1996

1990

• Elmer Shaner, Bob Diefenderfer, Herb Jones and Charles Newcomb inducted into Hall of Fame.
• David George wins Senior Vet Doubles and Clay Target crowns at Grand American.

1989

• Elwood "Woody" Brown, George Newmaster, Rhoda Wolf, Lewis Wolf and Mahlon Schwar inducted into Hall of Fame.
• Jack Titus wins Grand American Handicap with 100x100 from 22.5 yards.

1988

• Pennsylvania Trapshooting Hall of Fame has first induction ceremonies.
• This year marked a major undertaking by the PSSA, the removal of seven trap field on the corner of the old line and replacing them with 15 new ones.
• Andy Long, Walter Beaver, Steve Crothers, Orville Eberly, Frank Little and Mary Christopher inducted into Hall of Fame.
• State Shoot extended from 5 days to 9 days.
• Tom Galligher wins Grand American Doubles crown with 100x100.

1986

• Art Lewis, age 99, shot the 200 target State Singles Championship.

1984

• Three PSSA officers stepped down from their posts, including President Lewis Wolf, Secretary Andy Long and Treasurer Anna Mae Eberle.
• Woody Brown elected President of PSSA. Will serve 9 years until his death in 1994.
• Emily Peters became the first women in State Shoot history to win a major state title when she won the State Handicap crown.
• Lewis Wolf donated the flag pole in front of the new clubhouse in the memory of his wife Rhoda.
• The PSSA shows a balance of $158,569.41 in their treasury.

1982

• Gene Anastasio elected Pennsylvania ATA delegate to ATA. Will later become ATA President.
• Woody Brown elected President of the ATA.

1979

• The PSSA continues to expand as the association opens a beautiful, new carpeted women’s lounge.
• Carolyne Elliott dies at age 55.
• Pennsylvania State Shoot added money was $17,000 and $9,000 in trophies.
• Dale Raudenbush begins 20 year career as new PSSA publicity director. He retired after the 1998 PSSA shooting season.

1978

• George Cottrell dies at age 73.
• Former State Singles Champion Dale Raudenbush becomes PSSA State Shoot reporter.

 1973

• Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp paid a visit to the State Shoot on June 15th and was greatly impressed with the facilities and the number of contestants.
• First Pennsylvania Grand held at PSSA Homegrounds in Elysburg over Labor Day weekend. 490 shooters shot main handicap as three new automobiles were awarded in yardage groups.
• Jere Andrus and Connie Livingston married on trapline during first Pennsylvania Grand.

1971

• At 2:00 PM on the last day of the State Shoot, the PSSA signed legal documents and purchased 44 acres of ground south of the Valley Gun Club, on the hill, for future expansion.
• Mary Christopher of Cornwell Heights, PA won her 7th and final State Women’s Singles title.

1970

• It was a State Shoot that will forever be known by the lightning bolt that struck Trap 19 (20 traps were in use).

1965

• The Valley Gun & Country Club spent more than $20,000 remodeling and enlarging its clubhouse and adding walkways to the last few traps. They will host the 1965 State Shoot.
• Jim Stine won his second straight Singles Championship with a 199x200 and a remarkable 150 target shoot-off victory over R.M. Orndorff.
• Quaker City and Clairton hosted the second PSSA State Zone Shoots. Bill Hunsberger wins second straight East title with 150x150. Owen James wins West title with 149x150.

1964

• PSSA organizes State Zone Shoots, which were to be held on the last weekend in September.
• The State Eastern Zone shoot was held at the Rural Sportsmen’s Association grounds in Trexlertown, PA on September 26th and 27th, 1964.
• Bill and Jean Hunsberger win the State Zone Singles crowns at the first State Eastern Zone shoot. There were 123 entries for Sunday’s handicap, won by George Landis.

1962

• Mary Christopher leads the ATA in women’s singles average with .9680 average.
• George Jones breaks 100 straight to win State Handicap title. First 100 straight to win State Title since John Rigg broke 100 straight in 1939.

