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Anyone recognize this feller?

I've always found it interesting the number of folks that gravitate toward shooting sports, or short range Benchrest in this case, that have been tremendously successful with other activities. This is a pic that someone sent me today of Britt Robinson, one of our regular SRBR shooters here in Texas.

As I recall, he is the youngest inductee into the Trapshooting Hall of Fame, ever. For those interested, here is a better write up of his accomplishments with Trap: TRAPSHOOTING HALL OF FAME

Looks like Hell on Wheels, don't he??

 
I didn't recognize the picture but I shot with him on occasion and at many shoots over my youth. He was a terrific shot. If memory serves he shot a model 12 pump. I could be wrong here as it was a long time ago.
 
Cotton farmer from Tahoka. He always had that smile on his face and could read a trap better than anyone I've seen.

I don't know what he started out shooting with. I do know that in the early 70's he was shooting a Ljutic and a browning superposed for doubles. Larry Gravestock was at the top of the heap when Britt was young and kind of mentored Britt. Larry shot a mod 31 Remington pump. Britt finished his career shooting a K-80 combo.
 
My goodness. We’re any of us ever that young.

Here is a good Benchrest story.
a number of years ago, we had a shooter in the Gulf Coast Region, Nick Marino, who was a pretty darned good trap and skeet shooter in his own right.
He came to Midland. While setting up, he noticed a man out on a Bench shooting. He ask me who he was.
I said….”Britt Robinson”.

Nick almost fainted. He looked at me and said,…..”That is not a man. That is a God”.

I thoughtNick was going to build a shrine right there.
 
Britt is a great guy! He is doing long range shooting now. When Britt started shooting SR Benchrest Cecil Tucker built him a BR rifle. He called Cecil back in a couple weeks and said he needed a new barrel and another 2,000 bullets. I wish he had been able to travel early on as he is very good and knows what it takes to win. I believe Britt shot his first 100 with an 870 at 11yrs of age. We talk once a month by phone.
Britt has been severely challenged with health issues, but keeps his head up.
 
My goodness. We’re any of us ever that young.

Here is a good Benchrest story.
a number of years ago, we had a shooter in the Gulf Coast Region, Nick Marino, who was a pretty darned good trap and skeet shooter in his own right.
He came to Midland. While setting up, he noticed a man out on a Bench shooting. He ask me who he was.
I said….”Britt Robinson”.

Nick almost fainted. He looked at me and said,…..”That is not a man. That is a God”.

I thoughtNick was going to build a shrine right there.
Nick Marino is a pretty damn good shotgun guy as well as a BR shooter.
 
An old trap shooting friend of mine remembers watching Britt shoot at the Grand in 1975. He remember the score keeper was struggling at times to see the birds he hit because he shot them so fast out of the house.
 
An old trap shooting friend of mine remembers watching Britt shoot at the Grand in 1975. He remember the score keeper was struggling at times to see the birds he hit because he shot them so fast out of the house.
Yes sir! Britt said it was easier for him to do that. He said he waited to hit them before they accelerated and the angle made it tougher. He had an excellent eye and reflexes.
 
Yes sir! Britt said it was easier for him to do that. He said he waited to hit them before they accelerated and the angle made it tougher. He had an excellent eye and reflexes.
It's always a good time to listen to my buddy talk about the 70s and his heroes in trap. Britt, Leo and what seemed to be his infinite amount of Remington 1100s before he went to Beretta, and of course Dan Bonillas.
 
It's always a good time to listen to my buddy talk about the 70s and his heroes in trap. Britt, Leo and what seemed to be his infinite amount of Remington 1100s before he went to Beretta, and of course Dan Bonillas.
Leo could possibly be the best of them all. it could be 35 degrees and raining but he was only going to shoot wearing a T shirt....and jeans, of course.

Beretta "helped" him out after ALL of the 1100's he had in his van got stolen while he was at a trapshoot.
 
