denlinger, and in 3rd place was Travis Snyder. Then they moved onto a Miss and Out. They shoot one shot at a time from the historic concrete 27 yard marker from the last shot at Vandalia. You are able to buy-back in twice for $5. Colin Hotchkiss broke the first ten targets without using his buybacks while everyone else had already used theirs. John Thomas, who had used his previously, didn’t need any extra as he broke the 11th target while Hotchkiss used up both his and couldn’t break it. Taking third was Breyden Paxson. Tuesday’s events were honoring the 2020 State Champions, and in the Ryan Denes Singles there were only

BY JACQUE SNELLENBERGER four 100s broken. Ethan Keber (AA), William Brand (A), Dave Berlet (Senior Veteran) and Lady I shooter Hailley Ruhl. High in AAA were 99s and Michael Kemp came out victorious in the carryover. In the Madison Oswalt Handicap, a Sub Junior shooting from the 20.5 yard line named Lane Adkins broke the only 97 beating the rest of the field by two targets. In the Joseph Charnigo Doubles, 196 was high on the board and broken by Kyle Hamilton in Class AA. This left the 184s in AAA to carryover into the

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next event with John Thomas coming out on top.

THE BEGINNING OF THE HOA Wednesday started the overall and began with the Stock Lock II Handicap. The high score was 98 and was broken by two shooters—Jeff Fether and Mark Hall Jr. This was extremely convenient since Fether is resident and Hall is not, therefore they each garnered Champion trophies. The top three scores had the opportunity to shoot-off for the Stock Lock. There were 12 shooters with scores of 96, 97, or 98 and they shot two targets from each station at their ATA yardage. After the first ten targets it was down to seven shooters. After the second set of ten targets they had it narrowed to just four shooters—Daniel Fether, Stephen Morsch, Nicholas Oyler, and Chance Chase. After the third round, it was down to Fether and Chase. Fether made it through with another perfect ten to come out the proud owner of a Stock Lock II!

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Twenty three shooters broke 100 straight in the Ohio Valley Stave Singles. Michael Wengerd took AAA Resident, Gary Smith AA, Sam Hawkins Junior, Gunner Hall Junior Gold, Danny Waulk Veteran, John Sayle Senior Veteran and Beverly

Scott for Lady I. On the Non-Resident side of things with 100s were Keith Ditto AAA, Tyler Honnold Sub Junior, Ian Lawrence Junior Gold, Chris Vendel Sub Veteran, Donald Isham Veteran and Vernon Brown Jr. in Senior Veteran. The third event of the day was another Handicap event, the Krieghoff Handicap. Daniel Fether, Alexander Cornell, and Chance Chase each broke 99. Chase was the only Non-Resident. Fether, a Junior Gold shooter, broke 24 in the overtime round to best Cornell who fell back to runner-up.

THURSDAY The Ohio Valley Veneer Doubles was the first event Thursday morning and high scores of 99 were all shot by Non-Residents—Richard Marshall Jr.(AAA), Ian Lawrence (Junior Gold) and Carl Chadwell (Sub Veteran). Marshall Jr. took AAA and the others took their categories. High for Residents were 98—John Thomas was the AAA winner and John Evick took home the Sub Veteran trophy. Event 8 was the Singles Class Championship and 18 perfect scores were broken. Winning for Residents were Austin Jacob AAA, Ethan Keber AA, Victor Dumbra in Class B, Alex Pore Junior, J.M. Perrill Junior Gold and Beverly Scott Lady I. Keith Ditto won AAA award for the NonResidents.The last event of the day was the President Steve Corwin Handicap. Non-Resident, Dave Shaeffer Jr. won it outright with a lone 99! 98s were broken, but again, by Non-Residents—Ricky Marshall Jr., Keith Ditto, and Brent Bennett. Bennett was a Sub Veteran so he took his category, while Marshall claimed the runner-up spot. Juniors Joseph Maitland and Mason Dye, Lady I shooter Malynn Hoskins as well as Jerry Fleming and Terry Mavis all broke 97s, tying for high Resident. It only took one round to determine

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the outcome--with a perfect score of 25, Dye became Champion, Mailtland and Hoskins took their category, Fleming, breaking a 21, became runner-up, and Mavis with a 20 took the third place trophy.

HALL OF FAME After Thursday’s main events were shot and before the shoot-offs, the Ohio State Trapshooting Foundation had their annual Hall of Fame reception to toast the 2021 Hall of Fame Inductees—Frank “Lou” and Mary Hornyak, Kenneth F. Chaney (posthumously), and G. Courtney Haning. Turkey sandwiches, turkey roll ups, shrimp, fresh fruit, a variety of desserts, including chocolate shotguns, along with adult beverages were offered as refreshments! A saxophone player set the tone while people milled about looking at the Hall of Fame memorabilia. The OSTA always recognizes their State Teams with a polo shirt, hat and pin after the refreshments in front of the grandstands. (Photo 10)

FRIDAY Friday was overcast and in the low 70s for the Legacy Handicap. Danny

Waulk broke the only 100 to walk away with the Resident Champion trophy. For the Non-Resident Joel Stewart took home the Champion trophy with the only 99 on the grounds. By the time the Moody Trucking Doubles Class Championship rolled around, it looked like rain was coming. If your squad was in the middle you got drenched, but early and late squads lucked out. Non Residents Ian Lawrence (AAA) and Cody Davis (AA) were high with 99s in their classes. High for the Residents were Austin Jacob, Dean Townsend, Michael Kemp, Ryan Minyo with 98s. Townsend took Sub Veteran, while the rest of those had to carryover for AAA honors and Jacob took AAA with a 48 in the carry. Tate Hedrick won AA outright with his 98, while Madison Oswalt, who also had a 98, was high in Sub Junior.

SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP Saturday started out cloudy but got brighter as the 893 shooters shot the State Singles Championship. Twenty one shooters broke the first hundred and 22 shooters broke the second hundred, but only Ian Lawrence from Illinois broke the deuce! Fighting for TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

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Ohio Singles Champion with 199s were Gunner Hall (Junior Gold), Seth Cooper (Junior Gold), Michael Wengerd, and Dirk Meckstroth. In the first round, Wengerd missed the first bird out for an early exit. Meckstroth went out in the second round, and in the third round neither one had a perfect score, but Hall broke a 24 to win the title and force Cooper back to his category, leaving Meckstroth runner-up and Wengerd the AAA winner.

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OHIO STATE SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

GUNNER HALL DIRK MECKSTROTH MICHAEL WENGERD BRYCE POSTEN TYLER WAITS J M PERRILL JERRY FLEMING EMERSON HALLIDAY SUMMER GOBRECHT PEGGY ANN WISE MADISON OSWALT COLTON WOODS SETH COOPER KEVIN DAWSON ROGER PETERSON TOBY WORKMAN IAN LAWRENCE (IL)

199 199 199 197 198 197 197 193 198 193 197 198 199 198 196 197 200

OHIO STATE DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

JOSEPH CHARNIGO MICHAEL WENGERD AUSTIN JACOB MICHAEL BLAIR ETHAN KEBER TIMOTHY MCMILLAN TYLER WAITS MIKE FREDERICKSEN ELIZABETH TERNES SHARON COGAN RANSOM MAY ETHAN HOLCOMB EMANUEL BUTDORF JEFFREY SCHLICHTER ANDREW DAVIDSON CHARLES GANDERT CHASE HORTON (IL)

99 96 96 96 94 92 95 91 99 91 96 94 95 96 92 91 99

recognized him and his efforts in the Ed Detty Memorial Championship Doubles. It was sunny, bright and warm for the 539 shooters who shot, but Chase Horton was the only NonResident with a score of 99 to win. Joseph Charnigo and Elizabeth Ternes were high for Residents with the same score. It only took one round to decide, as Charnigo ran them all, and Liz ran into some trouble on post three, which had been her nemesis all week in the Doubles. ELAINA MCCARTHY AND DANIEL FETHER TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

In the Kolar Ohio Handicap Championship they saw 538 shooters participate. Bryce Posten, a 23.5 yard shooter from Ohio had the high score by himself with 98! He’s a student at the University of Akron and going for a mechanical engineering degree. Non Residents had five shooters break 97 for the top score—Garret Helms, Keith Ditto, Collin Hopkins, Timothy Burnett, and David Guaresimo. After the first round of Handicap, Guaresimo broke a 23 and took the Junior champion. Hopkins, breaking a 22, fell to 3rd place, while the other three broke 24s and had to do it again and go out for another round. Burnett broke a 22 and fell to Veteran. Ditto and Helms went back out to shoot again, only this time Helms didn’t miss any to take Champion, Ditto claimed runner-up.

