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I never knew about eye dominance until I’d been trapshooting about two or three years so by then I’d already learned too much about how to do it right-handed.  I’ve played a little bit left-handed.  First time I shot left-handed singles I broke a 97.  So I can do it left-handed but my shoulders not as strong or I can’t take the recoil for as long a time.  
iTrapshooter.com:  When it was cold and windy, you could really turn up a number.  It’s been said that you used to hope the wind would blow so you could win the handicap.  What’s the secret to managing the wind the way you did?
Brad:  Well, when it’s windy or rainy or bad conditions I always figured I had ninety percent of the people beat before they ever went out there because they would think that they couldn’t do well.  Now, being a self-taught shooter, I don’t shoot the same way every time.  Being a baseball player, if I had a guy that was throwing a ninety mile an hour fastball, I wasn’t going to be able to hit that like I would with a guy that was throwing a knuckle ball and I was a pretty good hitter.  I would adjust my stance, choke up on the bat or go down on the bat, you know I was moving physically to adjust to the baseball pitcher.  
Well, I do the same thing when I’m shooting in the wind.  I may move my hand back like two fingers, the farther back your front hand is on your receiver, the faster your swing is. So if it was real windy and the birds were going real high, I would need a lot more swing up, so I would bring my hand back to speed up my swing.  Or if the birds were diving and we had a bad tailwind, I may move my hand out forward.  I would adjust where I held on the house.  
One particular shoot that I can always remember was out in Missouri and it was horribly windy and they were throwing a strong target.  Actually, to break the target I was holding about ten feet to the right of the trap house, because the wind was blowing from the side so bad that you couldn’t get out in front of the target if it went that way. So I was cheating and holding out there.  That’s the kind of things I would do in the wind.  I’m not so stubborn that I’m just going to hold my gun in the same place that I always do.  
Most shooters, and I’ve watched them, they shoot the same way if it’s windy, if it’s sunny, if it’s fifty degrees, if it’s a hundred degrees.  I always adjusted physically.  If you watched me shoot, on a nice day, the first ten sometimes I’ll be on the edge of them, under a little bit, over them, but if I’m going to shoot good I’ll dial it in.  And that was the secret in the wind.

Like baseball again and the way I held my gun.  People don’t understand especially with today’s high shooting guns, you wouldn’t want your patterns all above the barrel.  You have to have your gun parallel to the earth.  Well, if you move your right hand, if you’re a right-hand shooter on the pistol grip, the farther down I move my hand the more I make my gun go to the right.  The higher up you get your hand on the receiver, or on your pistol grip the more it rolls your receiver over to the left so you end up with a left hand.

 

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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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