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Sophomore Bert De Groot shoots shotguns for fun and hopes to one day get all 25 targets down. "My dad got me into shooting guns since I was tiny," Bert said.
“My dad got me into shooting guns since I was tiny,” sophomore Bert De Groot said. “I tried it and I started liking it, I’ve kept doing it ever since. The first gun I ever shot was a BB gun, then the first shotgun was a twelve-gauge. I go to the gun club in Amarillo on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays to practice. I shoot 25 rounds and see how many targets I can hit out of 25, then there’s 5 stations that you can rotate through. The first time I ever shot, I shot a 17 out of 25 and I thought that was pretty cool. The highest I ever shot was 24 out of 25. I’m trying to get a 25, at 25 you get your hat shot so it’d be exciting. My favorite memory is getting to shoot with Sercy Peoples. That was a whole lot of fun. One day we were shooting and I was missing every shot, I was doing bad. He walked up and said ‘I know your problem’ so I asked him what it was. He said ‘you are just thinking too much’.”