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Help Needed for Westy Hogans
September 10-12, 2010
Elysburg, PA

Elysburg, PA, August 26, 2010:  PSSA is again seeking scorers for the first day of the Westy Hogan (Friday, September 10). Anyone interested in working as a scorer (or loader) that day should contact PSSA manager Chuck Fritzges at fritzges@ptd.net. People working all day will receive vouchers good for 300 targets at any PSSA Tournament.

Hall of Fame $1000.00 Donation
August 26, 2010

August 26, 2010: The Pennsylvania Trapshooting Hall of Fame committee has donated $1000.00 to the Pennsylvania AIM youth program's leader Jim Johnson. This money was raised from Pa. Hall of Fame auction items, tickets and purses at the Pennsylvania State shoot. Jim divides this money to the teams that made the trip to the Grand American this year.

Millvale Sportsmans Club
September 18, 2010

The Millvale Sportsmans Club will hold a "Toys for Tots" special shoot on September 18, 2010. The shoot has been put together by Ian Darroch for his senior project. Food, shells and a lot of fun for this worthy shoot. Click here for much more information. The shoot will consist of 100 targets, 50 singles, 25 wobble and 25 twenty two yard handicap targets. 

  2010 Grand American
Pennsylvania Trophy Winners
Aug. 3-14, 2010
 

Frank Pascoe
Winner of Champion/Champions
Duplicates fetes of Crothers & Little

Steve Crothers
C/C Champion, 1925, 1931, 1932

Steve Huber
Presidents Handicap Champion

Stephanie Sandler
Winner of 35 GAH trophies since 2008

John Vandine
Winner of 9 trophies.

Ian Darroch
Junior GAH champion.

PENNSYLVANIA GUNNERS BAG 90 TROPHIES DURING 2010 GRAND AMERICAN TOURNAMENT,
 A STATE RECORD.

Frank Pascoe wins Champion/Champions race. Becomes 3rd state resident to win title, first since Frank Little back in 1992. Steve Huber wins Presidents Handicap while Andrew Kormos wins sub-junior title and Cody Davis wins junior title in same event. Sheldon Hostetter takes home Vet title in Class Doubles event.

Sparta, IL, August 14, 2010: Steve Huber wins Presidents Handicap and qualifies for $100,000 shootoff. Frank Pascoe wins Champion of Champions race. Stephanie Sandler wins 35th Grand American Tournament trophy since 2008. With all due respect to all the other great women shooters in the history of Pennsylvania trapshooting, Stephanie is simply  the greatest lady trapshooter in PA history. Junior shooters   John Vandine wins nine times while Cody Davis wins 7 trophies. Sheldon Hostetter wins 6th vet award. Vet Team wins first place in the National team races on Remington Day, events 10, 11 and 12. Ladies Team finish second while Senior Vets finish third. Tyler Nunes breaks 200 to win the sub-junior class singles title. The Recla brothers, Joseph and Ian, combine for 7 awards. Frank Pascoe wins top AAA award in CTC. Frank also wins champion/champions race, only third from PA, joining Steve Crothers (three times) and Frank Little (one time). Ian Pentecost takes home top Class C award in the CTC. Robert Bundy finish's fifth in Blazer Handicap. Ian Darroch wins Class B HAA and junior Grand American Handicap.

Pennsylvania Trophy Winners

Preliminary Days

Championship Week

Final alphabetical listing of 2010 Grand American.

Alphabetical listing of all major GAH events, 1900-2010.

2010 AIM Championship
Sparta, Illinois
August 7-9, 2010

The Greater Pittsburgh Claybuster's performed admirably at the 2010 AIM Championship in Sparta. The Greater Pittsburgh Claybuster's AIM program was assisted by $400.00 from the PSSA HOF AIM fund. I haven't heard from the other Coaches yet but according to results posted it looks like the Warren County Junior and Collegiate teams were in the running for trophies as well. The Warren County AIM teams received the remaining $600.00 of PSSA HOF AIM funding.

