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You don’t have to concentrate the whole hour you’re out there. Everybody said how do you concentrate for so long out there? You really only have to concentrate about 300 seconds. You concentrate the one second right before you put the gun up, the second the guns up and the second you’re shooting at the bird. Three seconds a shot. That’s about all. Most of the time, you can be an observer. The radio helped me do that, it would help relax me in between so I wasn’t wasting concentration.
iTrapshooter.com: When you’re out there competing, sometimes that had to seem like an eternity. If the wind’s blowing, the sun’s beating on you, the weather’s bad, some of those 300 seconds must have felt kind of long.
Brad: Believe me, I never had to struggle to break a 98 in handicap but I had to struggle mightily to break a lot of 80’s. The day I’m breaking an 80, nothing’s working. But the day you’re breaking a 98, you can get to a point where it’s just flowing, it’s like your reactions take over. The absolute worst for me is if the wind is blowing -
Steve Carmichael, he’s a heck of a shot. He’s a thinker. They always called him “Slider” because he was so smooth. He’s left-
A true story, we were shooting in Kansas City, Steve Carmichael, now there’s me and Dan Bonillas and John Hall and a couple other guys.
Steve Carmichael has managed to miss 5 out of 400 in the handicap. This was a 500 bird, a PTA, non ATA shoot. Carmichael’s out there. Now Bonillas could do head games as well as anybody. Bonillas says, ”Look at this, watch this”. So Carmichael comes over and Bonillas picks his gun up and says, “Let me see that”, and he pretends like the stock was loose, and he hands the gun to Hall and says, “Does this feel okay to you?” And John says, “A little loose”. So I said, “Well let me see it. The gun’s loose, Carmichael come here”. He picks it up, “Oh it is a little loose isn’t it?” There was nothing wrong with the stock.
Hall and Bonillas and Carmichael are all shooting together. And they did this to him right before they walked out on the line. Carmichael breaks like a 19 or a 20 on that trap. He missed more birds on that trap then the whole rest of the tournament. We laughed and to this day, you tell that to Carmichael and he’ll swear that stock was loose.
And then my wife got him one year at the Grand, two Carmichael stories, one of them, one year at the Grand my wife says to him, “Steve, your glasses are crooked on your head,” and he goes out and just dives. Then there was the time at a reception at the beer tent at the Grand, that’s where all the good stories really came from, Steve comes up with an empty beer and pretends like he’s throwing it on Ann. Well, Ann had a full beer and just doused Steve with it. And I’ve always told him, “You never point an empty gun at someone, Steve”.
We had a lot of fun, back then we were all a lot younger. Those All-
“You really only have to concentrate about
300 seconds.”
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 -
