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So I thought, a slow pull, I didn’t know. So I look down there and Dave is pumping his gun like it’s a trombone. Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. I thought “what’s he doing?”. Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. Well, here’s what happened, he put the gun up, he said it didn’t feel right, but he never closed the action, he called pull with the action open. So Dave does that and he breaks a 199. He didn’t even get to shoot at the bird. So Dave was an early winner of the Joe Powell award.

iTrapshooter.com: People say you have so many good stories, it would make a wonderful book.

Brad: I’ve thought about it, some of them you couldn’t print, you’d have to wait until certain people weren’t around anymore or change the names.

iTrapshooter.com: Is it true that back then when you were traveling around that you guys used to sleep in your cars and eat bologna sandwiches?

Brad: No, that’s in that myth, that isn’t the truth. We could always afford, I mean we might eat bologna sandwiches and we may have slept in the car when we couldn’t find a motel room, for the first night. When we traveled we didn’t stay at the most exclusive but between the two of us, we always stayed in the let’s say at least, passable motel.

The only one, when we couldn’t find a motel in Florida and we stayed at a place along I-75 in a questionable neighborhood. It was bad. We had ten cases of shells apiece in the truck, half a dozen guns and Leo was traveling with me and my wife. So we can’t find a room, we had gotten rooms for the next night but we had drove in a day early. It was like one in the morning and believe me, no one stayed in these rooms I don’t think for more than an hour. Leo had a 44 magnum stuck in his belt, like Dirty Harry did back then, and I had a 357 and a 380 stuck in my hip pocket. Neither one of could hear and I was backing up the truck, Leo was around the front and he thought I was hollering at him and I thought Leo was hollering to me, and we said “what you’d say?” and here it was a group of guys thinking about jumping us until they saw us coming out with all these guns. They scattered to the wind. We didn’t even know what was going on. We always had plenty of fire power when we traveled.

iTrapshooter.com: Imagine so.

Brad: One thing I always liked about trapshooting was the good eating that you’d get at the restaurants. We kind of ate our way across the United States. Bob Taylor used to make steaks right on his grounds, lot of good places in Vegas, Amarillo they’ve got a big streak place, the pizza place out in Arizona where Martin Wilbur and Leo tried to eat a big pizza and they couldn’t even get it done. Martin traveled with us.

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“…it was nothing to have 200 or 300 people watching you shoot.”

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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