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INDIANA STATE SHOOT
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
INDIANA STATE SHOOT 2021
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 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.
MATTHEW ANTCZAK
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
TRIBUTE TO BOBBY BOLDEN, WHO WAS INDUCTED INTO THE HOF POSTHUMOUSLY, WAS LOCATED BEHIND HIS SQUAD ALL WEEK
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 cash along with an additional $500 for breaking the random green bird that was placed for just that reason.
JORDAN TIMM
INDIANA STATE SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP
CH TOM STRABAVY 199 RU MICHAEL GOOCH 199 AA C W ARNETT 197 A ADAM HART 197 B WILLIAM HAZELWOOD 197 C ERIC POLONCAK 196 D THOMAS ANTCZAK JR. 192 LD1 CHRISTINA BYRD 195 LD2 RONETTE BRUMFIELD 185 SUB JR MATTHEW ANTCZAK 195 JR JERRY VAIL 189 JR GOLD COLE DISSER 196 SUB VET LEWIS TURK 198 VET TOM NEAL 195 SR VET BOBBY HUBBLE 198 NON-RES CH ROBERT CAPLINGER (OH) 199
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 SCOTT COCHRAN RU CODY SULLIVAN AA ED BUDREAU A DAVID HEERINGA 98 98 97 97
B TOMOTHY DEINEMA 95
C JOSEPH SUMMITT 93
D MARK ANTCZAK
89 LD1 CHRISTINA BYRD 96 LD2 RONETTE BRUMFIELD 85 SUB JR ALEXANDER NEW 90 JR JOHNATHON SEITZ 90 JR GOLD COLE DISSER 90 SUB VET WILLIAM COCHRAN 97 VET PAUL SCHIERENBERG 96 SR VET WILLIAM TEMPEST 98 NON-RES CH AUSTIN JACOB (OH) 99 MICHAEL GOOCH AND TOM STRABAVY
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
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!
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! fun. If you can, give them a try next year. n
ROBERT BOWERS AND JAMES HOOD
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 SCOTT COCHRAN 392 RU WILLIAM COCHRAN 384 AA CW ARNETT 384 A VERNON BROWN JR. 384 B JEFFREY WAGGONER 378 C TIMOTHY DELINEMA 371 D HEATHER LUNSFORD 369 LD1 CHRISTINA BYRD 382 LD2 RONETTE BRUMFIELD 352 SUB JR ALEXANDER NEW 368 JR JOHNATHON SEITZ 367 JR GOLD COLE DISSER 380 SUB VET TANK LUNSFORD 387 VET GARL GRESLEY 379 SR VET WILLIAM TEMPEST 386 NON-RES CH KEITH DITTO (KY) 393
INDIANA STATE HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP
CH ROBERT BOWERS
97 RU SCOTT COCHRAN 96 3RD GEORGE STEPHEN 95 4TH MATTHEW MOSER 95 5TH ELIJAH MEDCALF 94 6TH JASON SEITZ 94 LD1 HEATHER LUNSFORD 95 LD2 TERRY BOLDEN 85 SUB JR MATTHEW ANTCZAK 90 JR JERRY VAIL 96 JR GOLD COLE DISSER 94 SUB VET MICHAEL FULFORD 95 VET JAMES HOOD 97 SR VET KENNETH HEATHCOATE 95 NON-RES CH NOLAN HARDESTY (KY) 99
INDIANA STATE HIGH OVER ALL
