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Like last year we had Ohio State Cornhole Champions, and silver buckles with ears of corn on them that went to the winning team.
This year we’re giving a Harley-
Betty Ann Foxworthy told me the biggest mistake she ever made in her life was starting the All-
iTrapshooter.com: You’re a wise ambassador not only for what you have done for the sport but for what you continue to do. You put in your beliefs and what you feel in your heart to make trapshooting better or just as good as it was back when you were pulverizing targets.
Brad: See, it could be better. The opportunities are out there because kids, they want to do something. I see it at my pheasant hunting preserve. You almost need characters. We had characters back in the day when I started. Read Dick Baldwin, “Road to Yesterday” book, he’ll talk about some of the characters in trapshooting. We had a guy in Ohio they used to call Herco Hoyt that used to mix his shotgun powders and shoot night calcuttas.
Characters attract the youth. They don’t want just the cookie cutter, politically correct. You’ve got to promote it. This is my last year doing the Ohio board. And I’m just kind of promoting the whole thing bigger, that’s what I’m shooting for right now. That’s kind of the mission I’m on. You’ve got to say what you believe, but you also have to be able to back it up with facts.
iTrapshooter.com: You’re the man for the job. It’s all coming together?
Brad: I couldn’t have done it before if I hadn’t been tournament director for five years. This is a new era of what I’ve learned in shooting.
It’s fun. I can actually say I had fun shooting. That’s what frustrates me. When they moved to Sparta, I talked to everybody and I knew the shooters weren’t going to go. I didn’t care where they held the shoot, if half of them don’t show up, I don’t want to be there. I like big shoots. The Golden West Grand used to have over 1200 shooters. I loved it. It’s down to 200. Like the old Harold’s Club, before they built the new one. And I shot really well at both of them. I loved to shoot Reno. Reno’s my favorite place to shoot. I had more fun in Reno. You could gamble, they used to have a blackjack table and a craps table at the club. We would play dice.
Floyd Nattrass, the first time I was ever out in Reno, Floyd said “Brad, come here, I’m going to show you how to play craps.” So Floyd threw a bunch of money out there, gave me the dice a couple times and the dice took it. Floyd threw a bunch more money out there and I threw the dice a couple times and the dice took it. And I looked at Floyd and said, “I can’t afford that”.
The point, think about that, here I come from the farm and I get out there and they’ve got craps and cards and shooting. You could go shoot pigeons. It was all fun back then.
“You’ve got to say what you believe, but you also have to be able to back it up with
facts.”
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 -
