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The dead pair podcast is brought to you by the elite experience Elite shotguns and is fueled by fi PA welcome to the dead pair podcast coming in hot with everything you want to hear about Sporting Clays guti how are you gentlemen thanks for having me Anthony mice Jr how you doing tonight
I’m doing pretty well welcome back David that’s a net positive Cory crew thank you for joining us this even feel awkward with your host Jason Rambo more Red Bull for you and Sean allly woo yeah Christmas let’s do it often imitated but never duplicated it’s the dead pair podcast and now it’s
Showtime what’s up larg and in charge Jason Rambo how the hell you been Buddy oh doing good doing good getting ready to start shooting um Blackjack open and then RC cup then we’ve got the Caribbean Cup and the Jack lyx and the Florida challenge five straight weeks of shooting wow
You’re gonna be wore out by the time that’s all over and done with yes I am yes I am but that’s all right because it’s going to be a pause button until the world sporting and anony um in which by the way we’re talking to Mr Pete Malloy tonight that’s going to be
Hosting the world feet task but um Sean in between now and then we got some sponsors that that really help us out uh thank you very much Elite shotguns appreciate everything you guys do fi ammunition uh love us some fi Sean allly that’s right that’s right re Ranger we
Got to love those react lenses and again we’re still waiting on word for the prescription uh glasses from RE Ranger also American built Atlas traps if you need a trap uh they are a fantastic company to work with and none other than your own Jason Rambo would be happy to
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Courses uh Sean you seen any value in that yet absolutely I mean there’s all kinds of help and I would say that anybody else out there struggling with their game or feel like they’re missing a piece that’s uh that’s what you need to do so yeah for sure um of course Sean
I mean you know our Rhino chokes are I’m loving mine dude I’m I’m you know I’ve played around with this that and the other with all the Rhinos I just some reason man I just keep going back to those 17s I absolutely love them they
Are just perfect same for me and a lot of times I’ll bump between the twelves and the 17s every once in a while I’ll throw that seven in there I mean they all work fantastic as long as you know what you’re shooting um also big thank
You to uh Vero Beach Sporting Clays we appreciate Brian Palmer and his whole crew down there for uh running the dead PA blast we look forward to coming that up or that coming up again the end of this year and also a score Chaser Casey chase the uh the gals over there could
Never get to a shoot without him right Jay that’s absolutely right speaking of score Chaser Sean allly we have a turny talk it’s turny talk brought to you by score Chaser all right guys this one’s been out for a minute we missed it uh but we’re going
To update it now Kansas State Fe task five stand and super sporting Championship will be held at powder Creek shooting Park August 8th through the 11th registrations open hurry up and get in there and get your spot reserved absolutely from what I understand that was a pretty good one last year so uh
Anybody in that area that’s looking to go shoot a really good shoot check that one out um Sean Hey listen by the time we air this within 48 hours we will be we will be drawing the winning ticket for the golf cart the dead pair giveaway
Golf cart uh at Vero Beach uh don’t need to be present to win but you still have some time if you’re just hearing this you got about 48 hours to get your tickets head over to uh dead pair. givesmart.com that’s deadp p.m. comom tickets are 20 bucks each or six
400 um Sean somebody’s going to win this thing it’s man I you know what I’m buying tickets even if I even if I do win it I’m just going to donate it back but uh it’s because of the cause you know I mean it’s for kids and Clays which benefits Ronald McDonald’s house
Charities which is near and dear to Shawn and I uh We’ve preached it and we’ve said it million times and we just we think it’s for a really good cause absolutely Sean I know that uh you’re you’re him hauling and thinking about both the world sporting and Anthony’s
And the world fee task what do you think man you think you’re going to be able to pull one of these off or you going to try last minute or don’t know or what uh I’m 99.9% sure I cannot make the Worlds at Anthony’s just because that time of
Year is is the busiest time for my business so unfortunately got to pass on that one uh World feed task I don’t know let’s see how the world or the you know how how life treats me from between here and there uh just can’t commit at the
Moment though right no I understand it’s tough I mean I’ve had to cut back on some of my travel plans for this year uh like I said I’m doing all five of the Florida swing and then a little bit of a break until uh Anthony’s and then of
Course we got the US Open at uh Northbrook and then the following weekend is the big one at the Cardinal Center the highest state shoot big purse big plans this year uh we’re up and everything Sean and I are both on the board lots of big plans um we’re really
Striving to have a good event for everyone so if you can check that out it’s the week after the US Open uh in August so that’s going to be a good shoot but I you know Sean we’ve talked about that uh of course we had the path series on planning shoots and traveling
And everything the expense that comes with it and it’s it’s a lot it’s it can be can be a little bit overwhelming I mean you and I try a little bit harder because of this podcast we want to get out and and and meet people and talk to