Greater Pittsburgh Claybusters 1
Category: Junior Class: A

GEORGE CHETTLE Junior B 184
PHILLIP BENVENUTO Junior B 189
ZACHARY CHRISTY Junior A 197
STEPHEN TODAK Junior A 196
CHARLES KING III Junior A 199
965...3rd place

Warren County Claybusters
Category: Junior Class: B

ZACK JOHNSON Sub-Junior A 198
ELIJAH HIGHHOUSE Junior C 185
JAMIE MORTON Junior B 194
ETHAN BLACK Sub-Junior A 190
JOSH BAKER Junior B 190
957....3rd place

White Flyer Claybusters Category:
Collegiate Class: B

COLBY CASE Collegiate B 192
TJ GUSTAFSON Collegiate B 179
TAYLOR HANSEN Collegiate B 185
COLTON BLACK Collegiate A 199
BRANDON DEAL Collegiate A 199
954....runner-up

Report released by Jim Johnston

All winners

38th Annual PSSA PA Grand
July 2-4, 201-
Elysburg, PA

Elysburg, PA, July 4, 2010:  Paul Brown of Addison, NY broke the only 98 to win the 38th PA Grand Handicap. He was also the only gunner to break the middle 50. Frank Pascoe outshot PA Hall of Famers Sheldon Hostetter and Joel Etchen to win the doubles title with a 99x100. Pascoe won the HOA award back in 2007. Brad Heath (left) won three of the 5 major awards, winning the singles, HAA and the HOA. Brad has now captured three HAA and three HOA titles. He also won the doubles with 100 straight back in 2000. Kate Schmidt (right) had the only ladies 199 to claim the top women's trophy in the singles championship. Debbie Ohye Neilson won a resounding 7 trophies during the three day meet, which featured perfect shooting weather for all three days of the tournament. On the first two days the only clouds in the sky were from the nukes at Berwick. However, the temperature did reach well into the 90's on the final day of the sun drenched tournament.. Results

  2010 PSSA State Shoot
June 12-20, 2010

Elysburg, PA, June 21, 2010:  The 2010 Pennsylvania state shoot is in the books. The highly successful shoot ended on June 21, 2010 when John Spangler won the PA state handicap championship. He also won the Krieghoff challenge earlier in the week. On June 20th Frank Pascoe won his second state singles title and on June 19th Stephanie Sandler (left) became the first women to win the state doubles title. "Doc" Ollock won his first HAA title while Frank Pascoe won his second HOA title.
All Scores

Pigeon Shooting and the leftist NY Times
May 25, 2010

The New York Times, a radical leftist newspaper, reported a biased article on pigeon shooting on May 25, 2010. Our own Frank Pascoe weighed in on the sloppy reporting.
More here. Don't pass up the opportunity to read the history of the sport by Richard Hamilton for the Trapshooting HOF. The link is listed in the following page when you go there. 

 2010 Keystone Open
Elysburg, PA
May 14-16-2010

Elysburg, PA, May 16, 2010: Unpleasant weather again plagued the Keystone Open. Rain and windy conditions hampered shooters for the three day run of the 20th renewal of one of the top shoots on the East Coast. Joel Etchen (right) of Ligonier won two of the five major titles up for grabs, winning the singles with a 198 and the HOA with 762x800. They were his first major titles at the Keystone Open. Senior Vet Carl Wagner (left) of Dansville, NY won the handicap title with 96x100. All American David Schaeffer of Glyndon, MD won the HAA. The doubles title went to Bob Malmstedt with a field high 98x100 giving him 5 lifetime major titles at the Keystone. This was his second doubles title. Debbie Ohye and Stephanie Sandler rack up 13 trophies between them. Complete story and scores

  2010 PSSA Eastern Zone Shoot
Valley G&C Club
May 8-9, 2010

Jay Griesemer broke a 196x200 to win the PSSA Eastern Zone Singles crown. Sheldon Hostetter smashed 95x100 and finished three targets ahead of the field to win the doubles title. Robert Young broke a field high 94 to win the handicap award. Jack Aldridge broke 379 championship targets for the HAA title. 179 gunners faced the traps on Saturday's singles event, spoiled by rain and high winds. Sunday the wind continued with 79 entered the doubles and 114 shot the handicap. See complete results.

  2010 PSSA Shoot Program

The PSSA has released the 2010 shoot program. Check it out here.

1991-2009 PA GAH Trophy Winners

 Check out a complete alphabetical list of all Pennsylvania shooters who have won trophies at the Grand American from 1991 to 2009. Click here for a list of winners by the year, 1991-2009.

2010 PSSA Club Shoot Calendar

Click here to take you to the bottom of the page for the PSSA club shoot calendar. The calendar is now prepared for the 2010 shooting season. Club officers can now place their shoot on this special calendar. Here are the directions for placing info on the calendar.

2010 PA State Teams (OFFICIAL)
November 24, 2009

These teams have been posted for review for 2 weeks and are now declared official. Click here for a pdf file of the 2010 Pennsylvania All State teams. Jack Aldridge was selected men's captain for the first time. Stephanie Sandler of New Ringgold was named women's captain for the sixth time. Matt Bozart of York was selected junior captain for the second time while Sheldon Hostetter of Lebanon was selected vet captain for the first time. John Allem of Zionsville named senior vet captain for the second time. He was also vet captain once.

