The Florida Trapshooters' Association Hall of Fame was adopted at the Annual Meeting of the Association on Friday, April 7th, 1972 at West Palm Beach, FL.

The Florida Trapshooters' Hall of Fame is a committee dedicated to recognizing and honoring those trapshooters who have distinguished themselves in an outstanding manner in registered trapshooting competition and to recognize and honor those individuals who have devoted themselves in an exceptional manner, voluntarily, without deriving re-numeration in the course of their activities to the general improvement of Trapshooters within the State of Florida.

The first induction was made on April 7, 1973 at Sarasota, Fl.

Bill was an Illinois shooter who retired to Sarasota, Florida about 1948. He was the prime motivator in the formation of the Sarasota Gun Club. He promoted the Gun Club among civic leaders in Sarasota and was the only trapshooter in the area at the time. He obtained a lease from the County on County land for locating the Gun Club and invested much of his own money in the project. In 1953, along with five others, chartered and incorporated the Sarasota Gun Club for the purpose of Trap and Skeet shooting, laying out five fields at the present gun club location. He managed the Club and was Secretary Treasurer until 1963, when ill health forced his retirement. He passed away in 1966. He was a charter member of the Florida Trapshooters' Association and helped to promote shooting in Florida by inaugurating the giving of favors at the Grand American. Bill was a fine shooter along with his other accomplishments and served his State Association as President.

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Punkin Flock has been one of the outstanding women shooters in the United States almost since the very beginning of her shooting career. Through her shotgun, she has given much publicity to the State of Florida, enticing many challengers to our shoots. She has been an inspiration to many beginners, not only among the women, but the men as well, always willing to encourage them and give them helpful tips. Below is listed only a few of the many, many accomplishments credited to her: Florida State Lady 16 Yard Champion - 1948, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974. Florida State Men's and Lady 16 Yard Champion - 1972 with a score of 199x200. The first Woman in the state to win both titles. Women's All American Team - Captain - 1963, 1964, 1965. Co-Captain - 1966, 1968, 1972, 1973. Member - 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975. Trap & Field Award - Twice. Grand American - Champion of Champion Winner - 1963 - 98x100, 1964 - 3rd Place Champion of Champion - 97x100, High Over All King Trophy - 933x1000, 1965 - Winner Class AA Womens' - 195x200, 1966 - Second Place High Over All - 943x200, 1967 - Womens' Clay Target Champion - 193x200, Womens' Class AA Winner - 196x200, Third Place Champion of Champions - 99x100, 1968 - Captain Womens' Grand American Team Champions, Second Place High Over All - 949x1000, 1969 - Second Place Champion of Champions - 196x200, 1971 - Second Place Clay Target Champion - 197x200, 1972 - Winner Womens' Class AA - 196x200, Winner Womens' Class AA Doubles - 81x100

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Willard Gause has undoubtedly been one of the key figures on promoting trapshooting throughout the State of Florida. Willard established the Lealman Rod and Gun Club, now know as the Skyway Trap and Skeet Club, in St Petersburg, Florida in 1947 and operated it until 1971 when he retired. He organized the Seminole Indian Tribe and held many successful Indian shoots until 1970. He served as President of the Florida Trapshooters' Assn. for seven years: 1957-1962 and again in 1964. While President he traveled to every Florida Winter Chain shoot, never missing a day and doing the handicapping wherever he went. He has served on the Florida State Handicapping Committee, servicing the clubs in the Bay Area for the past three years. Among some of his accomplishments as a shooter are the following titles: 1946 - High Over All - Rocky Point Gun Club, Tampa Fl. 1958 - Class B, Handicap Winner and High Over All, Daytona Gun Club, Daytona, Fl. 1959 - Southern Zone Class D Winner. 1961 Southern Zone Class C Winner, Louisville, Ky. 1962 - Southern Zone Class B Winner, Handicap Winner. 1964 - Ohio State Out of State Veteran Winner. 1965 - Grand American Class C Winner. 1965 - Southern Indians - Class C, Class B, Class A Winner All Around.