People and uh but it’s for the average average person that shoots on the weekends it’s very tough to do some of these traveling it it is but you know we have to we’ve said it time and time again you kind of have to plan this as a
Vacation if you’re going to go to one of these big shoots um you know whether or not you take the family along that’s up to you uh but you know treat it as a vacation take some time off work so that that way you’re relaxed and you go out
There and actually enjoy yourself if you’re going to spend the money and take the time to do it that’s that’s the best way to go absolutely well speaking of travel let’s get Mr Pete Malloy on from game unlimited um I want to hear all about this world championship and uh
Hopefully he can give some information anybody that’s thinking about going I know it’s a little tricky for the sign up process so maybe he can help us with some of that but Sean what do you say we get peed on the phone let’s make it happen
The all right on the phone with us Mr Pete Malloy from game game unlimited how you doing Pete I’m doing pretty well how you guys doing we’re doing fantastic Pete thanks so much for taking some time and uh sitting down to talk with us yeah thanks for having us on we’re real
Excited about world beats has coming up this summer absolutely well Pete let’s start off on some easy stuff uh for our listeners that may not know who you are can you give us a little bit of background about yourself you know how you got started into Sporting Clays uh
Just give us some history there if you don’t mind yeah yeah so uh I was born into the business uh my dad uh had started things out here we’re a hunting club so pheasants uh chucker Upland game quail and we also did ducks a long time ago as
Well for pass shooting so I was kind of cutting my teeth as a kid uh you know doing the basic chores and and uh daily business with the hunting club and then in the 90s when I was in uh I think 1991 I was in seventh grade and uh my
Dad started uh sporting plays out here the horse and Hunt Club had just kind of got that going I think they were one of the first clubs in the country to get sporting plays going with range Valia over there and that was was uh um 19 maybe 1988 and they’re about 45 minutes
From us so some club members uh had come out and told my dad hey they got sporting plays and he didn’t know anything about it so I was the number one go-to guy trapping all day long I used to have uh dreams of people calling pole yeah yeah so I I I real
Quickly uh realized that I needed to get pretty good at sports so I didn’t have to do that all day long so I put lot Sports going up but uh the Sporting Clays game kind of started in 1990 I wasn’t really I never really shot much
Or was too involved I was busy uh with sports playing in the in high school I played the football basketball baseball and then soccer a little bit later on communed to St Paul Academy the high school I went to it’s a private school about about 35 uh miles from the house
Here out the farm and uh car pull there and kind of get on the sports there and after uh after College you kind of get into the play soccer in college and then you kind of get to a point in your life I had kids young so my son now Tyler’s
23 my daughter’s 22 and my my youngest son Jackson’s 17 they all work for me right now as well so it’s kind of a family Family Affair it’s been like that for a long time so very very cool so that was pretty uh that was kind of how
The sporting CL started and then and it was funny enough the I I’ll give you a quick little story how I realized this was kind of a big deal because back in the day in the 90s I mean most of the people that came out were just you know
Shooting some Clays and drinking beer when they’re done right I didn’t see the competitive side of it it kind of felt like a frisbee golf with a shotgun you know and I’m just pulling I see how serious the guys are and if I could throw those true pairs real tight I
Realize I get more uh more tips from the guys so it was they were getting pretty competitive and then uh I went to the Minnesota horse and hunt in 20 2002 and they they had the US Open so some guy uh that was a member said hey
They got this US Open they should come check it out so I went over there and I couldn’t believe it they had automatic traps they got automatic catch this stuff there’s a thousand people there I think it was the biggest US Open to that
Point for sure and uh it was a real eye eye opener of how big a big of a game it was so that was really neat and interesting so I was just walking around the course I think I was probably about 25 at that time maybe 24 walking around
The course and I saw these two saw these two young kids and they were just lighting up just hitting everything I was following around talking to them pretty nice uh pretty nice kids they’re just just tearing the course up this guy comes up to me and he goes hey uh do you
Mind not talking to them anymore they’re they’re competing you know I didn’t know it was that serious so I oh okay so I backed off and comes out down the down the road I found out that was uh Anthony mes and Cory Cruz shooting and Dan Carlile is a guy that
Came up to me and said hey give him a little break they’re competing I go oh man so that was my introduction the the the game and I came back and told my dad I said hey this is pretty cool I think there’s something here at this
Tournament stuff let’s get some traps so uh we got some traps backed in from Lincoln and rod rod at shidos and uh started got some traps and uh we realized that you know Johnny call in sick because he wants to go to the lake uh with his girlfriend and all of a
Sudden I’m stuck pulling all the time we’re trying to find other people to pull so uh we got the automatic traps and that’s kind of where it started and that’s about 20 years ago for me I’m kind of getting in the game and and learning how to do it i’ go to shoots