2010 All American Teams
November 22, 2010

Pennsylvania had 8 All American selections to finish in a tie with Illinois for second most selections. Colorado led all states with ten team members. We have now had 416 All Americans since the first year in 1927. First team selections included Stephanie Sandler (Women), Cody Davis (Junior) and Sheldon Hostetter (Vet). Others who earned selections were Dylan Darhower (Junior second team) Ralph Challingsworth (Senior Vet second team) Kim Bateman (Women's second team) Robert LeFever (Senior Vet second team) and Philip Criado (Vet second team) The PSSA wants to give a big "shout-out" to our most successful 2009 target year gunners. The 2010 team is based on points earned during the 2009 target year.

2009 PA High Average Leaders
November 16, 2009

The high average leaders for Pennsylvania for 2009 have been released by the PSSA. Click here for details. 

A Note to All Member Clubs
October 26, 2009

RESERVED DATES FOR
2010 AND 2011 PA ZONE SHOOTS

All PSSA member clubs are reminded of the change in the Zone Shoot format approved at the annual meeting. Because of the change there are two weekends in 2010 which are reserved for the Zone Shoots.

The 2010 E & W Zone Shoots will be held on May 8 & 9, 2010 and those date are reserved for the host clubs.

The 2011 SE, NE, SW & NW Zone Shoots will be held September 25 & 26, 2010 and those dates are reserved for the host clubs.

No other clubs may shoot on those dates. 
Check here for details.

Elysburg Trophy Winners
2009

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	2009 Winners
	2008 & 2009 Winners

2010 Pennsylvania State Zone Shoots
Sept. 29, 2009

There will be some very important changes for the 2010 year for the PSSA conducted Zone Shoots. There will be zone shoots in May and September next year as system is expanded to 4 zones. 
Check here for details.

 Rain Hinders 2009 Westy Hogan's
September 11-14, 2009

With heavy rains on both Friday and Saturday, the 103rd Westy Hogan's is in the books. Sunday turned out to be a beautiful day as shooters turned out for the doubles and handicap events in large numbers. Sunday's doubles championship was won by Kay Ohye, his 11th doubles title and his first on the Elysburg grounds during the Westy Hogan's. He also won the HAA, his 14th and the HOA, his 12th. Ray Lee, (left) a former singles champion (2007) turned in another 200 to win his second Hogan's title, beating Steve Huber. Steve won the AAA singles award on class day. Justin Slater of Phelps, NY won the Handicap title with a field high 98. Debbie Ohye won her 8th Lady of America crown while Nancy Pentrack of Johnstown was second.
Full Story

 2009 ATA Eastern Zone
Elysburg, PA
July 23-26, 2009

Elysburg, PA, July 26, 2009: With the weather still hampering shooters and shoot management, 4,700 shooters entered the 10 event 2009 Eastern Zone Shoot. This was 1,046 entries over last year. Sub-Junior Jake Peretin (left) of Sidman, PA broke a 97, along with seven others and emerged as the first sub-junior to win the Eastern Zone handicap title in 103 years. The first Eastern Zone was held in Philadelphia in 1906. H. McMurchy of Fulton, NY, won the first handicap title with 93x100, shooting from 18 yards. He outshot exactly 100 other gunners. He has long been over-looked by the ATA HOF electors. Jake shot from 20.5 yards and was fresh off his sub-junior state handicap title in June. Robert Malmstedt finished second. Dave Bicknell from East Haven, CT broke 200 to win the singles crown while David Shaeffer of Maryland finished second. Aaron Pollak of Charlotte, VT won the twin bird title with his field high 100x100. Adam Krzyzanowski finished second. Michael Blaisdell won the HAA and Brad Heath took the HOA. State shooters took home 101 awards. As usual in zone shoots, Kay and Debbie Neilson Ohye took home 12 trophies between them. Matt Bozart led state shooters with 6 awards, all junior trophies. Details.

