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Okay, you're going to hear about another huge tournament
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coming up very soon.
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The Texas State Championship is combined with the Browning
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Briley and this is taking place at Greater Houston Gun Club with
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payouts of around $150.
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I have the President of the Texas Sporting Clays Association
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on with me to tell you all about it.
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Please welcome to the show, ben McInally.
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Speaker 3: Ben, what's up man?
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Not too much just burning up some Texas highways, like always
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.
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Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of highways out there in Texas
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to burn up, I can promise you.
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Yes, sir, I mean from one end to the other.
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It takes you about three weeks, doesn't it?
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Yes?
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Speaker 3: yes, yeah, you know, talking to people who maybe
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shoot either overseas or in other parts of the country.
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You know they always want to know about Texas and you know
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about how we have.
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I think we have just under 40 clubs in the state that throw
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registered targets and you know, from Beaumont to El Paso is a
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greater distance than it is El Paso to LA or Beaumont to New
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York City, and so, yeah, you can fact check that one, but it's a
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big state.
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Just to say that.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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I drove out to Nationals one year and I rode with a guy named
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Kyle Millwood.
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I'm sure you know who Kyle?
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Speaker 3: is yeah, I know, kyle .
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Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, we drove through Texas for at
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least three days.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I said Kyle, what is it?
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Speaker 2: And he swore it was just one night.
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I said, I'm telling you, we drove through Texas for three
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days, so it's a big place, big, big place.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, but in arguably kind of the probably
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one of the sweet spots for clay shooting.
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You know, I know you're in Georgia and Georgia has just
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some amazing clubs, great shooters, great pros.
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I know there's some little hubs throughout the US, but I mean
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Texas.
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It's pretty hard to argue with.
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Speaker 2: Well, they do a lot of stuff out.
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You know all the.
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Speaker 1: You get the corporate stuff you know the old guys and
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whatever.
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Whoever else is out there they're all the guys.
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Speaker 2: Whoever else is out there, they all like to shoot
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clays, or that's competitive or for recreation, and there's some
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of that here, but this is I know it's huge in.
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Texas, just that side of it.
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Yes, so, being in Texas, we talk about sporting clays on
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this podcast most of the time.
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Sometimes we get some crazy people on here talking about
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something else.
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But what do you do?
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Tell me a little bit about yourself, sure?
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Speaker 3: So my business partner Michael and I, we own a
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private wealth management firm, cedar Gap Wealth Management.
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So we kind of came from the one of the big Wall Street firms
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and COVID helped us become motivated to tell all the folks
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in New York and California you know audios and that we were
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going to do it our own way.
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So anyway, we were both pretty active in shooting.
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Michael's got a couple of boys that he chases around doing the
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sports thing so he doesn't make as many shoots as I do, but you
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know, anytime you see Cedar Gap somewhere, that's how you know
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that Ben and Michael were involved or donating, or you
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know, and I'm a big fan of you know, put your money where your
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mouth is and maybe, if you don't have the money, put your time
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where your mouth is.
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So and that's how I got involved in the association, you
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know local club that grew to the state level.
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That's grown to, you know, even bigger.
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So that's and it's funny.
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You mentioned corporates.
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You know I think that's how everybody gets started.
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They get invited to be somebody's plus one at a
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corporate shoot and you go out there with a borrowed gun and
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you break 54 out of 100 and you go.
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Holy cow, that was the coolest thing ever and before you know
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it, you're.
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You know you're drowning in it.
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Speaker 2: That's the only time that you really don't care what
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you shoot Every time.
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After that, the very next time you're like, I should have hit
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all of those.
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Speaker 1: You know, what.
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Speaker 2: I mean Exactly so.
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But yeah, it's so.
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You're on the board for Texas State.
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Yes, sir, Yep, I've been on the board.
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Speaker 3: I gosh, you know what .
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I should know this, I think, since 2014,.
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I was, I was pretty involved in my local club and it's out in
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West Texas not exactly you know a huge area and I just felt like
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some of the shooters and the clubs and the people weren't all
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the way represented.
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I felt like there was a lot of activity in Houston or San
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Antonio or Dallas, and so I just wanted to to to have a voice
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for the little guys out there.
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And then you know what's the saying no good deed goes
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unpunished.
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Before you know it, if you're incapable of keeping your mouth
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shut and sitting on your hands, you end up with one job, then
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three, then 10, and you end up being the, the, the chairman.
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Speaker 2: So Well, you're, so you're.
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You're the man For now.
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Well, for now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is my fourth and final year and I've
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kind of I've kind of perfected my elevator speech, if you will.
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You know the state associations and Idaho, different states,
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have different kind of mandates, but you know we're not the
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governing body, we're not the NSCA.
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You know we don't make the rules, we don't write the
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rulebook, you know stuff like that.
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I think our job as a state association is to do programs,
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awards and recognition.
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And you know our programs are our Texas state chute coming up,
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the little tour around Texas that we do to kind of help the
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smaller and and and midsize clubs that maybe can't just have
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a thousand people show up at a at a Texas state, and you know
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awards for those people who participate in those events.
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And then our recognition program , probably our biggest one, is
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the Hall of Fame, which is this is the 20th anniversary.
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So later when we talk about the Hall of Fame, I think it's
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important to to hit on the fact that that's one of our big
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recognition programs.
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And so you know, beyond that, there's a lot of questions and
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comments that I get that I end up forwarding uphill to our, our
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friends in San Antonio who actually make those you know
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judgment calls and, and you know , help help the sport grow
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because it's it's difficult.
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It's difficult to manage the little club you know in a small
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town versus, you know a club that might have 500 people that
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are registered chute, you know, just a monthly chute, and that's
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a reality in Texas and whereas a lot of states don't have that
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problem.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to ask you next what is?
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Is Texas being as big as it is and having as many clubs as it
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does?
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How, how much different do you think it is in that organization
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versus some of the other ones in the country?
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Speaker 3: You know I've got a lot of good friends in Kansas
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right.
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I've got a great relationship with the, with the Greenwood
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family, and and you know I've spent many, many an afternoon in
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that in Jim's shop watching woodchips fly and us just
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talking about nonsense or sporting clays or everything in
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between.
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And so you know I know a little bit about Kansas.