And tournaments just to kind of get a feel of what it was all about and what the shooters expectations were and and uh how to throw targets and how to set targets and you know to shoot some tournaments and I was competitive growing up so I just anyone that’s
Competitive naturally enjoys the game so just kind of started shooting and enjoying the game and and Through the Years just kind of kind of picked up on uh how to throw events and started first tournament in 2004 and I took operations over in 2018 and we kind of started
Taking off and did our first Regional in 2021 wow well Pete very cool tell for those that haven’t been to game unlimited tell us about the facility like how big is it how many courses do you have what all do you have to offer there yeah so we have uh 800 acres out
Here pretty nice rolling terrain um really really nice for you know Target Setter dream as far as that goes because got a lot of stuff we can throw below your feet you know combination of woods uh you know Open Fields And so you kind of have the full variety that everyone’s
Looking for and the ameni we’re just we’re just close to town we got about 20,000 people in Hudson great restaurants uh it’s a it’s a tourist kind of town right off the San Cory river which is is one of the seven Scenic riverways in the United States so
It’s just a really cool area and we’re close to the Twin Cities which has a major uh airport Hub you know about 45 minutes away for international travel direct flights everywhere so um that that’s really nice with the club itself uh we do four sporting plays courses
With 50 targets um typically going all the time in the winter time we slow down up up North for those of you guys that are down south I don’t think they know what indoor heated fand is no no no but when it’s minus 20 uh we tend to
Just shoot inside turn the radiant heat tube on throw the lights on and shoot right out the windows of the clubhouse so that’s uh pretty neat we have about 500 Shooters in our summer league and 250ish in the in the winter league but because you can only fit so many people
Through five windows but uh that’s kind of the feat task we do a lot of that I’m a big I’m a big uh fetas Enthusiast it’s my favorite game of all the disciplines um just because of the variety maybe it’s my I have a little bit of add maybe so I don’t like
Shooting the same targets over and over so ABCD give be a nice little VAR there we got some practice parkour we always have set up and 120 traps on GRS very cool very cool um well let’s let’s dive into uh talking about the worlds here so
Obviously you know this is a huge event um and then specifically for fee task who do you got set in targets for this is there more than one person involved yeah I kind of just put a team together of a lot of guys that I’ve known over
The years you know everyone has a lot of experience um Jamie pekham came over in October I worked with him a bit at Caribou when Caribou had the world feed task in 2015 I set uh some side events on that like super sporting and some Jamie was working on the main event with
Some of the other guys Steve no’s on that course as well I got Steve M helping out he’s a Wisconsin guy and a Hall of Famer been around the game a long time uh Gary Fitzgerald’s a buddy of mine so I got Gary coming up uh you
Know running a club I always look for guys that have experience in the field um not with the target setting but just you know how to run Logistics and the operation if something happens got a guy with experience that knows how to take care of something real quick put fires
Out so Gary’s helping out my my son Tyler’s getting pretty experienced now my rightand guy Nate wable he’s a top top shooter as well he’s 27 but he’s been in the game as whole life as well so he’s he’ll be working on set targets myself uh I talked with John Krueger
I’ve known John for a long time I know he was G to help out a bit so we’re just gonna have a big Cong glamor of guys working on things and Jam’s kind of Jamie and I kind of put the main event together as far as where we’re going to
Have the parkour and the layouts and all the side events gotcha well what about let me just ask you this a real quick question I’ll let Jason take off um with this being a world event you’ve got shooters coming in from all over the place do you
Guys have to approach this a little bit differently as far as your choice of targets versus if this was a strictly you know United States Fe task tournament well you know I’ve shot uh I’ve shot two domestically I shot the world at uh at H and hunt in 2006 look
At those numbers they had uh just under 600 shooters for that event and then we had uh um Caribou had uh just over 600 shooters that there’s and we’ve already have about almost 1,00 Shooters signed up right now so it’s a pretty a pretty big turnout and it’s about a 6040 split
With uh people from the states and uh people abroad so there’s going to be a lot of people from around the world and I went to hungry this last year just to kind of get a flavor of what the European games like and they have they have some big boy targets over there
I’ll tell you that and uh coming over here for our event you know my my thought process is uh we’re we’re going to throw it along the lines so what what we like to do over here and what we think are good targets but the the Paris
Has a vetting team so they go through it the FAS Federation so they’ll kind of look and make sure they’re up to standards for what their expectations are as well but I think we got a pretty good handle on it as far as T Target colors and backgrounds and that kind of
Stuff it’s just going to be a great mix and that’s a beautiful thing about new style feed task you know you have four you have four pegs on each parkour so basically like four different completely different layouts and uh 15 traps on each parkour versus five on old style
