Alan Savage was born and grew up in Evansville Indiana. His dad was an avid outdoorsman. Hunting and fishing were a part of their lives with Alan tagging along by about the age of 6. His dad also shot on his company’s trap and skeet team. So, in the 1950’s and 60’s if they were short a shooter Alan filled in. By then the targets were no longer glass balls with feathers, they had transitioned to clay targets. Alan was an avid duck hunter while in college and the army reserve. In 1964 accepted a job with 3M’s Electrical Products Division, as a sales rep. covering a territory that included parts of southern Indiana, southern Illinois and western Kentucky. During this time, he met Rose Marie a student nurse and they were married in 1965. Stacy was born in 1966 and Alan II in 1968. A job territory transfer, in 1969 sent the family to New Orleans with a sales area that include south Louisiana and southern Mississippi. During this time there was more duck hunting, a new black Lab puppy and Hurricane Camille. Alan began shooting at the Capital Gun Club in Jackson and the Cajun Gun Club in Belle Chase Louisiana. Four years later and another transfer to Des Moines brought pheasant Hunting, a new son Andy, and participation in league shooting at The New Pioneer Gun Club. In the spring of 1976, Alan was transferred to the Twin Cities. His territory covered Minnesota, North Dakota, and parts of Wisconsin. After retiring from 3M in Jan. 2001, Alan joined the 3M Trap & Skeet Club and Bald Eagle Sportsmen’s Association. He has served as an officer and Skeet Director at both clubs since the early 2000’s. Alan’s first registered targets were at the Minnetonka Club over 20 years ago and since then he has registered over 100,000 skeet targets. At his first out of town tournament, the Silver Dollar Shoot in Rockford, Illinois, he made money. Registered skeet was not only fun, but it turned a profit. Alan was hooked on tournament skeet. He took lessons from Jerry Hazel, became a Level 1 NSSA Instructor and took more lessons from Deon Thompson. Some of the highlights of Alan’s career include: coordinating almost 100 shoots between the Bald Eagle Gun Club and the Tartan Trap & Skeet Club since 2005; coaching both the White Bear and Mahtomedi skeet teams since they started shooting skeet ( The Mahtomedi Jr. High kids made it to the Small School State Championship in 2022); the 20 gauge 100 straight at the World Skeet Championships; being featured on the cover of The Clay Target Nation magazine; Making All-American Skeet Teams, and; Earning many concurrent and class titles Most important are the friendships he has made and the great people with whom he shoots.