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I know some guys you know from, from the Midwest and you know,
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I think I think the big difference is, like I mentioned,
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texas has just under 40 clubs that throw registered
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tournaments and so that's one of the big tasks that the state
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association takes on every year is.
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You know there's only 52 weeks in a year and if you throw out
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the holidays and the, you know the known, you know graduation
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weekends and spring breaks, you know you can really narrow that
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down.
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So how do you fill a calendar where you got a state with 40
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ish people all vying for optimum weekends?
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So we fantasy football draft it, if you will.
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It's a process we call pick day and we take the clubs that
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throw the most, like a, like a greater Houston sports club or a
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or a defender.
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You know Clay Sports Ranch, all the way down to the.
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You know my home club, one of the smaller ones, abilene Clay
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Sports, and so you know when it's your turn in the draft, the
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calendar is yours, and as long as there's not somebody within a
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100 mile radius of you who's already chosen that date, you
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know the dates yours because, quite frankly, it's you know,
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from my home to greater Houston is six and a half seven hours,
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so, no offense, we're not really competing for the same shooters
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, even though you know you haven't even left the state, and
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so that 100 mile rule solves a decent amount of problems, gets
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everybody, you know, on the same path, and that's something that
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the association does to just kind of make everything fair and
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help.
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You know, help the little guy as much as the big guy, where,
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when it comes to calendar planning, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Now when you talk about people sending you
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messages and you have to send them up the up the line to the
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NSCA, how, how many of those do you have to to look at?
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Is it a ton?
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Speaker 3: A few, um, I don't know, I would say two to five a
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month.
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Oh, it's not that many.
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I think the NSCA has done a good job of empowering club
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owners.
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Um, it's, and that's something as a business owner myself, it's
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hard to.
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It's hard to be a part of an organization that really
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dictates what a private for-profit business is doing.
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And, uh, that's something that Michael Hampton and I have
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talked about.
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You know, it's a, it's a, it's a line to toe.
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This is the competitive and professional sport at the same
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time that it's a recreational sport, and these are private
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for-profit entities, um, that are, you know, as, as Gary would
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say, uh, they open their gates and invite in a couple hundred
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people.
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They don't even like field all their complaints and then kick
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them out.
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You know, five hours later, Right, and you know, and I say
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that with with a, with a grin on my face, because it's it's a
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little true and it's a little hyperbolic, but, um, you know, I
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feel like it's important to have that relationship.
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And so, if there's something egregious or rules-based or
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really needs a judgment, um, you know that stuff gets forwarded
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up so that, so that the appropriate people can look at
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it.
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We're pretty blessed that we don't have just a ton of that.
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I think the rumor is always worse than the truth, right Like
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the bark is worse than the bite .
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So you know, everybody knows somebody that heard somebody and
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totally saw this other guy do something, uh.
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But when you start asking who and where and how, uh, lots of
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times it kind of it doesn't really materialize.
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So your mileage may vary, but that's kind of what I see, yeah.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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So you're talking about rules.
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Well, we just had a uh, a pretty big I mean adjustment.
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I guess you would say yeah, yeah, and I know you listened to
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the Gary Fitzgerald podcast we had uh what do you hear and
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what's your take on that?
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Speaker 3: You know, I've I've heard both sides, I, so I'll
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reference one of our directors who's just kind of been a long
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time pillar of of of the sport in Texas.
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Uh, jr Cooper.
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Jr got down class and he said, man, I love it, I love the
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shoots.
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Again, I can't wait to, you know, get excited again.
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He says, cause, you know, now I don't have to show up and beat.
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You know Corey Cruz or Dom grassy or you know somebody like
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that.
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You know, now I get to go, now I get to go see where I'm at and
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what I'm doing and how that works.
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And so consolidating the classes a little bit, um, I, I
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think is a positive um, man, I, I walk the line Like I'm just
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good enough to get in trouble and not quite good enough to get
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out.
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So you know, a lot of times I feel like I don't belong in
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masterclass.
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And then, you know, a couple of weeks ago I went to a shoot.
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I missed a couple of birds.
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I went to the parking lot kind of like, oh shucks, I left about
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four out there.
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You know somebody's going to beat me.
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And by the time I got home that night, you know I got a text
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message from the score chaser app that said, you know,
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congrats.
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And I thought, man, if that's not a lesson and in every bird
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counts just as much as the previous one, you know, I don't
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know, I don't know what is, and so you know, as soon as I say,
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like dang, why won't they put me in double A?
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Then you go in and win a little something.
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So, as my shooting buddies, travel buddies, clayton, nancy,
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one, all of those guys you know we always joke about, there's a
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difference between being West Texas good, being Texas is good
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and then being nationally good, and so I don't know.
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I think I'm in the middle, I know all the right people, but I
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I'm always a couple of birds behind.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I'm more than a couple, but it's
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okay.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: And I really love the spirit of the competition.
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You know, we shot an event in Houston this weekend, I think
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champion was 79.
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That was Byron Justice.
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Corey shot a 74.
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I shot a 64.
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And I'm more proud of that 64 than I am of a whole bunch of
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stuff, because this was a shoot that was over the top, you know,
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just for the fun of it.
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You know so, everybody wants to shoot a 96, but sometimes it's
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a heck of a lot of fun to shoot a 64.
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Now, a lot of people were in the parking lot not agreeing
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with me, and and I respect their right to do so, but you know
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it's just a clay pot in the sky.
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I mean, shoot it or don't hit it or don't.
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Speaker 2: I mean, at the end of the day, it's not going to
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anybody that, other than the people that do it for a living,
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which you and I don't.
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So I mean yeah, yeah, you know it's.
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I've always said it's, you know it's.
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It's.
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It's always said it's just a, it's just a piece of clay
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floating in the air.
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I mean, shoot at it and hit it.
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If you don't hit it, then, oh well, you go and practice some
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more.
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I mean yeah, yeah, there's no reason to get mad about it.
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So you know if you don't it's like I tell my son if you don't
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practice enough, how do you expect to hit any of them?
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I mean, I mean you're going to miss them, you're just going to
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do it, so right.
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But anyway, we're going to talk about the Texas state, teamed
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up, I guess, with Brown and Bradley this year.
