Willis Corbett, Founder
Willis Corbett was born and raised in St. Louis County. After service in the U. S. Navy in World War II, Willis went to work for the Olin-Mathieson Chemical Corporation in the Winchester Gun Arms and Ammunition Division as a shooting consultant. Willis also served the National Rifle Association (on loan from Winchester) as a Field Representative for the states of Missouri, Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska. He also served as the shooting sports consultant for Anheuser-Busch, Monsanto, and Firestone companies. He managed the Budweiser Handicap competition for all United States and nine provinces of Canada. He served the Winchester Companies interest in East Africa for eleven years. Willis is active in shooting sports, gun rights, and conservation.

Dempsey Gottschalk
Dempsey is a native Missourian, born in Brunswick in 1943. He graduated from Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (now Truman University) in 1965. Dempsey is a retired educator with 30 years teaching experience in the public schools of Missouri. He also coached basketball, football, and golf. After retiring from public education he worked 8 additional years with the Missouri Division of Youth Services. Dempsey taught Industrial Technology, Physical Education and was a vocational counselor for the Division of Youth Services. He is a Colonel, retired, United States Army and Missouri Army National Guard. Dempsey enlisted in the Army in 1968, attended Officer Candidate School and was commissioned in 1969. He served 3 years on active duty including a tour of duty in the Republic of Vietnam with the 23rd Infantry Division (Americal). Upon leaving active duty he enlisted in the Missouri Army National Guard and served until his retirement in 1996. In 1993 Dempsey was inducted into the U.S. Army Field Artillery Center Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Throughout his life Dempsey has enjoyed hunting most of Missouri’s native game species, fishing, and the shooting sports. His favorite activities are waterfowl hunting and trapshooting. He shot his first targets registered with the Amateur Trapshooting Association in 1966. He is a lifetime member of the Missouri Trapshooters Association, the Amateur Trapshooting Association, the National Rifle Association, the Kansas City Trapshooters Association and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Additionally he is a member of Ducks Unlimited and Delta Waterfowl. He is a past president of the Missouri Trapshooters Association and currently serves on its board of directors. Dempsey and his wife of 43 years, Sharon, have a son, a daughter, and four grandchildren.

Paul Larsen
Paul was born in Rupert, Idaho in 1943. He is a retired rural mail carrier. Paul is a life member of the National Rifle Association, life member of the Missouri Trapshooters Association, and a life member of the Amateur Trapshooters Association. He is a NRA Shotgun coach, Youth Chairman of the MTA for the past 22 years, and the Southern Zone Director for the MTA. Paul has over 150,000 registered targets with the ATA.

Lyndle Pruett
Manager of Missouri Trap Shooters Association facility at Linn Creek, MO.

Lou Rupp
Born in St. Louis Missouri, Lou attended Kemper Military Academy and the University of Missouri. After a 26 year career as Director of Packaging Engineering for the Ralston Purina Company, Lou joined Fru-Con Engineering and Construction Company where he established and oversaw a highly successful Package Engineering Consulting discipline before retiring in 2001.
Lou served as a Director for the Packaging Foundation Institute, was the founding Chairman of the Packaging Industry Advisory Board at the University of Missouri-Rolla, served as Chairman of the Board of the St. Louis Big Game Hunters, Inc., and is the current Chairman of the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep, a leading worldwide conservation organization.
Lou developed a strong passion for hunting and the outdoors at a very early age which he has pursued worldwide. He is an accomplished hunter having successfully hunted 31 of North America’s big game species, a grand slam (any four species) of sheep, deer, bear, caribou, turkey, moose, goat, and ibex, and a super slam (any 12 species) of sheep of the world. His hunting has encompassed 14 states and 10 countries.
Lou is a life member of the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep, Grand Slam Club/Ovis, North American Hunting Club, the National Rifle Association, and he is a member of Safari International, The Mule Deer Foundation, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Ducks Unlimited, and the St. Louis Big Game Hunters, Inc. He is also a current Missouri Hunter Education instructor.

