When it comes to gunning for the national title in Handicap Trap, it's one of those 'been there, done that' situations for the North Scott Trap Club. North Scott took the title last year, one of the five national titles the team from Eldridge, Iowa claimed. This year it's a slightly different story. After breaking 881 of their 1,000 targets, North Scott had to go to a shoot off. But the odds were definitely in North Scott's favor considering the shoot off pitted North Scott's Red Squad against their Gray Squad. According to Coach Eric Long, this too was a 'been there, done that' situation as his shooters have often faced each other in both individual and team shoot offs throughout the season. "It's something we run into once in a while," Long explained. And though he admitted having two teams in the shoot off for the national title is awesome, he conceded it's also "kinda bittersweet" watching one of his squads defeat another in head-to-head competition.Coach Eric Long of the North Scott Trap Club looks on as two of his squads once again face each other in a shoot off. So how did the shoot off go? After the flip of the coin the five member Red Squad took the field to face their 125 targets, dropping 15 to finish with 110. Then it was the Gray Squad's turn. After three rotations and just 10 targets left to shoot, the Gray Squad had dropped 12 targets. Then the official's "lost bird" call put them 13 down with just seven targets remaining. Then another "lost bird" call came, putting the Gray Squad four targets from the title, three from another shoot off and anything less put them second, handing the title to their teammates. With the title on the line the Gray Squad took four shots and broke four targets, giving them a final count of 111 targets and, most importantly, the 2017 SCTP Varsity Division National Handicap Trap Title.
There's been LOTS happening around the country leading up to the 2017 SCTP and SASP National Championships. Here are a few stories from around the country in the past couple of weeks.
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July 14 and 15 the Cardinal Shooting Center was the 2nd annual, 100 target sporting clays fun shoot benefiting Kids & Clays and the Scholastic Clay Target Program. The event was held during SSSF’s Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) and Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) National Championships. Youth and adults, competed in this fun 100 target Sporting Clays charity event! The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) is the nation’s leader in youth development shooting sports programs. The Kids and Clays Foundation supports a series of shooting events across the country with all proceeds benefiting Ronald McDonald House Charities. All proceeds from this special two-day event helped each organization fulfill their mission. See complete results of the event here.
Name: Megan Carty State: Iowa Program: Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) Team: Steel Shooters of Traer
How the SASP has helped me as a young person: SASP has taught me the importance of commitment and open-mindedness. In order to further my shooting skills I have to stay committed to practicing and getting better and I have to stay open-minded about changing how I shoot.
About the NRA/SSSF All Scholastic Team
The All-Scholastic Team recognizes the top student athletes in the SSSF’s Scholastic Clay Target and Scholastic Action Shooting Program for their achievements in the classroom, on the range and in their communities. Through an application process, 2017 All-Scholastic Team Members have proven academic excellence by posting 3.0 or better grade point averages, shooting excellent scores in recent competition (95% in trap or skeet, 85% in sporting clays, 88% in international trap/skeet or 75 seconds or less for SASP) and by demonstrating outstanding community involvement.
All SCTP/SASP teams and industry partners attending the National Championships in Marengo, Ohio, July 8-15, are invited to attend our youth scholarship fundraising banquet on Monday, July 10, at the Cardinal Center’s “Hitters Building” from 5-10 p.m. Tickets are on sale now and are limited to the first 300 sold! There are two options for ticket purchases:
Proceeds from this banquet will be used in part for next year’s graduating seniors’ scholarships. Enjoy a night out and meet industry partners as well as other parents from around the country! We would like to keep this banquet to adults as much as possible, as there will be adult beverages served at this banquet. We will have live auction items including trips to Belize, Coast Rica, Africa and St. Thomas. There will be Alaska fishing trips, an elk and mule deer hunt, redfish trip in New Orleans, Argentina dove hunts and much more! Silent auction items will be provided by many industry vendors and onsite vendors. Twenty five to 30 firearms will be raffled off through various games, including shotguns, rifles and pistols from many industry partners, such as CZ-USA, Browning, Beretta, Blaser, SKB, Mossberg, TriStar, Winchester, Fab Arm / Caesar Guerini, FN America, Ruger, Smith & Wesson, GLOCK and Sig Sauer! So, bring your lucky rabbit’s foot and enjoy a great night out supporting our youth during the 2017 National Championships. Onsite tickets will be available if 300 have not been sold prior to the event. Contact Amanda (Awondrash@sssfonline.com) or April (acarr@sssfonline.com) or stop by the Central Entry Building at the Cardinal Center during regular event hours to buy your tickets.