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Speaker 3: Yes, so kind of like we've alluded to Texas being
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being what it is in sporting clays and our state championship
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having such prestige and growing so large.
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Unfortunately, there's just a few venues that can hold it, and
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you know, right or wrong, I think we, you know we could
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change a whole bunch of stuff and shrink the event, but you
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know I don't think that is in the best interest to the sport
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or the people or the venues.
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And then you know, vice versa, Sometimes you get too big to
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manage, though, for better or for worse, and everyone
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schedules what they are.
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Greater, Houston Sports Club, Kevin and the guys down there
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and in South Houston stepped up and said hey, you know, if you
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want, if you'd like to partner with us, you know we'd like to
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have you.
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So the Browning-Briley that is a shoot with a lot of legacy
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this year is going to be combined with the Texas state
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championship.
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So there's a ton of support that's been given by Browning
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and by Briley, and so you know it's neat, it's an experiment,
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it's part of the growing pains of you know what happens when
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you, what happens when you find your state association shoot
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being bigger than a couple of the last US opens.
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So that's yeah, it's nuts.
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You know, Texas, having a facility like the National
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Shooting Complex in the state puts us in an interesting place.
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Obviously, you know, nationals can hold a couple thousand
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shooters at any time, and so, from 2020 to 2030, we've agreed
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to have the odd years at NSC, and one of the reasons we agreed
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to that is because, when you compare not NSC and NSC events,
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the NSC events are attended by 34 or 35% more people.
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And so, you know, sporting clay shooters, right, if they don't
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really like what you're doing, then they won't come.
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So if 30% of them, more of them come, you know, regardless of
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what's said on social media or, you know, mentioned in the
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parking lot, it's hard to argue with the data, right?
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So, Greater Houston, the National Shooting Complex,
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Travis Mears' Defender, Clay Sports Ranch.
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You know we've found ourselves where there's a few clubs and I
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think we have a few on the horizon.
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I don't want to put anybody on blast, but I think there's a few
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clubs interested in looking to grow into it and, of course,
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there'll be some pains there too .
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But um, Uh, you know, it would be neat to expand the venues,
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but right now we're kind of rotating between those three or
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four.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and greater.
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Yeah, hadn't been to.
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Only what I've been to is the national she natural, she
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accomplished yeah so it's.
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I Don't know anything about Travis Mears place and I don't
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know anything about greater Houston.
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Only thing that I know is Travis is a nice guy.
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I'm sure he's got a nice place and yeah very.
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Speaker 3: He's, he's in, he's outside of Fort Worth, right, uh
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, kind of on the west side of the Dallas Fort Worth area.
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Some rolling hills, some, some terrain.
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It's.
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It's really neat and there's a.
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The south central regional will be there in September.
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So he's had a Texas state in 2022, a regional coming up, and
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I know he is actively working to have another Texas state in the
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future.
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Speaker 2: So 10 out of 10 for for him, yeah, but it's gonna be
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a greater Houston this year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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So back to greater.
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That's a club that's been around since the late 50s.
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In fact I offline, you and I were trying to get Kevin they're
00:20:26
their COO on the phone with us and it and it just didn't worked
00:20:31
out.
00:20:31
I know I'm gonna Do a little bit of a disservice, but but
00:20:37
graders of fantastic club.
00:20:39
They've had, I think, four courses that just run 24, 7365.
00:20:46
A lot of people who have been to greater Houston Know that
00:20:49
famous drive down the lane where you know off to your left, you
00:20:53
see a hundred and twenty foot tower.
00:20:55
I mean it's, it is, it is a, it's a monster tower.
00:21:00
And you know, at the, at the Browning Briley or at the
00:21:04
Diamond Classic, the, the two main events that greater Houston
00:21:07
hosts every year, you'll see a bird all the way up there and
00:21:12
it's just, I don't know, it's life altering to watch a clay
00:21:15
come off that thing and just go on for about two weeks before it
00:21:18
leaves over the horizon.
00:21:20
Yeah, it's, it's a really, really neat facility.
00:21:23
They've put Sometimes some effort and some money.
00:21:28
Um, everybody's sorry, not everybody.
00:21:31
If you're familiar with greater Houston, they kind of have a
00:21:37
Main event course that's double-sided and, you know,
00:21:40
unlike a lot of places.
00:21:41
It's about six.
00:21:42
Polaris is wide so you can actually get through it and it's
00:21:45
well paved and the shooting stands are all nice and covered
00:21:48
and it's it's Very, very, very nice.
00:21:51
Um, they've actually kind of leapfrogged that and have a
00:21:56
whole nother set and I think it was Debuted at the Diamond
00:22:02
Classic last year.
00:22:03
But that's where fee tasks and five stand.
00:22:06
Some some events like that will be.
00:22:08
They pushed a lot of dirt, couple man-made ponds.
00:22:11
The dirt that created those ponds you know is is Piled up in
00:22:19
some Northbrook like berms in some places.
00:22:23
So you know it really added some terrain to that kind of
00:22:26
South Texas coastal Property and has made it Just ten out of ten
00:22:32
in my opinion.
00:22:33
Yeah.
00:22:34
Speaker 2: I need to see that place.
00:22:35
There's a lot of places I need to see I hadn't been to, but but
00:22:38
that's you know that.
00:22:39
You know I've always heard good things about it.
00:22:42
You know they.
00:22:42
Yeah, the Diamond Classic, the trophies you see coming out of
00:22:45
there, the Browning-Briley you see something about that.
00:22:48
You know the greater Houston Championship, club championship
00:22:53
I mean, you hear?
00:22:54
champion buckle race.
00:22:55
Yeah, you see that on Online, just as I mean it seems like as
00:22:59
much as you see anything else that they host.
00:23:01
You know like you get your first parking spot.
00:23:04
Speaker 3: I mean yes, man, on that you know, yes, yes, no,
00:23:08
they, they, they do it, they do it first class, and and and they
00:23:12
do it right.
00:23:13
So, yeah, so, april the 17th through the 21st, myself and
00:23:18
about 1100 other shooters and probably another thousand
00:23:23
spectators will all descend in South Houston and we're looking
00:23:28
forward to, we're looking forward to that party.
00:23:31
So that's big.
00:23:34
Speaker 2: Oh, that's big for people listen, I mean and
00:23:36
they've been, people listen probably know.
