2015 September Markham Newsletter

September 1, 2015 Volume 6, Issue 9

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June Issue 2015

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2015 OFFICERS

Club News - Items For Sale Magazine Review

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Calender of Events

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Club Calender

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NSCA Schedule

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Sporting Clays Program and Results

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Skeet and Results InsideProgram this issue:

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FSA Skeet Calender

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Trap Program

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Trapshooting Results

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Youth Program

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PRESIDENT—Vacant

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VICE PRESIDENT—Vacant

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TREASURER—Steve Sagal

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SECRETARY— Joe Loitz

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RECORDING SECRETARY—Jerry Schwab

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Phil Demena

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Steve Sagal

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Rich Nilsen

Contact info: Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays 8299 Cassia Terrace Tamarac, Fl. 33321 •

www.markhamclaytargets.com

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www.markhamskeet.org

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www.markhamsportingclays.org

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E-mail: markhamshooter@gmail.com

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Newsletter: jloit@bellsouth.net

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Next General Meeting October 1st Starting at 7:00 PM

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Club News Erika was a close call and to be honest I hope we are done for the year. I bought water which I will now use for the skeet shoot but otherwise I did nothing to prepare for the storm. Let’s just hope we are ll done with storms for the year!

We had nice attendance at the last sporting clays shoot. Julio Martinez lead 46 shooters with a lone 88. Gerry Stumm was Runner-Up with an 86 followed by Wayne South’s 85. Mike Pilch won SubJunior with a solid 76. Nice shooting Mike!

There will be no sporting clays shoot in September. The next shoot is Sunday October 11th. To show how popular sporting clays has become there is a 40 name waiting list for Quail Creek’s Young Guns program. Wow! The Skeet shoot was run by Robert Vazquez in August. Thanks, go out to him and Russ for running the shoot for me. There were 7 shooters. Russ won everything except the Doubles which was won by Craig Campbell with a lone 44.

See you at the September shoot.

It is the end of the trapshooting season so the last shoot had only 12 singles shooters. There were four shooters with 48’s, Marcos Vidal, John Beedenbender, Jose Puerta Velez, and Alex Riera. Marcos had a lone 47 to lead the handicap followed by Jose Puerta Velez with a 46. Finally, Alex Riera and Angel Estevez lead the doubles with 46’s.

We are back on the 100 target program for the next shoot and all shoot going forward until June 2016.

The boys all won trophies at the Grand (Andrew Loitz, Federico Ramirez, and Gene Bryan). Great shooting guys! Not much else to report. I’m looking forward to a relaxing September, some skeet, a little trap, some sporting and fivestand.

See you at the club!

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Items For Sale Steve Sagal has the following items for sale: Remington 3200 Trap, complete custom engraving by Bill Mains, gold inlays throughout, very little usage, 30 inch barrels, beautiful nicely figured wood, adjustable pad.

Golf cart set up for Sporting Clays (and golf) for sale with charger $2500.00 Trailer available for an additional $500.00.

Call Steve 954-682-5000.

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi 5

Magazine Review Shooting Sportsman – September/October 2015 Opening Day is around the corner and Chris Batha has some good advice for getting ready. First, if you aren’t exercising in some way, start! Walk the dog, he probably needs some exercise too. Next, check your gear. Take a wade in your pool with the waders on. I did this one year and weighed several pounds more when I got out. It was all water weight but it necessitated a shopping trip to get new waders. The old pair had given up the ghost in more places than I could ever hope to patch successfully. I think it was cheaper to get new ones than to pay for all those patch kits!

Check your decoys, do they need painting or do they need new anchor lines? Find your steel shot choke tube if you plan on hunting ducks. If you have several tubes you might want to finally pattern them.

From what I have read some tubes give you markedly better patterning than others. Pattern them with the shells you intend on using. If you are going to hunt in a boat or blind with other hunters you may want to consider stocking up on extra ear plugs in case you forget your good ones the day of the hunt. One of my students found out the hard way about ear protection when hunting. Thanks, Ian! I always wear my shooting glasses when I hunt.