HAA AND HOA Joe Charnigo dominated for the Resident High All Around and Overall awards, beating the field by two and 15 birds respectively. The All Around for the Non Residents were determined by a shoot-off between Garett Helms, Keith Ditto and Chase Horton. After waiting for Helms and Ditto to finish their shoot-offs in the other events that day, Horton joined them where he promptly was the only one who missed in the Singles portion, but he was the only one who ran the 10 Handicap targets while Garret missed one and Ditto two. Horton missed one again in the Doubles, making Helms the Champion with 39/40, Ditto and Horton were tied again with 38s, but they decided upon themselves for Ditto to take runner-up and Horton taking AAA. Horton eked out a victory over Ricky Marshall Jr. by one in the Overall for the Non Residents

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OHIO STATE HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH 7TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

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SHOOTER PROFILE GUNNER HALL The Ohio State Singles Champion lives in Circleville, Ohio and grew up on a farm working as a farm hand for Metzger Bros. Farms. He grew up with a gun in his hands and was always outside plinking around with a BB gun. Since his dad enjoyed hunting, fishing, and the outdoors, it was only natural that he was the one that got him started at a very young age shooting. Discipline was big in his household, especially with the guns. Privileges were lost if he didn’t show the respect guns deserved, and that included cleaning. A neighbor invited him along to the local club when he was 12 years old. He began shooting with a youth model Remington 20 gauge and was considered a natural even back then. Even though Gunner is only a Junior Gold shooter, he has been competing for years and has some impressive wins under his belt such as in the SCTP Nationals where he placed 2nd with a 200 straight, and at the Ohio State SCTP youth shoot he has won back to back with a 199 TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

one year and a 200 the next. At the AIM Nationals in Sparta, Illinois, he decided to try out the handgun competition and was the only youth there to hit every target. It was his first time ever shooting a handgun and he won first place! He has also traveled to Colorado and shot the USA Open International Trap where he placed 5th in Doubles overall and 1st in his age group. It happened to be the last year Double Trap was offered as a discipline. An interesting tidbit on how Gunner began his love of Federal shells—when he was starting out shooting, his dad bought him shells, not realizing they were the pink Federal Breast Cancer Awareness shells. Gunner was mad and thought it was a joke at first, but when he went out and ran his first 100 straight with them, he changed his mind about pink not being cool. It’s all he prefers to shoot now, assuming he can get them. The day Gunner ran his first 200 straight was at Madison County Fish and Game--a small club outside London, Ohio--with his pink shells. They were having their yearly Chesser Memorial shoot honoring the family of Fred Gilliam, who happened to be

JOSEPH CHARNIGO AUSTIN JACOB MICHAEL WENGERD MICHAEL BLAIR TYLER WAITS DAVID SWIGART TYLER SCHOCK CHAD KARLEN ELIZABETH TERNES CAROLE CARNEY KOLE KEUNNING ETHAN HOLCOMB BRYCE POSTEN JEFFREY SCHLICHTER JERRY DUNFORD MIKE DEHABEY GARRETT HELMS (IL)

392 390 389 384 385 378 371 370 384 369 380 385 389 383 379 374 392

one of Hall’s mentors. This was special to Gunner since it was held in a friend’s honor. He qualified to represent their club at the state shoot that year, and he was the youngest shooter ever to win that memorial shoot at 14 years of age. Gunner loves shooting trap because, “Anyone can break targets, but it’s the people who can control their thoughts really well that stand out. I like that it’s a mind game. You have to have your mind in the right place in order to break targets. Trap shooting is getting on the line, clearing your thoughts and doing the same routine repetitively every single time you shoot.” These days you can find Gunner shooting his Browning Citori 725 Trap with a Kick-Eez pad shooting about 300 practice targets a week. It used to be about 1,000 when ammunition was plentiful. Like everyone else, he’s set goals. He’d like to make the Ohio State Shooting Team this year, since it’s his first year getting back into shooting after taking a few years off to focus on school and work. When he’s not practicing, he’s working on the farm, and arranging his shoot schedule around the seasons. Looking back, Gunner appreciates his

CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

JOSEPH CHARNIGO JOHN THOMAS RYAN MINYO PATRICK MCCARTHY THOMAS HART RICHARD HENRY J M PERRILL DANIEL FETHER ELAINA MCCARTHY BETTY PETERSON MADISON OSWALT ETHAN HOLCOMB BRYCE POSTEN JOHN EVICK ROGER PETERSON MIKE DEHABEY CHASE HORTON (IL)

1162 1147 1143 1137 1132 1106 1136 1096 1129 1072 1124 1125 1146 1123 1103 1122 1170

parents, “I don’t come from a wealthy family, so shooting was always hard on everyone including my parents. They did their absolute best to keep me shooting and I’m thankful for that. Now I’m on my own and I know why I couldn’t shoot every single competition. This sport is expensive.” But he’s managing shooting, farming, taking classes to complete his Agriculture Business Degree at Ohio Christian University with a bit of hunting and fishing as well. This kid can do it all! n

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This year’s Utah State Shoot was held at the Vernal Rod and Gun Club in Vernal, UT June 23-27 and as has become the tradition in Vernal, the shoot was a mix of hard fought competition and evening fun. The state tournament rotates between Spanish Fork Gun Club and Vernal every other year. The ammunition shortage seemed to cut down the attendance a bit this year, however shooters who were fortunate enough to attend were treated to two free dinners as well as evening Annie Oakley fun games with added money and a cornhole tournament. The actual tournament saw some great shooting by both In-State and Non-Resident shooters. The weather was a mixed bag—from rain showers to breezy and from cool TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

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WEDNESDAY Event 1 was the USTA Welcoming Singles and Jayme Anderson (UT) broke the 100 targets and an additional 200 in the carryover to claim champion.Grayson Stuart (UT) also broke a 100 straight to nail down the Junior trophy, while Pam Wright (UT) had a 99 to win the Lady II award. The Glen Brown Handicap was next up for the first day’s schedule and Sean Hawley (UT) broke a 97 to lead the way. Nevada shooter Eli

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THURSDAY Jayme Anderson turned in another 100 and long carryover to win the Event 4 Brody Drury Singles and Greg Ferguson (CO) finished as the AAA winner. Aubrey Fogarty (UT) had a 99 to take the A class award and Lynn Roberts (UT) broke a 98 to win D class. Emily Wolverton (UT) was the Lady I champion with a score of 97. In the Bryan Duvall Handicap Vernal native Sharred Oaks, Joe Sudbury (UT) and Ava Ladue (UT) tied with scores of 98 at the top of the leaderboard. Oaks won the shoot-off, taking Champion, while Ladue was the Sub Junior winner and Sudbury finished as the top Sub Veteran. Kelly Brinkerhoff (UT) and Mike Grady (NM) each shot scores of 97 to earn short and long yardage trophies. In the Event 6 Pam Wright Doubles, Sean Hawley broke the lone 100 straight to win Champion and Greg Ferguson was the AAA winner with his 97. Austin Kinder (UT) had a 95 to win the Junior Gold trophy and Randy Grilz (IA) had a 92 to take home D class.

FRIDAY Greg Holden (AZ) broke a 100 straight and then another 100 in the overtime to win the Event 7 Quint Sudbury Singles. Eli Walker and Joe Sudbury had 100s to win the Sub Veteran and Veteran trophies, while Emily Wolverton and Pam Wright (UT) were the Lady I and Lady II winners with scores of 99 and 96 respectively. Tyeli Cook (UT) and Bob Komarec (WI) each had scores of 98 to lead the way in the Event 8 Quint Sudbury Handicap. After the shoot off dust had settled Cook was the Champion with an overtime score of 24 to Komarec’s score of 23. Komarec took home the Senior Vetean prize. Haylie Peay (UT) was the Lady I winner with 95 and Kim Grady (NM) was the Lady

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II champ with 91. The Doubles Class Championship was the final event of the day and Sean Hawley broke the lone 100 straight to earn the top spot, Brett Despain was the Sub Veteran winner with a near perfect score of 99, while Grayson Stuart and Joe Sudbury collected Junior and Veteran awards for their scores of 98.

SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP Saturday was the Utah State Singles Championship and only one shooter was able to break the 200 straight. Ty Blackwell, a Junior shooter from

UTAH STATE SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JUNIOR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON RES CH

SEAN HAWLEY QUINT SUDBURY SHARRED OAKS JACE PENNEY MICHAEL SCOTT DAVID TAYLOR TYELI COOK CLAIR CARTER HAYLIE PEAY PAM WRIGHT SHALAKO GUNTER BRODY DRURY ZACHARY FOSTER STEVE OTTESEN JOE SUDBURY RANDALL THOMSON TY BLACKWELL (CO)

199 199 198 198 197 197 192 181 194 193 199 197 193 198 198 196 200

Colorado smashed his first ever 200 straight to take the Non-Resident title without a shoot-off. There were three Utah shooters that broke scores of 199 to tie for the Championship. Quint Sudbury, Sean Hawley and Shalako Gunter. Shalako, a Sub Junior, had missed her 100th target on the first half of the singles and then was able to recover and run the second half. In the Shoot Off Shalako missed again in the first round and was awarded the Sub Junior crown. Sudbury and Hawley continued for two more rounds until Sudbury let one go and Hawley ran the 75 straight in overtime. Sudbury was the Runner Up and Hawley; this Year’s Champion. For Hawley it was the last

title he needed to have all of them in Utah. Lady I and Lady II trophies were won by Haylie Peay and Pam Wright with scores of 194 and 193. Brody Drury broke a 197 to take home the Junior title and Zachary Foster was the Junior Gold Champ with 193. HAYLIE PEAY

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UTAH STATE DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JUNIOR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON RES CH

JAYME ANDERSON 100 SEAN HAWLEY 99 SHARRED OAKS 97 CHANCE CARTER 96 BRODY DRURY 95 ATLEY PAINTER 95 DALE ERICKSON 96 TYELI COOK 91 HAYLIE PEAY 94 PAM WRIGHT 88 DAXTON COOK 93 GRAYSON STUART 98 JUSTICE SUDBURY 90 BRETT DESPAIN 99 JOE SUDBURY 96 BRUCE BACHMAN 91 GREGORY FERGUSON (CO) 97

The wind picked up for the Handicap Championship and the scores went down because of it. However, Haylie Peay broke a 96 and

UTAH STATE HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JUNIOR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON RES CH

HAYLIE PEAY JACE PENNEY SHARRED OAKS BRENDEN HUBER SEAN HAWLEY GRAYSON STUART TANJE DUVALL JERRY HARWELL AVA LADUE COLE DUVALL AUSTIN KINDER ED WEHKING JOE SUDBURY ROBERT GREEN TY BLACKWELL (CO)

96 95 94 94 93 93 88 88 95 94 89 92 91 88 95

never looked back on her way to this year’s title. Jace Penney had a 95 to take the runner-up position and third and fourth places were decided in a shoot-off between Sharred Oaks and Brenden Huber. Oaks and Huber had

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UTAH STATE HIGH ALL AROUND CH AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JUNIOR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON RES CH

SEAN HAWLEY SHARRED OAKS JACE PENNEY ATLEY PAINTER AVERY FITZGERALD AVA LADUE NICKOLAS WHITE HAYLIE PEAY PAM WRIGHT SHALAKO GUNTER GRAYSON STUART TANNER VOORHEES BRETT DESPAIN JOE SUDBURY ROBERT GREEN TY BLACKWELL (CO)

391 389 382 380 373 377 349 384 367 379 386 367 386 385 369 392

broken 94s in the event and after one overtime round, Oaks was third and Huber was fourth, Sean Hawley and Grayson Stuart shot off with 93s for the final two places. Hawley took fifth and Stewart claimed the sixth and final place. Tanje Duval and Jerri Harwell were the Lady I and Lady II champs with scores of 88 and Ava Ladue claimed the Sub Junior title with a 95. Ed Wehking and Joe Sudbury broke 92 and 91 to win the Sub Veteran and Veteran trophies, While Bob Green was the Senior Veteran winner with 88.

