Leonard Wieland
LeSueur, MN
Elected: 1976
Shooting Member
 Leonard
Wieland, LeSueur, is Minnesota's oldest active registered
trapshooter, born November 7, 1885, in St. Henry, Minnesota.
He got his first taste of shooting back in 1909 when he shot live
pigeons with his father Tony, on their farm near town.
Leonard competed in his first registered trapshoot at Ft. Snelling
Gun Club in 1917, the year before he enlisted in the 113th
Ammunition Train in World War I.
Wieland, who has won
over 75 championships, captured the Minnesota State Fair Singles
championship in 1921 with 48 X 50. His most cherished
victory was at Captain Billy Fawcett's summer resort at Breezy
Point in 1928. There he broke 100 straight to win the
16-yard championship, defeating Captain Billy Fawcett, who three
years before was manager of the victorious American Olympic
trapshooting team in France; also Jack Cunningham, who won two
state 16-yard championships later; and Jack Frink, the Grand
American winner and State Champion in 1923.
Averages were not
nearly as high in those days. F. G. Jackson, Winona, won the
state high average that year with .9404. He became a life
member in the ATA in 1928. Two years later he won the Minnesota
State Doubles Championship with 47 X 50 and Roger Fawcett took the
state doubles high average with .8395.
Wieland, who has shot
over 200,000 clay targets (registered and practice) spent 40 years
in the automobile business in LeSueur. He is a charter
member of the Green Giant Gun Club in LeSueur, Sioux
Indians, the Minneapolis Gun Club and Arizona Gun Club at Mesa
where he spends his winters.
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