Will Morrison, Jr., Dickson
While
he is perhaps known more for his organizational skills and innovation as a gun
club and state association president, Will Morrison, Jr. has also enjoyed great
success as a shooter. He won the Tennessee Handicap Championship in 1961 in
Nashville, the same year he was president of the Nashville Gun Club. The shoot
set a state attendance record and on the grounds were some of the most
well-known shooters of the time. His first 100 straight came the following
month. In 1962 he tied for Runner-up in the Southern Zone Singles Championship
in Louisville and shot off while enduring a bleeding ulcer for which he was
hospitalized the following day. In 1963 he won a Kentucky Colonel's commission
at another shoot in Louisville. He immediately became known locally as
"Col Morrison". Will was president of the TSTA in 1979-1980.
Win entered the US Navy in 1945. While in the service he began shooting skeet and made the Navy Skeet Team.
A native of Dickson where he still fives, Win operated a successful general insurance agency that today, as Morrison & Fuson, is led by his older son, Will III. In 1950 he married Jean Inman, who passed away in 2003. In addition to Will III, they had daughters Susan and Margo and younger son, Charlie, currently Tennessee's ATA Delegate and former Grand American Doubles Champion. Grandson Charlie, Jr. is also a well-known champion shooter.