CH AAA AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JUNIOR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON RES CH

SEAN HAWLEY JAYME ANDERSON ED WEHKING BRADYN CARTER AVERY FITZGERALD CASEY FITZGERALD AVA LADUE TYELI COOK PAM WRIGHT DAXTON COOK GRAYSON STUART JUSTICE SUDBURY BRETT DESPAIN JOE SUDBURY ROBERT GREEN MIKE GRADY (NM)

1276 1244 1213 1213 1213 1182 1202 1184 1195 1210 1239 1176 1226 1254 1207 1246

HAA AND HOA Colorado Junior shooter Ty Blackwell led the way in HAA scoring with 392x400. Sean Hawley was one target behind to win the In-State Championship and Sharred Oaks had 389 to claim the AAA trophy. The High Over All was won by Hawley with 1276x1300. Veteran champion Joe Sudbury had the second high score with 1254 and Mike Grady was the Non-Resident Champion with 1246. Next year’s Utah State Shoot is scheduled to be held at the Spanish Fork Gun Club. If you have the opportunity, please make plans to attend. n SEAN AND STACY HAWLEY VERNAL GUN CLUB HOSTS

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BY MATTHEW GAY

Now that you have completely mastered the mental game using the techniques outlined in the first part of this series, it’s time to look at your equipment. The best shooter in the world cannot maximize their potential with an illfitting gun, poorly operating equipment and improper optics. These sub-topics will all tie together in the end but first let’s discuss eyes. Vision, as a subject, is so subjective and individual that it is hard to generalize and set clear TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

parameters for, in terms of what is best, for shooting. In lieu of a complete consensus let’s just agree that clear vision is important for effective target acquisition at maximum target distances.

OVER THE HILL My story is much like many who have passed the grand ole age of 40

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operate fine in daily life, that your vision is perfect. Eye exams yearly will keep a shooter’s vision and correction at the optimum level for performance.

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in that, prior to this point, I had 20/7.5 vision in my right eye and 20/10 vision in the left—meaning I had fighter pilot vision for the first four decades of my life with a strong right eye dominance. At age 40 years and four months, it seemed like a switch flipped. Where I was previously able to see each ridge on a target out to long distances, the best I could see was an orange blur. This prompted me to make an appointment with an eye care professional to get an assessment. Fortunately, my eye doctor was a shooter. I cannot impress upon you how important it is to have an eye care professional that understands the needs of shooters, meaning they speak the language. Although my correction is slight in comparison with most, the difference is day and night. In my case, contacts were the best option, with one correcting an astigmatism as well. As I instruct many individuals, both youth and adults, I am shocked to find out that many have never had an eye exam. The human body is an

amazing thing, in that it can adapt to physical deficiencies very quickly and effectively. For example, I could drive without my contacts even though things would be blurry, but my brain can easily identify the shapes of the signs, colors of the lights etc., and make appropriate decisions based on the input. But what could I miss without clear vision? What is the impact of shooting without clear or corrected vision? The obvious thing that comes to mind is not being able to transition quickly from soft focus to hard focus on the leading edge of the target. This is an obvious problem that will cause a shooter to make an improper movement to the target. One impact that will affect you more than you know is fatigue. If you are constantly straining to find the target, fatigue will set in much sooner than if you had corrected vision. If you are a shooter of any age, or the parent of a shooter and have not had an eye exam done, I strongly encourage you to make an appointment. Do not assume that simply because you

The efficacy of hearing protection generally goes without saying but there are other things to consider when choosing the right ear protection for you or your youth shooters. I personally use solid custom ear plugs for all my shooting outings. I find them to be comfortable, if properly made, and very effective. A visit to an ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat Doctor) prompted a hearing test in my case around age forty-two. After completing the test, my ENT mentioned that I was a “poster-child” for custom hearing protection. He said that he would have swore I had never fired a gun in my life with the results of my test. I can only attribute this to my custom hearing protection. Many elect to use foam ear plugs, which do work well for some individuals. What you may not know is that in youth or smaller shooters with small ear canals, the standard size foam plugs cannot fully expand and do not protect the ear as designed. This is a situation where hearing protection, made specifically

for a shooter will remedy that issue. For a youth shooter in that rapid growth stage, there may be a few years where he or she needs a new set each year to accommodate growth and the changing ear canal. At an average of 65 per set, it seems a small investment to protect your, or your youth shooter’s hearing. There are many upgrade options available from electronic to Bluetooth compatible, so go as extravagant as you like but make sure the equipment you are using is doing what it is supposed to do.

GUN FIT I recently conducted a small clinic for a local youth trap shooting team in order to give them advice and strategies on how to perform better, and hopefully help them become more successful on the trap range. As I worked with each shooter, I was surprised to find that 75% of the shooters were competing with shotguns that did not fit them. As I talked to the coaches and parents about the importance of gun fit, they started to understand how critical it is for consistency. Simply put, if your eye alignment is off, it will cost you targets. What’s worse is that many have adapted to the ill-fitting gun in order to break targets, meaning

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when they are put into a fitted gun there will be an adjustment period of frustration. Gun fit is the primary reason shooters miss targets. There is no other factor in my mind that carries more weight when assessing a shooter’s lost targets. As has been said time and again, “the gun should shoot where you look”. This cannot happen if eye alignment is off by the slightest. When checking for eye alignment it is important to ensure the mount is correct before determining if modifications need to be made in order to achieve correct eye alignment. There is no magic trick to correct eye alignment, the orientation of the eye above the top rib should be as follows: the pupil (center circle of the eye that dilates and contracts with light) should be dead center on the rib. The bottom of the iris (the colored portion of the eye) should be in line with or slightly above the bottom of the top rib when in a full, proper mount. One thing to consider, there are several muscles that move the eye in all directions. The muscles that move the eye vertically and horizontally are relatively strong and are called the rectus muscles (superior, medial, lateral and inferior). There are two muscles that allow the eye to rotate (superior oblique and inferior oblique). These muscles tend to be weaker and more prone to fatigue than the four major muscles that control eye movement. How is this anatomy lesson pertinent to gun fit for shooters? When fitting a gun to a person it is important to reduce head tilt towards the shoulder to the extent possible. A “heads up” shooting style will decrease how quickly the inferior and superior oblique muscles of the eye fatigue. Appropriate stock length and comb height will facilitate this and make for more comfortable shooting. In terms of recoil, I find it best to TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

explain that recoil can be mitigated by proper stock fit for a couple of reasons. First, a minimum of 80 percent of the buttstock should be in direct contact with a shooter’s shoulder (100% is ideal). Often, particularly when fitting female shooters, a shotgun designed for a male shooter does not factor in the longer neck and high cheek bones present on a female shooter. Consequently, a female shooter must bring the stock up higher in her shoulder in order to put the zygomatic arch (ridge of the cheek below the eye) securely on the top of the comb. This solves the comb problem but creates another by reducing the amount of buttstock that engages the shoulder. The force of the recoil is a constant so by reducing the surface area in which it is transferred to the shoulder you increase the pounds per square inch in felt recoil, thus decreasing comfort. If a shotgun is properly fitted, it should “push” the shooter, not “punch” the shooter. Felt recoil is further reduced with proper pitch. Pitch is the angle of the butt pad in relation to a

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perpendicular line drawn through the plane of the rib. It is important to get this measurement correct so that even pressure from the butt stock is distributed to the shoulder pocket when the gun is fired. This is particularly important with larger chested men and all women. I’ve seen every possible measure used from complete custom-built stocks to foam duct-taped on the top of a comb in order to get good gun fit. Adjustable combs and butt-plates are the norm for fitting a stock to a shooter. This provides nearly limitless adjustability which can be tweaked from time to time for increases or decreases in weight. Fun fact: an increase or decrease of only ten pounds in body weight can change your gun fit. Check your fit and check it often.

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shooting at a high level. It only makes sense to do the work on the front end which will yield results on the scorecard. Having vision checked and corrected, competing with a correctly fitted gun and using properly fitted hearing protection are all vital pieces that need to be in place, in order for a shooter to achieve their competitive goals. With the challenges of an ammo shortage and increased prices on everything, it stands to reason that shooters should strive to extract every bit of value out of their practice that they can. Taking these steps will allow a shooter to maximize the quality of their practice and set them up for success on the trap field. n Editor’s Note: Matthew Gay is a shooting instructor from Michigan, the Head Coach of the Olivet College Shotgun Team, Vice President of the Michigan Scholastic Clay Target Program and an NSCA Master Class competitor.