37th Annual PSSA PA Grand
July 3-5, 2009
Elysburg, PA

Elysburg, PA, July 5, 2009: Ronald Pedro of Tiverton, RI shot himself into the PA Grand record book with a field high 200 straight to win the 37th renewal of the PA Grand trapshooting championships. Started in 1973, the PA Grand has attracted many of the best shooters on the east coast. Pedro became the first shooter from Connecticut to win the singles title. Last years winner Matt Bozart broke a 198 for the junior title. Ernie Hartranft and Richard Hamilton won the first two titles in 1973 and 1974, before there was an upper trap line and clubhouse and just 20 trap fields in front of the Valley club house. The PSSA gave away cars in the first two shoots. Kevin Hartlaub of Gettysburg (upper right) won the doubles crown with 100 straight and a shoot-off over two time singles champion Woodrow Doty. Patrick McCarthy (left), 19 time All American, won the handicap title while Brad Heath won his second straight HAA and Robert Malmstedt won the HOA.  Details

History of ATA Satellite Grand's
December 23, 2008

Today there are ten ATA Satellite Grand's spread all across America. The stated purpose of these shoots was to make Grand American style and trophy  shoots available to ATA members all around the United States. The very first of these shoots, the "Spring Grand," was first held in Arizona in 1977. The newest one is the "Heartland Grand" which started this year. Kay Ohye holds the record with 85 major Satellite Grand titles. Ray Stafford is second with 54 titles. Leo Harrison III is third with 49.

	Alphabetical list of all winners, 1977-2008
	List of winners by year, 1977-2008

Pennsylvania State Trapshooting Records
Through October 6, 2008

Click here to view a pdf file with all the current PSSA historical trapshooting record holders as researched and maintained by PA Hall of Fame founder and historian Richard Hamilton. In 1996 Hamilton wrote a 200 page book on the history of the PSSA. The book sold out within hours at the 1996 state shoot. Also all PSSA officers here and all Pennsylvania All Americans here. Errata or suggestions should be pointed out to the webmaster, Richard Hamilton.

Pennsylvania Love Affair with the GAH
Preliminary Handicap
~January 18, 2008~

Over the years Pennsylvania shooters have done exceptionally well in the Preliminary Handicap at the Grand American. Take a look and see who has written their name into the record books, in this, the second largest trapshooting event in the world. Their stunning victories are how legends are made. We salute these extraordinary shooters and their historic accomplishments. Full story

Library of Congress Photo Release
~January 14, 2008~

Be sure to check out these four historical photographs just released by the Library of Congress. The photographs have never been published before showing a very young Ben Higginson and a new photo of Plinky Topperwein. 

Where did the ATA logo come from?

For years I have wondered where the famous ATA logo came from and who designed the logo. It was actually developed between 1919 and 1923 by the old industry administered American Trapshooting Association. I may have part of the answer or possibly just more questions. You decide. Click here for more information.

What's the most famous logo in all of trapshooting? Click here to find out. 

Pennsylvania Legend
~ George Newmaster ~

There was never any other Pennsylvania shoot quite like George Newmaster. He lived in Myerstown for many years after moving from Lebanon. He was inducted into the PA Hall of Fame in June of 1988 and should be an ATA Hall of Famer. He was an 8 time All American including 4 first team Vet selections. He won 3 Westy Hogan Singles and 2 doubles title Asbury Park, NJ. In 1942 he won his most prestigious title, the famed Marshall Singles Marathon with a 497x500. Steve Crothers and Joe Hiestand each won the title five times. Mark Arie and Walter Beaver each won it once. See our 6th in a series of great photographs of Pennsylvania trapshooting immortals.

Pennsylvania's Mr. Trapshooting
~ Elmer Shaner ~

Born during the second year of the Civil War in 1862, Elmer Shaner became one of the greatest figures in the history of American trapshooting. A one room school teacher from Slippery Rock, Shaner died in 1939 destitute in a  Masonic home in Elizabethtown. He left a legacy in trapshooting circles that will be remembered as long as trapshooting is around. He never shot a registered target. See our 5th in a series of great photographs of Pennsylvania trapshooting immortals. 

John Philip Sousa Pennsylvania Connections

John Philip Sousa, the "March King", is a Trapshooting HOF inductee. He shot in Pennsylvania on many occasions and he died in Reading, PA in 1932. See this wonderful photograph in the 4th of a series of old, original photographs in my personal collection. At the time of the photograph he was president of the old American Trapshooting Association. 

Ed Hellyer, 2 Time State Champion

Continuing with our Historic Pennsylvania trapshooting photographs, we have an unpublished photo of Ed Hellyer of New Alexandria, PA. Ed "The Village Miller" Hellyer won or tied for the state Singles Championship three times and was one of the most feared shooters of his time.  

J. A. R. Elliott at Honeybrook, PA

Another in a series of long lost old time trapshooting photographs, this photo shows Trapshooting HOF immortal J.A.R. Elliott shooting clay targets at Honeybrook, PA. The village is located south of Reading on PA Rt.10 in Chester County......... 

Newly Found Photos of Charlie Newcomb

PSSA & ATA Trapshooting Hall of Fame webmaster and historian Richard Hamilton has located some long lost, never published photographs of Charlie Newcomb. He is a Pennsylvania and ATA Hall of fame inductee.