You’re going to get a ton of variety you know some obviously you’re going to be a little more challenging than others but you’re going to shoot a lot of singles so you’re going to shoot 120 singles and so you can throw a little bit more challenging targets at time and
You might not throw it in your pair so you’re going to shoot four singles and one pair and move on your next Peg that’s awesome it sounds like you’ve definitely done your homework I mean going over to Hungary and checking out you know like you said the European
Flare if you will um very impressive uh especially after you said that you’re friends with Gary Fitzgerald uh no just kidding Gary we love you buddy I’m just joking so uh but no I love Gary oh he’s he’s a wild card let me tell you um so
Is there still room left and this is kind of a two-part question is there still room left if people want to sign up first of all there there’s still a there’s still a room left there’s just not a lot of room I mean 1,200 is a Max
For the event just for with how many people we can run through it and we’re almost at 1100 so I’d recommend that if anybody you know wants to shoot the event there thinking about it they should sign up for it I’m sure there’ll be some cancellations where people can
Get in last minute as well but uh yeah you’re not going to want to wait around too long well now here’s the other part of that is the registration itself um I know the side games are done through score Chaser but for the people that
Want to compete in the world Fe task uh Main Event um it’s you might want to well I’ll tell you what Pete why don’t you just walk us through that because that can be a little tricky um if you’re not signed up with the world P task
Federation or whatever it can be very tricky to get through that website you want to kind of help you know the new guy get through that yeah I mean it’s it’s not an easy process I know I did it last year for uh when I went to Hungary
You just had to get on the fat ass website and uh kind of just kind of go through the instructions there and if anyone has any issues I’ve had a lot of people calling me up and I’m kind of walking through it or I’ve had someone else walking through it because it’s
Kind of one of those this just it’s just different than when you’re used to right I mean just from wi score back in the day and getting used to score Chaser you know we have score chaser for all the side events um everyone’s kind of got
ACC custom to that but you know it’s not that often that you shoot a world feed task event so it’s just kind of a new process and once you get on there you can kind of work your way through it and if anyone has any questions my my
Numberers on there you can call me directly and I’m more than help more than happy to help people help people go through it yeah well I think that’s you know like just as an example so everybody understands you have to have a Shooter’s card that is registered with
The world fee task I mean first and foremost before you can even start to register it’s not just going in hey I want to shoot this and here’s my number nah it’s not that easy right and then when you and when you do sign up I mean
You sign up for at AM or PM so a lot of people don’t really understand how that works either so if you sign up for the am time slot that means when the main event starts on Thursday you’re going to be shooting in the AM and then it’s
Going to alternate on Friday you’re going to shoot the PM then Saturday you’re going to shootting at am and Sunday you’re going to shooting at pm and vice versa if you sign up for PM so when you sign up for side events if you’re at am on Thursday you want to
Sign up for side events on the PM right and the score Chaser team is going to be there to make any adjustments if necessary because you know you may have a situation where you’re not going to get your exact shooting times until Wednesday night the opening ceremonies
Right that’s kind of how they had they have it set up so everybody attends it’s kind of a big deal in Europe it was really neat last year at their Opening Ceremonies and we have a really cool venue set up downtown Hudson um right on
The river it’s a you know it’s just it’s a really cool spot and uh lot lots happening down there and that’s going to be pretty neat and then right after the open ceremonies we have uh two river boats that can uh seat 500 people for a cocktail after if anyone wants to do
That it’s right next to the opening ceremony oh cool beautiful venue so you can sign up for that under amenities on scor Chaser if you’re interested in doing the river cruise which I would recommend for anybody that that wants that spring their family with or something like that
Hey Pete do you know I mean is this is everybody GNA start at the first Peg and go on are they doing anything like that are you doing anything like that I should say um you know P handles all of that par does I’m not exactly positive how
They have their line set up but they have all their line stuff they can get the maximum amount of Shooters through at the 12200 so you’re just kind of filtering on all day long so you’re going to shoot two parkour if I this is
How it was for last year when I did it I’m assuming it’s the same um you’re going to shoot like one and two and then you can get shuted out or take a golf cart and I highly recommend getting a golf cart because we’re really spread
Out I mean to the to the farthest parkour from the clubhouse is two miles away oh my gosh looking at yeah so we do have shuttle service for the main event I’m not going to have shuttle servers for the side for the side games so I would recommend getting a golf cart if