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MICHIGAN STATE SHOOT 2021 The 110th Annual Michigan State Shoot began June 29th and ran through July 4th at the home grounds in Mason, Michigan. The rain that threatened Michigan the previous week went around and the shoot started out warm with some sunshine. Tuesday was a warm up day with Singles in which Hugo Rinke and Kirk Burl broke the 100s. After the carryover and a perfect 25 in the next 100, Rinke took Champion and Burl runner-up. Ian Lawrence was high by three over the rest of the field in the warm up Handicap. Raylee Bishop, a Lady I shooter from Iowa, broke 190 in the Doubles to win it. On Wednesday, they threw the Preliminary Singles and Ian Lawrence, Michael Gooch, Dakota Sliger, and TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

Wilbert Otter broke them. After the carryover Gooch won Champion, Lawrence took runner-up, and Otter Class A. Next was the Carl Chadwell Handicap. Michael Gooch rocked it again with 99. For the Ken Smith Doubles, Champion was Ian Lawrence with a near perfect score of 99. Thursday started the overall and the cooler temperatures. Amongst all the shell difficulties, Rockman Insurance and AJ’s Supplies came through for The Michigan Shells for a Year Handicap. In the first half of the Handicap, Senior Veteran Michael King broke 95 for In-State Champion. For Out-of-State, Ian Lawrence and Michael Gooch broke 94. Lawrence didn’t show up for the shoot-off, so Gooch won and Lawrence got

runner-up. The Ken Sims Singles came next with 4 100s broken—Gooch (IN), Jerry Glisson, Skylar Clark, and Gary Munson. Gooch was the Non Resident winner. It took Clark three perfect rounds into the carryover to claim the Championship. Glisson was the Veteran champ and Munson took Junior. In part two of the Michigan Shells for a Year Handicap, Skylar Clark took the event In-State with a 97. 96 was high for Out-of-State and Dean Townsend broke it. The numbers drawn for the first Handicap were 6 and 7, and in the second Handicap they were 9 and 2. This meant that if you had scores ending in any of those numbers in the Handicaps you were eligible to shoot for the Shells for a Year! In the first round of two targets at each post from your ATA yardage,

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there were six shooters who broke perfect 10s. After the second round, it was down to three shooters—Jeff Slayer, Vernon Brown Jr., and Bill Yost. After breaking a nine in the third round, Slayer earned himself 52 flats of ammunition.

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FRIDAY The White Flyer Class Singles had six hundreds broken, but they were all category shooters. Five shooters were Residents—Skylar Clark (Jr Gold), Carl Chadwell (Sub Veteran), and three Veterans (Jerry Glisson, who ended up winning because he was the only one who shot the next event, over Frederick Kaschak and Jim Omler). The only hundred Out-ofState came from Dean Townsend, who was the Sub Veteran winner. The MTA President’s Handicap had Mark Sutfin as Champion with a score of 95 for In-State. Out-of-State shooters had to shoot off with a score of 93. Craig Teeters came out on top with a 23, Michael Gooch, breaking a 22, took runner-up, and John Angus, choosing not to shoot, dropped to third place. The last event of the day was the Class Doubles, Scot Smith broke 99 and took AA In-State by himself, while Ian Lawrence and Dean Townsend had the high scores for Out-of-State with 98s. Lawrence took Junior Gold and Townsend took Sub Veteran. After shooting was complete, there was a Miss & Out fun shoot.

back half in the Singles Championship. Two shooters who broke their first two hundred straight were the only two to complete both of the perfect centuries—Klayton McGee and John Farina, both shooters were Out-of-State. With almost perfect scores for In-State were Donald Romine and Skylar Clark. All four went out to shoot. They all ran the first trap, but in the second round, Clark missed and fell back Junior Gold, and so did McGee who fell back to Junior, thus making Farina the Non Resident champ and Romine, the Singles Champion for Michigan.

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CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

DONALD ROMINE SCOT SMITH DARRYL HAYES JAMES GILCHRIST JOHN HILL ERIC KUHN DALE BRASPENNINX AVA LARSON HOLLY BRISTOLL COLIN HOTCHKISS THOMAS WINGET SKYLAR CLARK VERN STALTER HUGO RINKE KEN SMITH JOHN FARINA (FL)

199 198 197 197 197 194 187 190 184 194 194 199 193 198 197 200

malfunction. When he shot the pair he missed his second bird, and then

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CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

CARL CHADWELL SCOT SMITH MICHAEL BERRY DAVID MAGNUS PATRICK HENYON JEFF RUSSELL THOMAS HAMSTREET EMILY HUHN HOLLY BRISTOLL KAMERAN DUVALL JILLIAN COBB GLEN FALK VERN STALTER HUGO RINKE ROBERT SCHEONROCK IAN LAWRENCE (IL)

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missed another one along the way for Chadwell to earn the Championship. The Michigan Handicap Championship, sponsored by Buege Buick GMC, had 175 shooters.

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Ian Lawrence was the only one to break them all in the Michigan Doubles Championship to take the Out-of-State trophy as the sun came out and warmed up things a bit. In-State was Carl Chadwell and Robert Scheonrock with 99s. Scheonrock got razzed quite a bit since he missed his last bird for the 99 from his squad mates and other friends. On the first pair of Doubles in the shoot-off, Scheonrock had a gun

SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP Saturday’s Michigan Singles Championship had six of the 310 shooters breaking all 100 in the first half of the 200 target race. Between the hundreds, the MTA recognized the All-State Teams under the pavilion with a pin and certificate. They then sent the shooters out to complete the event. While the scores were being tabulated, the MTA held their Hall of Fame induction for this year’s inductees, Larry and Sally Telfer. Cupcakes and ice cream were served. In the second hundred, there were seven shooters who broke the

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99 97 96 96 94 97 92 89 88 85 84 96 97 96 99 100

CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH 7TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

THOMAS CARTWRIGHT HUGO RINKE DAVID SICKMEYER LARRY YORK TODD PIONTEK JEFF RUSSELL DAVID MAGNUS AVA LARSON HOLLY BRISTOLL KAMERAN DUVALL DALTON CLARK SKYLAR CLARK CARL CHADWELL FREDERICK KASCHAK CHARLIE RODEBAUGH MICHAEL GOOCH (IN)

97 95 95 94 94 93 93 93 92 90 94 96 95 97 95 97

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Frederick Kaschak and Thomas Cartwright broke 97s to tie for the In-State awards. Kaschak didn’t show up for the shoot-off and Cartwright won it easily with his Model 12. Winning the Out-of-State was Michael Gooch all by himself with a 97. Ian Lawrence bested Michael Gooch by one in the Non-Resident All Around with a 393. Michigan shooter Skylar Clark bested Hugo Rinke by one with his 390 to win the State title. Skylar also dominated the High Overall for Residents by three over Ian Lawrence, who took the Out-of-State title. n

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MICHIGAN STATE HIGH ALL AROUND CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

SKYLAR CLARK 390 SCOT SMITH 385 VERN STALTER 384 LARRY YORK 381 WILLIAM HOFFMAN 372 JEFF RUSSELL 368 CHRISTOPHER CRESWICK 366 AVA LARSON 371 HOLLY BRISTOLL 364 COLIN HOTCHKISS 362 MITCHELL WARNER 362 LUCAS BRISTOLL 373 CARL CHADWELL 387 HUGO RINKE 389 ROBERT SCHEONROCK 381 IAN LAWRENCE (IL) 393

MICHIGAN STATE HIGH OVER ALL CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

SKYLAR CLARK SCOTT BERRY WILLIAM HAGERTY LARRY TELFER WILLIAM HOFFMAN JEFF RUSSELL DENNIS MACY JACQUE SNELLENBERGER HOLLY BRISTOLL KAMERAN DUVALL ALEXANDER HOFFMAN CARL CHADWELL JERRY GLISSON VILAS CLAAR IAN LAWRENCE (IL)

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SHOOTER PROFILE: CARL CHADWELL BY JACQUE SNELLENBERGER

Carl Chadwell has always been an excellent shooter, but sometimes in the face of adversity comes great things. Carl’s dad, Norris, and Carl were shooting the Singles on Wednesday at the Michigan State Shoot and were just getting ready to shoot the Carl Chadwell Handicap when a call came in that his mom was being rushed to the Emergency Room. After a brief discussion, his dad and he decided that his dad would go to be with his mom, and Carl would stay. As a child of God, Carl stayed believing that’s where he was meant to be and during the five days, won 11 awards, including the Michigan Doubles Championship. The Doubles Championship was special to him for so many reasons—his continual worry over his mom being in the hospital and his dad being with her when he was usually shooting with him, but also recognizing that the first time he won the Michigan Doubles Championship was 1983 when he was 20 years old, some 38 years ago. Carl has achieved many things in his shooting career—1998 Grand American Doubles Champion, 1990 Great Lakes Grand Doubles Champion, 2014 Great Lakes Grand Handicap Champion, 2011 & 2014 Great Lakes Grand High Overall Champion, 2006 & 2007 & 2012 Grand American All-Around runnerTRAPSHOOTINGUSA

up, 2012 Grand American Handicap 3rd Place, 1980 President's Handicap Champion at Michigan State Shoot. On July 11, 1980 he went from the 25 1/2 yard line to the 27 yard line and has been there ever since. He’s never been offered a reduction in almost 41 years! His favorite memory is completing his Grand Slam with 100 from 27 at Jaqua's Gun Club, in Findlay, Ohio, with squadmates Mike Dehabey, Jacque Snellenberger, Norris Chadwell (Dad) & George Snellenberger on September 3rd 1995. That year they threw the targets in the three hole, with hand setters in the trap house and a human puller on the button to throw the bird. Cam Jaqua was sweet enough to take a picture of his squad the following day, and gave a copy to each one of them. Carl admits to looking at that photo almost every day, and the shell that broke the 100th target (A Remington Nitro 27 7 ½) is glued to the top of the photo's frame. The nostalgia of so many good gun clubs and memories with some of his favorite people, along with the knowledge that in this sport “On any given day, anyone can win a given

event,” is why Carl Chadwell keeps coming back. He certainly does that! As a matter of fact, his goal for this shooting year is to make the AllAmerican Team for the 6th decade! He made the team in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, & 2010s and he’s already got his sights on this year to add the 20s decade to the list. In ATA history, there is only one person that has seven different decades and that was Vic Reinders. The list with six different decades is quite small too, being approximately a handful or two of shooters. Carl resides in Oxford, Michigan where he is an Application Systems Developer - IT Department. He jokingly teases that he was born into shooting and his parents tell him that his first word was “pull.” It certainly makes sense since his dad is his biggest inspiration. He's 88 years old and still out there banging them. He's the oldest person to ever make the Michigan All-State Team. Carl currently shoots a K80 Trap Special Unsingle with a custom stock by Norris Chadwell (Dad) and choke work by Kerry Allor. For the most part, Carl is a six months on, six months

off shooter. In the Spring, he has a routine that he goes through to get dialed in before he starts his shooting season. Orange has always been his favorite color, and is also what he calls his "power" color, so you will typically see him wearing it on the last day of major tournaments. His wife, Nora, and he love to ride their Harley as often as possible. He also enjoys golfing, fishing, bowling, playing cards, hanging out with friends and family. Carl Chadwell loves God and his family above all else. He’s continually thinking about the knowledge that his dad shares. He’d like to leave you all with this thought, one that his dad shares with him most often, "Do it while you can." There is so much wisdom in those five words. Carl Chadwell certainly is doing it while he can and I have no doubt he will reach his goals! n