Regular glasses can make your gun’s comb elevation appear either too high or too low. Get out the clothes you are going to hunt in and try them on. Funny thing, sometimes they shrink over the summer.

Check your sunscreen and bug repellent supplies. Do you have a first aid kit? It would be a good idea to prepare one if you don’t. Just the basics but also put in a tube of super glue, tweezers, scissors, some waterproof tape, and a wader’s repair kit. If you hunt with a dog be sure you provide for them too.

a good cleaning. Always bring a cooler with some water bottles. Finally, even if you are hunting with a friend, let someone know where you are going and when you will be home.

Tom Roster has been busy the last two months. This issue he reviewed the Winchester Rooster XR loads.

These are long-range lead-shotgunshell loads specifically for pheasants. They are buffered shells which means extra KICK! On the plus side the plastic buffering powder called Grex creates incredibly uniform and tight patterns at distance. These shells are the natural evolution of the original Double-X shells Winchester came out with in the 70’s. Dad bought a case of those shells in 2 ¾” 4’s. I used them as the last shot when hunting ducks. Let me tell you, those things were astonishingly lethal all the way out to 70+ yards.

At 40 yards Tom got 80% patterns from those coppercoated wonder-shells. The patterns were even better for smaller shot such as 6’s. While working on the buffered Premium shell line for Federal Cartridge he produced the first documented 100% patterns at 40 yards!

Enough with the history lesson, these new shells patterned up to 95% at 40 yards and 64% at 60 yards using a full choke tube! He believes you should use 5’s inside 35 to 45 yards and after that go to 4’s. For an over/under use an Improved Modified in the first barrel and Full in the second barrel. For Auto’s and pumps go right to the Full. The article has loads of other data on these shells and is a worthwhile read if you have a copy of it.

Do some shooting with your hunting gun before you head out into the field. Take it apart and give it a good cleaning. You don’t go fishing without an extra rod and reel and you shouldn’t go hunting without a backup gun. Do some shooting with it too and give it 6

to accommodate a young lady’s stature. When she moves on to a better gun you can put the original stock on the gun and get a better return on your investment. Sell the extra stock, the one you cut, as a lady or youth friendly stock.

Gebben Miles and Brandon Powell at the 2015 English Worlds

Shotgun Sports – September 2015 The Editor John Canntu wrote a fairly comprehensive article on getting a first gun for the college age daughter of one of his friends. He presents the reader with many good points to consider. First, barrel length effects both the sighting plane and balance. The receiver on a semi-autoloader increases the length of the sighting plane whereas a single barrel like a BT-99 or BT-100’s receiver adds little to the overall length of the sighting plane. Weight of course affects recoil but it also affects handling. For a young lady just getting into the sport a lighter gun would be more appropriate. In which case settling on an autoloader like a Beretta 391 makes more sense. It’s lighter and being an autoloader it has less felt recoil. This is what they actually settled on. He also discussed porting to lessen recoil and getting a Kick-eez® pad.

The one thing he didn’t mention is fit. It is easier to fit a Beretta 391 than other guns. Stocks for a 391 are readily available on the secondary market such as ebay. You can get an extra stock and cut it down

Michael J. Keyes, M.D. suggests two methods to deal with match pressure and misses during a competition: cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness.

Cognitive reappraisal has to do with changing the perception of a miss from being catastrophic to something more manageable. Jumping out to the conclusion that any miss turns the day into a disaster is a problem for everyone at one time or another.

Dr. Keyes suggests you put the miss into the perspective it deserves and quit beating yourself up over one mistake.

Practice keeping yourself grounded so that one mistake doesn’t ruin the day.

The idea is to prevent mental meltdowns during a match. Stick with the process and believe in yourself!

Mindfulness has to do with turning every competition into a series of one target events, keeping them emotionally isolated from each other. This is truly a process oriented philosophy. Keep your emotions out of the process and let your shooting routine keep you in the race. Learn to disengage the emotions from your shooting and put your attention on the process.

