Minnesota Trapshooting Association
MTA Hall Of Fame
MINNESOTA TRAPSHOOTING ASSOCIATION
Minnesota Trapshooting Hall of Fame
Junior Dick
Minneapolis, MN
Elected: 1971
Shooting Member
Junior Dick took up trapshooting at the St. Anthony Gun Club in 1925 when he was eight. He shot his first registered target in 1933 and the following year won the North American Junior championship and we named him captain of our 1934 Sports Afield All-American junior team.
In 1942 he won the Minnesota State singles with 198 X 200 and at Vandalia, Ohio, fired 199 X 200 to tie for the North American Clay Target title. Junior won the state All-Around five times, the Doubles and Diamond Badge six times.
He won the Captain Billy Fawcett Singles and Old Dutch Handicap in 1954 and the Singles again with 150 straight two years later. He is in the Minnesota Skeet Hall of Fame. Jimmy Robinson
