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iTrapshooter.com:  It’s easy to imagine how some people may have thought, ”The weather’s bad today and oh, no Brad’s shooting, too”, thinking they never had a chance to win.
Brad:  The absolute best shooting that I’d ever done, it was non-registered.  It was in
a snowstorm at this little club and you know how sometimes you have these guys that’ll only talk to you if they shoot good.  They’ll never talk to you if they shoot bad.  It was just windy, and it was a fifty bird meat shoot, I think I was shooting for  hamburgers or something and  I broke the 25 singles.  It was 25 singles, 25 handicap.  
Well, there was a guy that had broke a pair of 24’s and this was in February, ten degrees, and all that good stuff, so I broke the 25 straight in the singles, then I come back in and he was right over there after me and he said “how’d you do, how’d you do?” And I said well I broke the 25 and he said “well I have a 48”, telling me what he broke before I went out for the handicap.  And it just made me concentrate for that stupid hamburger.  I tried and tried and tried and I actually broke 25 straight.   
When I walked back in the door, frozen like an icicle, this guy runs up to me and says “Well, did you run those two?”  and I said “Yep” and so off he went to check the score. That was always one of those stories that I remembered about shooting.  Heck, I couldn’t have been more then  21 or 22 or 23 years old.  
In fact, when I made the 27-yard line in 1975, I made it the first shoot in ’75 that I shot, there wasn’t any 27-yarders by any number of shooters, there was probably only a dozen in Ohio back then.  I’d go to shoots and you couldn’t find a whole squad of guys to shoot with around the small clubs.  You had the Berlets, Hiram Bradley, Tommy March, Bobby Mieczkowski, Tom Jones, I’m sure there’s some I’ve forgot, there was just a handful of people in Ohio.  It was kind of a real small fraternity, nothing like it is today. 27-yarders just didn’t win anything.  You couldn’t win, according to the shooters.  You have to sandbag, you don’t want to get punched. And I thought, when I started shooting, the guys that were making a living shooting are all 27-yarders, looks to me like that’s the place to be, so that’s kind of where I headed for.  
And then my coming out as a good shooter party, I guess you could say, was at the 1975 Ohio state handicap.  They had 1600 shooters and Aden Kaufman, who was on the 27 and I broke 98 and we tied.  And then I broke 25 in the handicap shoot-off and won the state handicap.  At the time that was the biggest handicap ever won by a 27- yarder.  1600 of them. That was kind of when I really felt like I belonged.  I’d been shooting a little over a year.  I’d made the 27 in ten months.  I’d never won a handicap at a big shoot until I won that.  Now, I’d won a lot of little shoots.  I’d won a handicap at 26 ½ yards in Tampa that year.  
 

 

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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-American
2 Times Captain Industry Team

 

 

Grand American Notables
1976 High Over-All-Runner-up
(lost shoot-off with Gene Sears)
1978 Clay Target Champion
1987 Clay Target Runner-Up
1988 High Over All  986 x 1000
1988 All-Around Runner-up
1989 Clay Target Champion
1989 Budweiser
(Preliminary) Handicap Champion
1989 High Over All Runner-Up
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-Around
Championships in both Ohio and Maryland
1975 Ohio State Handicap Champion from 27 (the largest handicap won by a 27-yarder at
the time - 1600 Entrees)
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 - OSTA President 2011 - Ohio State Shoot Tournament Director 2007 to present

 

 

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