Uh or a lot of people have their own carts they they car you know they haul with them but you know for the people that are flying in um definitely recommend it in a golf cart as score Chaser but uh so you’ll basically what you’ll do is you’re going to shoot like
Parkour one and two on one day and then you’re going to shoot parkour three and four the next day and each parkour is kind of staged so you they’re in pairs so he can get to one spot and easily walk around once you get shuttled there
So that’s not a problem at all gotcha well Pete I want to Circle back I know you kind of rattled off some quick answers on the amenities and what’s local uh there around your area uh did you mention uh the airport or the airports that are closest to fly into
Yeah Minneapolis St Paul that’s airp right right right next to the Mall of America for any the ladies coming at like your shop you know obviously the largest mall in America gotcha no problem uh and then what about camping do you guys have anything there on the
Grounds or is there local camping for people that are coming in with like RVS and stuff so we have dry camping available for you know as many as many you know unlimited acreage for that so we have that all set up for dry camping if people want hookup so they want
Something specific you know only a few miles away is a Willow River State Park they three miles away okay great spot um they have all the amenities and hookups for for their big RVs and campers and there’s also uh Apple River has some tubing areas they have that’s about seven miles away
And there’s a lot of camping opportunities over there too okay very cool very cool uh and then any hotels running any specials because of this events or any any particular ones that the people should reach out to just in case yeah you know there’s a we have a a
Site set up for this and yeah it’s a www.224.com and I have uh Julia with uh HOA Sports um has been working with us and she’s set up things with our the vendors and sponsors as well as a websit so for any any changes or or any live updates or
Whatnot people can just kind of check that website out and get a little bit more of a better feel for things gotcha and then actually you’re you you said part of my next question uh vendors any vendors you want to mention or throw a shout out to that are going to be there
Yeah there’s uh this kind of the the normal industry people we got great support you know from from everybody for the shoot we’re really excited about that but you know locally uh Federal Remington you know they’ve always been a big part of every event that we’ve done
Here um so they’re they’re going to be a big part of the event traumatic you know you can’t do a major event these days without that crew and their team is just phenomenal and I’ve worked with those guys uh several times now with the regional and state shoots and so they’re
Going to be here bringing traps for the m um Polaris is a sponsor gor Koff F Beretta Winchester um vendors as far as uh in the vortex BMP and Briley are also sponsors on the courses and then vendors is Winchester Brea F K gor pratic Carlson Sporting Arms shell R Us be Pelt
Wisconsin uh USA shooting accessories Bry electronic hearing protection uh wly shooting and federal remon fantastic that’s awesome well we’ll make sure and put the link to that website right down in the show description uh if anybody’s looking for that um they can find it there easy enough Pete give us your your
Take On The World of sporting or or and or feas both just let’s let’s just put it as sporting Targets in the world right now you know there’s been a lot of talk about it’s getting more expensive to travel uh you know it’s really going to start detering things but we still
See the bigger tournaments the numbers are increasing what are you seeing there at game unlimited what’s what’s your temperature on the economy of shooting right now well I’ve seen all the all the shoots uh all the big shoots are going up in numbers every year I mean that’s
Just been a constant ever ever since Co especially it seems like people kind of got into the game and uh they find a hobby and you know it’s a recreational game that’s and you know people are spending their recreational money so there’s only so much they can do but
This is this just such an addicting sport that I you know I have you have all the kids getting involved now and their parents are getting involved and it’s just the competition has grown quite a bit I mean I know the liy cougal uh 200 that we we started doing in I think
2015 you know the first year we had that 55 Shooters and every year it went up and now we’re over 300 Shooters just for a regular regular Fun Shoot you know which is it’s a great event but those those types of things are growing and it just kind of comes down
To the clubs outside of a major of throwing an event that the shooters say Hey you know this is a great shoot like our L cougal you have a fish fry that’s shelter us does Saturday evening you know our make a break shootout we have a live band there everybody hangs around
And that’s one thing you’ll see in in the the Midwest especially you know Wisconsin the Wisconsin area we have a real strong group of of H competitors that like to hang out and have a good time you know it’s like when you go to other club or other states like I’ve
Been to you know you see everyone shoot and they get out you come to Wisconsin and it’s a party everyone’s hanging out you know there’s if you have 400 people the state shoot there’s 450 people to 500 people hanging out you know after the shoots done on Saturday night so you
Know between the the I guess we’re a beer drinking State up here I don’t know tell you if you like if you like if you like beer cheese and Clays come on well you know it’s funny because I was I was talking to uh rilov here a
While back and one of the biggest complaints that sea and I had well first of all back in the day like in the 90s when sea and I were shooting it it was it was an all day Affair I mean you just didn’t shoot and throw your gun in the
