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BY OLIVIA CLARK Squad ready Scorer ready Pull These words are all too familiar to 17-year-old Bobby Fowler who has been trapshooting for six years. In that time the Christian County High School graduate has won both state and national trapshooting contests. Fowler started trapshooting with the 4-H Sharp Shooters after seeing an advertisement in the newspa- per. Once he started working with the group a friend of Fowlers dad Dean Debow who is a record trap shooter sought him out and suggested that Fowler take his clinic so he did. From then on things moved forward with his suc- cess in trapshooting. In 2010 Fowler started working with the Amateur Trapshooting Association ATA and left 4-H in 2012 to join the associations youth program called Academics Integrity in Marksmanship. The AIM program according to its website allows elementary through college-age shooters the chance to compete in registered competitions on a level playing field either as a team or as an individual. Fowler began competing individually but kept Debow as his coach. Dean has a real mathematical way of looking at this Fowler said. Hes taught me how to properly acquire a target and how to be able to hit it under any circumstance. It takes a lot of practice and a lot of men- tal training. Kentucky tournaments typically have 12 events over a six-day period with entry fees of 25 to 30 per event. The first four days may have three events a day with championship events on the last two days. The events usually include singles one target to hit for 200 times per event doubles two targets to hit for 100 times per event and handicap one target to hit for 100 times per event at a specified range that the shooter qualifies for. In singles and doubles each shooter stands approxi- mately 16 yards away from the trap house or where RIGHT N 28 Ag Families-Summer TARGETG Teendominatesnationalstatetrapshootingcontests