Shotgun Sports USA: Sporting Clays, Skeet, trap and Hunting

Shotgun Sports USA is trying something a little different. Tom Seay will be stepping in for a few episodes as the host to give all of our listeners a little different perspective. This week Tom got on the phone with Joe Fanizzi to have a conversation about some very interesting topics that you all will not want to miss! Tom and Joe discussed some of their similarities in how they grew up in the sp...

On this episode we talk to Mike Luongo and Joe Scull about target difficulty at tournaments.   We are going to find out how these guys feel about setting targets for big tournaments verses setting targets for local fun shoots and how to determine how difficult they should be.   Should they get easier or Should they stay the same....Plus alot more.

Will Fennell and Neil Chadwick have been around this sport for a long time. They have seen it evolve into what it is today, but there are some things that we need to work on in their opinions to make it the best it can be. We discuss topics like. Target setting, rule changes that will be enforced in 23, rule changes that they would like to see enforced. We talk about how clubs could possibly bette...

Neil Chadwick, shoot chairman for the 2022 National Championship talks about how the event ran and how the super squad turned out in his opinion.  We also discuss some stats that will blow your mind coming from the largest national event in history.  Also, what's in store for 2023.  What changes they will make and what to look forward to.

Jonny Carter is one of the guys behind the large YouTube channel, TGS Outdoors.  His videos focus on anything to do with guns and mainly shotguns.  His unique way of capturing the moment, producing the videos and telling the stories is what has captured over 100k subscribers and earning the channel a Silver Creator Award.  Jonny talks about his ideas for videos, how to grab the attention of people...

Jonathan is a shooter that resides in Florida.  He has been around the sport for a while now and has worked his way to the top of leaderboards at most of the tournaments he attends.  Jonathan earned his way onto the 2022 Super Squad at nationals in San Antonio Texas and shot with the lead squad on the last day.  He finshed the main event at nationals at M10 and the K Cup at M9.  He practices alot,...

The National Championship in san Antonio Texas is over and I have the 3x National Champion and Hall of Fame inductee, Zachary Kienbaum, the Sub-Junior Champion, Connor Daniel and the Ladies Runner up, Desirae Edmunds, all on with me this week.  We cover the tournament and thoughts, the Super Squad and why it should be implemented every year, the attendance and everything in between.

Michael Hampton Jr. is the NSCA Executive director.  This is the first time in 4 years of podcasting that I have had him on my show.  We talk about a lot of the things that you often hear mentioned online or at the gun club.  First off, the upcoming National Championship and the new super squad format, how the NSCA could look into starting a pro class based off of similar criteria that was used to...

Neil Chadwick, one of the lead guys at The National Championship, talks about the upcoming event, the changes, the super squad, how the targets will be different this year from previous years, cheating, protests, the hall of fame and a lot more.

Zach, Desirae and Chris all stopped by to talk about the upcoming 2022 Nationals and their thoughts on the super squad.  Chris Claxton is a film director/producer from California and owns Chris Claxton Films.  Chris has some of the most viewed sporting clays videos on YouTube with some nearly reaching 1.5M views.  He has also produced instructional videos for Gebben Miles and Anthony Matarese Jr....

Raymond is a very intersting guy that has been around the sport for a long time.  He creates shooting games that bring excitement and fun to tournaments all around the country.  He talks about how and why these were created and why it is important to have these sort of events at tournaments.  His goes into his plans for the future and even talks about something new that will be coming out sooner t...

Ed Prechel has been around this sport for a long time.  We all know him as the Make-A Break guy who is keeping score and talking on the mic.  There is a lot more to him than we know.  He owns and operates Top Gun Shooting Sports.  His company travels around the country to gun clubs or private events and sets up 5-stands, Make-A-Break courses, sells and rents promatic traps to those who need them a...

Gebben Miles and Karen Shedd are definitely at the top of the sport.  The way they train, the way they think and the way they perform is all part of what makes them successful.  They are All American shooters that strive everyday and at every tournament to be the best they can be…..and it shows.  In this episode we talk about their journey to the top and how they manage a successful coaching and s...