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Carl Mayhue is an energetic man with one thought in mind - to promote trapshooting in the State of Florida and throughout the Southern Zone. Carl has certainly accomplished this. In 1953 he formed our present organization which is known as the Florida Trapshooters' Association, Inc. He built the first 9 trap field club in the state at Ft. Lauderdale, FL and inaugurated what is now known as the Florida Winter Chain of Shoots. It's former name was the Florida Winter Shoots. Carl founded and published the "Shooters News", a communication medium intended for bringing the shooters together. He held the first annual Florida Banquet in Jacksonville, Fl and started the "Fourth of July Shoot" in 1953 at Daytona Beach. Later he upgraded this shoot to the Florida Summer Championships. Carl is creative as well as energetic, designing the Florida emblem seen on shooting jackets across the country, designed the Florida Gator Award emblem and also designed the Southern Zone Emblem. He initiated the first State Team Race, formed what is now the Southern Zone Trapshooters' Association and rewrote the Florida State Constitution and By-Laws creating the Florida Summer Championships and the Florida Hall of Fame. Carl raised most of the money and built the Florida Building on the ATA grounds and in his spare time did some fine shooting, taking many trophies throughout the Zone at various State Shoots and was Singles Champion of Florida in 1955 at St. Petersburg, Fl with a score of 197x200. He was President of the FTA 1953-1954 and served as ATA Delegate in the years of 1956, 1959, 1960, 1973 and 1974.

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Jasper Williams has been shooting since 1956 and in those 21 years has a life time average of about 97%. During that time he won at least fourteen various championships in our state. He served as President of the FTA in 1969 and was ATA Delegate in 1970. Jasper was chairman of the Southern Zone shoot held at Palm Beach, Fl in 1969, which was one of the most successful ever held. Some of the many accomplishment of Jasper are listed below: First Fl shooter to reach 27 Yards. First Fl shooter to make the Mens' All American Trap Teams in 1970, 1971, and 1972. First Fl shooter to break 100 straight at doubles, accomplishing this feat twice. Holds long run singles record of registered 575 straight, in Fl. Hold long run doubles record of registered 212 straight, in Fl. Has been named to the Fl Mens' All State Team every year since its beginning, but one and was Captain most of those years. Has several scores of 99 at Doubles, three scores of 98 from the 27 yard line and a 99 from the 20 yard, 24 yard and 26 yard line. Fl Doubles Champion in 1957, 1961, 1966, 1968, 1971 and 1974. Fl Singles Champion in 1961 with 198x200 and in 1970 with 200x200, Runner Up in 1957. Fl Class AA Champion in 1963, 1969 and 11970. Fl State All Around in 1957, 1961, 1966, 1970, 1971. Held the Fl High Over All several years. Southern Zone Doubles Champion with 99x100, All Around Champion with 390x400 in 1969. Southern Zone Class AA Champion with 199x200, Doubles Champion with 99x100 and All Around Champion in 1970. Was the Southern Zone High Gun in Singles, Doubles and International at the Grand American in 1970. Broke a 97 in the Preliminary Handicap at the Grand American in 1976, from the 27 yard line.

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Sonny Hewes's record in Florida starts back in the year 1956 and has continued to the present time. He has held the Florida State Singles Championship eight times as well as having earned the Handicap Championship and All Around. Sonny is the only Florida Shooter in the Mens' division to have won the Grand American Champion of Champions Event. Following is but a few of the outstanding contributions he has made to the glory of Florida Shooting: Singles Champion - 1956 - 198x200. 1962 - 194x200. 1963 - 198x200. 1964 - 196x200. 1965 - 196x200. 1967 - 200x200. 1968 - 199x200. 1977 - 200x200. Handicap Champion - 1968 - 26 yards - 97x100. All Around Champion - 1962 - 358x400. 1965 - 378x400. 1968 - 389x400. We are all very proud of this fine man's record, his sense of humor and his wonderful sportsmanship.