Jan Morris
Jan was born and raised in Indiana, but moved to Missouri when he started high school. He is a graduate of Southwest Baptist College, and the University of Missouri. Jan taught in Missouri public high schools for 28 years, He is a U. S. Army veteran with Vietnam service, a life member of the National Rifle Association and the North American Hunting Club. Jan is the former Missouri State Coordinator for the NRA Youth Hunter Education Challenge, and a Certified USA Shooting/NRA/CMP/ATA Shotgun Coach. Jan has been a volunteer hunter education instructor since 1971 and bowhunter education instructor since 1991. Jan has hunted big game in Wyoming and Alaska. He is a member of the Amateur Trapshooting Association, Missouri Bowhunters Association, and past member of Board of Directors of the International Hunter Education Association. He was named the Winchester North American Outstanding Hunter Education Instructor in 2003. Jan holds a Distinguished Expert Rifle rating from the NRA, and enjoys all types of hunting and shooting sports.

Bob Staton
Bob grew up hunting and fishing in west central Missouri. He worked summers at a waterfowl area for the Department of Conservation when he was 16, 17, and 18 years old. His goal was always to work for the Department of Conservation or in something to do with hunting and fishing.
He graduated from Central Missouri State University with both a Bachelor and a Master’s Degree in Education. During his college education he entered the United States Army and served a year in South Viet Nam with the 25th Infantry Division. He returned home and completed college. He taught high school and coached football.
Bob went to work full time for the Department of Conservation in 1978 and retired in 2006. He served as the second Missouri Hunter Education Coordinator for most of his career. He authored the first Missouri hunter education manual and the first education module on fishing. He helped start the Missouri Hunter Education Instructor Association and served a term as President of the International Hunter Education Association.
Bob is a proud member of the Missouri Hunter Education Hall of Fame and the International Hunter Education Hall of Fame. He is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association and N.R.A. Training Counselor Emeritus. He has served on numerous national and international committees concerning hunter education and hunting accidents. Bob help found the International Hunting Incident Investigation Academy.
Bob and his wife Debbie have raised three sons that hunt and fish in California, Missouri, and they are now teaching their grandkids to hunt, fish, and enjoy the outdoors,

Rod Zeller
Rod was born and raised in Independence, Missouri and attended Southwest Baptist College. A lifelong shooter & part time hunter, he was offered a job as a guide and wrangler and headed for the mountains in Montana. He worked as a welder & mechanic in heavy construction between trips to the mountains. After getting married, Rod went to work in the marine construction industry. As a commercial diver and later as project manager his projects included: platform installation & removal, subsea pipeline installation ship hull maintenance, nuclear and hydro power plants, bridge construction, facility construction for the navy, army, DoD, DoD, DoT and DoE.
On returning to Missouri, in 1994, Rod and Joan settled in rural Lexington and he now works for Holliday Sand & Gravel.
Rod shoots anything with a trigger and has competed in trap, skeet & sporting clays, service rifle, international & action pistol.
Member: NRA Endowment, TSRA Life, USA Shooting, ATA, NSSA, and IDPA. Rod’s resume also includes: NRA Training Counselor, NRA/USAS Level II coach, National Coach Development Staff, Mo. 4H State Instructor, Univ. of Central Missouri shotgun coach, and Show-Me Shooting Sports FirearmsTraining, Owner.

Mary Keiser
Mary Keiser was born and raised in Missouri and grew up hunting and fishing with her parents. Mary has been a Missouri 4-H Shooting Sports Instructor for over 25 years and has coached hundreds of 4-H’ers over the years. Mary specializes in shotgun sports and has watched seven of her 4-H kids compete at the national level in the past eight years. She also serves as the St. Charles County 4-H Shooting Sports Coordinator. Mary is the first and only women to be accepted as a member of the Daniel Boone Gun Club in Defiance, MO, a club where her father was a charter member in 1959. Mary has also served as President and Secretary for the gun club.