1961

• John Rigg dies at age 73.

1960

• Rudy Etchen big attraction at State Shoot. Wins Doubles title by 6 targets.
• Lou Silvestri, a member of the Four Aces, singles at night and shoots at the State Shoots by day.

1959

• South End holds largest State Shoot ever held on East coast.

1958

• Allen Heil dies in Allentown at age 72.

1957

• Walter Beaver dies at age 60.
• Arleen Kimmel of Valley View wins Preliminary Handicap (now the Budweiser Handicap) at Vandalia with 98 from 20 yards.

1956

• Robert Diefenderfer finishes second in the HOA at the Grand American.

1955

• Aaron Bird, ATA manager, was on hand for the entire four days of the Pennsylvania State Shoot.

1953

• Bob Diefenderfer of Reading won his only State Handicap Championship with a 96 from 22 yards.

1952

• Frank Dissinger elected President of the ATA.

1951

• The Fayette Gun Club of Uniontown hosted their first Pennsylvania State Championship on June 14-17, 1951.
• Twenty four year old Robert Diefenderfer of Reading, while on his honeymoon, won his first of 5 career State Singles Championships.

1950

• Mike Burychka of Skippack, PA took the State Singles Championship with the only 199.

1949

• The State Shoot was held at the Valley Gun & Country Club in Elysburg. The grounds are one of the finest in the entire state and the club recently finished the installation of four new trap fields to bring their total to 8.

1948

• Legendary gunner Charles Newcomb dies at age 76.
• John Schenk of Sharpsburg, PA wins Grand American Handicap with 99.

1947

• For the first time since 1941, the classic Pennsylvania Singles Championship was contested at 200 targets.
• With World War II now history, large crowds again began to attend the Pennsylvania State Shoot.
• Walter Beaver, one of the greatest trapshooters in state history, won his final Singles Championship. The legendary Steve Crothers, now 60 years old, competed in three events and broke 195 in the Singles Championship. The high level competitive careers of these two shooting immortals were drawing to a close.

1946

• The Pennsylvania State Shoot returned after a one year absence and produced the largest attendance in history, despite to lack of ammunition and bad weather. The shoot was held in Lebanon, PA.
• Walter Beaver wins second Amateur Clay Targets title at Vandalia

1945

• Lack of ammunition and travel restrictions cancel State Shoot for first time in history.

1944

• Ruffsdale hosted the 1944 State Shoot, the first time since 1929 that a Western Pennsylvania club hosted the shoot.
• Lack of ammunition, travel restrictions, defense jobs, shooters in the armed service, tire rationing, gasoline rationing, etc. would play a major part in the 200 target shoot of 1943, 1944 and the cancellation in 1945.
• State shoot only two days long.
• Frank Dissinger’s Pleasant Hill Gun Club of Lebanon, PA was selected for the 1945 State Shoot, but the shoot was canceled. This was the only cancellation in PSSA history.

1943

• State shoot only two days long due to WW II restrictions.
• Ralph Grove of York, PA, won the Singles Championship when a topped the record field with the only 100 straight.

1942

• Andy Long was  elected President of the PSSA, his first elected office in the PSSA.

1941

• With America about to enter World War II in less than 6 months, a dark shadow was cast over the shoot. The war had already begun in Europe.
• Steve Crothers wins final State Singles title in epic 175 target shoot-off over Walter Beaver.
• Walter Beaver wins Clay Target crown at Vandalia.

1940

• Roxborough Gun Club in Philadelphia plays host to 50th Pennsylvania State Shoot.
• The scores that won the Singles, Handicap, Doubles, and HAA remain the lowest to ever win these titles over the 108 years of the state shoot.
• Walter Beaver leads the ATA in doubles averages for the third time. He led last year and also in 1935.

1939

• Elmer Shaner dies in Elizabethtown at age of 77. Regarded as the "Father of Modern Day Trapshooting".
• George Neubling begins 15 year career as Secretary of the PSSA.
• John Rigg breaks 97 for Doubles Championship at Vandalia.

