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It could be as much as breaking your elbow an extra two inches, if you’ve got a wind that makes your gun actually look like it’s shooting straight but it’s actually patterning the way the wind’s blowing.
Do you ever remember watching that star shooting where they did it back in the 80’s. Bonillas and Remington and some of them had this game where they’d give you points for your targets if you shot ‘em at night, it was called “Star Shot”. Well anyway, they would cant their gun to get a run because they knew where the bird was going. So that’s things that I would do and if it works, it may only work on that round, but I did enough of them to know if it worked, I don’t worry about it, I’d just shoot it that way all the time after that round. Does that kind of answer my philosophy for the wind shooting?
iTrapshooter.com: It sure does. Besides being able to win in all kinds of weather conditions, you shot competitively during a time when there were many changes. From the hand set to the automatic traps, to the voice call and the pull targets, what remained constant for you and what did you need to work on over the years to help you achieve all of your accomplishments?
Brad: Well, in the old days you had pullers, it was critical not to move the gun before the bird came out. That’s just the basics. When it went to the voice puller, that eliminated one whole thing that you had to think about.
Concentration, everybody talks about it. Concentration. Probably when I became not afraid to miss, most AA shooters, well AAA now, they shot afraid to miss a target instead of wanting to break it. When you’re a new shooter, you’re thrilled about the break. You don’t care if you hit it in the center, or you break it in half, but then when you get up to a certain point, and I know myself, I was starting shooting, dreading the thought I was going to miss and break a 99 instead of 100 in the singles, and I can’t say exactly when it happened but I just started shooting not worrying about if I missed and enjoying breaking them and my concentration got up. The fear of winning was something I had to get over.
Everybody says they want to win, but when you get right down to it, if you want to really be on top, you’ve got everybody shooting at you, and if you’re not an outgoing person, it can be hard on you.
I saw it be hard on people. I know shooters that have got a lot more natural ability then I have that don’t have the wins that I’ve got because I’m kind of a tenacious person. I could kind of talk myself in to doing good.
When I got over that fear of winning and had that desire that I wanted to be as good as I could be; you know I wanted to be one of the people other shooters didn’t want to see at the shoots because they knew.
It’s kind of like, not intimidation but where you make shooters worry about you and get them off their own game. When I learned that all I had to do was not shoot afraid to miss, not worry about who was there, and not be afraid to win, I kind of think that was really the key to my forty years of shooting.
“When I learned that all I had to do was not shoot afraid to miss, not worry about
who was there, and not be afraid to win, I kind of think that was really the key…”
Hall of Fame Brad Dysinger
An iTrapshooter.com interview
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Brad Dysinger
Trapshooting Hall of Fame
Ohio State Trapshooting Hall of Fame
18 Time All-
2
Times Captain Industry Team
Grand American Notables
1976 High Over-
(lost shoot-
1978
Clay Target Champion
1987 Clay Target Runner-
1988 High Over All 986 x 1000
1988
All-
1989 Clay Target Champion
1989 Budweiser
(Preliminary) Handicap
Champion
1989 High Over All Runner-
7 Consecutive 200 x 200 at Grand
Over Three Years
14
Trophies in One year at Grand
as Industry Shooter
1990 100 Straight from 27
State Championships
Singles, Doubles, Handicap and All-
Championships in both
Ohio and Maryland
1975 Ohio State Handicap Champion from 27 (the largest handicap
won by a 27-
the time -
August 28, 1977 Broke 100 straight
from
27 to give Grand Slam (17th person)
Won over 1000 trophies at trap shoots in 38
States and Provinces
Won Flyer Shoots in Illinois, Texas, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Florida
Other
Ohio State Association Director 2006 to present -
