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iTrapshooter.com: Did you do a lot of practicing?

Brad: Remember, I was a baseball player. We were either playing or practicing in high school. My high school coach taught me a lot about winning and dedication. His name was Jim Lininger, he’s in the Ohio State Coaches Hall of Fame. I lettered four years in baseball when I was in high school. I just loved the game. Being a catcher, I was always around. Lininger, he’d yell at me because I was kind of like I am today, I’m bullheaded, let’s face it. I always think I have a better way of doing something. Well, he taught me a lot about the details. He taught our team you go to the right base, to do the little things, and if you do the little things the big things will happen.

So I took that approach. I was still playing baseball and shooting trap, I played for the Latin American team up here in northwest Ohio back then they had a lot of tomato factories. I don’t know if it was semi pro, you had guys like me that were 18, up to guys in their 30’s. I was playing baseball and shooting and I would shoot like five nights a week. I’d reload, head to the shoot and shoot four to five rounds of practice. I always shot 27-yards. Even when I first started, I practiced 27-yards for a little over a year just so I could get better at it. I never shot any of the shorter yardage practice.

iTrapshooter.com: 27-yards because as you mentioned earlier, that’s where the champions were?

Brad: That’s where the pro’s were, the guys that were having fun traveling around. That’s where Britt Robinson, Dan Bonillas, Larry Gravestock, the guys that were making a living that I was reading about. You’ve got to remember I’m an avid reader, I had Trap & Field. It’s not like now where we have the internet. Back then, I couldn’t wait until I’d get the Trap & Field magazine. In those days, they used to print every score at a shoot. You could read the trap and see how those guys broke ‘em at a lot of shoots. I looked, I wanted to see who was winning.

You know, Robinson was winning cars and $20 gold pieces and guns and he was on
27-yards and I thought, if they can do it, I can do it. That’s probably the reason I made it successfully to the 27-yard line as quickly as I did. And I was a hunter, I didn’t know any better. Quickest way to get me to do something is to tell me that it can’t be done.

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“You know, Robinson was winning cars and $20 gold pieces and guns and he was on 27-yards and I thought, if they can do it, I can do it.”

Hall of Fame Brad Dysinger

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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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