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When Brad Dysinger arrived at the 2003 Great Lakes Grand, he stepped on rain-soaked grounds under a cloudy sky.  The weather conditions were less then inviting to all who had long looked forward to the day’s events.
“It was a really bad, windy day,” Brad said, reflecting back on one of the last seasons that he showed up for the tournament life.
A Saturday in late May.  If you were there, you may well remember the stampede of rain - on your hat, on your shoulders, on the stock and on the barrel of your gun.  Rain, sliding down the trigger beneath your finger.  Slippery, uncontrollable rain.

You may remember the wind traversing the grounds.  As a shooter who was there recalled, “the wind was driving the rain near sideways”.  
  
 While the weather pattern stubbornly dug in its heels and remained stalled over Mason, Brad set out to do what he had arrived for - to knock down clay targets.
“I didn’t shoot with any particular squad,” he explained.  “I just went up and filled in.”
He broke a 99 to win the handicap on that Saturday, drove home to Ohio to shoot in a meet at Jacquas on Sunday, then returned to the MTA grounds for Monday’s event. Brad remembers the weather conditions were not any better, if not worse.  Yet, he broke another 99, winning the Great Lakes Grand Handicap Championship.
After finishing the last round, he remembers walking in to the clubhouse where “a bunch of the guys” he knew were playing cards. One of them casually asked him, “Break a 99 again today?”. Brad just said,“Yeah”.  
That guy just blinked.  He was unfazed. Unsurprised. He played his next card, unastonished, because what he had just heard he already knew. Everyone who was shooting back then knew.  
A bad weather forecast on days of competition.  Clouds.  Rain.  And the wind.  


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Rain-soaked grounds greeted shooters and made maintenance tougher.
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150 miles each way between Mason and Findlay, more than 600 miles to compete in both the 2003 Great Lakes Grand and at Jaquas in the same weekend.  The distance of 13,824,000 fired shells placed end to end.

Gas prices in May 2003 averaged 1.49 gallon.

 

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