Truck and go home I mean you you hung out I mean everybody had dinner had drinks whatever we kind of seem to get away from that for quite a while um you know as little as five six years ago but now it seems like people are starting to hang out more people are
Starting to enjoy the experience more the dinners are getting more elaborate the you know the giveaways are increasing also but it just seems like that’s starting to come back a little bit would you agree with that yeah I mean it comes down to the clubs and I
Always feel that the the club Owners or the managers or whoever whoever’s involved has a real passion for the and to put on the best shows and that’s no different than than up here a lot place I’ve been to you want you’re you’re trying to have value for your your
Customers and have an experience for them so it’s not just a competition it’s the it’s just the whole the body of work that you put on so that’s what we do up here we’re real family orientated everyone comes out hangs out it’s a big party it’s a lot of fun and it’s just
It’s it’s infectious when you see you know if there’s nobody hanging out people are just going to go they’re just going to go back to their hotel you go go to dinner with a few of their friends that they know or some of the you know shooter friends that travel to all the
Big tournaments but then they when they come to places like ours and go oh man everyone’s hanging out well let’s hang out too yeah and sometimes they they hang out a little too late you know and have a little too much fun and they go
Man this was one of the greatest shs i’ ever been to I not [ __ ] like crap but so that’s kind of what our that’s what my focus is and I think a lot of the clubs that that f focus on having a good time the shooters really enjoy it
And you know the weather is obviously always a factor it’s always more fun when it’s nice out but uh beyond that I think that’s kind of the goal that most clubs should shoot for right now is just uh making sure you have all your your your tees crossed and your eyes do Sean
How many times have we heard Jake Spangler at the Cardinal Center say that you know we’re in the entertainment business and it always seems like whenever they throw a shoot everybody hangs out you know they they they’ve got good food and and everybody’s you know hanging out and hooping and hollering
Afterwards so it sounds Pete to me like that’s what you’ve created there yeah that’s what I’ve always there’s there’s a there’s a strategy to it sometimes I mean like for example like our lonies I I typically you know you gotta you got to gear it towards the crowd that you
Have coming to so that’s more of a local Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa kind of Illinois our region for shoot like that and I have Saturday nice and you know nothing nothing too tough and and fun course and everyone has a good time and then and then I Crank It Up on
Championship Sunday I always call it Championship Sunday and throw more of like a regional course right or something that’s a lot tougher that way everyone’s kind of you know I don’t have to hear them complain on their way out the door and then they come come back next year
So that’s been there’s a little bit you know everyone feels pretty good Saturday they want to hang out and talk about it you know and then on Sunday you you separate uh you separate uh the you know the top end guys so give them a chance
To kind of compete and uh duke it out well Pete I’ll be honest I don’t know about Jason but you had me at Fish Fry when I heard that I’m like man I got to go to Wisconsin now because I don’t think I mean it’s like I
I I’ve never been to a shoot where they’ve had you know some fried walleye or perch or something like that on the menu that would be awesome yeah no so we uh yeah we we we pride ourselves on having some good food and and have a good atmosphere but you know then then
Again there you know there’s some new have some new ideas and try to have some uh you know Forward Thinking on things and all I know with this year’s event I’m going to do a couple things a little bit different um than than done in the
Past uh we’re going to have uh you know super sporting side events running Monday Tuesday Wednesday on three different courses um 66 6668 kind of US Open style and just kind of get people warmed up for the Fe task event and uh anyone that shoots all three courses
Toing 200 targets is in for $20,000 out of money wow or you can just shoot a 66 Target event if you you know one day if you want or if you’re coming on Wednesday you can just sign up for all three shoot all 200 in one day you know
Um but they’ll all be punched uh separately and then used as a combined score for the for the added money that is very cool then we’re goingon to do that on H Thursday Friday Saturday in a sporting format that same thing excellent and then on the Fe task
I know this will get some people they can start preparing right now I’ll give them the preview is uh you know you have 15 seconds and in Fe task and it’s really difficult for referees to pay attention to how much time and watch the
Line and all that so I’m going to try to simplify it and just kind of like the NBA I’m gonna put a shot clock in front of every hoop and when that Barrel cracks open the referee can hit the button and it counts down so there’s no discrepancy on time it’s right there
It’s kind of like the the police officers right there enforcing the rule and and I think it’s going to move a shoot along a little bit quicker too that’s very cool that’s a great idea heck yeah heck yeah so anyway one that takes a little bit more time or is
Pressing the limit uh it’ll be right there for everybody to see and I just got to get their shot off what as the rules are so that’s something a little bit different that I want to try to and see if we can keep the flow of the game