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Funkhouser and Mitchell Pierson. Hopson needed 300 straight in the carryover to secure the AA trophy over Jennings. The AGC Handicap was next with Gino Prado’s high score of 97 from 23.5 yards. Kya Funkhouser was the lone shooter to bust all the pairs in the last event of the day, the AGC Doubles. Mitchell Pierson and Greg Surber won their categories of Junior and Sub Veteran with their seond high score of 96s. The Dalton Jennings Doubles, Event 4, kicked off Wednesday morning’s activities, with Billy Hopson being the standout with the lone 100. Junior Mitchell Pierson was just one target behind and a pair of 97s secured the B class and Veteran wins for Junior Wren Washburn and David Brogdin. Several shooters knotted up at 95, with Lady I shooter

Katie Pryor taking A class, Colton Meurer, Junior Gold and Troy Collier Sub Veteran after shoot-offs. Event 5, the Patrick Hopson Singles followed and saw eight shooters perfect—Hopson himself, Dalton Jennings, Wyatt Kile, Shelby Skaggs (Lady I), Evan Selbe (Junior), Jimmy Kennedy (Sub Veteran), Steven Fuller (Veteran) and Gary Sherrod (Senior Veteran). A 99 claimed Junior Gold for Ryan Loveless and a crowd of 98s (11) saw Katie Pryor the Class A winner after shoot-offs, Rex Cook with the B win and Yaani Mai Gaddy claimed Lady II. The end of the day brought the Palmer Duke Handicap with just one straight shooter, Justin Cavett, from the 27. Troy Collier’s 98 earned him Sub Veteran, and Sub Junior Brant Pruitt secured his category with a strong 97. Thursday was class day, starting

out with the Lone Star Singles. This event saw 20 shooters with 100 straights, including an exciting 500x500 squad of Patrick Hopson, his dad Billy, Steve Fuller, Ryan Loveless and Nick Gibbs, who handled the pressure of that last shot on post 5 pretty well. When the dust settled, Patrick Hopson took In-State Champion while Shelby Skaggs of Oklahoma took the Non Resident win.

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The targets flew bright and busted with a fight, deep in the heart of the 107th Texas State Trap Shooting Championship this June 29th through July 4th with attendance of 273 entrants—165 from the Lone Star State and 109 shooters lucky enough to visit us. The competition featured 13 events with over $21k in added money and trophies. The Preliminaries spanned four days with ten events, including three days of Singles, Doubles and an extra round of Handicap. The weather held out during the mornings with an afternoon shower each day to cool off the crowds and postpone some shooting while the squall passed through. Event 1, the Amarillo Gun Club (AGC) Singles saw six 100 staights— Texas’s own Patrick Hopson, Dalton Jennings, and Drew Fryman, along with Out-of-Staters Wyatt Kile, Kya

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FRIDAY Friday kicked off the Texas State Doubles Championship, sponsored by Hopson Shooting Products, and saw 189 shooters. A high pair of 99s worked out well for Resident Nick Gibbs and Missouri Junior Kelan Kinoin, who won their titles outright. 98s decided several other classes and categories—Bridget Bearden claimed Lady I, Patrick Hopson was runner-up after shooting off with Donald Adams, Darin Clawson and Dalton

TEXAS STATE DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

NICKOLAS GIBBS PATRICK HOPSON DARIN CLAWSON ERIC CADE CHRIS DRISKILL MONTANA FULLER GRADY BOUNDS BRIDGET BEARDEN YAANI MAI GADDY BRANT PRUITT JACKSON HALLABOUGH PALMER DUKE TROY COLLIER STEVEN MCBRIDE CHARLES W LONG KELAN KINION (MO)

99 98 98 96 96 94 90 98 89 91 94 97 97 96 94 99

Jennings, and Clawson settled for AA. The Texas Shooters Memorial Handicap followed and Jessica Heckel of Kansas, who shot with her daughter on my squad, was high with a 99 for the Non-Resident win. 97 was the leading score for In-State, with Junior shooter Ruger Clark taking his category after two rounds of a shoot-off with Veteran Ronald Todd, who claimed the Champion title. Following the Handicap was the Texas Trapshooting Association Youth Scholarship Wolf Chase for a bit of evening fun to benefit the Texas Scholarship Fund.

SATURDAY The Texas State Singles Championship was sponsored by Bruce Davis Construction and had 258 shooters entered. Patrick Hopson hadn’t dropped a Singles target all week, so it was no surprise when he continued his streak, winning the event with a perfect 200. When the dust settled for the shooters knotted up with 199s, Dalton Jennings took runner-up over Douglas Briggs and Nicklaus Duke, who settled for AA and A classes. Nicklaus’s son Palmer used his 199 to claim Junior Gold and Sub Veterans Bud Taylor and Troy Collier chose to flip a coin for their NICK GIBBS

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TEXAS STATE SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

PATRICK HOPSON DALTON JENNINGS DOUGLAS BRIGGS NICKLAUS DUKE GARY OLD DALE BURSON DANA GEISDORF JENNIFER RUTGER YAANI MAI GADDY COOPER CASWELL GENTRY SALYER PALMER DUKE BUD TAYLOR JERRY DWYER JOE ALTOM SHELBY SKAGGS (OK)

200 199 199 199 196 191 187 195 198 198 197 199 199 198 195 199

shooters shot for the title. Oklahoma’s Robert Rimer Jr., from the 27, was the only shooter to break them all, claiming the Non Resident title. Out-of Staters Patrick Stacey, Jerrod Lies and Wyatt Kile, all with 98s, flipped for runner-up, Stacey with the win. For Texas shoters, 98 was high enough for Colton Meurer to claim Champion outright. Junior Gage Hunter and Junior Gold shooter Palmer Duke won their categories with their 97s and a score of 95 claimed runner-up, Lady I, Sub Junior, Sub Veteran, Veteran and Senior Veteran for Ruger Clark, Jennifer Rutger, Coy Losawyer, Troy Collier, Jeff Webb and Michael Kendall, respectively. A couple of rounds of shoot-offs decided third through

199s, with Taylor taking the title. Sub Junior Cooper Caswell, Lady II Yanni Mai Gaddy and Veteran Jerry Dwyer took their categories with a strong 198. Seven Out-of-Staters battled for the win after posting 199s. One round decided five categories and it took five more rounds of shooting for Shelby Skaggs of Oklahoma to claim Non-Resident Champion over Missouri’s Jackson Murphree, who fell back to Junior.

SUNDAY The week wrapped up with the Texas State Handicap Championship, sponsored by White Flyer and 223

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In Event 8, the Lone Star Handicap, 98 was the high score from Sub Junior Harrison Meador for Champion. 97 won the Non-Resident title for Wyatt Kile, as well as long yardage and Sub Veteran for Texans Dalton Jennings and Sonny Cook. The day wrapped up with the Lone Star Doubles, in which 99 was the high score. Patrick Hopson and Troy Collier both dropped two in the first round of shoot-offs, but Collier dropped one in the next round to allow Hopson to claim the title while he settled for Sub Veteran. A couple of 98s gave the Nebraska Junior shooter Mitchell Pierson the Out-ofState win and Dalton Jennings took In-State AA honors.

CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

COLTON MEURER RUGER CLARK JACKSON HALLABOUGH DALTON JENNINGS HARRISON MEADOR SONNY COOK JENNIFER RUTGER YAANI MAI GADDY COY LOSAWYER GAGE HUNTER PALMER DUKE TROY COLLIER JEFF WEBB MICHAEL KENDALL ROBERT RIMER JR. (OK)

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TEXAS STATE HIGH ALL AROUND CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

PALMER DUKE PATRICK HOPSON DALTON JENNINGS JEFFREY HUNTER GARY OLD JEFFREY CASWELL KENNETH LEFLORE JENNIFER RUTGER YAANI MAI GADDY COOPER CASWELL JACKSON HALLABOUGH COLTON MEURER TROY COLLIER JEFF WEBB MICHAEL KENDALL WYATT KILE (NE)

393 391 391 382 380 367 368 384 377 380 385 386 391 379 381 395

sixth after a slew of 94s. Palmer Duke was counting and knew, as he finished the Handicap, he had clinched High All Around with 393, two targets ahead of Patrick Hopson, who after a coin flip with

Dalton Jennings, became runner-up. Nebraska’s Wyatt Kile was two targets ahead with 395 to win the Non-Resident Champion. Patrick Hopson took High Over All with 1079, nine targets ahead of runner-up Dalton Jennings and six ahead of Wyatt Kile, who also claimed the Overall for Out-of-

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TEXAS STATE HIGH OVER ALL CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

PATRICK HOPSON DALTON JENNINGS BILLY HOPSON DON RACKLEY BRANT PRUITT PAT RICHMOND JONEEL HARRIS JENNIFER RUTGER YAANI MAI GADDY HARRISOON MEADOR COLTON CLARK COLTON MEURER TROY COLLIER JEFF WEBB MARVIN ALLBRIGHT JR. WYATT KILE (NE)

1079 1070 1053 1030 1011 972 906 1032 1019 1015 743 1046 1062 1037 1021 1073

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BY JACQUE SNELLENBERGER Tuesday started with the Fun Day Singles and all the trophies were class or category. High score of the day was 99. Cole Disser (Junior Gold), Bob Johns (Sub Veteran) won their categories. Bobby Hubble and Jerry Brown in the Senior Veteran category had to carryover. Hubble won in the first box. In the Handicap, the high scores were 95s. Mark Chambers and David Herringa shot off for the 24-26 yard trophy with Chambers winning by one target. Senior Veteran winner, Gene Schneck, also broke 95. Similar trophies were offered in the Doubles as were in the Singles and 98 was high on the board. Ed Budreau shot it and was the class A champ. Also on Tuesday were the AIM Championships. The winners for the Singles Championship were as follows: Lucas Schmitt (Pre Sub), Matthew Antzcak (Sub Junior), Noah Rice (Junior), Daniel Williams (Junior Gold), and Kindyl Ingle (Lady). The team with the highest score (467) was Evansville Gun Club. In the AIM Doubles Championship, the winners were Kindyl Ingle (Pre Sub), Alexander New (Sub Junior), Noah Rice (Junior), and Daniel Williams (Junior Gold). High gun with the combined scores went to Noah Rice with a score of 198.

