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iTrapshooter.com: Tell us a good story, Brad. What happened in Iowa?
Brad: Oh yeah, this was Britt Robinson, Leo Harrison. You know, Leo is the best shot ever. Leo and I used to travel together. Leo was my best man at my wedding. We traveled together, we used to go to shoots and split.
When we wanted to go out west, we didn’t have money but Leo and I would sit there -
So going to Iowa, Leo decides he’s going to have a 99 average this year, and this was before he’d ever had a 99 singles average. And Britt is riding with him and Britt’s not a singles shooter, Britt can shoot singles but as fast as he shot, he was a handicap shooter. And Leo could beat the crap out of us in singles so all the way up there Leo was just teasing Britt about his 99 singles average. So Britt starts on Leo, “You know, 99 averages are hard to have. This might not happen”, and he’s just working on him.
So we go up there and Leo goes out of the gate and smokes like a 95 the first time in the singles. Now Britt’s chirping in the background on Leo. Poor Leo never ran 100 at that shoot. He actually got down to a 92 or 93, and Robinson was just eating on him. Just picking at him. There’s the greatest shot ever, Leo, getting psyched out by Robinson. And being on the squad it was even funnier.
iTrapshooter.com: You were a liaison to this.
Brad: Yeah, but I think we were splitting, I think it was costing me money. So good old Robbie would do that, and one time Leo took some towels from the Holiday Inn. It was raining and he took a towel to clean his gun. So I’m on him, “You know the trap gods are going to get you.” I’m picking on Leo. Well, he had a run of bad luck there for about a month, two months, before he finally drove by a Holiday Inn and threw the towel on the yard to get rid of it. We used to have a lot of fun.
At the Grand, and I just found this. We have a Joe Powell award. Joe was a good friend of mine, he died in 1997. Joe was like a genius, he was from Indiana. He was on our 500 squad. Joe had this super high IQ. Sometimes people with super high IQ’s do stuff, like Joe went to a convention a year before it happened. These are just things Joe did. So, I won a brass banana. It was a trophy in Michigan, I still have it. It’s a brass banana. And Joe always wore the ‘70’s plaid outfits so Ann dressed up the brass banana and it’s called the Joe Powell award and I’d give it to people who shot with me who’d done the dumbest things for the season.
Dave Berlett who just went in the HOF last year, Dave is on my squad at the Michigan State, Great Lakes Grand, not sure which it was, he was down on 5, I was either lead-
“Enjoy it while you’re doing it. It’s why you’re out there, to have fun.”
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-
2
Times Captain Industry Team
Grand American Notables
1976 High Over-
(lost shoot-
1978
Clay Target Champion
1987 Clay Target Runner-
1988 High Over All 986 x 1000
1988
All-
1989 Clay Target Champion
1989 Budweiser
(Preliminary) Handicap
Champion
1989 High Over All Runner-
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-
Championships in both
Ohio and Maryland
1975 Ohio State Handicap Champion from 27 (the largest handicap
won by a 27-
the time -
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 -
