A test for the ATA boss.
Well that puts a different foot forward.
Same shit, different decade.
In 1985 I shot a live bird event behind the Mustang Ranch, the last name of the people running the Reno Club then was Moore and I can't for the life...
Anyone that has any old pictures from those days and would like to get rid of them give me a call, don't PM me I never read those I need to hear a...
The million dollar camping at Vandalia was the beginning of the downfall of the ATA. Next came pre squading, then the bank system, then Sparta, then...
Anyone that wants to can research my warnings about the Cardinal Center, the ATA, and the OSTA. The people running all these organizations have no...
A Fantastic Direction Indeed.
Good job what county is this club in?
There are here then they are gone. The grouse in Ohio have been in a down cycle for 40 years. Most small game in Ohio is in a down cycle. The Ohio...
Don The osta works under the same rules as the ata a book of suggestions, not Robert's rules like they did when we were on the board. Not as many...
perazzi93, If he shot himself in the foot he probably wasn't in the overall, he should have been kicked off the grounds for being unsafe, I'd have...
Thanks for clarifying.
Basic safety, If it was a break open even worse, but autos and pumps I've seen it happen on the line with a slam fire but never on the walk behind...
The talk about this is the real question 7 1/2's or 8's.
please clarify which brad you're talking about.
I miss those graphs. I think the this was the smallest GAH, not counting Missouri, forever.
Like I said before about Winston.......
When Vandalia had 4500 shooters that was 4500 buyers of glasses, meals, drinks, shooting apparel, lots of pins and useless things that shooters buy....
Forty years ago I'd get 20 plus flushes every hunt, I don't think there are 20 grouse left in Ohio today.
He looks like someone I might have seen before.
Thanks for bringing this up top, Lot less of us alive that remember the past good times, I feel bad for today's ata members they will never live the...
I think most clubs had 9 boxes a ring, some five if they were loading from under ground like Ryan's in Ky and one club I shot in Pa I can't remember...
I think the 300 series auto's are far better. I still have my 302 trap gun from 1983 when I worked for Beretta. An AL 1 or AL 2 are also great. My...
My son says he thinks he had on a steel vest that deflected the shot up into his neck after it busted up the bullet. My boy is a vet from both the...
Who would that have been?
Shoot your local clubs meat shoots, Calcutta shoots, black target shoots, practice nights, back ups, FUN SHOOTS. The ATA has nothing but expensive...
I started ATA in 1974, when I started the zone shoot was 100 singles targets. The zones picked class shooters for the state shoot. Top two shooters...
A personal disapoitment as the president. Said one thing in private to me another in public. He's a good canuc shooter what else? As I've said...
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Mitch gets my vote for what that's worth.
Twenty six years ago I was inducted into the Trap Shooting HOF in Vandalia, Ohio. It was a proud moment for me as my family, wife and kids, my dad...
Big PaPa I just got off the phone with a very heated woman who had a lot to say and a bunch to back it up. It might be a good time to head north...
I was told that it was a target claimimg, thieving, past ATA president who is headed to the ata hof this year. I always knew he was a cheater, both...
I just watched a video of the shooting on Tim Pool's u-tube show and what happened was the ice agents got the sig away from the perp and was carrying...
I just watched the latest shooting in Minnesota and it looked hard to me to believe that guy could pull a concealed gun and fire it with all his...
The taxidermist mearsured the deers girth it ws 46 inches, according to his chart the deer would have a live weight of about 300 lbs give or take and...
The last Sunday of the Ohio gun season Dec. 7, 2025 Ann shot a large deer that was still in velvet. I say DEER because it had both male and female...
Joe I think it was 2 hole 48 yard targets from the 35 and 4 hole 55 yds from the 27. My argument was that the 35 2 hole scores would be higher than...
I like it how old VP's see the lie after they leave office. Shaw. fed me the same lawyer BS that all ata vp's have told me for 50 years. I have NO...
The leaders of trap shooting in the day were made up of money shooters, beer drinkers, card players, and more than one woman chaser. They played...
It's sad that I heard the Dr. Longshot has died. Doc was a rabid game shooter, something that I never mastered myself. He wasn't a 200 straight...
Jake called and told me Dan had died and then he told me Bubba had quit the CC. So if I was on the osta board I'd be wondering who is doing the pre...
Anyone who has read any of my thoughts about Dan know he was one of my favorites. He was a great trapshooter and the yard stick I measured myself...
The problem I see coming is that no one at the CC has any shooting knowledge but what has happened at the CC. It's hard to manage anything if you...
When Luke was fired and I was asked to TD the CC a couple of years back I could not believe how bad the CC was. Put an incompetent woman in charge...
Two events up, every other event down. Who would have guessed?
We told them, they said we were wrong. We were right.
Is he the same guy from the 2012 fiasco?
BIG PAPA I can't remember, early 2000's I'd guess. I never seen the need to sweat the small stuff.
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