WEDNESDAY All events on Wednesday were named after the 2020 Champions. There were four-one hundreds broken for Residents in the Devon Harris Singles—Ben Morriston (Senior Veteran), Jonathan Seitz , Christina Byrd (Lady I) and Bobby Hubble (Senior Veteran). In the carryover, Seitz won by breaking 50. Byrd fell back to Lady I, and Hubble beat Morriston by one in the carryover to TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

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take the open category trophy from him. Non Resident went to William Williams with the only 100. Cole Disser and Matthew Antczak broke 98s in the Garl Gresley Handicap. Antczak broke two 24s to force Disser into the Junior Gold trophy giving himself Resident Champion. Non Residents Chase Horton, Austin Jacob, and Austin Stoner broke 96s. Jacob broke 24 in the shoot-off for the win. Stoner was MATTHEW ANTCZAK

a Junior so he dropped down, which allowed Horton to take runner-up. Austin Jacob had a perfect century in the Chrissy Byrd Doubles. For Residents, Devon Harris was high by himself with 99.

THURSDAY Thursday's Class Singles championship was delayed due to thunderstorms and lightning in the area. In order to get the other event, a Handicap, in as well, the management decided to shorten the 200 Singles program to just 100 making many shooters happy that they could compete in two events as scheduled. Curtis Lunsford was the only AA Resident shooter to break the 100. Thomas Strabavy was the only Class A resident. Tank Lunsford (Sub Veteran) and Thomas Rhoads (Senior Veteran) broke the hundred for their category wins. Garl Gresley and Robert Krohn, both broke them

as well, with Krohn beating out Gresley by one in the carryover to take the Veteran trophy. Kieth Ditto broke 100 and 50 in the carryover to earn the Out-of-State trophy. In the Bill Mager-President Handicap, Chase Horton was high on the board with 99 and beat out his closest competition for Non-Resident, Keith Ditto, by one. Heather Lunsford was high with 96 for the Resident side of things.

FRIDAY In the Hall of Fame Handicap on Friday, Tomas Martinez and David Winn broke 97s. Winn broke 22 to win over Martinez’s 20 making them the Champion and runner-up respectively. Tuff Hutchins was high for Non-Residents breaking a 98. Robert Caplinger from Ohio took AA Champion in the Class Doubles. The high score for Residents was Tank Lunsford with 99 and he took

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the Sub Veteran category. John Fry was the Veteran champ with 98, while Senior Veteran went to Thomas Rhoads with 97. After the last event on Friday, everyone met under the pavilion to Induct Bobby Bolden, Joan Davis, and Bob Reynolds into the Indiana State Hall of Fame.They also recognized their State Teams with a pin. A recognition of three ladies for their hard work and dedication went to Jodene Phenice, Nichole Troup and Tonya Scruggs and they received leather plaques for their hard work. After the recognition came the Miss & Out, where 92 participants took to four fields each shooting from the 27 yard line. After those three shoots, they narrowed it even further by shooting from the center at 30 yards. Twenty four shooters were taken to the front porch for the event. Of those 24 shooters, only two shooters broke their targets from the porch and Jordan Timm became the winner of the Fabarm gun, while 2nd place winner, Adam Leazier, won $500 in JORDAN TIMM

CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

TOM STRABAVY MICHAEL GOOCH C W ARNETT ADAM HART WILLIAM HAZELWOOD ERIC POLONCAK THOMAS ANTCZAK JR. CHRISTINA BYRD RONETTE BRUMFIELD MATTHEW ANTCZAK JERRY VAIL COLE DISSER LEWIS TURK TOM NEAL BOBBY HUBBLE ROBERT CAPLINGER (OH)

199 199 197 197 197 196 192 195 185 195 189 196 198 195 198 199

cash along with an additional $500 for breaking the random green bird that was placed for just that reason.

SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP The rain threatened during Saturday’s Singles but the 312 competitors lucked out with cooler temperatures, and no rain. Cloudy skies did make visibility an issue and 199 was high for both Residents and NonResidents alike. Only two hundreds were broken in the first hundred. Michael Gooch (Previous Singles

INDIANA STATE DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

SCOTT COCHRAN CODY SULLIVAN ED BUDREAU DAVID HEERINGA TOMOTHY DEINEMA JOSEPH SUMMITT MARK ANTCZAK CHRISTINA BYRD RONETTE BRUMFIELD ALEXANDER NEW JOHNATHON SEITZ COLE DISSER WILLIAM COCHRAN PAUL SCHIERENBERG WILLIAM TEMPEST AUSTIN JACOB (OH)

Champion) and Tom Strabavy went head to head for the first shoot-off of the night. Gooch missed early on and Strabavy sealed the deal with just one perfect 25 to earn this year’s Indiana Singles Championship. Keith Ditto, Robert Caplinger, and two Junior shooters, Jordan Ziecher and Trace Hardesty tied for NonResidents. After one round, the two Juniors dropped out, but then everyone went out again. Breaking a 25 in the next round, Ziecher took Junior and, with the same perfect 25 in his second round, Caplinger took Champion while Ditto dropped one and was the runner-up. Caplinger earned himself a great birthday present.

SUNDAY Again, rain threatened and was predicted but only lightly fell for a bit in the Doubles Championship on Sunday. Austin Jacob broke 99 and was high for the day to win NonResident Champion. Cody Sullivan, Scott Cochran and Senior Veteran William Tempest broke 98s for Residents. In the first round of the shoot-off, Tempest had a rough round to drop to category, and Sullivan dropped one towards the end to give the Champion to Scott Cochran. In the Handicap Championship there were 247 entries. Of those 247, two Veterans broke 97—James Hood (20.5 yards) and Robert Bowers (23

SCOTT COCHRAN, CODY SULLIVAN AND WILLIAM TEMPEST

98 98 97 97 95 93 89 96 85 90 90 90 97 96 98 99

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SHOOTER PROFILE TOM STRABAVY The Indiana State Singles Champion is a Lieutenant with the Hammond, Indiana, Police Department and has been for the last 29 years. One might assume he got started in shooting like most, with their dad. And he did, but it wasn’t until he was in his mid 40s and his wife, Janet, insisted he needed a winter hobby. His dad, Ray, took him out Sporting Clays shooting and he broke 5/150. The next week he really improved with a 6/150. Then his dad said, “Come to Glen Park Izaak Walton and try trapshooting.” When Tom used his old Browning BT-100 and broke 24 on his first round of shooting, he was hooked. The time as an adult that he has spent shooting and traveling to the various shoots with his dad and wife are precious. They’ve spent their vacations at gun clubs and Tom recognizes that trap shooting isn't really a spectator's sport and appreciates that she tolerates the 5th wheel and camping at the shoots. He tries to manage to spend at least a few days each trip out west in Scottsdale, Arizona, visiting friends there, so that she gets the 5-star resorts and her morning coffee from room service. Tom also attributes trapshooting with finding lifetime friends and family. Being fortunate enough to have become great friends with Bill and LeeAnn Martin, along with Richard Marshall Jr., who has gone from being his first coach to being one of his very best friends in the shooting community. He says they’ve only recently started shooting together over the last four to five years and that is what he attributes their 20 year friendship to—they DID NOT shoot together!

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For Tom it’s not necessarily the place that he shoots that is his favorite, it’s the people he squads with and camps next to, it’s the people like the Martins, Geskys (his insurance agent who he met at a shoot), and Marshalls that make the shoot. Although, making the 27-yard line in 2019 at the Autumn Grand in Tucson was quite memorable. Tom shoots a Kolar Max TA, 34" Unsingle (Light Full Chokes), 30" O/U (LM/IM chokes), with a standard #2 stock. Strabavy has a few habits while he shoots. One is that he continually talks to himself while shooting. He’s been known to say it aloud."Good gun mountyou're ready now," followed by simply "This Bird." It means to focus on the here and now, just this bird and nothing else. Another habit is that he wears red to close out the week. And he drinks a cold beer after every trapshooting day is over and silently remembers his dad, who passed away in 2015. Believe it or not, Tom has only been in ten shoot-offs since 1999 when he started registering targets, and this one was the first he had ever won. But it was an important one. For him and his dad!

yards). Each broke 22s on the first box of the shoot-off, however when they went out for their second round, Bowers dominated Hood with a 25. Hood then dropped down to the Veteran category. A young Junior shooter from Kentucky, Nolan Hardesty, broke a 99 to lead the Non Residents. Many come to Indiana to shoot and bring their family for a fun spectator experience which starts on Wednesday and continues throughout the week. This includes Bingo, Coffee and Crafts, Bunco Games, a Floral Workshop with Emily’s Backyard Blooms, String Art from Studio 309 and movie and popcorn nights. It really is a lot of

INDIANA STATE HIGH ALL AROUND CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

SCOTT COCHRAN WILLIAM COCHRAN CW ARNETT VERNON BROWN JR. JEFFREY WAGGONER TIMOTHY DELINEMA HEATHER LUNSFORD CHRISTINA BYRD RONETTE BRUMFIELD ALEXANDER NEW JOHNATHON SEITZ COLE DISSER TANK LUNSFORD GARL GRESLEY WILLIAM TEMPEST KEITH DITTO (KY)

INDIANA STATE HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

ROBERT BOWERS SCOTT COCHRAN GEORGE STEPHEN MATTHEW MOSER ELIJAH MEDCALF JASON SEITZ HEATHER LUNSFORD TERRY BOLDEN MATTHEW ANTCZAK JERRY VAIL COLE DISSER MICHAEL FULFORD JAMES HOOD KENNETH HEATHCOATE NOLAN HARDESTY (KY)

97 96 95 95 94 94 95 85 90 96 94 95 97 95 99

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INDIANA STATE HIGH OVER ALL 392 384 384 384 378 371 369 382 352 368 367 380 387 379 386 393

CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

TANK LUNSFORD DEVON HARRIS CW ARNETT ED BUDREAU JACOB SMITH JAROLD TEETER SALVATORE RUSSO CHRISTINA BYRD RONETTE BRUMFIELD MATTHEW ANTCZAK JOHNATHON SEITZ COLE DISSER BOB JOHNS DAVID WINN THOMAS RHOADS KEITH DITTO (KY)

1041 1047 1041 1037 1023 969 978 1032 925 907 995 1019 1014 1043 1031 1073

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The Montana State Trapshooting Championships were held at The Great Falls Trap and Skeet Club July 7th through the 11th. The club offers 14 trap fields, nine of which are lighted and all of which use Pat Trap and Canterbury voice releases. There are 60 RV spots with power and water and a nice air conditioned clubhouse. There was a catered dinner with a live band on Friday night and Dan Vogel and Rick Dorr were both inducted into the Montana Hall of Fame.

