Clay Target Nation, August 2019

It seemed the shooters did exactly what the sponsors hoped they would enjoyed the shooting and the shoot offs and ate well too pizza sodas and beer on Thursday a Mexican Fiesta buffet sodas and beer on Friday and a roast beef and fried chicken buffet dinner sodas tea and beer on Saturday The beer each evening was provided by the CPVA shoot host That generosity was appreciated by the Elite team of Dan Lewis Managing Partner and Brad Young from the Stockton California office and Don and Donnie Watt Bob Woods and Murry Gerber from the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania office Cameron Shuster from the new San Antonio Texas office and Jen Hellman Advertising and Marketing Director In addition to the shooter package of a T shirt an Elite hat and a spray bottle of Clenzoil One Step Gun Solution drawings were held for shooting bags shirts Pilla glasses and notably a free entry for the 2020 Elite Classic for a total of 3000 in prizes Speaking for Elite Dan Lewis said Our goal is to actively support the skeetshooting community from the West to East coasts in any way we can One way we do that is to sponsor two quality shoots the Western Open in Stockton California and the Elite Classic in Richmond Virginia With the added money the drawings the food we try to make it exciting and come up with something new each year And we sponsored five young shooters at this shoot a girl and boy Sub Junior a girl and boy Junior and a Collegiate We also support other shotgun sports sporting and trap but my heart is in skeet We dont generate revenue from the shoots We are here to provide a shoot that the shooters want to shoot Customer 46 WWW NSSA NSCA ORG AUGUST 2019 service is the most important thing to us in our business We want to make sure every new shooter especially young ones get the right gun that fits them right at the beginning That saves the parents and the shooters a ton of frustration and grief We heavily discount sales to junior and active duty military shooters We want them to be happy customers for a long time Dan mentioned that he welcomes comments from shooters and had gotten several ideas from them to make the Western and Elite shoots that shooters want to shoot There were 11 100s in the 20 gauge out of 208 entries The championship was decided on the last station of the first box with Texan Brandon Cade holding out against Paul Giambrone III for runner up Aaron Benton went to the ninth station to secure gun third No Ladies or Juniors on the open podium this time Junior 99s were decided concurrently with the Class AA shootoff Corrie Cloninger was Champion Larson Harkins was runner up and Mattison Russell was third Sub Juniors were again Marshall Davis Champion with a fine 95 William Davis runner up and Garrett Baisey third As the weather warmed up but stayed breezy nine of 236 shooters were able to post 100s in the 28 gauge event The championship was again decided on the last station of the first box with Virginia Lady shooter 12 gauge winners left to right Alessandro Vitale runnerup Corrie Cloninger champion and Houston Deshotels third p The 410 winners left to right Dan Morris runner up Jacob Young champion and Andrew Peter third