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I have thoroughly enjoyed the last five years of being tournament director at the Ohio State Shoot because I sit across from that counter and I talk to everybody, whether they’re a trapshooter, a trapshooter’s wife, the kids, people who come in and want to know about the parking, the camping, the workers, I thoroughly enjoy doing that. Ironically maybe I’m better at running shoots then I was actually shooting, because I enjoy it, but I know from all my experiences what didn’t work. We just try to do what works and have fun. The fun component is missing at a lot of shoots now. If you come to one of our shoots in Ohio, we have fun.
I don’t know if you’ve been online but did you see we’re having a “Grudge Match” between Dr. Longshot and Big Don? Both of them agreed to it, it’s going to be a fun day and it will benefit breast cancer research and the veterans. We’ve got some nice trophies.
That’s something I get to do now from the promotion angle that I love. You always like to sit around and talk about stories, like you said about me and Leo sleeping in the car and eating bologna, stories get embellished. I didn’t understand that when I was younger, but they’re always greater when they’re told by other people then when they actually happened, or I don’t remember them the same. I don’t know which it is.
iTrapshooter.com: People want to grab on to those stories maybe because they recognize those times are gone, they don’t exist now.
Brad: I think that’s true. I can get on the internet and tell a story. You talk about writing a book, I’ve always wanted to write a book but actually I just don’t have time. I’ve got too many other things going on. I enjoy telling the stories. Maybe that’s the way I’ll be known, I don’t know.
I don’t have to be known as a trapshooter. I never wanted to be known as a singles shooter. I always hated to shoot singles. I’ve always been a handicap shooter, but arguably my two best wins was in the clay targets. It’s kind of irony, now that I step back and look at my shooting, I realize that winning the two clay targets, the first one was accidentally, I was only 23 years old, I didn’t know what happened, that was an accident. The one in ‘89, I really wanted that one because I was shooting off against Frank Little.
I am kind of a connection, maybe connecting the past with the future, I don’t know.
iTrapshooter.com: It seems like everything you did shaped you in to becoming an ambassador for the sport from every different angle.
Brad: Probably, I’d like to be considered an ambassador for the sport but it’s up to other people to decide what your history is, or what your legacy, or what you’re remembered for. I just try to be me.
I can remember, that’s what Jim Feathers told me, don’t change. And I really haven’t changed except I’m a lot more forceful as I’ve gotten older. I don’t tolerate dumbasses as much as I used to.
“I am kind of a connection, maybe connecting the past with the future, I don’t know.”
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 -