Michael also brings up some Lanny Bassham ideas about keeping a positive attitude. He reminds us positive emotions reduce stress. Keep the negative emotions out of your shooting since these produce a plethora of negative physical and psychological effects. He also advises using positive self-talk and positive affirmations whether you are on the shooting field or living your everyday life. “Every day in every way I’m getting better and better!”

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Magazine Review TRAP & FIELD – August 2015 Bob Palmer finishes his list of 10 key attributes needed to become a champion in three years in this issue. Number 5, you have to love to compete.

Let’s face it, winning is fun. Losing isn’t necessarily fun but it is instructive! From losing we learn what we need to do to grow and become better.

Without the measurement how would we know how good we could become?

Number 4, copy your opponents. Watch the skilled shooters and find out what works for them then model it to help your own growth. Number 3, be unrealistic about your goals. Practice your unrealistic goals by visualizing them. Visualizing your goals is part of the road to belief. Number 2, you have to love to practice and train. You have to love crushing targets in practice then transfer that love to crushing them in competition.

Finally, be a perfectionist. It’s alright to want to be perfect. Channel that desire and work ethic into achieving your goals.

My philosophy has changed on hold points several times in my life but one thing has remained constant: rarely do I lower my hold points if I ever do.

I will raise them without a moment’s hesitation if the targets are high but I never lower my hold points. On low targets I always tell people to slow down. There’s a reason for this. We all are used to moving a set distance to the target to break it. If you make your usual response to a low target you will swing over it. If you wait a fraction of a second the target is now at a distance from your hold point that matches your usual move. Get that?

Lower targets than you are used to means you don’t have to move your gun as far to get to the target – less vertical movement, but your subconscious still

wants to move as if it is a normal target. Wait and the move you make matches what your usual move is.

We don’t have that problem in Florida since most of the time we get a north or northeast or northwest wind. Seems we rarely get south winds except in the late summer and fall (where do the hurricanes come from – the South usually). Not prime shooting season. The times where it matters we always seem to get face winds pushing the target up. During those times I may move my hold point up on bad days to accommodate the usual distance I move to the target. If I stay in my normal hold point I will shoot before I get to the target. I will short shoot them. The subconscious says, I’ve moved my usual distance, now it’s time to shoot!

Tough to break yourself out of that rhythm just by saying I won’t do it! It’s easier and safer to move the hold point up or on low target days, slow down and let the target get a little further out.

Ron Sutton agrees with me in regard to never lowering your hold point. I disagree with his conclusions but otherwise agree with never lowering your hold point. Your hold point is a very personal thing based on your reflexes, both visual and physical. Most blanket statements about them end up being wrong. In this case if you hold over the traphouse instead of on it, then yes, a broad statement such as never lower your hold point is usually good advice.

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WILDFOWL – September 2015 I never liked shooting my dad’s 3 ½” magnum at ducks or geese. Those old Double XX Winchester buffered short magnum shells were bad enough back in the bad old lead shot days.

Those shells carried a wallop, but man, did they kill ducks. I never felt the same lethality with the 3 ½” shells. They felt more lethal to my

shoulder than the ducks! Well, turns out I was probably right.

faster at 1550 fps versus the 1300 fps of the 3” shell, that’s why. Now, if you always seem to shoot behind your ducks then go with the 3 ½” shells. Personally, I would swing a little faster and use the 3” shells for a more enjoyable morning on the water!

Have you heard about the new shotgun suppressors? Ben O’Brien reviewed some while hunting geese near Chesapeake Bay and reported on them in this month’s issue. The suppressors reduce the noise output by 20% which I understand is quite a lot. Evidently they also act like porting and also reduce recoil, maybe enough to shoot those 3 ½” shells safely! He reported feltrecoil was reduced by a third!

These things will significantly affect your sighting plane! Attaching one adds an additional 6.42” to 12” your barrel! They also weight a ton, adding 21 to 34.5 ounces of weight to the gun! The extra weight and length added by the suppressor may herald in the return of the 26” barrel! I don’t know about this, especially when you look at the price tag: $1,400! Someone buy one and let me know what you think.