Moving pretty quick um and uh keep everybody on time as far as side events and different things but the main event obviously is where all the focus is going to be and then the side events is uh you know put a lot of Pride and targets and everything else as well but
Um you know you’re going to have 1100 Shooters shooting the main event most likely 1200 Shooters so he want that thing to move along yeah well new style fetal is definitely going to help that too you know so but that’s that’s awesome I mean it sounds to me like
You’ve got things ironed out and this sounds to me like it’s going to be a great event yeah no we’re really we’re really looking forward just to having everybody back you know we did that Regional in 21 and it was great just to have so much positive feedback from all the you know
The top shooters that you hear about you know Z Ken bomb had a lot of great comments on social media you know braxon Oliver you know said we’re you one of the top clubs in the country after this and nobody really knew who we were right at that point and you know David
Radulovich was up here shooting that one I think he was uh finishing the top three Joe FY won that one um that year we had it so that was our showcase really to get everybody up here and the feedback at every shoot I’ve been to since then you know a lot of the
Traveling Shooters have been real excited about coming back and said it was a great event so that makes you you know as a club feel really good that you put in the effort and and uh it worked out really well so now it’s the chance
To kind of show on a global stage gotcha very cool well Pete have we missed anything have we left anything out or anything that you want to mention before we wrap this up you know I think uh we got a pretty good uh pretty pretty good coverage on everything um Opening
Ceremonies we’re looking forward to that as well it’s kind a big part of event so I really recommend everybody gets down to that and uh does a river cruise um for you know hour and a half after that a little [ __ ] Tower cocktail hour down the river um just the community as a
Whole you know Hudson area Still Water that’s in Minnesota so it’s a great River Valley area for a lot of uh fun stuff to do um after the shoot so I think everyone’s going to love love the area and uh you know we got great support from all our sponsors and uh and
People that are going to be vending and and the shooters have been super extremely supportive because uh registration opened up in November we’re approaching 1100 Shooters so um right now we’re just uh preparing and putting Logistics together everything and you know your referees and your Trappers and
All that kind of stuff is always a a big commitment for for people so that uh we’re we’re excited about having you guys uh up here and throwing throwing a great event I’d look forward to yeah well Pete thank you very much sir uh appreciate you spend a few minutes with
Us here this evening and um like I said we’re going to put that link down in the show description if there’s anything else else you think we need to add in there let me know I’ll make sure and get it in there for everybody but uh sounds
Like you you know what I just thought about boys I just thought about this I’m G to do something another thing that’s kind of different and tell me what you guys think about it that’s an idea I Ran by A promatic and they were on board and they’ve been super supportive over the
Years I was thinking about leaving the main event up on Monday and for coaches from you know I know Ben hus white was talking about doing some coaching and some other coaches leaving the main event up you pay a $300 flat rate and just shoot as much as you want to shoot
All day long oh my goodness wow all on all the main event targets so if you traveled up here and you shot the 200 Target event how many times you shoot an event you go man I could not hit that you know that 60 yard bat too or
Whatever it may be or that 45 yard bird right there it does not look that difficult but I just never touched it you know just give guys a chance to go out there and just bang all day long if they want to shoot uh 10 cases of shells
They can shoot 10 cases of shells they just birds that can work on a few birds so what do you guys think about that wow what an opportunity I like it I mean seriously right I’ve never even heard anything like that that that’s just that’s awesome Pete I think that’s a
Fantastic idea that’s awesome so yeah we’re I’m GNA I’m planning on running with that it was just kind of something I was kicking around and I wanted to make sure pratic was okay with it and uh and I had a couple guys you know you
Know bring it up to me and I go you know I think that’s a pretty good idea actually nothing ventured nothing game let’s give a wh and see uh See if see if there’s any legs to it there you go there you go good idea well Sean sounds
Like Sean sounds like you need to pack an extra 300 bucks and spend an extra day y just like everything else man The Bucket List keeps growing and growing doesn’t it well thanks a lot boys for the opportunity I appreciate you reaching out and look forward to seeing you guys
Down in h Florida here the next few weeks oh you coming down our pleasure um I’ll be down there for the Caribbean and the Jack Links yep I’ll be there for that sounds to me like you need to venture over to the dead pair patio at
Vero and and maybe have have an adult beverage with us so well absolutely absolutely I’ll be I’ll be I would love that awesome well pet it was an absolute pleasure to have you on here buddy I mean again really great talking to you me and Jason haven’t really spent too