00:23:38
But you're expecting about 1100 , 1200 people.
00:23:41
Speaker 3: Yes, cuz, cuz.
00:23:43
Every year we seem to set another record, and so this
00:23:46
would be on on par, I think we're.
00:23:49
We're like 60 to 70 days away from the event kicking off and
00:23:55
you know we're knocking on 800.
00:23:57
And Kevin sent me a screenshot the other day of Individual
00:24:03
entries, right?
00:24:04
So like if Justin's gonna shoot the main fee task in five,
00:24:06
stand you're.
00:24:07
There, you go, you're you're three entries.
00:24:09
I think we have like 3750 entries, so that is a lot of
00:24:16
rounds that will be thrown.
00:24:18
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, what about the money?
00:24:20
Tell me about what you can win there.
00:24:23
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:24:23
So Kevin Browning, briley, the Texas State Sporting Clause
00:24:31
Association, a bunch of the other sponsors, they have kind
00:24:36
of kind of Come together to make a Pretty serious purse.
00:24:41
One second I'm gonna scroll back, okay.
00:24:45
So, um, hoa is ten thousand cash, runner up five thousand,
00:24:52
third place, twenty five hundred , which is, you know, in line
00:24:56
with some national, if not better than some recent
00:25:00
nationally known shoots.
00:25:02
So you know, in class it goes down to like fifteen hundred, a
00:25:08
thousand and seven fifty.
00:25:09
Same thing for concurrence, and so it's a.
00:25:13
It is a series of events that you can come participate in and,
00:25:17
yeah, you might, actually you could actually be net positive.
00:25:21
I don't know, it depends what you eat and drink after the fact
00:25:23
.
00:25:23
I guess, yeah, that's usually, that's usually where mine goes.
00:25:26
So, so there's some, there's some interesting stuff they
00:25:33
they're publishing, they're back to class numbers.
00:25:35
So the Cedar Gap wealth management fee task Event and
00:25:40
five stand event are all ten dollars, back to class.
00:25:44
They're doing a couple different Well gauge events.
00:25:49
So greater has has kind of coined a term sporting light.
00:25:53
So it expect easier, simpler, charity, feel-good targets,
00:25:58
right.
00:25:58
So you know, if you know what that is going in Now, you, now
00:26:03
you know what you're signing up for, you know, versus the main
00:26:06
or maybe fee task or something.
00:26:08
The TSA is sponsoring the Hall of Fame In honor of the 20th
00:26:13
anniversary of our Hall of Fame program and we're going to each
00:26:17
station is going to have some special signage and and
00:26:21
recognition for our 30 or so Plus, you know, living Hall of
00:26:28
Fame members White flyers, true pair cup, the audios cup, those
00:26:34
are all gonna have ten dollars back to class.
00:26:35
So you know you're not gonna go shoot a side event when, when
00:26:40
your class and and then feel a little shafted when you get a,
00:26:44
you know, a trophy, but no, but no payouts, and that's some of
00:26:47
the feedback that we get.
00:26:48
And you can't, you can't give away the farm, but you know you
00:26:52
can.
00:26:53
You can definitely Put your money where your mouth is and
00:26:57
that's what they're doing.
00:26:57
So the last thing is Agula ammunition is a sponsoring the
00:27:03
super sport and the super sport pays $50 a person back to class,
00:27:10
and so Previously this was sponsored by Do you know, ron,
00:27:15
you were, yeah, legacy Ford, yeah, so, ron, before Ron
00:27:20
retired, this was, you know, sponsored by Ron and his family
00:27:24
dealerships and so, based on the way it used to work and how you
00:27:29
know, greater Houston, agula and the TSA see it going forward
00:27:32
the the total purse should be 25 30 there and master class
00:27:40
should be paying out about eight grand to win the Win super
00:27:45
sport.
00:27:46
And that's just in class, that's not, that's not Anything
00:27:51
else.
00:27:51
So that goes all the way to E.
00:27:53
So if you got a, if you got a bigger, deeper class Payouts or
00:27:57
sky high, and so that's something really neat that the
00:28:00
folks at Agula and crater Houston have worked on, so I
00:28:04
Think you can.
00:28:05
I think there's a shout out to be made there for those guys and
00:28:08
and Corey Corey crews and For them coming up with a great idea
00:28:13
.
00:28:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so if you add all that together, about how
00:28:16
much is that?
00:28:20
Speaker 3: A little over 150 .
00:28:21
Wow, I think, is the yeah, oh gosh, I'm embarrassed.
00:28:26
I should know well, it's somewhere 150 hundred sixty
00:28:28
thousand.
00:28:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, yeah.
00:28:32
Speaker 3: It should pay so now who's second?
00:28:36
Speaker 2: you got.
00:28:37
So who set the targets?
00:28:39
Speaker 3: Yep.
00:28:39
So, um, mike Boyer is there.
00:28:43
Uh, for lack of not knowing his actual term, he is the.
00:28:49
He's the boss of the outside stuff.
00:28:51
I always say Kevin's the boss of the inside stuff, mike's the
00:28:54
boss of the outside stuff.
00:28:55
So, michael, be setting some courses.
00:28:57
Henry Velazquez a lot of people may not know Henry, but if
00:29:03
you've ever shot the orange or the red at at nationals, chances
00:29:07
are Henry's had his hands on a couple of those machines.
00:29:10
So you know, if he can set nationals, he can.
00:29:12
He can set Texas State and and he is a Regular employee at
00:29:17
greater, if I'm not mistaken.
00:29:18
Jason Minkie, of course everybody knows.
00:29:21
Jason Bryley, jason Maderelly, jason world famous, and then and
00:29:27
then Dennis Aguilis, who's also on staff there and sets
00:29:34
Diamonds, and Brian Browning, briley's buckle races.
00:29:37
So they've got a pretty deep.
00:29:40
They have a pretty deep bullpen there.
00:29:42
There's dozens of other people that'll be running around tech
00:29:45
and and managing the courses.
00:29:48
Speaker 2: So, yeah, it sounds like you have this thing down
00:29:52
pat.
00:29:53
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of credit goes to greater for that.
00:29:55
But, but, yes, but you know, we do, we do big events.
