New Era for the Grand American Trap Shoot - New Executive Director

Another Grand is soon to be here. Is this the start of a new era in trapshooting? The ATA has a new director.
There will be a few new faces as Delegates. Will they make changes? Is the ATA going in a great direction?
And soon a new direction?

Just wondering.....

 

The new era of Trapshooting. $400 kegs of powder,$50 to$60 bags of shot, $120 flats of shells. $50+ targets.$4 to $6 a gallon for fuel. I find it amazing that in this current ATA year numbers at alot of shoots are up. It is called PROMPTING the sport, unbelievable how that works.

 

Posted on the site July 6, 2015:

I always get a laugh when this gets brought up by someone outside PA and OH.

They did not see the long gas lines during the fuel shortage in the seventies. But the grand was booming then.

Then there was the double digit inflation. Grand was booming then.

I remember the big recession under Carter. Grand was booming then.

The big thing the Ohioans and PA felt was the week the steel mills closed across Ohio and PA. Yeppers....the Grand was booming then too.

I was shooting the day I heard about the Black Thursday. That was the day of a big stock market crash. Another good year for the Grand.

And then there was the dotcom crash. Another bump in the road but the Grand continued.

All those bad dates above were the golden age of trapshooting.

Then there was the announcement in 2003. The deal with felon Blagojevich. Then the move to a gun hate state. Nothing was grand after that. What did you expect?

The economy, gas prices, cost of ammo, blah blah blah.......none of that mattered before. The GAH was bigger during the depression and during the Korean War.

 

I always get a laugh when the 60s and 70s are brought up. (I started trapshooting in the 1970s) Now its the Korean War and the depression. What does that have to do with trapshooting in 2026? I guess my problem is a site called Americantrapshooting would with PROMOTE trapshooting.

 

It sounds like Jeff already has made excuses for bad numbers at the Grand. I hope the numbers are good. But.....

 

Just one of your problems?
There is a reason the late great Roger Smith called the 70’s the “Golden Years”.

The late and NOT so great Winston said not to worry about the Ohio and Pennsylvania shooters not going to that place in the middle of BFN, the shooters from farther west and around that white elephant would make up for them.
Funniest damn thing I ever read. How’s that working out for the almighty, we never screw up, ata?
Hell, after that anti gun state closed the place the SCTP wouldn’t go there for FREE targets.
Hey, you do you boo. You go and see HALF the crowd we used to get.
BTW, the site name isn’t American Registered Trapshooter. And we have been here a lot longer than
30 days

 

I believe it's possible to love trapshooting, be disgusted with the ATA, tell the truth and still have a good site to express it all.
I remember sitting in those gas lines as a 10 year old in a 1971 Gremlin.
Didn't even know what trapshooting was about.