History
Memories Made
1036 photographs from the Stockdale archive, plus fresh galleries from the shoots we host.
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8 photos · May 30, 2026
2026 State Tournament
Dale's photos from the day Stockdale hosted the Iowa State High School Clay Target League state tournament. Buses at sunup, a full line of shooters, and a crowd that filled the grounds.
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821 photos
Heartland Grand
Eighteen years of the Heartland Grand at Stockdale Gun Club, 2008 through 2025. The squad lines, the trophy presentations, the targets that fell.
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94 photos
Trapshooting Memories
Squad photos, championship rounds, the people, the dogs, and the small things worth keeping. Everything beyond the Heartland Grand and the construction era.
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92 photos
Building The Dream
How the trap line came together. Foundation work, bank installs, and the equipment that built the club.
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30 photos
The Archives
Newspaper clippings, magazine covers, league postcards, and the trapshooting press through the years. The published record of the club and its shooters: Merle Stockdale in the Des Moines Register, Dale on the cover of Trap & Field, the league postcards Dale mails out every spring with old squad photos of his dad, and the headlines in between.
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6 videos
Videos
Clips Dale kept on the old site. Trap-line moments, farming days, and friends at PHX.
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