Good Sports: 15-year-old Valley student thriving in target shooting

TOLLHOUSE, Calif. (KFSN) -- 15-year-old Brady Linton has go rather the marksman.

"It gives maine benignant of an adrenaline boost each clip I bash it," helium said.

For the incoming Sierra High School sophomore, people shooting is simply a household affair.

"Shooting firearms has ever been a portion of our family," says Chad Linton, Brady's dad. "A batch of america grew up shooting."

When Brady was conscionable 7 years old, Chad began to thatch him the ropes.

"Thought it was beauteous cool, and I deliberation that's erstwhile I truly fell successful emotion with guns," Linton said.

Now, you'll find Brady shooting moving clay targets arsenic a trapshooter.

"Ignore each the distractions and conscionable absorption connected the clays," helium said.

Entering his freshman twelvemonth astatine Sierra, Brady yet got the accidental to vie connected the school's first-ever trap shooting squad with dada arsenic caput coach.

"A batch of the kids don't play successful a sport, truthful it was truly bully to person an alternative," Chad said.

As portion of the USA State High School Clay Target League, each the athletes completed a information programme portion getting immoderate assistance from a section ranch successful Prather to practice.

"We had a truly bully carousel thrower that a genitor donated, and we'd conscionable each Saturday astatine 10 americium and sprout for astir 2 hours," Chad said.

At the commencement of June, the Chieftains took their skills to the Kingsburg Gun Club for the authorities tourney -- 300 athletes shooting astatine astir 30,000 targets.

"The shooting styles they already had successful spot were elevated due to the fact that it was overmuch simpler down determination to shoot," Chad said.

"It was a caller acquisition for me, truthful I was beauteous tense astatine the time," Brady said.

To calm the nerves, 1 of Brady's teammates started humming Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" portion shooting.

A method Brady hopped connected committee with.

"That day, I was humming the Beach Boys actually."

Brady got astir to hitting 87 retired of 100 targets, walking distant arsenic the novice authorities champion.

Now, Brady is aiming for much than conscionable clay targets. He's hoping to bring different authorities rubric to Sierra.

"I judge that thing that I could enactment my caput to, I could do," helium said.

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