Last month, Zach Crisp was appointed as director of the Daviess County gun club. An avid outdoorsman, the 30-year old newlywed is excited to get to work at his “dream job.’
Crisp said from a young age he would tag along with his father and grandfather on their hunting trips.
“The first time that I remember shooting at a clay target was somewhere around 8-years old,” he said. “Ever since then its been my life’s passion. Everyone has the niche or what they love doing, mine has always been clay target shooting.”
The Daviess County Gun Club was acquired by Daviess County Fiscal Court in July in an effort to revitalize the club, which had been closed for months prior.
When Crisp was younger, Daviess County didn’t have a shotgun shooting program, so he would travel Union County to practice and compete with them.
He said met a lot of new friends and his team ended up placing ninth at the Scholastic Nationals.
“So I decided to start a 4-H shotgun program for Daviess County,” Crisp said. “Just as any sport, it takes commitment, support from your family, friends, and fellow shooters, especially when it comes to competing. I was fortunate to have all of them. I couldn’t have accomplished all that I have without each and every one of them.”
Crips said taking over as the director Daviess County Gun Club was a dream job for him.
“It’s a position where I can pour my knowledge, heart and soul into it,” he said. “My plan with the gun club is to put it back on the map. Make it one of the best facilities around. With (Al) Mattingly and the Daviess County, and the Parks and Recreation behind it, the sky’s the limit.”
Crisp said one of his biggest goals as the director is to get more youth involved. His goal is to have firearm safety classes for the younger kids and to teach the older kids how to break targets and be a better sportsman and shooter.
“Seeing the look on a child’s face when they break their first target is one of the greatest feelings in the world to me,” he said. “They are the future of the sport. There are thousands of kids that don’t have the opportunity because there is nowhere to go nor do they have the instruction. For those youth in Owensboro and throughout Daviess County who want that opportunity, I want to be able to give that to them.”