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to break them all. After the carryover Jason Folvag (ND) was the Out-ofState champion. The Residents had 99s for high scores and following the carryover John Brothers was the winner. Next up on the schedule was a 100 target Handicap event and Utah shooter Sean Hawley was high on the board with a 98 to win the Non Resident Champion award. John Brothers was the high shooter for the Montana Residents with 95. The final event of the day was a 100 target Doubles event. TJ Main of Washington led the way with a 98 in windy conditions to win the Non Resident Champion award. John Brothers was high again for the Montana shooters with a score of 95.

THURSDAY The Budweiser Singles kicked off at 8am Thursday morning and there were only three shooters that were able to break them all. Ethan Brosten, Ciaran O’Neill and Bret Preeshl, all

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The Budweiser Handicap was next up and Sean Hawley was high on the board with 97 to win the Non Resident trophy. Ciaran O’Neill was one target behind to win the In-State prize with 96. The Doubles Class Championships were sponsored by Xcel Shooting Sports and there were 120 entries. Sean Hawley had the high score of 99 to win the Non Resident trophy and John Brothers broke a 98 to lead Montana shooters.

FRIDAY The first event of the day was the Montana State Doubles Championship and Ciaran O’Neill broke a 99 to win the title without a shoot-off. John Brothers broke 96 to take home the runner-up trophy, while Emi Smith and Edie Baker had 94 and 88 to earn Lady I and Lady II titles. Garett Prom was the Sub Junior champ with 88 and Ramey Olsen broke 93 to take home the Junior trophy. Garrett Damm had a 95 for the Junior Gold win and former ATA President Jeff Wagner put a 97 on the board to lead the Sub Veteran category. Veteran and Senior Veteran were won by Terry Barkell and Bill Camus with scores of 96 and 92. Sean Hawley was the Non Resident champ with 99. Event 8 was the Singles Class Championship and four of the seven CIARAN O’NEILL

perfect scores turned in came from Montana residents. Garrett Damm (Junior Gold), Hunter Krogedal (Junior Gold), Bret Preeshl and Jerry Tabacco broke them all on the In-State side of things. Preeshl was the AA champ, Tobacco was the B winner and Krogedal finished with the Junior Gold award. The Event 9 Scheels Handicap was the last one of the day and 97s were high on the board at the end. Ciaran O’Neill and Emi Smith (Lady I) shot off for the top prize with Smith breaking 24 in the overtime round to win the Champion’s trophy. Garrett Schlimmer also broke a 97 to earn the Non Resident award.

SATURDAY Event 10 was the first half of the State Singles Championship and five shooters broke 100 straight. Matt Fochs, Wade Smith and Jeff Wagner were the Residents that did it and Jason Folvag and Joe Sudbury (UT) were the Non Residents that made it to the halfway point unscathed. In the Preliminary Handicap that afternoon Ciaran O’Neill had the top score on the board with 98. Justin O’Sanile had just one less to win the runner-up trophy and Russ Mcelyea

MONTANA STATE DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

CIARAN O’NEILL JOHN BROTHERS MIKE ZARAGOZA MARVIN REHBEIN BRIAN MOE DAVE PHILLIPS JAMES BACHINI EMI SMITH EDIE BAKER GARETT PROM RAMEY OLSEN GARRETT DAMM JEFF WAGNER TERRY BARKELL BILL CAMUS SEAN HAWLEY (UT)

99 96 95 93 94 92 87 94 88 88 93 95 97 96 92 99

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had the same score to earn the Sub Veteran award. On the Out-of-State side of things Joe Sudbury won his carryover with Gerry Williams (AZ) after the two had tied with 97s. Sudbury took home the Champion trophy and Williams, the Senior Veteran prize.

THE BUTTE MEDAL There was an extra event at the end of the day that has a bit of history to it and that event is called the Butte Medal. The event began at the fifth Montana State Shoot, way back in 1898 and has been a part of every Montana State Shoot since. Shooters stood at the 20 yard line and shot 3 targets per post for a total of 15 birds and then did the same from the 22

yard line. Following that the shooters all shot five pairs of doubles. 39x40 was the top score and after the shoot off Garrett Damm got to have his name engraved on the gold medal.

SUNDAY The second half of the Singles began the final day of competition. None of the shooters that had run the first half were able to repeat the feat, however there were four shooters that did run the back half. Wayne Fischer and Ciaran O’Neill did so on the Resident side of things and TJ Main (WA) and Garrett Schlimmer each broke the second half targets for the Non Residents. When the scores from Saturday and Sunday were combined Wayne Fischer’s THE BUTTE MEDAL, ENLARGED IN LEFT PHOTO

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MONTANA STATE SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AA A B C D LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

WAYNE FISCHER CIARAN O’NEILL DAN VOGEL MIKE ZARAGOZA MATT FOCHS RUSS MCELYEA JEFF EVANS EMI SMITH EDIE BAKER OWEN PLAGMAIN MAVERICK OWEN DYLAN DENNY JEFF WAGNER TERRY BARKELL JERRY BROSTEN JASON FOLVAG (ND)

199 199 196 197 197 194 193 194 192 189 192 196 198 195 197 199

199x200 was high on the board for Montana shooters. Jason Folvag needed one shootoff round to earn the Non Resident trophy for his near

MONTANA STATE HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

CIARAN O’NEILL DAN VOGEL R. ELKINS JUSTIN O’DANIEL JON KRONEBUSCH ANITA FELAND EMI SMITH EDIE BAKER HAYDEN SOWA RAMEY OLSON TRAVIS PETERSON JEFF WAGNER CORY IZETT BILL ELLEN GARRETT SCHLIMMER (WA)

97 97 96 96 96 95 96 85 95 95 92 92 93 94 99

perfect score of 199. The Handicap Championship finished off a fun week of shooting in Montana and the top score on the

board went to Washington’s Garrett Schlimmer with a 99 from the 27 yard line. TJ Main took home Non Resident runner-up honors for his 98. Ciaran O’Neill was the In-State Champion with his 97 after a shootoff with Dan Vogel.

HAA AND HOA Ciaran O’Neill was the Montana Champion in both the High All Around and the High Over All. His 393x400 in the HAA was six targets better than Sub Veteran champ Jeff Wagner and his 977x1000 was 33 targets ahead of runner-up Bret Preeshl. Garrett Schlimmer was the Non Resident HAA Champion with 395 and Sean Hawley was the Outof-State winner in the HOA with 975. The Great Falls Trap and Skeet Club is a great place to shoot. The background is consistent and the targets are well set. The staff seemed genuinely happy to see the shooters that traveled to the shoot and were helpful at every turn. I can’t wait until next year! n

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MONTANA STATE HIGH ALL AROUND CH RU LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

CIARAN O’NEILL DAN VOGEL EMI SMITH EDIE BAKER GARETT PROM RAMEY OLSON GARRETT DAMM JEFF WAGNER TERRY BARKELL JERRY BROSTEN GARRETT SCHLIMMER (WA)

393 385 384 372 365 362 378 387 375 381 395

MONTANA STATE HIGH OVER ALL CH RU LD1 LD2 SUB JR JR GOLD SUB VET VET SR VET NON-RES CH

CIARAN O’NEILL BRET PREESHL EMI SMITH EDIE BAKER GARETT PROM HUNTER KROGEDAL JEFF WAGNER TERRY BARKELL BILL ELLEN SEAN HAWLEY (UT)

977 944 938 870 904 936 935 924 922 975

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TODD DELONG 196 RICH BULLARD 195 JASON HOMER 193 DAVID BEQUETTE II TAMMY MARILUCH 183 SHERRY BURRIS BRETT FRANK BRODEN PIRKLE 178 JAXON HOMER 164 BECKY GOODWILL 186 ALEXIS HAGGARD 177 MATTHEW ERNST 180 RUSSELL ROBERTS 176 DICK GOODWILL 179 GARY JONES JR. (ID) 198

NEVADA PITA DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH AA A B C D LADY SUB JR JR VET SR NON-RES CH

MICHAEL SCHOTTEL BILL DANIELS RICH BULLARD CODY VAN PATTEN KENNY PIRKLE WAYNE NORCUTT MARY ELLEN ADAMS TAMMY MARILUCH BRODEN PIRKLE DIRK FREYMAN RUSSELL ROBERTS PHIL GILBREATH BOB ROBERTSON (OR)

97 96 95 92 90 71 85 90 90 86 86 98

NEVADA PITA HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH 19–21.5 YDS 22–25.5 YDS 26–27 YDS LADY SUB JR JR VET SR NON-RES CH

ALEXIS HAGGARD 93 JAXON HOMER 92 MICHAEL KINCHELOE 91 RICH BULLARD 87 TODD DELONG (FF) DEB MAIN 85 SHERRY BURRIS (FF) BRODEN PIRKLE 87 MATTHEW ERNST 80 RUSSELL ROBERTS 76 PETE MILLER (WLR) 83 MIKE DEWITT TERRY GABIOLA JAXON WESTLAKE (CA) 100