00:29:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me about like so, when everybody's done
00:30:01
shooting, what you know, what you have, dinner and on.
00:30:04
Saturday night.
00:30:04
How you know what Yep?
00:30:05
What are you doing there?
00:30:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Browning Briley goes first class in in
00:30:12
all of their events and so with with the, with the Browning
00:30:17
Briley Texas State being combined, thursday night there's
00:30:21
gonna be a ladies snooker event and a cocktail hour.
00:30:25
So I, if I'm not mistaken, there there's something for the
00:30:28
guys to shoot and I think you can be on another field posting
00:30:31
a snooker event score for the, for the shoot-offs later.
00:30:34
But there's a special ladies shoot-off and a cocktail hour,
00:30:39
and and then Friday night is the , the Hall of Fame banquet.
00:30:42
So that's a pretty traditional Friday night thing for Texas
00:30:46
State, regardless of where it's held, it will be in the pavilion
00:30:50
.
00:30:50
This year we plan to max it out as far as capacity.
00:30:54
We have tickets available on score chaser whenever you do
00:30:58
register or you can get some.
00:31:01
They're live and in person.
00:31:05
Like I mentioned, it's the 20th anniversary, so we would.
00:31:08
We're inviting all of our alumni.
00:31:12
We're asking them to bring their blue jackets, their their
00:31:15
blue sport coats with the TSEA patches on them, even if they
00:31:19
don't fit.
00:31:19
I've gotten that text message once or twice like, hey, I grew
00:31:22
mine and I'm like, well, just bring it to have it over your
00:31:24
arms.
00:31:24
Yeah, I think it'll be special to get a picture with all those
00:31:30
people and just to have some of the legends of the sport.
00:31:33
You know there are a few that have unfortunately passed on and
00:31:38
I know, if there's a few that just you know flat out, wanton
00:31:41
won't make it, but you know Me being active in the sport, you
00:31:45
know 10 years and some of these being guys being active in the
00:31:48
sport, guys and girls, 20 or 30 years, you know they've, they've
00:31:53
forgotten stuff that we hadn't even thought of yet, and so I
00:31:56
think I Think it's important to have those people around and
00:32:00
embrace it, and then I'm pretty sure it's all public knowledge
00:32:04
it definitely will be by the time this goes out.
00:32:06
But For the TSEA Hall of Fame this year we are inducting Ed
00:32:13
Oregi and Mark Tipton, a couple names that that a lot of people
00:32:18
are gonna know and recognize through either their
00:32:21
accomplishments with With the gun or or they're, you know,
00:32:26
giving back to the sport, representing team USA,
00:32:29
representing a lot of industry partners to gentlemen that are
00:32:32
that are each, I think, personal friends, and and I'm looking
00:32:38
forward to being able to put a blue sport coat on those
00:32:41
gentlemen that night- so and it is special Corey's father-in-law
00:32:46
right.
00:32:47
That is yep, that's that's course, father-in-law, and then
00:32:50
a lot of people will know mark, and then and then marks dad.
00:32:53
I Never actually got to meet marks dad, but Growing up in
00:32:59
West Texas I knew these guys that had stickers on their
00:33:02
buggies and I asked one time Well, what does the razor mean,
00:33:06
you know?
00:33:07
And that was the marks dad.
00:33:09
One year he entered 74 Events and I think he flat out not just
00:33:17
concurrent but like open division, hoa 72 out of 74
00:33:23
events that he entered.
00:33:24
And so, yeah, super, super cool to see you know a father and a
00:33:33
son, you know, represent Texas.
00:33:36
Speaker 2: So well, so yeah, yeah, well, that's that should
00:33:39
be interesting, and it sounds like it'll be big.
00:33:41
Yes, sir, yeah so.
00:33:44
Speaker 3: So that's Friday night.
00:33:45
Saturday night is the Browning-Briley bingo.
00:33:48
Heavens has crawfish.
00:33:51
Rumor has it they will have some crawfish.
00:33:57
So a lot of people in Texas, louisiana, are not gonna get any
00:34:01
this year.
00:34:01
I guess maybe there's a droughts issues, something like
00:34:03
that but we will have crawfish.
00:34:05
I guess Kevin's gonna buy the last one off the boat or
00:34:08
something.
00:34:08
The snooker shoot off, which you know is always super well
00:34:14
attended I, you know I think the snooker payouts are bigger at
00:34:17
Texas State than than some of them at at the US Open or our
00:34:22
nationals just how many people are shooting and participating.
00:34:26
And that'll all be right there in front of the pavilion under
00:34:28
the lights, live scoring.
00:34:29
Kevin announces it and then Browning-Briley Always Bonthers,
00:34:35
the big bingo night and I.
00:34:37
We have a bunch of Browning's to give away, a bunch of Briley
00:34:40
stuff to give away, stuff from some other sponsors, and so it
00:34:43
will be a party and it'll be worth your while to to be there
00:34:48
For all the festivities, whether it's Thursday, friday or
00:34:51
Saturday.
00:34:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I Don't know what I've got going on,
00:34:55
when that's when that comes up with.
00:34:57
That sounds like it's something you know, something to be fun
00:34:59
to go to for sure.
00:35:00
Yeah, it's always something to do, it sounds like, and there's
00:35:03
a lot of money to win.
00:35:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, always, always something to do so.
00:35:09
Speaker 2: What else is?
00:35:10
Going on in Texas other than Texas State.
00:35:12
I mean you got you know what other shoots for big stuff that
00:35:17
you have going on.
00:35:18
Speaker 3: Sure, well, you know we were talking about growing
00:35:21
pains earlier and you know, not every club can, can, can just
00:35:26
open their gates and have a thousand people show up.
00:35:28
So you know, over the years the board of directors has tried to
00:35:32
do, you know, like assistance programs or grant programs.
00:35:36
Long before I was involved, my home club wrote a letter and
00:35:42
filled out the grant paperwork and you know the TSA donated
00:35:46
some, a couple shooting stands, I mean, you know, it's it's
00:35:49
little stuff like that that makes the world go around.
00:35:51
But I think some of those programs had kind of seen their
00:35:55
day and we weren't getting a lot of Applications and things like
00:36:00
that.
00:36:00
So in order to put that money back to work and to bring
00:36:04
shooters and events to small clubs, we came up with the Texas
00:36:10
championship tour.
