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Britt Robinson
American
Trapshooting Association
Hall of Fame
25 Time All-
Grand American
High Over-
High All-
Doubles Champion
Handicap Champion
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Copyright 2011
iTrapshooter: How old were you when you started shooting? Sports Illustrated mentioned you when you were ten years old.
Britt: Out here they had a little golf course. They used to have turkey shoots all the time and my Dad always used to make me work it. They’d take five people that never shot and let them shoot, I was probably about 8.
iTrapshooter.com: And so when you were ten you were in Sports Illustrated?
Britt: One winter I remember we drove to Amarillo Hardware up here in Lubbock and paid $135 for an 870 Trap gun. I got to shoot maybe once or twice before I turned ten. Some kids really get to shoot a lot. It was hard for me, my folks worked. You tried to get to shoot our state shoot and then sometimes you might run over to New Mexico and shoot theirs because it was close, or go to Oklahoma and shoot theirs, and then you’d try to go to the Grand. But that’s all the
shooting - I barely qualified enough targets to just make the teams because we didn’t travel a lot like everybody does now.
iTrapshooter.com: One last question, are there any Britt Robinson videos?
Britt: Stop and think, everybody is so different. I won’t do a video because what one person needs to work on, the next person needs something totally different, and the next person needs something totally different. The most I’ll do in a clinic, I won’t have more than five people. Each one of those five, what they need to work on to get them more consistent or help them is never, ever the same. You can’t put that in a video.
In other words, the heights of people, where they look is totally different for somebody that’s 6’8” then somebody sitting in a wheelchair. Do you think he looks in the same place as somebody that’s 6’8”? The barrel plane’s all different, you know when you mount your gun. Stop and think. The difference in the plane of the barrel over the house of somebody sitting in a wheelchair is not going to be the same as somebody that’s 6’, like I am, over the trap house. It creates different angles. It’s like a pool player.
If you can’t see that or if you can get somebody to explain it to you, then you’re alright. Teaching is kind of like, seeing what people are doing wrong that’s keeping them from shooting. It’s like trying to explain to them what the color purple is and if they’ve never seen it. But, if they can experience what the color purple is then they can work with it.
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Copyright 2011
iTrapshooter: How old were you when you started shooting? Sports Illustrated mentioned you when you were ten years old.
Britt: Out here they had a little golf course. They used to have turkey shoots all the time and my Dad always used to make me work it. They’d take five people that never shot and let them shoot, I was probably about 8.
iTrapshooter.com: And so when you were ten you were in Sports Illustrated?
Britt: One winter I remember we drove to Amarillo Hardware up here in Lubbock and paid $135 for an 870 Trap gun. I got to shoot maybe once or twice before I turned ten. Some kids really get to shoot a lot. It was hard for me, my folks worked. You tried to get to shoot our state shoot and then sometimes you might run over to New Mexico and shoot theirs because it was close, or go to Oklahoma and shoot theirs, and then you’d try to go to the Grand. But that’s all the
shooting -
iTrapshooter.com: One last question, are there any Britt Robinson videos?
Britt: Stop and think, everybody is so different. I won’t do a video because what one person needs to work on, the next person needs something totally different, and the next person needs something totally different. The most I’ll do in a clinic, I won’t have more than five people. Each one of those five, what they need to work on to get them more consistent or help them is never, ever the same. You can’t put that in a video.
In other words, the heights of people, where they look is totally different for somebody that’s 6’8” then somebody sitting in a wheelchair. Do you think he looks in the same place as somebody that’s 6’8”? The barrel plane’s all different, you know when you mount your gun. Stop and think. The difference in the plane of the barrel over the house of somebody sitting in a wheelchair is not going to be the same as somebody that’s 6’, like I am, over the trap house. It creates different angles. It’s like a pool player.
If you can’t see that or if you can get somebody to explain it to you, then you’re alright. Teaching is kind of like, seeing what people are doing wrong that’s keeping them from shooting. It’s like trying to explain to them what the color purple is and if they’ve never seen it. But, if they can experience what the color purple is then they can work with it.
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World Champion Britt Robinson
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“The most I’ll do in a clinic, I won’t have more than five people. Each one of those five, what they need to work on to get them more consistent or help them is never, ever the same. You can’t put that in a video.”