The 25th USA Shooting National Shotgun Championships start Sunday and continue through 10 October at the International Shooting Park at Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with competition in Trap and Skeet for both men and women, and for Mixed Teams in Trap.
Both the Trap and Skeet events will be conducted in four stages of 75 + 50 + 75 + 50 targets for a total of 250. The Mixed Team Trap event will be shot in two stages of 75 targets each.
These are the events in which the U.S. had real success at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, where Vincent Hancock won the men’s Skeet title and Caitlin Connor, Kim Rhode and Ashley English swept the women’s Skeet medals.
The 2017 medalists at the U.S. Shotgun Nationals:
∙ Men’s Skeet:
1. 306 Vince Hancock
2. 302 Hayden Stewart
3. 300 Alex Ahlin
∙ Men’s Trap:
1. 285 Derek Haldeman
2. 282 Caleb Lindsey
3. 281 Glenn Eller
∙ Women’s Skeet:
1. 300 Dania Vizzi
2. 296 Caitlin Connor
3. 293 Sam Simonton
∙ Women’s Trap:
1. 285 Ashley Carroll
2. 281 Kayle Browning-Thomas
3. 278 Corey Cogdell
∙ Mixed Team Trap (2-person):
1. 472 Corey Cogdell/Jacke Wallace
2. 462 Kaylee Browning Thomas/Thomas Browning
3. 423 Heidi Bechtold/Jeremy Adkins
Prize money of $750-500-250 will be paid to the medalists in all five divisions. Look for results here.