Dave Miller Exhibition Shoot at Nationals - Presented by CZ-USA! Join Dave Miller at the CZ-USA Demo Field (near the grandstand area) on Wednesday, July 12 at 2:00PM for a special demonstration! Everyone is welcome to attend! David has over 20 years of experience in the competitive shooting community and has lived to see the sport evolve into the world’s fastest growing shotgun sport. He is respected as one of the most knowledgeable individuals in the sporting clays community with a Master class title, and one of the best shooters in the United States. David is also the main star on the Outdoors TV show CZ-USA American Gun Dog TV. David recently accomplished setting a new Guinness World Record for the most sporting clay targets shot in 1 hour— 3653 clays in May of 2015, followed by winning the Missouri State Sporting Clays Championship in July 2015. All the proceeds from the world record accomplishment will go to Pheasant Forever and Quail Forever’s Shooting Sports Endowment to benefit generations of new shooters forever! Speaking of new shooters, David has spent countless hours as an ambassador to the shooting sports industry and uses his past shooting experience to get more shooting enthusiast outdoors.
Come meet and learn from Max Michel – Sig Sauer! All action shooting enthusiasts attending the 2017 National Championships at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, OH are invited to attend a unique learning opportunity presented by Sig Sauer. Clinic times are Thursday, July 13 at 11:00AM and 3:00PM and Friday, July 14 at 10:00AM at the action shooting range. Max is the IPSC World Champions with six International team gold medals, a world-renowned firearms trainer and runs the Max Michel Training Academy. Max holds the current Guinness Book of World Records title for speed shooting. A former member of the Army Marksmanship Unit, Max spent ten years in the U.S. Army. Max is the only person in history to win all of the USPSA Area championships in the same season. Watch the video of Max's Guinness Book of World Records.
All action shooting enthusiasts attending the 2017 National Championships in Marengo, OH are invited to attend a unique learning opportunity presented by CZ-USA. Matt Hopkins, CZ-USA pro shooter, will be at the Cardinal Center action shooting range on Thursday, July 13 at 9:30AM and and Friday, July 14 at 1:00PM and 3:00pm. Everyone is invited to attend. Matt is a USPSA Grand Master, CZ-USA shooting team member, shooting a SP-01 Shadow. He is a Limited and Open ProAm Champion, won 7th at the 2014 USPSA Nationals, is a 6-time Missouri state Champion and has earned over 25 production division state titles.
