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Travis Mears
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Age: 22
Hometown: Burleson, Texas
Occupation: Student, Shotgun Coach, and Exhibition Shooter
Years Shooting: 13
Shotguns Used: Beretta DT 10, 390 Gold, and Extrema 2
Ammo Used: Winchester
Home Clubs:Rock Creek Clays, Grandview, TX. and Gateway Gun Club, St. Louis, Mo.
Current Sponsors:
Briley Mfg.
Beretta USA
Hi Viz Sight Systems
Bad Boy Buggies
Wenig Gunstocks
ESP Hearing Protection
Notable Wins:
2009 member of Lindenwood University ACUI National Championship Team (team captain)
2009 ACUI International Trap National Champion
2009 Beretta Champions Cup Sporting Clays and FITASC RU Champion
2008 member of Lindenwood University National Championship Team (team captain)
2008 ACUI Five Stand National Champion
2008 NSCA All American (8 time NSCA All American)
2007 NSCA Junior All American Team Captain
2007 member of Lindenwood University National Championship Team (team captain)
2007 Collegiate Five Stand National Champion
2007 Seminole Cup Junior Champion
2007 Junior Champion in 29 events
2006 NSCA Junior All American Team Captain
2006 member of Lindenwood University National Championship Team
2006 Missouri River Classic Champion
2006 Alaska State Shoot Champion
2006 Gamaliel Fall Classic Champion
2005 NSCA Junior Nationals 5 Stand National Champion
2005 NSCA Team USA Gold Medallist
2004 ESPN Great Outdoor Games Gold Medallist (youngest ever)
2004 NSCA US Open Junior RU 2003 ESPN Great Outdoor Games 4th place
2003 NSCA 5 Stand Junior RU National Champion
2001 – Texas Parks and Wildlife Whiz Bang Champion
2000 NSCA Zone 6 Sub Junior Champion
2000 NSCA Main Event Sub Junior RU National Champion
NSCA Master Class achieved at age 14
3 Time Texas State 4-H High Overall Champion
5-Time NSSF SCTP Gold Medal team member in Sporting Clays and Skeet
Junior Olympics - two-time Silver Medallist in Doubles Trap
Biography:
Travis Mears has been going to the gun club since he was a baby in a walker. His dad, Lonnie, would tie his walker to a pole and let him go in circles while dad shot a round of skeet. At age 9 he began shooting, and has made it one of his life passions. He was one of the founding members of the State and National Champion Johnson County 4-H Shotgun team. At age 17 Travis won the gold medal at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games. With an incredible display of focus, Travis was able to emerge victorious in a field that included some of the best clay target aficionados in the world. He enjoys the outdoors, and is an avid hunter.
Travis is a scholarship shotgun sports athlete at Lindenwood University in St Charles. Missouri, and is the captain their multi-time National Championship Collegiate team. Travis was a high school member of the National Honor Society and was voted most talented by his Senior Class at Burleson High School.
In addition to his college attendance, Travis’ love of the shotgun sports has led him to the art of shotgun exhibition shooting. The mix of entertainment and marksmanship is a great way for Travis to share his love of the sport with many people around the country.
He is also giving back to the shooting sports by coaching other youth and adults, and by talking to youth at various schools and clubs about being successful. He has acted as a coach during the last four years in the well-known Champs Camp program. Twenty plus alumni of this program have achieved All American status.
Comments:
During the last several years of competitive shotgun competition, I have had many great experiences and made many good friends. I have gone from being young and leaving a shoot discouraged after a poor performance to having a mind set that allows me to review what happened and determine how to improve on my mistakes. I have learned that you are going to have those days that confuse you and get you down, but the fastest way to get back on track is to employ the power of positive affirmation.
Convince yourself that a poor outing is not how you normally perform. If you have practiced and become confident in your physical game, it becomes instinctive to practice the all-important mental game. You have to have a plan and know how to execute it. Your hands and subconscious will put the shotgun in the right place if you have gone through the proper steps of preparing yourself through concentration and a well thought out plan.
The key to being confident in yourself is to always stay positive and never leave the range without smashing the last target.
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