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iTrapshooter.com: On the HOF website there is a saying above the names that reads “When a sport stops teaching its heritage, it loses its identity.” What can history tell us about trapshooting? What can we learn from it?

Brad: I’ll say what I took from the history of trapshooting. What it taught me was that it didn’t matter how much money you had or how expensive your gun was or what kind of a vehicle got me to the trap shoot or what kind of clothes I was wearing, but when I stepped on the line as a trapshooter, everybody was equal. It really is a democratic sport, where the guy from the factory can beat the guy from Rockefeller. When you step on the trap field, you’re socio-economic issues are behind you and the only way you can lose – if you don’t miss, you can’t lose. The other guy can’t beat you. It taught me and it should teach everyone the only way you lose is to beat yourself by missing. That’s kind of what I think of trapshooting. Everybody’s different and your ability to break the target is what matters.

I’ve gotten to eat dinners in unbelievable restaurants. I’d go to people’s houses and they would have Ferrari’s and Bentleys and shotguns like Purdy’s, you know the things that I read about even when I was 19 and I was shooting an old model 12. And they recognized me for my ability as a shooter. It made us equal because of trapshooting. It was one common thread that I could sit down and talk with anybody about. No matter what someone’s background was, what country someone was from, that should be what the history of trapshooting would teach you if you go back and look at Captain Bogardus or you go back and look at Annie Oakley.

It didn’t matter whether you were a man or a women, it didn’t matter whether you were 5’3” or 6’9”. It wasn’t about physical strength, not about sex, it was about breaking targets. It’s a good life lesson and you also were with people that if they missed a bird, the guys I always shot with, if you missed the bird, you never wanted the target that wasn’t yours. Almost like golf where you’re kind of your own referee at times.

iTrapshooter.com: You are very active interacting with other shooters, you’re online, you’re very visible and also vocal. At this point in your life, what should history tell us about Brad Dysinger?

Brad: Well the shooting’s important, that’s what got me there. I want my accomplishments in the trap ring to be remembered, but I also would like to have - I’ll answer your question kind of left-handed like you asked it, I understand what you’re saying. I get out online, I speak my mind. I feel like being up on the history of trapshooting, I know where trapshooting came from, that I think it came from. From my viewpoint I can see what it means to the sport.

I know that Brad Dysinger of 1974 could not start in 2012 and have the future that I had. It’s not there. You can’t win money at the sport anymore. It’s been, in my mind, degraded. I get vocal because I would like to think that there’s some 19 year old kid that wants to do what I did and it’s gone. I mean, maybe I’m the last bull rider and so what I am looking at trying to do - maybe now is even more important to me in this stage then what I did as a shooter - is I’m trying to give my experience and my knowledge to what I think they have to do to keep trapshooting viable.

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“…when I stepped on the line as a trapshooter, everybody was equal. The other guy can’t beat you…the only way you lose is to beat yourself by missing.”

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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