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Bart Geiger first appears in our Florida History Book of Trapshooting in the year 1939. He is known throughout the State for his many contributions to struggling Clubs and the helping hand he has given to many new and aspiring young shooters. He contributed to the promotion of our Sport and the betterment of our Florida  Trapshooters Association in the struggling early years of it's conception by serving as a Director on the Board in the years 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943. He retired the J. B. Royal Trophy in 1955 which had been in circulation for 27 years, replacing it with an All Around Trophy which was retired in 1977. He replaced the All Around Trophy with a Perpetual Trophy which any shooter in the country would be very proud to win. His generosity does not stop with perpetual trophies, having registered his 75,000 single target in Tampa, Fl in 1962 and now having over 150,000 registered targets. Bart has a very fine record of wins under his belt, some of which are listed below:  1939 - 16 Yard Singles Runner Up Champion - 194x200. 1940, 1945, 1947, 1951, 1955 - Florida State Doubles Champion. 1950, 1953 - Fl State Doubles Runner Up. 1961 - Class A Doubles Champion. 1943 - Class B Champion Singles - 1959 - Class D Champion Singles. 1941 - Class B Singles Runner Up. 1940 - All Around Champion - 1953 - All Around Runner Up. 1953 - Florida Singles Champion. 1943 - Handicap Runner Up Champion. All of us in Florida feel highly enriched for knowing him and extremely proud to be called his friend.

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Norma Jeanne Hilton registered her first 300 targets in 1962 and now has over 60,000 singles targets registered with 24 100 straights to her credit. She served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Florida State Trapshooters' Association in the years of 1972, 1973, 1974, and was elected as the first woman President of the FTA in 1976. Her service to the trapshooting world has not been confined to her home state, having been appointed to the ATA-NRA Olympics Committee in 1977 and was the first woman to serve on the Handicapping and Classifying Committee at the Grand American in 1978. Norma's first major wins were recorded in the West when she was the 1964 Lady Handicap Champion at the Golden  West Grand in Reno and the California State Lady Singles Champion in 1965. She returned to her home state of Florida in 1966. She has taken major titles at all three levels of trapshooting - Grand American, Zone and State as indicated below: Grand American - 1970 - McCarty Handicap Hi Lady 94x100. 1974 - Lady Class A Champion 197x200. 1977 - Runner Up Lady Champion of Champions 100x100. Southern Zone - 1970 - Lady Singles Champion, Lady Class Champion, Lady Hi Over All and Parent & Child. 1973 - Lady Singles Champion. 1974 - Lady Singles Champion - Class A Champion. 1975 - Lady Singles Champion, Lady Class Champion. 1977 - Lady Class Champion. 1978 - Lady Class Champion. Florida State - 1967 - Lady Runner Up Singles, Lady Handicap Champ, Class A Champion, Class C Doubles Champion. 1968 - Open Singles Lady Champion. 1969 - Hi Over All Lady. 1970 - Lady Handicap Champion. 1971 Lady Singles Champion, Open Lady Handicap, Fl All Around Lady, Open Hi Over All Lady. 1972 - Lady Singles Runner Up. 1973 - Lady Doubles Champion. 1974 - Lady Singles Runner Up, Fl Summer Lady Singles Champion, Fl All Around Lady, Fl Summer Lady Singles Champion. 1976 - Class A Runner Up, Lady Singles Runner Up, Lady Doubles Champion, Fl High Over All Lady, Fl Summer Lady Singles Champion. 1977 - Lady Class Champion, Lady Singles Runner Up. 1978 - Lady Class Champion, Lady Singles Champion, Fl Hi Over All Lady.

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Stan was the Vice President of the Florida Trapshooters Association for the years of 1981 and 1982. He was also the President of the FTA in 1983. He ran the Polk County Trap and Skeet Club for many years.

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Inductees to the Florida Hall of Fame for this year, 2004.

During this year's Florida Hall of Fame Shooting Event, the following nomination(s) will be reviewed and then the selected person(s), inducted into the Florida Trapshooters Association Hall of Fame Organization.

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