Stu Wright is at peace
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Stu Wright is at peace
My good friend Stu Wright, Wright's Gunsmiths and Wright's Chokes, passed away this morning. He fought a courageous battle and held strong to the end.
Stu was a fixture on the trap shooting circuit for many decades and each year at the Grand American Trapshooting Championship. He was a gunsmith to many of the great trap shooters of the last 30 years.
He showed all of us who knew him how a man should handle what life sometimes hands out to us. He was loyal to his friends regardless of the cost and never failed to defend those who needed it.
He spent countless hours and much of his own money to start a shooting team in the small town of Pinckneyville, Illinois. He furnished guns and ammo to kids who otherwise would not have had them or the opportunity to shoot. From very small beginnings the teams that he coached won national scholastic clays titles. http://allaboutshooting.com/article_inf ... les_id=781
He was a good man, husband, father, grandfather and no better friend could be found.
He died way too soon and he will be sorely missed.
Please keep his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.
Thank you,
Clark
Stu was a fixture on the trap shooting circuit for many decades and each year at the Grand American Trapshooting Championship. He was a gunsmith to many of the great trap shooters of the last 30 years.
He showed all of us who knew him how a man should handle what life sometimes hands out to us. He was loyal to his friends regardless of the cost and never failed to defend those who needed it.
He spent countless hours and much of his own money to start a shooting team in the small town of Pinckneyville, Illinois. He furnished guns and ammo to kids who otherwise would not have had them or the opportunity to shoot. From very small beginnings the teams that he coached won national scholastic clays titles. http://allaboutshooting.com/article_inf ... les_id=781
He was a good man, husband, father, grandfather and no better friend could be found.
He died way too soon and he will be sorely missed.
Please keep his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.
Thank you,
Clark
"If he's out of range, it just means he has another day and so do you."
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Stu Wright is at peace
Men like him is men that's a honor to know.
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My sincere condolences to Stu and his family.
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“Leave the gun, take the cannoli” -Clemensa
When attacked by a group of clowns...Go for the Juggler!!
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Here alsoHognutz wrote:My sincere condolences to Stu and his family.
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I had the privilege to meet him a few times at the Grand American trap shoot. He and his wife were both very nice people.
If my memory is correct, I think I bought a gun from him there, I know a buddy of mine did.
Rest in peace
If my memory is correct, I think I bought a gun from him there, I know a buddy of mine did.
Rest in peace
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Praying for th family,
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Sorry for your loss, Clark.
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Condolences to the family. Sorry to hear this.
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Prayers for his family!!
Another example of the right kind of person in the sport shooting world!
Another example of the right kind of person in the sport shooting world!
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Thank you all for your kind words, thoughts and prayers.
Stu's memorial service will be on January 2nd and even in his death he was thinking of the shooting sports. It was his request that no flowers be sent and that donations instead be made to the Pinckneyville Shooting Sports fund. He died the way he lived, with his thoughts on the kids who benefited from the shooting sports.
Thanks,
Clark
Stu's memorial service will be on January 2nd and even in his death he was thinking of the shooting sports. It was his request that no flowers be sent and that donations instead be made to the Pinckneyville Shooting Sports fund. He died the way he lived, with his thoughts on the kids who benefited from the shooting sports.
Thanks,
Clark
"If he's out of range, it just means he has another day and so do you."
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"If he's out of range, it just means he has another day and so do you."