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Trapshooter Champion Leo Harrison III

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2013

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Champion Trapshooter Leo Harrison III passed away August 22, 2013. Tom interviewed Leo back in 2007 at the Grand American World Trap Shooting Championships in Sparta, IL - Here's that interview.

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0:00.0

Sometimes you just have to get the word out and I wanted to do this podcast, a special

0:06.4

podcast for Gun Talk listeners because the trap shooting world has lost a giant. No kidding. Leo Harrison has died at the age of 57. Leo was maybe the best trap shooter of all time, honestly.

0:26.3

He's in the Trap Shooting Hall of Fame.

0:28.3

He has won so many things.

0:30.5

It's hard to even know where to start he's been attending he attended the

0:34.9

grand American trap shoot first time in 1969 and basically just started winning like

0:40.1

crazy he he got 18 grand high overall trophies between 73 and 96. He won the first of his

0:48.6

record nine championships in 1980.

0:53.0

It collected four in a row beginning in 93.

0:56.0

It just goes on and on.

0:58.0

Leo Harrison was really a monster, just a nice, nice guy.

1:03.0

And I wanted to play this.

1:05.0

We have a short interview that we did with Leo, six years ago, 2007.

1:09.0

We were at the Grand American Trap Shoot in Sparta, Illinois.

1:13.4

We had kind of a crummy connection for the phone line,

1:17.6

so it's a little bit scratchy,

1:19.4

but I thought it would be a chance

1:21.5

for some folks who may not have known of Leo to hear a little bit about him, to hear him.

1:27.0

The trap shooting world has lost one of its real icons.

1:32.0

So here is 2007 interview with Leo Harrison.

1:37.0

Tell you what, we are broadcasting over the barbed wire again. We're on the road. It's basically on the road with Gresham if you will. We are live today in Sparta, Illinois. We're at the Grand American Trap Shoot. If you've ever seen a Trap Field, you know where a trap field is, okay?

1:53.7

You got a trap in the middle and you stand around a semi-circle and sometimes it's a combination

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