ELSMORE — In-zone, out-of-zone, young and old competitors are coming to Lone Tree Gun Club Saturday and Sunday. The local gun club is hosting the Kansas Trap Shooting Association (KTA) Eastern Zone Trap Shoot.
“With the weather being nice, we’re expecting between 75 to 100 shooters,” said Betty Wrestler, who with her husband Ron, own and operate Lone Tree Gun Club.
Wrestler said there are 15 squads coming to compete. Competition in several different divisions begins at 9 a.m. Saturday. She said Sunday’s doubles championships and handicap championships start at 9 a.m.
“We encourage people to come out and watch the competition. Our gun club is always open to the public and we have shoots here throughout the year for anyone to enter and compete,” Wrestler said.
Wrestler is an All-American trapshooter and a member of the Kansas Trap Shooting Association Hall of Fame. She was the women’s Grand American Champion in 1991.
Wrestler said the gun club was offering a special to the younger shooters. She said competitors in the juniors and sub-junior divisions can compete in the two-day event for half price.
One of those younger shooters will be 15-year-old Tapanga Turner of LaHarpe. Turner is in her second year of competition and continues to have success on the trap shoot ranges.
At the end of April, Turner won five sub-junior events at the 2011 KTA 2011 Spring Handicap in Wichita.
Turner broke 172 of 200 clay targets in the 200 singles event then hit 142 in the doubles event. She won the overall championship of the 100 handicap, breaking 95 targets while standing at the 19-yard mark from the trap.
In two 100 doubles events she hit 83 and 87 targets, respectively. In the 200 singles, she won by hitting 93 targets then bounced back to win a 100-target handicap with 97 targets at 19.5 yards.
Turner competed in the Missouri Trap Shooters Association’s Missouri State Shoot May 10-15. There she was the high overall, out-of-state winner in sub-junior division. She hit 1,276 of 1,300 targets during the five-day event.
In the Open 100-target singles, Turner was perfect. She broke 100 of 100 from the 16-yard mark for sub-juniors. That came after she hit 97 of 100 in the handicap 100 at 19.5 yards.
She was the Open winner in the 50-pair doubles, hitting 91 of 100 targets. She was the Open sub-junior champion in the 200 singles, 16-yard targets breaking 187.
In the MTA Hall of Fame Handicap, Turner was the out of state champion at 20.5 yards hitting 98 of 100 targets. In 50 pairs doubles, Turner won the sub-junior division with 92 hit targets.
Turner will be a sophomore at Marmaton Valley High School in Moran this fall. She is the daughter of Sean and Lacinda Turner of LaHarpe.
Lone Tree Gun Club hosting KTA Eastern Zone trap shoot