June 26, 2017 – Wisconsin Trapshooting Association Homegrounds - Nekoosa, WI. – The Wisconsin Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) State Championships is a three-weekend long event held annually to determine the best youth shotgun teams in Wisconsin. Last year’s SCTP High-Over-All National Champion Central Falcons stood up to the challenge by sweeping the top-varsity spots in all three events this year; Skeet held June 10 at Sauk County Trap & Skeet, Sporting Clays on June 17 & 18 at Woods & Meadow in Warrens and the Trap Championship held at the WTA Homegrounds on June 23 & 24 in Nekoosa. Overall 1423 athletes including 246 young ladies partook in one of the three SCTP State Championship events, an increase of nearly 20% from last year. The Championship events are highlighted each year with the Trap Championship as it is the largest shooting event in Wisconsin and one of the largest in the country with 1293 athletes from 62 different teams that competed Friday afternoon and all day Saturday on the 30 fields at the WTA Homegrounds. The Falcons five of Hunter Conrad, Kenneth Beverly, Mathew Perona, John Dietz and Scott Hanover combined to break 486 of 500 possible targets to take a three target advantage over the Beaver Dam Trap Team and nine targets over the third-place Sauk County Youth Trap Team. The Waterford Wolverines and B.H.S. Demons were fourth and fifth. Topping the Junior Varsity teams was Rocket Trap from Oostburg, Intermediate Advanced went to the Central Falcons, Intermediate Entry to Sauk County and Rookie gold was won by the Hudson Raiders. Aaron Walechka of the Jefferson Sportsmens Club Youth Trap Team took the Men’s Grand Champion buckle home for breaking 99 targets along with Courtney Uhlenhake of the B.H.S. Demons who brought home the ladies Grand Champion buckle with a 95. Top individual scores for men went to Tyler Thiede in Varsity, Robert Rahut in Junior Varsity, Logan Kieran in Intermedate Advanced, Greyson Ponder in Intermediate Entry and Payton Johnson in Rookie. Top ladies were Amy Spiering in Varsity, Jenna Leah Crook in Junior Varsity, Chloe Uhlenhake in Intermediate Advanced, Chloe Shied in Intermediate Entry and Taylor Dale in Rookie. Jordan Hintz and Alexandra Konop took the Collegiate honors. Proving they are more than just trap shooters; Central also won the 2017 State High-Over-All Championship totaling 1066 of a possible 1100 in the combination of Skeet (295), Sporting Clays (283), and Trap (486) to top the Marquette Hilltoppers and Waterford Wolverines. The weekend at the WTA Homegrounds was filled with side events including Handicap, Doubles and Bunker Trap and several shooting games; this year over 180,000 targets were thrown without a single safety incident; a testament to the dedicated coaches and parents who put safety first in the SCTP. The WTA members did a wonderful job preparing the grounds and trap fields for the largest single-day event ever at the facility that opened in 2013. Up next for the Wisconsin SCTP teams is the National Championships held July 8-15, 2017 at the Cardinal Center in Marengo, Ohio. Currently there are over 425 Wisconsin athletes registered to compete in the event including the Central Falcons who are heading to Ohio to attempt to repeat as the H.O.A National Champions for the second consecutive year. Over 1.5 million targets will be thrown over the eight-day event. Complete results from the WI SCTP State Championships can be found at: http://shot.sssfonline.com/shot5/web/publish/results/index.asp?eid=149 For more information on the Wisconsin Scholastic Clay Target Program visit the WI SCTP Facebook page at www.facebook.com/WisconsinSCTP/
The Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to providing shooting-sports education and opportunities to school-age youths around the United States to encourage young athlete personal growth and development. Tax-ID number 20-8484121.
July 14 and 15 the Cardinal Shooting Center was the 2nd annual, 100 target sporting clays fun shoot benefiting Kids & Clays and the Scholastic Clay Target Program. The event was held during 
Name: Megan Carty State: Iowa Program: Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) Team: Steel Shooters of Traer
All SCTP/SASP teams and industry partners attending the National Championships in Marengo, Ohio, July 8-15, are invited to attend our youth scholarship fundraising banquet on Monday, July 10, at the Cardinal Center’s “Hitters Building” from 5-10 p.m. Tickets are on sale now and are limited to the first 300 sold! There are two options for ticket purchases:
growing shotgun sport. He is respected as one of the most knowledgeable individuals in the sporting clays community with a Master class title, and one of the best shooters in the United States. David is also the main star on the Outdoors TV show CZ-USA American Gun Dog TV. David recently accomplished setting a new 
All action shooting enthusiasts attending the 2017 National Championships at the Cardinal Shooting Center in Marengo, OH are invited to attend a unique learning opportunity presented by Sig Sauer. Clinic times are Thursday, July 13 at 11:00AM and 3:00PM and Friday, July 14 at 10:00AM at the action shooting range. Max is the IPSC World Champions with six International team gold medals, a world-renowned firearms trainer and runs the Max Michel Training Academy. Max holds the current 
Matt Hopkins, CZ-USA pro shooter, will be at the Cardinal Center action shooting range on Thursday, July 13 at 9:30AM and and Friday, July 14 at 1:00PM and 3:00pm. Everyone is invited to attend. Matt is a USPSA Grand Master, CZ-USA shooting team member, shooting a SP-01 Shadow. He is a Limited and Open ProAm Champion, won 7th at the 2014 USPSA Nationals, is a 6-time Missouri state Champion and has earned over 25 production division state titles.
