Our content will benefit all skill levels, featuring discussions from some of the sport’s best shooters and coaches, as well as product and service specialists.
Most recently at the 2025 US Open, Jamie Peckham had a set the FITASC targets, and in 2024, he set the World FITASC at Game Unlimited, here in the USA. After seeing his targets, and hearing that he travels the world over setting targets, it was time to call him up! Jamie has a unique way of setting a target to make them look not only fun, but easy. Yet he always has the last laugh when the scores are tallied!
This the 3rd installment in our Novice to Masters series, The Pinnacle. This episode is centered around the AA to Master class. However, there is a ton of great information for all to learn from. We are joined by world renowned coach and World Champion shooter, Ben Husthwaite. Ben travels the globe teaching and has led many of his students to tournament and championship wins, in ALL classes, all over the world! He was a perfect fit for the Pinnacle!
While at the 2025 U.S. Open, we finally caught up with Joseph Pinchin! Joe is an amazing young shooter, originally hailing from Jamaica, but raised in Florida. His journey through the SCTP amateur ranks and now into the pro ranks of sporting clays is very interesting and insightful. Joe now calls Covey Rise in Husser Louisiana his home club, where he is teaching now! We are then joined by Shawn Spindel, general manage of Hill ‘N Dale Club in Medina Ohio, to give us the 411 on the upcoming Ohio State Championship! This tournament for 2025 is set to be record breaking for more reasons than one! Not only is registration showing impressive numbers, but Shawn has some new additions to make the shoot event more enjoyable! You don’t want to miss this shoot!
Part 2 of 3, of the Novice to Master series, The Climb! We are joined by Tracy Wright for this episode as Tracy walks us through how he helps his students at this phase of their game. We cover what should be happening past the foundation stages and how you should be progressing, what you should be doing to help you progress, and a whole lot more! This is an episode packed full of great information that will help the B to A class shooter, while being a great refresher for those above this level!
Tracy Wright – darkhorseshootingtw@gmail.com
Welcome to “Novice to Masters”. This is the Foundation, part 1 of our 3 part series. This episode will focus primarily D&C classes, but you will be surprised what you can learn, or may have forgotten from the basics! For this first episode, we have Karen Miles join us from start to finish! Why did we choose Karen for this part 1? Because her and her husband Gebben Miles have taken students from D to Master class very quickly. Some in as little as 3 months! There is a TON of useful information in this episode and even if you are a veteran or at the top level, some of this information can be a great refresher to your game!
For this episode, Mrs. Judy Rhodes of the “Diva’s, Women Outdoors World Wide”. The Divas is a world wide organization for women to help, teach, support, and train women in firearms and shooting sports. Listen and we cover all the ins and outs of this organization, how big they are, how you can join or even help! We are then joined by Michael Hampton Jr. for this month NSCA news segment, to bring you up to date on what’s going on, and what’s to come from the National Sporting Clays Association!
We are joined by renowned sports psychologist Dr. Jason Richardson, along side RAD Chad Roberts for the topic of Sponsorships! Dr. Richardson specializes in working with professional athletes and often helps them navigate sponsorship negotiations. He is also a BMX World Champion, and a Pan-AM gold medalist! Chad Roberts is also a BMX World Champion that works for Shimano and spent many years from the corporate side signing contracts with athletes. Both of our guests have definitely earned the right to speak on sponsorships, and we hope you take some of the great advice they offer in this episode! This is the audio version of the SCOOPS live broadcast!
Rhino Chokes is constantly being innovative and thriving to be at the forefront of technology when it comes to performance. They recently signed with Brandon Powell and have developed a new choke series called the “Alien”, Powell Performance Series. So what’s it all about? How can a simple choke tube perform that much better? Listen in, as we have guests Brandon Powell, along with Scott Dixon of Rhino Chokes join us for this episode to give us all the details of how they developed this new choke, why Brandon wanted something different, and how they perform!
We are joined by one of the owners of Taconic Distilleries, Paul Coughlin. Paul has a very interesting background from not only the distillery, but his shooting journey and how life lead him to where he is today. This was a great interview and we were very privileged to have him join us on this episode and humbled to have him a part of our program! Tune in to hear for yourself! After we wrap up our conversation with Paul, we are joined by Kevin McNamara, supervisor of assembly and service for sporting clays at Kolar Arms, to introduce Ryan Smith, Sales support for dealers and customers. Ryan came to Kolar from Northbrook, and is hitting the ground running. Listen closely because this not only an introduction, but there is a surprise for the upcoming U.S. Open!
The NSCA has been having some problems with their classification system. Instead of making assumptions, we called up Michael Hampton Jr. and asked him directly. While he was on the phone, we talked about the upcoming Championship tour and what everyone can expect as the season starts. We are then joined by Tim Ward of GTW Gunsmithing. Tim is a renowned gun smith and his services are at the pinnacle of the sport. In this episode, we not only highlight his business and the services he offers, but ask the man himself the best way to carry for your firearm between yearly service. Tim Ward – (863)447-4006. For service call Leslie – (772)643-1183 pr gtwgunsmithing@gmail.com