00:36:11
So everybody loves the big national championship tour and
00:36:14
so in Texas the tour consists of you know there's a pocket of
00:36:19
clubs that we call north, and if you would just kind of in your
00:36:24
mind draw a pretty loose circle around the DFW area right and
00:36:28
then we call it south, so you can draw a pretty loose circle
00:36:32
around, you know, houston and San Antonio, and then pretty
00:36:35
much west is west, you know, and there's a Smattering of clubs
00:36:39
all throughout there.
00:36:40
So every year we pick one club in each zone.
00:36:44
You know they ride in, they say hey, yeah, we want to have an
00:36:48
event.
00:36:48
This is, you know, we want a partner.
00:36:51
And my ask of them is just, put your best foot forward.
00:36:55
We want to partner with you, we want to promote your club, we
00:37:00
want to incentivize people to go chase those points, chase the
00:37:04
statewide payouts and the statewide trophies.
00:37:07
And we don't, we don't need a thing in the world from you,
00:37:11
except just, you know, put your best foot forward.
00:37:14
Somebody might come to your little club, fall in love with
00:37:16
the place and, you know, maybe not every month, come back, but
00:37:22
every couple of months come back , because it's always fun to go
00:37:24
shoot at a cool, new, different place and hopefully this
00:37:26
motivates somebody to Go somewhere that they've never
00:37:29
been.
00:37:29
So you know, you don't have to go over the top, you don't have
00:37:33
to have a 200 bird main, you don't have to triple your
00:37:36
payouts.
00:37:36
Just hey, we want to highlight you and we want to partner with
00:37:41
you and give shooters a reason to be there.
00:37:45
And so you know, for a small club, say, they get 40 or 50
00:37:48
people at a regular shoot.
00:37:50
Well, if 10 people show up, I mean that's a meaningful
00:37:55
increase in attendance, right?
00:37:57
And so it's one of those.
00:37:59
You know we move the needle on the thousand person shoot.
00:38:02
Well, we also want to help try to move the needle on the on the
00:38:06
50 person shoot.
00:38:07
And then what's the middle ground, you know, is that kind
00:38:13
of 200 person shoot.
00:38:14
And there's some clubs Greater Houston, defender, dallas Gun
00:38:19
Club you know that every time they open the doors they do get
00:38:22
200.
00:38:22
But then there's some that, that, that don't or won't ever.
00:38:26
And so for the last 10 years, the second most registered event
00:38:34
at a state, championship, is super sporting.
00:38:36
And so you know I say numbers don't lie people vote with their
00:38:40
feet.
00:38:40
If they didn't like what you were doing, they wouldn't offer
00:38:43
you their credit card.
00:38:44
So let's have a super sporting championship.
00:38:47
And so we've, we've bounced it around, we've had it in in lamb
00:38:50
passes set at Julie Clark Clark's Club, austin Gun Club,
00:38:54
we've had it in East Texas at at the Hunt Families Club, 5h, and
00:38:59
then this year it'll be at Graystone Castle.
00:39:01
And so a lot of people know, know, beth Bounds, she's the
00:39:05
general manager.
00:39:06
There runs everything from the quail and the chucker and the
00:39:09
pheasant hunting to the sporting clays.
00:39:12
And so you know our goal there is just to give shooters another
00:39:17
chance for programs, awards and recognition and you know, an
00:39:23
unique venue to shoot at a midsize club that you know can
00:39:27
handle the, the two and three and 500 people, but 1000, you
00:39:33
know 1000 folks.
00:39:34
I mean you'd run out of, you'd run out of parking in Mingus,
00:39:38
texas, really quick, yeah, if everybody showed up at Graystone
00:39:42
.
00:39:42
So, yeah, that's the.
00:39:45
That's kind of what the board has settled on and as a way to
00:39:49
help anybody who wants to participate and, you know, raise
00:39:53
their hand.
00:39:53
So we've, we've popped those events around a few different
00:39:57
clubs and you know we just went to Texas Premier.
00:40:03
In March we're going to go to Brownwood, texas, which is kind
00:40:08
of central West Central Texas, a new club.
00:40:12
That that is really.
00:40:14
That has really turned into something pretty special.
00:40:20
Lots of terrain, I mean several hundred foot elevation changes.
00:40:23
Their main event wraps around this canyon on the side of this
00:40:28
mesa, and so you know, from station one to station 10, I
00:40:33
think you gain something like 800 feet.
00:40:35
I mean it's serious, and so that's really cool.
00:40:39
And then in in May we'll be at North Lake, which is a new club
00:40:44
in North Fort Worth that a couple gentlemen partnered
00:40:48
together, one of them that you know from the podcast of Vincent
00:40:51
Hancock, so long time USA Olympian.
00:40:57
Yeah, he's got some ski fields out there.
00:40:58
If you watch his you know social media you'll, you'll see,
00:41:03
you'll see the backdrops have changed and that's because he's
00:41:07
coaching and operating a new club.
00:41:10
They have a neat little clubhouse.
00:41:12
I was, I was there a couple weeks ago with some of the
00:41:16
Beretta folks on their way out to the shot.
00:41:19
Joe and Vincent has a pro shop there in North Fort Worth that
00:41:25
rivals the one at the Nationals in San Antonio.
00:41:29
I mean, he's got a lot of stuff .
00:41:31
But you know he's also one of Beretta's most accomplished
00:41:35
athletes and a longtime partner.
00:41:38
So yeah, he has a really cool setup and you know he's, he's
00:41:44
out there on some equipment, some machinery, pushing brush
00:41:48
piles, you know, the day before a registered event.
00:41:51
So he's, he's all in.
00:41:53
So neat, neat little things like that happen in in Texas
00:41:56
that we want to highlight and promote.
00:41:57
And you know, keep on going down the list, anyone listening
00:42:02
that's in Texas.
00:42:03
I would encourage you to reach out to myself or somebody else
00:42:07
and say hey, I'm, I'm in, I want to.
00:42:10
I want to partner, and because we have nothing set for 2025.
00:42:15
So opportunities are out there.
00:42:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's 40 of you out there.
00:42:19
Yeah exactly, you know so.
00:42:22
So, exactly what are you doing like when, when your terms up
00:42:26
here, which is this you know, what are you going to?
