#62 Cherokee Rose
Behind The Break
The all-new Cherokee Rose Shooting Resort was purchased in 2019 by Dave (DD) Dalton and Jean Bostick. The revival of this old gun club that sits off minutes of I-75 in Griffin Ga has been a process that all shooters will be amazed at once you visit. Nestled in the woods on just over 120 acres is 2 full sporting clay courses that cater to all skill levels. One course (blue) is an easier course while the other course (red) has championship-level targets all set by Chuck Frasier. Cherokee Rose has a pr
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#61 Haylyn Hanks
Behind The Break
Haylyn Hanks, 16 years old, is definitely one of the best junior shooters in the country. She has won several shoots from huge regionals to the silver medal in 2019 at the World FITASC Lady's division. Haylyn is a very dedicated and determined shooter and we look for big moves for this young lady in the future. In this episode she discusses her shooting goals, her new coaching career and what she wants to do once she graduates college.
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#60 Tom Mack
Behind The Break
Tom Mack has been on the All American Team for 15 consecutive years. He is an Official Shooting Instructor for Clay Shooting USA. In June 2013, Tom was inducted into the inaugural class of the Michigan Sporting Clays Hall of Fame.
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#59 Fred Fanizzi
Behind The Break
Fred is a lifelong resident of the state of Florida and a graduate of the University of Florida College of Agriculture Animal Science Department. Bringing many years of land and wildlife experience to the team as well as a keen understanding of the hospitality industry, Fred has taken a lead role in bringing Quail Creek Plantation from its humble beginnings to where it is today. Fred is a level one sporting clays instructor and has traveled the world in pursuit of hunting adventure. Fred feels truly blessed
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#58 Beretta 694
Behind The Break
Designed and tested in collaboration with the Beretta Shooting Team, 694 is the new over-and-under platform designed specifically for competition shooting, with a precise objective in mind: to help shooters increase their success rate. Thanks to a meticulous mechanical and ergonomic design process, the 694 represents a perfectly balanced over-and-under competition shotgun. Natural and immediate when shouldering, it features a precise swing and it’s easy to control. The new shape of the action and the stoc
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#56 Grace Callahan
Behind The Break
Grace Started out hunting, and exploring a little in Olympic Bunker trap in high school, I soon learned that sporting clays would become my priority and main interest out of all the shooting sports! SCTP played a major role in my shooting career. I was on the varsity team and all four year of high school we went to Nationals in Sparta, Illinois. I won Lady Championship of my division all four years! I have recently expressed some interest in 3 gun and I would like to see where the future may possibly take m
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#55 Todd Hitch
Behind The Break
Todd is 16years old, a junior in High School and lives in Maryville, TN which is in east TN about 30minutes south of Knoxville and about 45 minutes north of where Bill McGuire lives. Todd is Homeschooled which is a co-op set up so he has classes with other kids and they probably have as many options for clubs, teams & activities as a traditional school does. Shooting is a great motivator for Todd - if he doesn't have his homework done, he doesn't get to go to the shoot.
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#54 Gary Fitzjarrell
Behind The Break
Gary Fitzjarrell is a name that everyone knows. If it is not from the range, then it is from his very popular facebook group, Clay Target Shooters with nearly 13k members and growing rapidly. Gary tells it like it is, but you can always count on a good laugh or a friendly handshake every time you see him.
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#48 Cory Kruse World Champion
Behind The Break
The 2019 World English Sporting Championship is over and Cory Kruse brings home the title to Texas. Cory has been on fire all season and it shows at Northbrook Sports Club in Illinois. This episode is a conversation with Cory on what his thoughts were on the targets, the shoot, and the win.
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#47 Heyward Cunningham
Behind The Break
If you follow us on Facebook and Instagram, you know why we named this "The Lost Episode". We are thankful that we were able to save this podcast with Heyward because there is a lot of facts about Promatic and how they make such a hard job look so easy.
info_outlineTodd is 16years old, a junior in High School and lives in Maryville, TN which is in east TN about 30minutes south of Knoxville and about 45 minutes north of where Bill McGuire lives. Todd is Homeschooled which is a co-op set up so he has classes with other kids and they probably have as many options for clubs, teams & activities as a traditional school does. Shooting is a great motivator for Todd - if he doesn't have his homework done, he doesn't get to go to the shoot.
In 2015 Todd started shooting a shotgun at 12 years old when he joined the William Blount SCTP team after a hunting buddy told Todd about SCTP. Until then he had no idea that SCTP and NSCA existed and had never even seen someone shoot a clay target. Coincidentally, their SCTP team practices at the same place where Bill McGuire got started. Todd's great-grandfather (Papa) got him started in hunting and was certainly Todd's biggest fan. The two of them went deer and turkey hunting every chance they got. When we had Papa's funeral service last year at our farm Todd's great-grandmother asked Todd put on small shooting display because nothing would have made Papa happier.
April 2017 Gamaliel - 1st NSCA event ever. Todd thought he was big stuff because the weekend before he had shot his first 100 straight in sporting clays at a charity shoot. He signed up for the NSCA and as an E class shooter at his first NSCA event we put in for ALL options including HOA (even though Rhonda Barfield was kindly discouraging us because people like Wendell Cherry, Bill McGuire and Tom Seay were there).
Moving on to 2018, Todd won the SCTP Nationals Sporting Clays with a 198/200 and in July punched into Master Class.
Now in 2019, Todd ended up in 7th place in the World English at Northbrook after the super final. What's funny is that he didn't even know there was such a thing as a super final until Sunday morning. He about missed the super final not realizing they were going to take the top 6 scores instead of top 6 shooters.
Todd won the NE Regional Sporting Clays at the Cardinal Center in 2019, finished 9th in the SE Regional and is headed out to Texas to make big things happen at Nationals.