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Behind The Break

Behind The Break was the first clay target podcasts produced with hosts Justin Barker, Kevin DeMichiel, and Alex Clark. This trio changed the way the sport was advertised, promoted, and brought into the homes of families across the world. The show is not currently in production anymore but some of the episodes are too good not to share.

Latest Episodes:

Dominic Gross Oct 23, 2019

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Dominic's experience as a top competitor has given him a unique understanding of the game that only a few possess. As a member of the U.S. Sporting Clays Team, Dominic has had the opportunity to represent the United States at World Championships and other international events on a multitude of occasions. In addition to titles, he has also set several records including becoming the youngest male PSCA professional shooter in history, and winning a world concurrent title by the largest margin ever recorded.

Grace Callahan Oct 16, 2019

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Grace Started out hunting, and exploring a little in Olympic Bunker trap in high school, I soon learned that sporting clays would become my priority and main interest out of all the shooting sports! SCTP played a major role in my shooting career. I was on the varsity team and all four year of high school we went to Nationals in Sparta, Illinois. I won Lady Championship of my division all four years! I have recently expressed some interest in 3 gun and I would like to see where the future may possibly take me in that discipline.

Todd Hitch Oct 13, 2019

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Todd is 16years old, a junior in High School and lives in Maryville, TN which is in east TN about 30minutes south of Knoxville and about 45 minutes north of where Bill McGuire lives. Todd is Homeschooled which is a co-op set up so he has classes with other kids and they probably have as many options for clubs, teams & activities as a traditional school does. Shooting is a great motivator for Todd - if he doesn't have his homework done, he doesn't get to go to the shoot.

In 2015 Todd started shooting a shotgun at 12 years old when he joined the William Blount SCTP team after a hunting buddy told Todd about SCTP. Until then he had no idea that SCTP and NSCA existed and had never even seen someone shoot a clay target. Coincidentally, their SCTP team practices at the same place where Bill McGuire got started. Todd's great-grandfather (Papa) got him started in hunting and was certainly Todd's biggest fan. The two of them went deer and turkey hunting every chance they got. When we had Papa's funeral service last year at our farm Todd's great-grandmother asked Todd put on small shooting display because nothing would have made Papa happier.

April 2017 Gamaliel - 1st NSCA event ever. Todd thought he was big stuff because the weekend before he had shot his first 100 straight in sporting clays at a charity shoot. He signed up for the NSCA and as an E class shooter at his first NSCA event we put in for ALL options including HOA (even though Rhonda Barfield was kindly discouraging us because people like Wendell Cherry, Bill McGuire and Tom Seay were there).

Moving on to 2018, Todd won the SCTP Nationals Sporting Clays with a 198/200 and in July punched into Master Class.

Now in 2019, Todd ended up in 7th place in the World English at Northbrook after the super final. What's funny is that he didn't even know there was such a thing as a super final until Sunday morning. He about missed the super final not realizing they were going to take the top 6 scores instead of top 6 shooters.

Todd won the NE Regional Sporting Clays at the Cardinal Center in 2019, finished 9th in the SE Regional and is headed out to Texas to make big things happen at Nationals.

Gary Fitzjarrell Oct 02, 2019

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Gary Fitzjarrell is a name that everyone knows. If it is not from the range, then it is from his very popular facebook group, Clay Target Shooters with nearly 13k members and growing rapidly. Gary tells it like it is, but you can always count on a good laugh or a friendly handshake every time you see him.

Gary has been shooting clays his entire life with a list of accomplishments too long to mention here. However, some of his local achievements are a perennial member of the IL All-State Team, 2 Time State FITASC Champion, State Champion and IL State Hall of Fame member since 2005. In addition to his exceptional shooting accomplishments, Gary is also a sought after shooting coach, target setter and is now operating FLC Outfitters full time.FLC Shooting Grounds in White Hall, IL is a members only club, that is open to the public during its monthly tournaments. FLC offers two 12 station sporting courses, 5 stand, full-time practice parcour and a helice ring. FLC Shooting Grounds sits in the middle of the Fitzjarrell Families 1700 acre farm in Western Illinois and is run by IL Hall of Fame member Gary Fitzjarrell. No longer actively farming, Gary has decided to focus on his competitive shooting and running a first-rate gun club. With 25 years of competition shooting for Junior and more than 50 years for Senior, the Fitzjarrells hope this club is one of the best clubs in Illinois.

