Memories Made

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  155 photos · August 17 – 23, 2026

  2026 Heartland Grand

  Dale's photos from the 19th Annual Heartland Grand, August 17 to 23, 2026, at Stockdale Gun Club in Ackley. A full week of trap fields running end to end, with the line still going long after dark.

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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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