CICERO, N.Y. — Six days of registered targets, a Tuesday start and the first All-American points of the new target year await trapshooters at the 41st annual ATA Northeastern Grand American, running September 8-13 at the New York State Amateur Trapshooting Association Homegrounds in Cicero, New York. The tournament kicks off ATA’s 2027 target year as the first of the season’s Satellite Grands.
Competitors should note the earlier start—the shoot begins a day sooner than in years past, with warm-up singles, handicap and doubles opening the program Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. NYSATA hosts the first nine events, a slate that carries competitors through preliminary rounds Wednesday and the President’s Handicap and Sportsmen’s events Thursday before the Northeastern Grand proper begins Friday with class singles, the Caesar Guerini Preliminary Handicap and class doubles.
Championship weekend brings the marquee competition. Saturday is devoted to the 200-target Browning Singles Championship, while Sunday closes the tournament with the Northeastern Grand Doubles Championship at 50 pair and the 100-target Winchester Ammunition Handicap Championship, which pays trophies through seventh place. Kolar provides the trophies for the High-All-Around, computed over the 400 championship targets, and White Flyer backs the High-Over-All, spanning 1,000 targets from Thursday’s President’s Handicap through Sunday’s final event.
More than local bragging rights ride on the High All Around title. Satellite Grand High-All-Around champions earn a berth in the Kolar Satellite Grand American shoot-off at next year’s Grand American, where the winner takes home a $1,000 prize and the 2027 Kolar National Satellite Grand Championship Trophy.
Amateur Trapshooting Association President Joe Sissano, who has attended the shoot since its 1985 inception, points to the setting as part of the draw. “Late summer and Labor Day weekend bring beautiful scenery to New York’s Finger Lakes Region,” Sissano said in his program welcome. He also notes how far the grounds have come across four decades, with campsites, shade structures and an opened-up layout now supporting 24 program trap fields plus practice traps, all throwing White Flyer DOP targets.
Away from the firing line, the week offers plenty. An Annie Oakley shootout follows Thursday’s shoot-offs, Greg Pink’s Silver Shootout returns after select handicap events and a bourbon and craft beer tasting sponsored by Lock 1 Distilling caps Saturday night. Three shotguns will be raffled during the shoot, with proceeds funding grounds and machine improvements for NYSATA. Shooters breaking 100 or 200 straight without carryover earn a Northeastern Grand straight pin, and juniors and sub-juniors shoot for $23 per 100 targets when no money or options are played.
View the full program and pre-squadding links at shootata.com, and find NYSATA grounds information at nysata.com.
