Stu Wright is at peace

allaboutshooting · December 20th, 2015, 9:45 pm

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

killerstump · Post by **killerstump** » December 20th, 2015, 10:11 pm

Men like him is men that's a honor to know.

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Hognutz · Post by **Hognutz** » December 20th, 2015, 11:15 pm

My sincere condolences to Stu and his family.

soiltester · Post by **soiltester** » December 21st, 2015, 6:35 am

Hognutz wrote:My sincere condolences to Stu and his family.

Here also

pullit · Post by **pullit** » December 21st, 2015, 7:32 am

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

Turkinator · Post by **Turkinator** » December 21st, 2015, 7:50 am

Praying for th family,

Spuriosity · Post by **Spuriosity** » December 21st, 2015, 8:12 am

Sorry for your loss, Clark.

Gobbler · Post by **Gobbler** » December 21st, 2015, 8:23 am

Condolences to the family. Sorry to hear this.

mossy835 · Post by **mossy835** » December 21st, 2015, 11:46 am

Prayers for his family!!
Another example of the right kind of person in the sport shooting world!

DC1. · Post by **DC1.** » December 21st, 2015, 6:16 pm

Prayers for all .

OLE RASPY · Post by **OLE RASPY** » December 21st, 2015, 9:53 pm

Prayers sent Clark.

allaboutshooting · December 22nd, 2015, 4:53 pm

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

allaboutshooting · December 22nd, 2015, 10:05 pm

http://thesouthern.com/news/local/obitu ... t=headline

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