Leo could possibly be the best of them all. it could be 35 degrees and raining but he was only going to shoot wearing a T shirt....and jeans, of course.

Beretta "helped" him out after ALL of the 1100's he had in his van got stolen while he was at a trapshoot.
Big Leo was a machine !
 
Britt is a great guy! He is doing long range shooting now. When Britt started shooting SR Benchrest Cecil Tucker built him a BR rifle. He called Cecil back in a couple weeks and said he needed a new barrel and another 2,000 bullets. I wish he had been able to travel early on as he is very good and knows what it takes to win. I believe Britt shot his first 100 with an 870 at 11yrs of age. We talk once a month by phone.
Britt has been severely challenged with health issues, but keeps his head up.
Butch, I've heard versions of that story over the years. I just called him to tell me again.

Harold Broughton built the gun and he was shooting Cecil Tucker's bullets. Britt told me that he called Harold about a week and a half after he picked up the rifle to say that it was shooting good last week but it's not shooting this week. Harold asked him about how many shots between cleanings and Britt told him he was shooting between 8 and 10 shots before using Shooter's Choice and/or Sweet's to clean.

Britt told him that he had to order more bullets from Cecil as he was almost out. Harold asked, You've already shot a thousand rounds through that barrel?? Britt told him, no. I've shot four thousand.

He would park his pickup downrange at night and use the headlights to illuminate the target and shoot until 2 or 3 in the morning.

Britt cleaned his barrel so many times in the first two weeks, that the Sweet's made both of his thumbnails fall off.
 
I've always found it interesting the number of folks that gravitate toward shooting sports, or short range Benchrest in this case, that have been tremendously successful with other activities. This is a pic that someone sent me today of Britt Robinson, one of our regular SRBR shooters here in Texas.

As I recall, he is the youngest inductee into the Trapshooting Hall of Fame, ever. For those interested, here is a better write up of his accomplishments with Trap: TRAPSHOOTING HALL OF FAME

Looks like Hell on Wheels, don't he??

Saw him shoot when I first started shooting trap. Hell of a shot with a shotgun. maybe the quickest, fastest I have ever seen.
 
Britt was a regular at the Oklahoma State Trapshoot back in the day when I was still shooting a lot of ATA targets. A shooting buddy and I were watching him shoot one day and he remarked, "That
guy never shoots an angle target. He smokes em so fast they never have a chance to be angles!"
 
Britt was a regular at the Oklahoma State Trapshoot back in the day when I was still shooting a lot of ATA targets. A shooting buddy and I were watching him shoot one day and he remarked, "That
guy never shoots an angle target. He smokes em so fast they never have a chance to be angles!"
Was Gene Sears shooting with you in that time frame or was that earlier?
 
Britt was a regular at the Oklahoma State Trapshoot back in the day when I was still shooting a lot of ATA targets. A shooting buddy and I were watching him shoot one day and he remarked, "That
guy never shoots an angle target. He smokes em so fast they never have a chance to be angles!"
At El Reno or the old OKC gun club?

A Brittism:
Trapshooting is a really simple game. You only have to concentrate for 2 seconds at a time.
 
At El Reno or the old OKC gun club?

A Brittism:
Trapshooting is a really simple game. You only have to concentrate for 2 seconds at a time.
When I started registering ATA targets in the early 1960's the Oklahoma State Trapshoot was held at the old OKC Gun Club on Hefner Road, so it was probably there. We didn't move to the El Reno site until several years later. A swarm of shooters from south of the Red River always came to try to take our trophies and money back to Texas. A few times they even succeeded! Gene Sears and Jimmy Brown were two of the top Oklahoma shooters at the time. Sadly Gene Sears passed away at the age of 90 earlier this year.
 
I remember Britt well.. Heck of a nice guy, seems like mostly saw him in New Braunfels and Midland.
Would have been a joy to watch him shoot trap! He was an awfully good BR shooter too.

Pat B.
 

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