If foul language bothers you, please o not listen to this episode as it is UNEDITED.

Stories With Bill McGuire Sep 28, 2019

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Bill McGuire was in Macon Georgia at Kevin DeMichiel's house for the weekend for a clinic they were holding over the weekend. We sat down to telling stories and decided to record a podcast episode. We hope that you enjoy the conversation. There is not a lot of clay coaching or technique advice, but we had a good time with it.

Theo Ribbs Sep 14, 2019

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If you are not interested in listening to our opening day dove season stories, fast forward to 12:20

At 15 years old, Theo began his quest to win sporting clay championships by relocating to Texas to pursue a professional shooting career.

Ribbs studied his professional shooting career under legendary sporting clay champion and olympic medalist Dan Carlisle. Carlisle immediately discovered Theo’s natural talent. And at age sixteen quickly rose to become Junior national champion. By twenty-one years old Theo entered the professional ranks with great success winning major championships. His success gathered the attention among other professional athletes from major league sports, who he has tutored and coached to enhance their recreational clay shooting skills.

Vincent Hancock Sep 04, 2019

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Vincent Hancock has been shooting since he was a very young child and started competing when he was 11 years old. Hancock also holds several national records in Men’s Skeet. In 2005, at the young age of 16, Vincent won his first World Championship title in Men’s Skeet and went on to win the prestigious International Shooting Sport Federation’s Shooter of the Year award. His gold-medal victory in London, puts him in elite company having become the first Olympic skeet shooter to win gold medals in the same event in consecutive Olympic Games.

Earning his fourth World Championship title in 2018, Hancock is the first person ever to win four World titles in Men’s Skeet; eclipsing Abdullah Alrashidi of Kuwait and Jury Tsuranov of the Soviet Union. Hancock is also now one of three men in the Shotgun discipline to earn four world titles in his career, joining Michel Carrega of France and Giovanni Pellielo of Italy.

Hancock is a two-time Olympic champion, four-time World Champion, 16-time World Cup medalist (including 12 wins) and five-time World Cup Finals medalist.

Joe Fanizzi #2 Aug 30, 2019

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It has been nearly a year since we had Joe on the podcast and his shooting performance is unbelievable. After a R/U at the 2019 World English Sporting Clay Championship, we had to find out just what it is that he is doing differently. He has his mental game, his physical game and his personal life dialed in and going in the right direction which has led him to great success. He is quickly becoming one of the best shooters out right now and definitely one of the best sub juniors. This episode dives deep into what Joe does as far as practice and how he mentally prepares for tournaments.

Cory Kruse 2019 World Sporting Champion Aug 16, 2019

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The 2019 World English Sporting Championship is over and Cory Kruse brings home the title to Texas. Cory has been on fire all season and it shows at Northbrook Sports Club in Illinois. This episode is a conversation with Cory on what his thoughts were on the targets, the shoot, and the win

Heyward Cunningham - Promatic Traps Aug 05, 2019

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If you follow us on Facebook and Instagram, you know why we named this "The Lost Episode". We are thankful that we were able to save this podcast with Heyward because there is a lot of facts about Promatic and how they make such a hard job look so easy.

Heyward Cunningham, Vice President of Promatic Inc, leads the USA design team. Heyward designs sporting clay courses all over the world and travels the US for the majority of the year. He is also a great target setter as well as shoot support at some major events across the country. Heyward, Jim Moses and the rest of the staff is what makes Promatic the worlds best trap company.

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