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iTrapshooter.com: Why should you have to, right?
Brad: That’s kind of it. You know, before I was the tournament director, I was just a trigger. You know, there’s that old attitude that good trapshooters weren’t very smart, well let me tell ya, I know most of the best trapshooters that shot in the last 35 or 40 years and there’s not a dummy amongst them. That’s one of those old wives tales. They are card players, they’re gamblers. They’re people that experiment. Trapshooters are great thinkers and inventors.
Dave Berlett, I told Dave I wanted an adjustable stock and he made me my first adjustable stock back in the ‘80’s. It’s probably been one of the greatest advances in shooting. Before that they used to put moleskin on your gun. Then the adjustable stock market came along and that’s changed shooting just as much as anything. When we were talking back about voice pullers I’d have to say the adjustable stock probably made shooting better and easier than anything. Voice pullers and adjustable stock.
iTrapshooter.com: And to make it more challenging, make the targets go faster?
Brad: Yeah, well they always did go faster. It’s kind of ironic, all you’ve got to do is look at history. One thing about knowing history is you don’t repeat the mistakes of the past. I say that we have institutionalized alzheimers because the institutions will make the same mistakes every ten years.
We shoot 25 a trap in Ohio. When I got on the board that was right in the year we were going to shoot 50, ten to a post. It’s not faster, it’s slower. The reason is, a trap physically will only throw so many targets, and people tend to piddle around. You may get done quicker individually but collectively at a shoot the size of Ohio, I would have roughly 24 two trap clubs going. And you’re always at the mercy of the slowest two trap bank. I knew it, I’ve seen it, because I’ve been around it.
Now, we shoot four traps, we shoot two different directions, as far as flipping in the hundreds. All this is stuff that worked back in the old days, I haven’t invented anything. I’ve just been around long enough to remember what works. I don’t have to say “well I think this is going to work”. No, I know it’s going to work because I’ve seen it work before. It worked in the ‘70’s, it worked in the ‘90’s, it’s going to work in the 2010’s too. It’s hard sometimes to get people to listen to you.
That was why it was good to be president of the OSTA, then I could do what I wanted.
We’ve got a good board now. Just like, we’ve got Big Don and Dr. Longshot – a grudge match – it’s just going to be fun.
iTrapshooter.com: When is that?
Brad: It’s going to be at the Ohio State Shoot on Monday. We have our cancer shoot. We’ll have all kinds of trophies. And, we have our kids shoot that day. It’s all non-
“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.”
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 -