Much time with you but uh definitely looking forward to seeing you again yeah sounds great guys look forward to seeing you talk to you later uh byebye well Sean allly I guarantee you’re itching it the bit to get up there now well that was a lot of great
Information uh you know big thanks to Pete for laying the smackdown on that I mean that is uh a lot of stuff happening up there yeah but it sounds like an exciting event um and it is the world fee task uh I mean Sean I know you were
Thinking about going I bet you’re thinking harder now aren’t you I’m definitely thinking a lot harder now especially with all the stuff going on I mean that was impressive man they’re going to have a lot of stuff there a lot of vendors there not to mention you know
People coming in from all over the world well 300 bucks for unlimited Targets on Monday to work on something that’s a that’s an opportunity right there that’s a deal that is a deal well hey you know everybody we’ve we’ve talked about it uh over and over and over again about
Planning shoots uh go back and listen to our path series that we did you know this is a big one this is the world Fe task uh anony is having the world sporting uh Pete Malloy is at game unlimited is having the World vas this is two World Championship events in our
Country this year um and these are big ones now I don’t think you have to be you know at the very top of the game to go and compete there and have fun and enjoy yourself I mean you know how cool is it you get to go shoot in a world
Championship you know it doesn’t matter if you’re a DL shooter or or above you know it it’s it’s an opportunity right Sean yeah and absolutely we made the mistake early on when we started shooting register targets that there were some some tournaments we felt like
Oh we’re not good enough for that or oh we would we just wouldn’t you know do well at that event and it’s has nothing to do with that you just show up it’s the experience you have a good time you’re going to shoot as good as you
Possibly can and you just have to be okay with that right exactly um and you know another thing too there’s been a lot of recent rule changes with the NCA as far as um you know being down classed and how you get classed up and whatnot um heard some
Rumors that they may be doing away with the E-class again uh you know there’s all kinds of things going on so make sure you’re paying attention uh if you are competing in this game follow the follow the rule updates with the nsea pay attention to your emails don’t just
Send them to your spam folder um you know and please for the love of God don’t think that Shawn and I are some kind of uh some kind of experts at the nsea because we’re not um you you got to do your due diligence if you’re going to
Go and compete yeah I think I saw it posted Jason that they were going to do the 202 have the 2023 season wrapped up by the end of January so by the time this podcast releases I would say they should have everything updated but there’s going to be some surprises I
Think for some people because they really stiffened up the criteria I actually uh went and looked at that um definitely going to force a lot of Master Class Shooters out of master class uh I think you have to have 15 punches now and then you got to you got
To be able to maintain above a point4 average I actually think I printed it off here well you don’t now now listen you don’t have to take the down class I know you don’t have to take it but I’m just saying that I think the the most
Logical thing for people wanting to stay in is obviously like somebody like myself who I started off last year in double A and then I punched back up into August now they probably won’t drop me back down to doua because there’s no way I got 15 punches between uh August and
The end of last year however you know the guys that are just kind of hanging on around there uh this kind of UPS the bar a little bit so uh everybody out there just kind of pay attention uh the the rules should be out on the NCA a
Page uh pretty soon if they’re not already um and just kind of be aware that you know you don’t want to go to your first shoot thinking you’re in a class and all of a sudden now you’re in b class or or something like that well
That’s like I said do your due diligence it’s your responsibility to keep track of where you’re at absolutely but um Sean you know we tell everybody every week take someone who shooting take them to a tournament um we’ve got the dead pair challenge for everybody uh you know
One new shooter a month take them out take him take him shooting Sean I’ve challenged you straight up called you out on this podcast where you at my friend have you taken him out yet I know you had somebody in mine Yeah we actually uh had plans for the end of
January so by the time this comes out hopefully with the weather starting to break I’ll have had them out and I’ll be I’ll be having my first check mark off my list okay well everybody look for pictures and updates on social media and if you don’t see it make sure you harass Sean
Allly makes where’s it at Sean we want the proof and let’s not forget get there’s two parts of this partnership buddy so let’s see what you’ve been doing too you make sure you’re getting out there don’t you worry don’t you worry that’s coming it’s coming all righty Sean allly what do we tell
Everybody every week well obviously we tell everybody to get out there enjoy the sport take somebody with you especially make them see what kind of fun this is make them experience the the joy and pleasure of breaking a clay and and hopefully maybe even take some of
Your buddies that you guys do that already and step it up a little bit get into some competition start shooting some register Target right I mean come on it’s it’s a lot of fun absolutely and until next week Mr Ally we can’t wait to see yall back here on the dead pair
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