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

My guests today are all from the Southeast and finished in the top 15 at Nationals.  They are hard-working, serious shooters that want to be the best they can be.  This will be a different style episode as I had the coach and the students on in the same show.  Listen to how they interact with one another, how well they get along, and push each other to be great.  Remember I said this....You will s...

Eric Harvey has been shooting since the young age of 8.  His family owned a gun club growing up and that is where he found his love for shooting clay targets.  He was on the PSCA and attends several if not all of the Winchester Championship Tour events every year.  One of his goals was reached this year and that was making Team USA for 2022.  He is a great guy, a great shooter and I was glad to ha...

Will Fennell is a long-time sporting and FITASC shooter out of South Carolina.  He owns and operates Fennell Shooting School with his wife, Elizabeth and they are also instructors at Kiawah Island Club in South Carolina.  We discuss several different topics within the sporting community such as nationals, the big blasts of 2022, how to prepare for these and how to choose which ones to attend, and...

Team Winchester, which included, Anthony Matarese Jr, Zach Kienbaum, Theo Ribbs, Eric Harvey, and Donny Ballard, sat down with me to discuss everything about the NSCA 2021 National Championship.  The targets, the wind, the turnout, the differences in years past and so much more were brought up.  We even discussed something that will eventually squad the top 40 shooters together at future National...

Shelby Moon is 23 and from Loganville Georgia.  She started shooting in high school with her local 4H club and now is one of the top competitors in the lady's division within the NSCA.  You can bet that at any given tournament, her name will be towards the top of the leaderboard.  

Kyle Millwood is a long-time shooter from Forsyth Georgia and grew up, worked, and still shoots at the Meadows Gun Club.  He may be one of the hardest-working, most determined shooters that I have ever met.  When he is not working with his family in the logging and chipping business of 100 years, he is working on his game.  This is a passion of his and he is going to do what it takes to make sure...

It has been almost a year since Tom has been on the show and a lot has changed with him.  He is back to shooting a Perazzi, but hasn't had much time to shoot it.  He has missed half of the year after having a terrible motorcycle accident in the spring of 2021.  He tells the story of how this happened and what effects it has had on his shooting.  He has now recovered and has his sights set on...

USA’s Vincent Hancock waited nine years to notch up his third Olympic title, and he did so in style by setting a new Olympic record at Tokyo 2020 on 26 July. The 32-year-old whooped with delight as he shot a 59 out of a possible 60 targets to beat Denmark’s Jesper Hansen into silver on 55. The result for Hancock made up for a disappointing 15th place in Rio 2016, which came after he won the event...

Gary came back on the podcast to talk about the very successful Coon Pecker Open at FLC.  He covers what his brand new podcast will be about, lets us know the names of some of the guests that are lined up and so much more.  As you know with Gary, things can be a little spicy.  Please do not listen if you have issues with bad language.

David is a Shooter, a coach, and now a gun club owner in Arkansas at a brand new facility named Cypress Creek Shooting Lodge.  In this episode, I talked to him about his stellar performance at the North Central Regional in 2021 at Game Unlimited, his "new" style of shooting, how it works, and what it's for.  We also talked about how the pressure may be in the Olympics Vs. World FITA...

At 15 years old, Theo began his quest to win sporting clay championships by relocating to Texas to pursue a professional shooting career.  ​ Ribbs mentored legendary sporting clay champion and Olympic medalist, Dan Carlisle who immediately discovered Theo’s natural talent. At age sixteen, Theo quickly rose to become a Junior National champion.  By twenty-one years old Theo entered the professional...

Dr. Zanis attained his Athletic Training degree from the University of Pittsburgh and his Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Duke University. While an athletic trainer at the University of Pittsburgh, he worked with Division 1 basketball, football, and track and field. Prior to attaining his Doctorate, he assisted with the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball organization for one season. Follo...