June 26, 2017 – Wisconsin Trapshooting Association Homegrounds - Nekoosa, WI. – The Wisconsin Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) State Championships is a three-weekend long event held annually to determine the best youth shotgun teams in Wisconsin. Last year’s SCTP High-Over-All National Champion Central Falcons stood up to the challenge by sweeping the top-varsity spots in all three events this year; Skeet held June 10 at Sauk County Trap & Skeet, Sporting Clays on June 17 & 18 at Woods & Meadow in Warrens and the Trap Championship held at the WTA Homegrounds on June 23 & 24 in Nekoosa. Overall 1423 athletes including 246 young ladies partook in one of the three SCTP State Championship events, an increase of nearly 20% from last year. The Championship events are highlighted each year with the Trap Championship as it is the largest shooting event in Wisconsin and one of the largest in the country with 1293 athletes from 62 different teams that competed Friday afternoon and all day Saturday on the 30 fields at the WTA Homegrounds. The Falcons five of Hunter Conrad, Kenneth Beverly, Mathew Perona, John Dietz and Scott Hanover combined to break 486 of 500 possible targets to take a three target advantage over the Beaver Dam Trap Team and nine targets over the third-place Sauk County Youth Trap Team. The Waterford Wolverines and B.H.S. Demons were fourth and fifth. Topping the Junior Varsity teams was Rocket Trap from Oostburg, Intermediate Advanced went to the Central Falcons, Intermediate Entry to Sauk County and Rookie gold was won by the Hudson Raiders. Aaron Walechka of the Jefferson Sportsmens Club Youth Trap Team took the Men’s Grand Champion buckle home for breaking 99 targets along with Courtney Uhlenhake of the B.H.S. Demons who brought home the ladies Grand Champion buckle with a 95. Top individual scores for men went to Tyler Thiede in Varsity, Robert Rahut in Junior Varsity, Logan Kieran in Intermedate Advanced, Greyson Ponder in Intermediate Entry and Payton Johnson in Rookie. Top ladies were Amy Spiering in Varsity, Jenna Leah Crook in Junior Varsity, Chloe Uhlenhake in Intermediate Advanced, Chloe Shied in Intermediate Entry and Taylor Dale in Rookie. Jordan Hintz and Alexandra Konop took the Collegiate honors. Proving they are more than just trap shooters; Central also won the 2017 State High-Over-All Championship totaling 1066 of a possible 1100 in the combination of Skeet (295), Sporting Clays (283), and Trap (486) to top the Marquette Hilltoppers and Waterford Wolverines. The weekend at the WTA Homegrounds was filled with side events including Handicap, Doubles and Bunker Trap and several shooting games; this year over 180,000 targets were thrown without a single safety incident; a testament to the dedicated coaches and parents who put safety first in the SCTP. The WTA members did a wonderful job preparing the grounds and trap fields for the largest single-day event ever at the facility that opened in 2013. Up next for the Wisconsin SCTP teams is the National Championships held July 8-15, 2017 at the Cardinal Center in Marengo, Ohio. Currently there are over 425 Wisconsin athletes registered to compete in the event including the Central Falcons who are heading to Ohio to attempt to repeat as the H.O.A National Champions for the second consecutive year. Over 1.5 million targets will be thrown over the eight-day event. Complete results from the WI SCTP State Championships can be found at: 