Larry Farrow has been writing about American sporting clays for long enough to have known most of the people who built it. Randy Travalia was one of those people. He shaped a generation of shooters through mentorship that was equal parts coaching, friendship, and the kind of stubborn insistence on doing things right that keeps a discipline honest.
This piece is not a chronological obituary. It is Larry on the man, on what made the conversations with Randy worth driving across the country for, and on the lineage of shooters who walked away from a Travalia clinic better at the gun and clearer about why they shot it.
The full tribute runs in this issue.
Continue reading in print. The full story appears in this issue of ClayShootingUSA. Subscribe today.