Tim Miles has been around this sport for a long time.   He is the owner of Coyote Springs Sporting Clays in Tucson Arizona and has traveled the US building gun clubs and setting targets.   In this episode, w e talk about how he got started in the business, the difference in shooting in the western US vs the easthern US, the 2023 US Open and the upcoming Southeast regional at Cross Creek Clays.

Thaddius Bedford is one of the guys who brings the sport to life through photo and video.   He has traveled around the world to over 50 countries capturing a lot of what you see online and in print advertising.   His work outside of clay target sports has been showcased on some of the largest networks we all watch today.   He also has an idea for a way to bring clay target shooting back to tv.   H...

The most high performance eyewear on the market is explained in this episode.  Although you can talk for hours on how different lenses help different people, we tried to summarize and explain the science on which Pilla Performance Eyewear is based off of, what they look at and how they do it.  There is a reason their products have been on every podium in the world.  Listen to the man himself, Phil...

Brett Seibert is the Genral Manager of Northbrook Sports Clubs in Northern Illinois.  He is a very hard working guy and it definately shows in the tournamnets they host.  Find out about the regional and what Northbrook has planned in the future, listen to what he thinks about master class and the future of the sport going forward......snakes and so much more in this episode.

John Woolley's shooting career has been long and distinguished. It has moved him to become one of the world's top wingshooters and sporting clays instructors. Many of today's winning international shooters have been John's students. John started his teaching career in England, at his well known shooting school, Fieldsports. The top European sporting clays magazine, "Sporti...

Ashley Little is now the 2022 World FITASC Ladies Champion.  After a long road of switching from a right handed shooter to left handed and basically coming back up through the ranks, she has reached her ultimate goal.  Her resume is as follows: 2013 shooting (right-handed) she was having some success: Lady FITASC Champion at Nationals Lady K Cup Champion at Nationals Florida Lady Sporting and FITA...

I spoke briefly with Geoff Pare, owner of Gamaliel Shooting Supply and Dave Dalton, Owner of Cherokee Rose about the Gamaliel Cup coming to Georgia.  Find out what to expect when this 19 year old big blast makes it big move into Griffin Georgia to one of the Southeast's finest gun glubs on April 27-30, 2023.

Marty Fischer grew up in southeast Georgia near Savannah and is a 1974 graduate of Georgia Southern College with a BS Degree in Speech-Public Relations.  Marty got his start in the hunting and shooting industry when he served as the Vice President and General Manager of Cherokee Rose Shooting Resort in Griffin, Georgia from April 1990 through December 1992.  In January 1993 Marty founded SportShoo...

This week I have 3 college shooters from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro Georgia on with me. This school has an interesting story on how they started and how good they have become in just a few short years.   With head coach Marty Fischer, there is a lot of knowledge and talent behind this team and it is only going to get better.  If you follow college shooting sports, you cannot take yo...

Rick Hemingway is one of the leaders in this sport. He does things differently, he tries new things and don’t mind venturing out into something that hasn't been done before. We talk about how he built backwoods into what it is today. We talk about the 2022 US Open and what he thought of the targets on the main event, the upcoming JR. US Open and the 2023 Gator Cup which is coming to Georgetow...

The Scholastic Clay Target Program is the largest, fastest growing, and most exciting youth clay target program in the US. We provide students from elementary through high school and college the chance to compete in sports such as trap, skeet, and sporting clays. As well as Olympic disciplines like bunker trap and international skeet. The SCTP’s mission is to help kids reach their highest potentia...

As a past World, National and US Open Champion, Anthony Matarese Jr. talks about this year's US Open and how he shot one the hardest main event courses he has ever entered.  We go course by course, how he felt and how he managed to keep his head in the game the entire weekend.  We talk about how perfectly the shoot was ran and managed and how impressed he was with Rick Hemingway's Backwo...