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iTrapshooter.com:  Did anyone every give you any really good advice?
Brad:  You know, I can’t remember any one particular piece of advice other then when I really started getting good one of my old friends Jim Feathers, he’s now 92-93 years old, Jim said “remember on the way up not to step on anybody because it’s a rung you’ll hit on the way down”.  That was just kind of a philosophy that I tried to never change. And so that, I think as much as where I grew up. You know, I’m pretty much the way I was at 19 except maybe a little more battle scarred.  
iTrapshooter.com:  You shoot pretty quick.  As soon as your gun hits your shoulder, you’re shooting.
Brad:  Yep, the longer you have your gun up there, the more things can go wrong.  I pretty much mount my gun, call “pull” and shoot. I’ve watched the guys, I like to say people that are like “gazers”, you know they stare at the barrel.  Well, if you’re holding your gun up in front of your face, it’s just about impossible to keep your concentration out over the trap house where it needs to be.  Your eyes will wander back to the barrel. You can’t be looking at the bead thirty inches away from your face and a target thirty yards away and have them both in focus.

I never actually see the beads on my gun. In fact when I was a kid, all my bb guns never had sights on them.  I just learned to shoot, I’d point, which maybe helped my trapshooting, but I’m a left-eyed dominant, right-hand shooter and I would cross-fire so bad. So, I just always had the beads in the back sight and I’d just  block out the front bead and that’s how I shot with a bb gun.  The longer I held it up there, the more things went bad.  
iTrapshooter.com:  History is a topic you appreciate.  Looking back, Captain Bogardus was reportedly a one-eyed shooter.  One eye, two eyes, does it matter?
Brad:  I’m a two-eyed person, that’s what God gave me.  If he gave me three, I’d use three.  I believe that you do everything with, you know being a fast shooter, you said I’m a fast shooter, if you’re looking with one eye you’re behind the bird, basically all the time.  You’re trying to rifle shoot it and you can’t be as fast.  Nora Martin is probably the best one-eyed shooter in the world, as far as I know, ever.  Don Ewing was a one-eyed shooter.  He shot very well.  If I try one eye, I’m just slow and I don’t have any depth perception.  
When you shoot quick, probably being because I was a hunter, I needed that depth perception.  It’s harder to tell with one eye whether it’s out thirty yards or thirty-five or forty.  With my hunting experience, I’m really good at judging distance out to about a
a hundred yards.  I can get within two or three yards just about every time because I’ve done it so much.  If I just look with one eye, I lose all my depth perception.  So I believe strongly to shoot with two eyes.  Now, like I told you, I’m right-handed with a left eye. I’m left-eye dominant and when I shoot, if I get higher, I’ll start cross-firing.



 

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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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