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iTrapshooter.com: Trapshooting was a career yet it sounds like the intangibles of good places you saw, good people you met, brought very wonderful benefits.
Brad: To this day I know somebody in every state of the union and places in Canada. The opportunities of trapshooting far exceeded actually winning a trapshoot. Working with Beretta I got to talk to a congressional sportsman’s caucus. I attended the Republican convention in 1996, I put on a trapshooting demonstration and had like 400 mothers and kids from the inner city in San Diego participate. I met a lot of people. I even gave politicians live pigeon shooting lessons.
I come from Paulding County, we have 18,000 people in the county, we’re the flat Appalachia. Everything I’ve got is because I had the ability to break a little clay target.
I tried to take full advantage of it. What I’m doing right now, running my hunting preserve is what I always wanted to do. I’m basically a hunter who shot trap. But I was good enough at trapshooting and it kept me in the industry. I wanted to work for a gun company. I got to work for Beretta for 17 years, like 1983 to ‘99. I took Gene Hill hunting, I’ve taken outdoor writers hunting, I’ve gotten to meet the celebrities that I looked up to that weren’t trapshooters. That’s the benefit to this sport. I met my wife, that’s how I got married. She was a puller.
Trapshooting’s been a great sport and it’s kind of evolved for me as to what I’ve done with it. Basically, I’ve gotten to do what I’ve wanted to do because of it.
iTrapshooter.com: You’re credited as having introduced the Walkman to trapshooting.
Brad: Yes, 1985.
iTrapshooter.com: What kind of music did you listen to?
Brad: Oh, I would listen to the Grass Roots, Grease, I always said I listened to the theme from Rocky but every now and then I’d want to punch out the puller if I got a bad pull.
iTrapshooter.com: Did people ask what you were listening to?
Brad: Oh yeah, I just let them listen to it.
The reason I did it was in the old days in Vandalia, it was nothing to have 200 or 300 people watching you shoot. I loved the help but they’d be like 2 or 3 feet away and my concentration would go and I thought, I gotta do something different. So I thought, everybody listens to music all the time so I started doing that and man I went out and waxed all the singles and had my best year ever doing it. I think I broke fourteen 200 straight which was the record at that time. I was listening to a tape, although, the year I won the Budweiser and the Clay Target in ‘89, I was listening to a radio station and then the next day I’m shooting and somebody told them I was listening and the disc jockey mentioned my name and that was kind of weird when you’re trying to listen to the music. It doesn’t help the concentration. You don’t want to be thinking about what you’re going to have for dinner, or what happens.
“Everything I’ve got is because I had the ability to break a little clay target.”
Hall of Fame Brad Dysinger
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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 -