1937

• The almost "perpetual" Pennsylvania State Champions of the last few years, Steve Crothers and Walter Beaver, were dethroned by Roy Hemming, a Reading, PA, "dark horse".

1936

• The Bradford Gun Club hosted their 4th State Championship, and it turned into the Steve Crothers show.
• The "old vet", professional J. Mowell Hawkins, won all the professional titles.

1934

• The Pennsylvania State Shoot returned to the South End Gun Club for the first time since 1909.
• L.G. Dana of Derrick City wins Grand American Handicap.
• Walter Beaver wins Amateur Clay Target crown at Vandalia.

1933

• York County Gun Club, located at Haines Park, east of York, PA, hosted the 1933 State Trapshoot.
• John W. Eshelman elected President of the ATA.
• Walter Beaver of Conshohocken wins Grand American Handicap.

1932

• What a show the great Stevenson Morris Crothers put on in Allentown at the 1932 Pennsylvania State Shoot. Remarkably, he aced the entire shoot.
• Alice Crothers leads the ATA in doubles averages. She will also lead in 1933 and 1934.
• Steve Crothers wins second Champ/Champ at Vandalia.

1931

• George Baldwin of West Chester is elected to his third straight term as PSSA president.
• Steve Crothers wins Singles Champion/Champions event at the Grand American.

1929

• The 1929 State shoot, held under the auspices of the Inter-City Gun Club of Franklin, PA was held at Conneaut Lake, PA, about 50 miles north of Franklin, which is south of Erie.
• The State Doubles Championship was increased from 50 targets to 100 targets for the first time.

1928

• Norman Kessler and Walter Beaver wage a shoot-off for the Singles runner-up which was not settled until Kessler won the award with 178x180 to 177x180. It would go down in state history as one of the epic shoot-offs.
• The State Shoot was held at Ashland for the only time.
• Mt. Carmel’s Kitty Boyer wins Women’s Clay Target crown at Vandalia.

1927

• C.D. Henline was elected President of the PSSA for the third straight year. In all, Henline would serve the PSSA as President for 10 years.

1926

• The June Classic was held in Gettsyburg for the only time in the history of the Pennsylvania State Shoot.
• Thirty nine year old Stevenson Morris Crothers won his fourth State Singles crown when he broke a 197

1924

• The 1924 Pennsylvania State Shoot was held at the North End Gun Club. It would be the first of two shoots at the club.
• A fine line of trophies, medals and cash, approximating $2,500, was distributed to the winners.

1923

• A galaxy of the Keystone State’s most brilliant shots, added new laurels to their crowns as a result of the largest
  state tournament ever held.

1921

• The annual Pennsylvania State Shoot was held in Pittsburgh at the Allird Gun Club.
• The shoot saw Steve Crothers win his first of 14 State Singles Championships with a 196.
• Elmer Shaner elected President of the American Trapshooting Association (will become the ATA in 1923).

1920

• The 1920 State Shoot was held in Harrisburg under the auspices of the Harrisburg Sportsmen’s Association.
• Harrisburg Mayor Hoovertor gave the opening address to the huge turnout.

1919

• The Interstate Association ordered all state 16 yard championships to be at 300 targets for 1919 and 1920.
• The star of the big show was Ed "The Village Miller" Hellyer of Alexandria, Huntingdon County, PA. He won the Singles crown with 294x300.

1918

1915

• Charles Newcomb, who would, during his long career, win over 1000 trophies, won his first Pennsylvania Amateur 16 yard championship.
• Newcomb wins Grand American Clay Target Championship in Chicago.

1914

1912

• The 1912 Pennsylvania State Shoot was the Harry Kahler show. He won the DuPont Trophy, emblematic of the Pennsylvania Singles Championship with 434x450, shot over the three days of the tournament.
• He also won the Wolstencroft Trophy for the Pennsylvania Doubles Championship, breaking 43 out of 25 pairs.
• Kahler, a former world’s trapshooting champion from Philadelphia, broke 146x150 on May 22 to win the first day’s event by two targets. He won the singles on the third day of the classic, breaking a 145, winning by two targets again.
• Elmer Shaner was elected PSSA Vice-President, the first of two terms her would serve.