00:42:30
Speaker 3: do so, I'm act.
00:42:33
So we'll have a new president, which directors are elected by
00:42:40
the membership and then the officers are elected by the
00:42:46
board of directors in our first meeting, which is May after the
00:42:51
state championship.
00:42:52
So whomever is the new president, I will stay on the
00:42:56
board as the immediate past president.
00:42:58
Hopefully many of those video calls I can stay on mute, but
00:43:04
you know my job's always just to be there and give a little
00:43:07
historical house and wise.
00:43:10
We did the things that we did and, for right or for wrong, at
00:43:13
least provide a little context.
00:43:14
But I've I've had a few interesting conversations.
00:43:18
I love shooting sporting clays, I mean I you know there's a lot
00:43:26
worse things that you could do with your time.
00:43:28
I would, I would like to keep, I would like to keep going, I'd
00:43:33
like to be involved, kind of the at the national level, because
00:43:36
I think we've done a good job to grow some things here in Texas
00:43:40
and and I'm not, I don't think that we could, I don't think we
00:43:43
need to go in and turn everything upside down, but I
00:43:47
think that there's, you know, some some people who love the
00:43:51
port love the competition, have some ideas, have a little bit of
00:43:55
business sense, you know, can at least, you know, put some
00:43:58
input so that we can keep taking baby steps in the right
00:44:01
direction.
00:44:02
There's, there is no one size fits all, and and I don't envy
00:44:08
really anyone that has to make the hard, hard calls Because
00:44:11
even on the whole class thing, like we talked about earlier,
00:44:14
there is not, there's not a perfect way to do it, but there
00:44:18
are incremental improvements that can improve the game and
00:44:21
when we look back in five or years or 10 years, you know,
00:44:25
ideally we're in a better spot than we are currently.
00:44:29
Speaker 2: So yeah, sounds like you got going on down there in.
00:44:32
Speaker 3: Texas.
00:44:32
Well, yeah, I, whenever my friends invite me to do
00:44:38
something, I say, oh, I got a sporting place thing.
00:44:40
They always joke and say, oh, you've got to go be the mayor.
00:44:43
And I say yeah, yeah, but I but I love it, I love the shooting,
00:44:46
I love the people.
00:44:47
My cheesy joke is that I'm far better at collecting shotguns
00:44:51
than I am shooting shotguns.
00:44:52
So you know.
00:44:54
Speaker 2: I collect nothing, I'd rather do.
00:44:55
What now?
00:44:56
And what do you shoot?
00:44:57
What kind of gun do?
00:44:59
Speaker 3: you shoot One of everything.
00:45:01
Is that a correct answer?
00:45:03
That's why I said you said you got to collect the collection,
00:45:06
yes, yes.
00:45:07
So I, by hook, by crook, by accident, ended up with one of
00:45:13
the launch edition SL twos and Jim Green would just restock
00:45:16
that for me and it is absolutely gorgeous.
00:45:21
I like it a lot so.
00:45:25
Speaker 2: I know three people, with one now.
00:45:28
Speaker 1: Well.
00:45:28
Speaker 2: Anthony, and I think Mike Deonda has one.
00:45:32
Speaker 3: Well, and I shot with Christian Crawford at one of
00:45:36
the regionals last year and Christian has.
00:45:39
Christian was shooting one.
00:45:41
I said, oh gosh, what was it?
00:45:42
Louisiana, we were shooting in Louisiana.
00:45:44
So, yeah, there's a, there's a few sneaking around out there.
00:45:47
It's neat, it's different.
00:45:49
I have a stable full of burritos.
00:45:53
I love to mess with them.
00:45:55
I take them apart Like I'm not.
00:45:58
I'm not scared to knock every spring and roll pin out of one
00:46:02
of those dudes.
00:46:02
And a big shout out to Clayton Nance.
00:46:06
Clayton polished a DT 11, double E, double L, like mirror white
00:46:12
and then said you know, it'd be really cool if somebody would
00:46:15
deal C coat one.
00:46:16
So I was like, oh, here, watch this buddy.
00:46:19
And so I did.
00:46:20
I I'd knocked every pin out.
00:46:23
I had them in an egg crate and you know, folks were like, gosh,
00:46:27
weren't you worried that you couldn't put it back together?
00:46:28
And I was like, no, not really.
00:46:29
So I DLC coated it.
00:46:32
So that's neat, just a neat project.
00:46:35
Jim Greenwood's restocked Kreg, often parrotsies and all kinds
00:46:40
of stuff.
00:46:40
There's always a good reason.
00:46:41
There's always a good reason to have a cool new gun, and so
00:46:46
yeah, why not?
00:46:46
Life's too short to let your friends shoot ugly guns.
00:46:49
Speaker 2: I know one thing you got.
00:46:50
You got every single color vest they make Well I guess I well
00:46:58
that.
00:46:58
Speaker 3: a huge shout out to the rodents and Bear Pelt.
00:47:01
I have full disclosure.
00:47:03
I've maybe given away as many vests as I've purchased for
00:47:07
myself.
00:47:08
They're super people and proud to represent them and be on the
00:47:14
on the Bear Pelt Pro staff team and it's just too fun to write
00:47:22
the whole sports too fun.
00:47:23
So so it's too fun not to have you know your logo, or?
00:47:27
I've enjoyed, I've really enjoyed, wearing the state logo
00:47:32
on a vest that says president, not because I'm, you know,
00:47:36
trying to brag about, you know, leading a conference call every
00:47:40
month, but because I want people to come up to me and ask me the
00:47:43
questions because you don't know.
00:47:46
You don't know until you ask.
00:47:48
And so you know, find somebody and ask, because there's so many
00:47:51
perceptions and I don't do a lot of social media anymore, but
00:47:55
you know, the things that you read on social media that
00:47:58
somebody assumes is absolute fact and turns out couldn't be
00:48:02
farther from the truth.
00:48:03
You know, I think that's what whether it's podcasts like, like
00:48:08
this one, or just boots on the ground, I think that's what you
00:48:12
know we need some more of is how do you reach as many people as
00:48:16
possible, put a gun in their hand, develop a passion for the
00:48:20
things that we like to do and then make sure that they know
00:48:23
where to go ask and to not be scared to ask I, you know.