NEVADA PITA HIGH ALL AROUND CH AA A B C D SUB JR JR ROOKIE NON-RES CH

RICH BULLARD BILL DANIELS TODD DELONG WALTER WILSON LESTER WEBB MARY ELLEN ERNST BRODEN PIRKLE MATTHEW ERNST DEB MAIN JAXON WESTLAKE (CA)

378 375 377 355 335 281 355 358 305 380

HIGH OVER ALL CH RICH BULLARD NON-RES CH KYLE SEEVER (CA)

667 665

CALIFORNIA STATE PITA SHOOT - Hosted by Coon Creek Trap & Skeet Club, May 27-31 CALIFORNIA PITA SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AA A B C D LADY SUB JR JR VET SR ELDER NON-RES CH

RYAN WIDGER (WSO) KYLE SEEVER JACE GARZA (WSO) FRED JENSON GARY BIGGINS BJ MATTHEWS TAMMY WAKEFIELD JOSHUA MONTGOMERY REMINI HUGUENOT ADALEY POULSON CALEB MONTGOMERY DAVID WOMACK THOMAS SARKO MIKE CHIECHI RYAN COSTANTI (AK)

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CALIFORNIA PITA DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU AA A B C D LADY JR VET SR ELDER NON-RES CH

JAXON WESTLAKE 99 RYAN WIDGER 98 JACE GARZA 96 DAVID KELLY (FF) BRIAN WEEKS (FF) KYLE SEEVER 97 JACK DUFFIN 94 LOREN POULSON 92 TRAVIS SOUSA 90 ESTHER PUCKETT 87 CODY WILKES 977 DAVID WOMACK 96 RONNIE CONNEL 93 TOMMY DAVIS (WSO) 91 WELDON BIRCH RICH BULLARD (NV) 97

CALIFORNIA PITA HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 19–21.5 YDS 22–24.5 YDS 25–26.5 YDS 27 YDS LADY SUB JR JUNIOR VET SR ELDER NON-RES CH

BRENDEN SANDS (WSO) 98 WADE STANFILL 98 BJ MATTHEWS (WSO) JIMMY BENNETT 95 CAMERON CHATTERTON (WSO) 96 JACK DUFFIN TREVOR DINOVITZ TODD NEIZMAN 94 DINO MANUEL 97 JORDAN JOHNSON 93 ILSE SCHEIDEL 90 JACK DUFFIN 96 DAVID WOMACK 96 JACK SNYDER 90 LARRY CARSTEN 89 AJ MARCELLI (FF) RYAN COSTANTI (AK) (WSO) 93 DEB MAIN (NV)

CALIFORNIA PITA HIGH OVER ALL CH AA A B C D LADY JUNIOR VET SR ELDER NON-RES CH

WADE STANFILL KYLE SEEVER JAXON WESTLAKE RYAN WIDGER TAMMY WAKEFIELD JAMES HUYAH AVIEN SHIELDS AUDRIC SCHIEDEL DAVID WOMACK RONNIE CONNEL TOMMY DAVIS RICH BULLARD (NV)

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COLORADO STATE PITA SHOOT - Hosted by Pawnee Sportsmen’s Center, June 4-6 COLORADO PITA SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH AA A B C D LADY SUB JR JR VET

SHANE GILLESPIE DALE LEBSOCK TREVOR VAUGHN DANNY KULP GRANT HERNANDEZ (WSO) TRISTAN TRAHERN STACY REHOR GUNNAR STOUT TYLER ROTUNNO TERRY FINDLEY

200 196 197 198 188 189 199 187 194 190

COLORADO PITA DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH A B C D LADY SUB JR JR VETERAN

STACY REHOR ADAM REHOR KELLY STOUT (WSO) DARYL KINDVALL MIKE GILLESPIE DIANE DIBLE CADE CARLSON BRANDY HENRICKSON DEAN THOMAS

98 96 95 87 81 77 73 90 81

COLORADO PITA HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH 19–21 YDS 22–24 YDS 25–26 YDS 27 YDS LADY SUB JR JR VET

ADAM REHOR TAD STOUT RUSS ZIMA DON BLECHA KEVIN DAVIS STACY REHOR GUNNAR STOUT BRANDY HENRICKSON JIM CURTIS

100 93 92 95 94 99 92 92 90

COLORADO PITA HIGH ALL AROUND CH AA A B C D

CH RU AA A B C D LADY JR

RYAN COSTANTI BRIAN “STUBBY” HUGHES CODY KURKOWSKI CHARLES SCHERER PAUL MAKI MARK ADAMS CAROL MCCONAHY JANEL TAYLOR TRYGVE HERMANN

198 197 196 193 188 189 174 174 183

ALASKA PITA DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU A B C D LADY JR VET SR

CHARLES SCHERER 94 BRIAN “STUBBY” HUGHES 93 JERRY GODKIN RYAN COSTANTI DAN GLAVES DAN GLAVES (WSO) 93 JAMES KURKOWSKI (WSO) 90 CLINT BROOKS MARK ADAMS 81 DENNIS GEARY (WSO) 75 REBECCA MANN JANEL TAYLOR 87 TRYGVE HERMANN 79 WALLY SMITH 92 PAUL MAKI 81

BRETT NIEDER (WSO) TRYGVE HERMANN CODY KURKOWSKI SCOTT GROFF (WSO) MARK ADAMS PAUL MAKI (WSO) CHARLES SCHERER WALLY SMITH JANEL TAYLOR DENNIS GEARY CHARLES SCHERER

94 94 91 94 89 88 87 87 89

OREGON STATE PITA SHOOT - Hosted by Medford Gun Club, June 17-20 OREGON PITA SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH AA A B C D LADY SUB JR JR VET SR ELDER NON-RES CH

ELIAS TOLLEFSON TYLER BORDERS DARO HANDY (FF) GARAK GARZA MIKE RIGGS GREG MURRY KAREN BARNETT JULIE SPINDLER HUNTER STEPHENS AJ BOVEE GARY PACK STEVE KAUFMAN (WSO) JOE BRUNEY BOB ELLIOTT ART FENTON (WA)

200 198 199 194 187 182 191 182 190 193 194 197 198

OREGON PITA DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP CH AA A B C D LADY SUB JR JR VET SR NON-RES CH

ELIAS TOLLEFSON (WSO) JOHN BACKEN BOB ROBERTSON JAMES ADAIR DEAN RASK TOM OLSEN RICK HILLMICK (FF) ANDY MUELLER JULIE SPINDLER GEORGE BARNETT III AJ BOVEE GARY PACK JOE BURNEY CHUCK REDDING (CA)

96 96 93 93 87 81 89 82 93 92 93 99

OREGON PITA HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH SHORT YARDAGE MID YARDAGE LONG YARDAGE LADY SUB JR VET JR SR ELDER

STACY REHOR

683

ALASKA PITA HIGH ALL AROUND

ALASKA PITA HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP CH RU 3RD 19–21 YDS 22–24 YDS 25–27 YDS LADY VET SR

396 389 384 372 361 346

HIGH OVER ALL

ALASKA STATE PITA SHOOT - Hosted by Fairbanks Gun Club, June 9-13 ALASKA PITA SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP

STACY REHOR ADAM REHOR KELLY STOUT BRANDY HENRICKSON MIKE GILLESPIE STEVE VIEROW

ERIC BAKER LARRY MASCOTTE

97 94

JEFF GARDNER

ELIAS TOLLEFSON

MARGARET LONG (WSO) EMMA ROBERTS ASHER CAHILL RICK HILLMICK TYLER BORDERS TOM OLSEN BOB KENNEDY

92 91 90 93 91 89

CH RU AA A B C D LADY JR VET SR

RYAN COSTANTI (WSO) JERRY GODKIN BRIAN “STUBBY” HUGHES CHARLES SCHERER WALLY SMITH DAN GLAVES MARK ADAMS JANEL TAYLOR TRYGVE HERMANN DENNIS GEARY PAUL MAKI

377 377 376 376 362 366 354 348 356 343 358

HIGH OVER ALL CH RU AA A B C D LADY JR VET SR

RYAN COSTANTI JERRY GODKIN BRIAN “STUBBY” HUGHES CHARLES SCHERER WALLY SMITH DAN GLAVES MARK ADAMS JANEL TAYLOR TRYGVE HERMANN DENNIS GEARY PAUL MAKI

940 926 922 911 863 902 863 848 862 838 864

OREGON PITA HIGH OVER ALL CH AA A B C D LADY SUB JR VET SR ELDER

ELIAS TOLLEFSON BOB ROBERTSON TYLER BORDERS GARAK GARZA JACOB OHONICH KAREN BARNETT JULIE SPINDLER GEORGE BARNETT III GARY PACK JOE BRUNEY BOB ELLIOTT

854 837 849 849 794 779 826 728 824 816 819

HIGH ALL AROUND TRAPSHOOTINGUSA

CH ELIAS TOLLEFSON 390 TRAPSHOOTINGUSA NON-RES CH CHUCK REDDING (CA) 389

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Allem’s Guncraft

LaPorte America

Baschieri & Pellagri Ammunition

Learn Trap Shooting

Lincoln Traps

MEC Outdoors

Pacific Health

Passionate Outlaws

Pat-Trap, Inc.

Ponsness Warren

Blaser USA Inc

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Briley 81 Browning 29 Caesar Guerini

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Clay Target Sports, Inc

Dawson Enterprises

Decot Hy-Wyd Sports Glasses Inc

Elite Shotguns

Promatic Inc Recob’s Target Shop

Fabarm USA

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Federal Premium Ammunition

Fiocchi Ammunition

Graco Corporation

Gray’s Shotgun Cache

Guns Unlimited

7-9

International Case Company

Jaqua’s Fine Guns, Inc.

Jim White Collection

Joel Etchen Guns

Remington Ammunition

4-5

Shamrock Leathers

Shotgun Pig

SKB Shotguns

SoftTouch Custom Stocks

Spolar Power Load

Sportsman’s Insurance Agency

Syren USA

Target Shotguns

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TriStar 79

Kick’s Chokes

Wenig Custom Gunstocks

Krieghoff International

White Flyer

L&M Lenses

Xcel Shooting Sports

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