1911

• George "Kelsey" Painter of Pittsburgh won the DuPont Trophy as the Pennsylvania State Singles Champion of 1911 by breaking 437x450.
• Allen Heil leads the Interstate Association in doubles averages with .8666 average.

1910

• During the four day run of the State Shoot, Charles Mink won the bronze medal for the champion of Philadelphia County, the Hanover Trophy for having the second highest average over the final three days of the tournament, the White Trophy, two Marlin guns and a Fox shotgun, besides many other awards.

1909

• George S. McCarty of Philadelphia took the State Singles Championship with 186x200.
• Years later, McCarty would establish the ATA Homegrounds in Vandalia, Ohio.

1908

• The Bradford Gun Club held their first of six State Shoots from May 25-28, 1908. They threw 75,000 targets over the entire classic. The club would host shoots in 1917, 1931, 1936, 1941 and 1948.

1907

• The State Live Bird Championship was held in conjunction with the state inanimate target event for the last time. The live bird title went to Fred Coleman, winner of the State Singles crown back in 1905. Coleman killed 25 flyers plus 12 more in a miss and out shoot-off over three others.

1906

• H.M.F. Worden elected to his third term as President of the PSSA.

1905

• Fred Coleman of Philadelphia won his second Wolstencroft Trophy in three years, emblematic of the State Singles Championship. He broke 47x50.
• The PSSA and the Pennsylvania Game Commission continue to push state legislators to establish a $1.00 fee for a state hunting license.

1903

• The first three days of the State Shoot were devoted to shooting at inanimate targets while the final two days at live birds.
• Fred Coleman, the flyer shooter from Philadelphia, won the Amateur Clay Target crown of Pennsylvania.

1902

• Milton Brey of Zionsville, PA won the Pennsylvania Amateur Singles Championship during the State Shoot held at Oil City.
• The legendary Fred Coleman was one of five shooters who killed 15 pigeons in the regular live bird program, but hit only 5 in the shoot-off.

1901

• The Reading Trophy, Lindsley Cup and the Harrisburg Cup were all won by the New Castle Gun Club.

1900

• Fred Coleman wins Pennsylvania Live Bird title at State Shoot.
• W.S. Smith wins Pennsylvania Amateur Singles title with 112x125.

1899

• The Independent Gun Club of Reading and the Boyertown Gun Club were dropped from the rolls for non-payment of dues.
• The PSSA treasury shows a balance of $199.85.

1898

• PSSA records show a balance of $198.25 in treasury.
• William Stroh of Pittston won the Amateur Singles crown.
• State Shoot was held in Reading during March of 1898.

1896

• Elmer Shaner urges PSSA to hold 1897 shoot "west of the Allegheny’s". Oil City is selected for 1897.
• State Shoot held in Harrisburg.
• J.O.H. Denny starts 8 year career as PSSA President.

1895

• First PSSA Game Commission committee established with H.M.F. Worden chairman.
• William Burnman of York, PA won the State Singles crown in Philadelphia.
• PSSA becoming politically active on game laws, hunting rights, seasons, etc.

1894

• William Wolstencroft of Philadelphia wins the State Singles crown in Altoona in August.

1893

• William Fiels of Atglen wins State Singles title at State Shoot in Harrisburg in August.

1892

• The first set of by-laws of the new PSSA were approved on January 20, 1892.
• Charles Breisford of Harrisburg becomes the first Pennsylvania Singles Champion at the second State Shoot in Reading held during August of 1892.
• The Wolstencroft Trophy at live birds, valued at $250.00, was contested for the first time.
• The Harrisburg Trophy (three man team) was awarded for the first time.

• The first Pennsylvania State Shoot was held in Williamsport on September 29, 30, October 1, 2, 1891.
• PSSA incorporated.