00:48:28
The first time I saw I don't know Zach or Corey or somebody
00:48:32
like that, you know, in the wild , I was still a little
00:48:35
starstruck, you know.
00:48:36
And slowly but surely you realize, hey, you know what.
00:48:40
These are real people that you can go up to and ask questions.
00:48:42
And believe me, I'm I am not anywhere near them when it comes
00:48:46
to pointing a shotgun, but please, somebody come ask me
00:48:50
what?
00:48:50
What do we do?
00:48:51
You know I it's always neat to get a call or a message from
00:48:54
somebody in another state that says hey, I heard Texas is doing
00:48:57
this, you know, and so, yeah, I would love to help Anybody have
00:49:03
a better program.
00:49:05
Speaker 2: So yeah, because that just means more shooting.
00:49:07
That's right Means you get to take all work more right.
00:49:12
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, well, so yeah, anytime it looks like you
00:49:16
know we're having too much fun.
00:49:17
You never see the you never see sitting in a hotel room at one
00:49:21
o'clock in the morning with your iPad open Typing away like a
00:49:23
maniac.
00:49:24
So you know these things happen .
00:49:26
Speaker 2: Well, uh, you got anything else?
00:49:27
Then, before I get on, no, dude , that man.
00:49:31
Speaker 3: I can't thank you enough.
00:49:32
This was a cool opportunity and and I would encourage everybody
00:49:36
to Check out the stuff that we've got going on here in Texas
00:49:40
.
00:49:40
I know we, we have, I, I know we have 25 or 30 states already
00:49:48
represented when you look at the breakdown, and I think seven
00:49:52
countries.
00:49:52
So you know, by all means, come to Texas, make this, make this
00:49:58
your people talk about the, the clay vacation that is the
00:50:01
Florida swing.
00:50:02
You know I'm headed to Jack links tomorrow I think you are
00:50:06
yeah, also later in the week.
00:50:07
But make, make Texas a Cool swing, just like Florida, or are
00:50:14
?
00:50:14
Speaker 2: some of the West Coast stuff.
00:50:16
Now the thing about Texas you have to wear boots and cowboy
00:50:19
hat and all that stuff when you come down there.
00:50:22
Speaker 3: After your shooting.
00:50:23
After your shooting, come on now.
00:50:25
If you wear cowboy boots where you're shooting, you know they
00:50:28
got those heels on them you lose your ankle mobility.
00:50:30
So if I ever get in a shoot off with somebody at a charity
00:50:33
event, they're wearing cowboy boots.
00:50:34
I just, you know, I just assume they're not gonna be able to
00:50:38
turn very well, so they're gonna be too much of their hands.
00:50:41
Yeah, yeah, all hands, all hands.
00:50:43
No, after the fact well, and that's why we go big with the
00:50:48
parties on every night here at the at the Texas state.
00:50:51
So we do it right, yeah, well there you go.
00:50:55
Speaker 2: Everyone listen and go check them out.
00:50:57
Speaker 1: Well, how do?
00:50:57
Speaker 2: they find out more information about the just
00:51:00
everything.
00:51:01
The organization, yes, yes.
00:51:02
Speaker 3: So.
00:51:02
So the Texas Sporting Clays Association website is
00:51:06
txclayscom.
00:51:07
If you click, there's several drop downs across the top.
00:51:14
You can click the ones for events and it'll show you the
00:51:16
events we've got going on.
00:51:17
That's where you can find our board of directors meetings that
00:51:21
we hold on the first Tuesday.
00:51:22
I encourage anyone interested, raise your hand.
00:51:26
I think we'll have a few board seats Turning over this next
00:51:30
year from just people that are rotating off, though you know
00:51:33
there are opportunities to serve and and we're not gonna throw
00:51:36
you in the fire on day one you know, come, get on the board of
00:51:40
directors, learn what makes the world go around, learn about the
00:51:42
sport and find a way that you feel comfortable helping and
00:51:46
volunteering.
00:51:46
And then you know, let's, let's, let's make it work.
00:51:49
My contact info, personal contact info, is on that website
00:51:53
, so you can always get ahold of me that way.
00:51:56
And then you know we've really, I think most of our shoots have
00:52:00
kind of consolidated.
00:52:00
We've got a few clubs that still use iClays, but nearly
00:52:05
everything's consolidated on score chaser.
00:52:07
So whenever I'm looking for a shoot, I go to score chaser, I
00:52:11
go to the upper right hand corner and in the search bar if
00:52:13
you just type TX and hit enter, it will just bring up Texas only
00:52:18
clubs, and I'm always looking for a you know a place to a
00:52:22
place to shoot Maybe there's very few that I hadn't been to
00:52:25
anymore after after being the president for four years.
00:52:28
So you know that's all of our Texas clubs are represented
00:52:35
there one way or the other.
00:52:36
Speaker 2: Sounds like it's in line.
00:52:37
So you know, I hope the turnout for the shoot's good and I'm
00:52:41
sure it will be like you said.
00:52:43
Speaker 3: Oh yes.
00:52:43
Speaker 2: Oh yes, you know it sounds like it'll be fun and a
00:52:47
lot of money to win.
00:52:47
So yeah all you.
00:52:49
They got kicked back down a class.
00:52:50
You might want to go out here and try to win some of this
00:52:52
money.
00:52:52
Have your masterclass pen back.
00:52:56
I don't know.
00:52:57
Speaker 3: Yeah what?
00:52:57
You might as well have a hat full in that.
00:52:59
What in that, what Gary said?
00:53:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, four different ones.
00:53:05
Speaker 3: Absolutely so well, last but not least, browning
00:53:08
Riley, can't think those guys enough long range.
00:53:12
Blaser, lincoln, white flyer, jg industrial, wsl, cedar
00:53:17
Gapwell management TSA.
00:53:18
Those are.
00:53:20
I'm forgive me if I've left one off, but those are some of the
00:53:28
sponsors that that have worked to make this a sweet event.
00:53:31
So one last shout out to them.
00:53:32
And I don't know man, let's call it a night.
00:53:35
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm the Texas coming Texas, but first go to
00:53:38
Florida, jack, I'll see you there.
00:53:41
Speaker 3: I'll see you there, you.
