Jeff Trayer Reports
Jeff Trayer Reports for December T&F 2022 Update
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, enjoying family and friends and plenty of good cookin. As I write, we are still shooting through October. On the first of October Paula and I made the short trip over to the Oklahoma City Gun Club for their Big 50. This was the first ATA registered shoot they’ve had in several years. However, they’ve been having 60 shooters participate in their weekly trap league. The shoot was very well managed and ran very smoothly, as expected. They’ve recently replaced both traps with brand new Pat Traps and the targets were perfect. We really enjoyed shooting there and will definitely return. Besides having the opportunity to shoot great targets, I had the pleasure of meeting, shooting with and visiting with Tom Batt. I always enjoy hearing stories about trap shooting back in the 70s thru the end of the 20th century. He had some good stories and knew and shot with some of the names I remember hearing my dad talk about. I looked up Tom’s numbers and found that he has shot many years of impressive averages and he was Doubles Champion at this shoot with his 48. We had our National Trap Shooting Day Shoot at OTSA October 8th & 9th . In Friday’s Singles Nathan Lemke broke 99, Rose Shaffer was Ldy 2 Champion with 98. Mitch Wyatt was Champion in the Caps and Doubles breaking 91 and 90. There were 41 shooters Sunday. Breegan Barnett was Singles Champion after prevailing in shoot off. Mitch Wyatt was Handicap Champion once again and Johnny Wilson was Doubles Champion. ADA had amazing attendance for their Derby they held on Sunday, October 23rd. Reading FB postings its sounds like all had fun and the shoot was ran very well. Of the 85 shooters, the majority were students. In the singles event there were 33 young shooters representing the Sulphur Public Schools Trap Team, 24 from Bethel and 17 from Vanoss. Along with many of the regular crowd and other Trap shooters from around Oklahoma. There were many good scores posted, especially considering the winds of the day. Benny Emmons was Singles Champion breaking 47, Mike Grove was right behind with his 46. Handicap Champion was Creede Booth, 49, Larry Higgs was next with 46, winning Short Yardage. Good shooting everyone! Tulsa had their October shoot on the 23rd as well. Attendance was pretty slim but everyone seemed to have a good time and Paula’s cooking was awesome! Thanks to app.sosclays.com scores were posted on the TV screen in real time and the shoot ran very smooth and timely. Rob Martin was Handicap Champion breaking 92. Good shooting Rob! Recently the State 4H Trap shoot was held at OTSA. I asked for a list of results and received several pages of shooters. It’s nice to know we have so many young shooters in our state. In the Senior division Tanner Moles, Ciara Brummett and Tucker Walker all broke 49. In the Intermediate division Logan Floyd and Trenton Welty broke 48 for high. The Senior Team Champion members were Maddi Patswald, Emma Patswald, Zac Johnson and Ciara Brummett. The Intermediate Team Champion members were Tate Simmons, Garrett Schoonover, Roston Uselton and Wade Blagden. Good shooting and keep shooting! Congratulations to Pete Wedelin on his attainment of 75,000 singles targets. Being the new OK Delegate I recently attended a Board of Director’s meeting for the first time and I have good news! There are several improvements coming to the grounds, here are just a few: OTSA is now the home club for the Redlands Community College. This is really cool, they’ll help with some of our upkeep and maintenance and throw more targets! We have a crew of volunteers planning to beautify the back of the club house which is the first side of the club house seen as you pull in and is the first impression of how we take care of things. This will be an awesome improvement and personally I can’t wait to see it! New benches and gun racks for all trap fields. All new springs to replace the throwing bands on all machines, (this will improve target presentation). I think you’ll see very noticeable improvements by the time Spring gets here and our State shoot will grow in the future because of these and other improvements. If you have any shooting news: results, shooter accomplishments, milestones, club improvements, upcoming shoots, etc.., please call, text or email: 918-932-4029, jtrayer22@hotmail.com. Jeff Trayer, ATA Delegate