Gary Fitzjarrell is a well-known shooter, gun club owner, and internet sensation.  If you don’t know who he is, you are about to find out all about him in this episode. I'm going to say this……This has not been edited in any way, if bad language bothers you, turn it off now because you will hear enough in this episode to last you for 2 weeks.  You have been warned.

Over the past few years, James has quickly established himself as one of the top sporting shooters in the country. After dominating the junior category and claiming English, British, European & World titles James' focus now turns to the open category and within 6 months has already climbed to be ranked #5 in the country in English Sporting. Some of James' best achievements have been...

Joseph Fanizzi is an 18-year-old soon-to-be freshman in college at Texas A&M University. After being born and raised on a hunting preserve and shooting ground in Florida, Joe was introduced to clay shooting at a young age. At the age of 13, he punched into Master Class and won his first High Overall Main Event Tournament shortly after that at the age of 14. Joe attributes most of his success t...

The 2022 Gator Cup has left Florida for good.  Now in March of 2022, the huge tournament heads to Georgia and will be hosted at the beautiful Cherokee Rose located in Griffin.  The Gator Cup, owned by Fred and Maria Fanizzi, has always been an extremely well ran shoot.  You will always find everything in place that enables all of the attendees to have a great time whether they are shooting or not....

Mark actually got into shooting by accident when he was 12 years old. He didn't come from a shooting background at all, so when his dad was invited to go clay shooting by a friend, he asked if Mark could go in his place instead. It was literally the first time Mark had ever seen a gun; He hadn't even held an air rifle before. But by all accounts Mark was a complete natural – no one belie...

Madelynn’s (Maddy) clay target shooting experience began when she was just 12 years old at a local 4-H club, shooting American trap. A few years later, her father introduced her to her local high school team where she shot American trap, skeet, and sporting clays through the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP). Eventually, Maddy branched out into the more non-traditional disciplines such as doub...

Kolar is based out of Wisconsin and has been producing a high quality line of American made skeet, sporting and trap shotguns since 1996.  We sat down with a very busy Sean Mainland,  Director of Operations, Sales and Marketing at Kolar Arms, at the 2021 US Open for a quick episode.  Sean covers manufacturing, barrels and finishes, Kolar's warranty, service and what is coming in the future.

Scott has 33 years of experience in Sporting Clays and 40 years of competition experience.  Scott started competing in Skeet and Trap at age 8.  In those 40 years, Scott has won 14 National Sporting Clay Championships and is a 47 time All American. Scott is the most accomplished Small Gauge Champion of all time with 2 HOA World Championships, 5 event World Championships, 5 HOA National Championshi...

If you are interested in a custom fitted shotgun, from altering an existing gun or a brand new custom stock, Jim Greenwood is the best in the business and has all of the knowledge and expertise to handle the details. Starting with the fitting or building a pattern stock to the help in choosing a checkering pattern through to the finished job. When you choose Greenwood Custom Stocks, you will spend...

Derrick grew up on a small farm in southeast Kansas and developed a love of the outdoors at an early age tagging along with his dad while quail and deer hunting. Got started in sporting clays at age 8 joining his dad in a small league at a local club. With the help of his dad, he began to develop his skills as a competitive shooter. Has been competing as a member of the NSCA since 1995, winning 13...

The 2021 Georgia State Sporting Clays Championship will be held at the oldest and largest continuously operated gun club in the country.  There are a lot of things planned that will interest everyone all from the beautiful city of Savannah Georgia.

Jon didn't start shooting clay targets competitively until he was 22 years old. 203,000 registered targets later he was able to win the US Open 8 times, was on the All American team 23 times and won 7 team gold medals shooting for Team USA. Jon was also the first inductee to the NSCA Hall of Fame in 1998 and shot on the PSCA for 2 years. After Jon's accident in 1989, he went on to win 40...

The most successful world and European clay target shooter that has ever shot a shotgun is on the podcast this week.  George Digweed holds 26 World titles, 19 European championships, 11 British & English championships and 16 World Cups.  His accomplishments are truly amazing just to see the numbers, but even more impressive to know that one man has accomplished this and much more.  We discusse...