John M. Taylor did some research and we are better off shooting 3” over those 3 ½” rounds. First off the 3” shells with the same load had a better pattern than the higher velocity 3 ½” round by about 8%.

The center ring is where the biggest difference was encountered. The outer rings were basically the same for both shells.

The recoil energy for the 3 ½” shell was 55.02 ft/lbs compared to 39.90 ft/lbs for the 3” shell. That’s over 25% less recoil!

So, if you get a better pattern and less recoil from the 3” shells then why would you shoot the 3 ½” shells? The 3 ½” are still 9

Magazine Review Skeet Shooting REVIEW – August 2015 Out on the course we are all guilty at one time or another of trying too hard. This is a consequence of trying to direct the outcome rather than the process.

The outcome is in the future and the process is what’s happening now. Truly the only way to direct the outcome is to apply ourselves to the process. Paul Giambrone III relates some life experiences where he let his mind be concerned with the outcome rather than the process. In his case when he puts his concentration and faith on the process he performs at his best.

Focus on the process is the mantra of more mental coaches than I can count. I agree with them. The process is the key. We play the game because it’s fun. The process is the fun part. Stay involved with the process of shooting and having fun. Worrying about the outcome takes the fun out of any activity and never adds targets to your score.

Paul highlights four steps to help focus on the process. Step 1, know your game plan before stepping onto the post: foot position, hold point, look point, break point, and sight picture. Step 2, apply your plan: step onto the post and assume the foot positioning you planned, mount the gun to your hold point, shift your eyes to your look point, and go into soft focus. Step 3, call for the target when you are

set and ready and remind yourself to react to the target appropriately. At the flash for outgoers in skeet or after the target has passed your barrel in trap.

Step 4, get hard focus on the target and shoot at the break point.

Sporting Clays – September 2015 Gil and Vicki Ash start out on a good idea this month then drink the Kool-Aid of the Learning Theory bandwagon. I’ll explain later. One problem I see over and over again which Gil and Vicki mention first in their article is how people swing the gun at speeds beyond their abilities to maintain muzzle awareness. When you swing the gun you have to be able to maintain a visual relationship with the beads/ barrels. If you swing faster than that you can’t maintain a visual relationship between the bead/barrels and the target. One has to give and many times both do!

I see this all the time with my beginning kids and I step in and squash it as soon as I see it. The student sees the target come out of the house and throws the gun in the direction of the target. At some point they are neither looking at the target nor the gun. When the gun comes to a stop they either shoot or try to reestablish their bead/barrel awareness which means they then have to find the target. Correcting this means getting them to swing more slowly so you can keep track of both the bead/barrels and the target. A couple of dry fire targets are surprisingly effective in fixing this.

If you swing faster than you can visually handle you will never be able to sync with the speed of the target. If you don’t develop a feel for the speed of the target you can’t hope to break it consistently. The most important thing in learning how to shoot is developing a feel for the relationship between your barrel speed and the speed of the target. Some would say it’s being able to focus on the target. Then what?

Focusing on the target is pretty simplistic and is important but you have to be able to understand the relationship between your barrel’s speed and the target.

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It’s a skill you learn by repetition and seeing lots of targets. Once you establish a baseline of knowledge it really all boils down to feeling the relationship between your barrel and the target and knowing how to adjust the speed of the barrel to accommodate the speed and distance the target is from your muzzle. You can look at the target all day long but if you don’t learn how to sync your barrel speed with the target’s you will forever be just a duffer.

Which brings us to a point of disagreement between the Ash’s and myself. They do not believe in blocked practice. Blocked practice by the way is practicing just one target presentation over and over again until you can’t miss it. It is true that practicing a quartering left angle target over and over again doesn’t necessarily mean you will be able to break one when you are confronted with a similar shot on the course. If you simply practice grooving a set move to the target you really haven’t learned anything. On this I agree with the Ash’s. It is not true if you are learning where to insert for the target. In sporting clays so many shots are absolutely dependent on the insertion point over everything else.

By practicing on one presentation over and over again you can find the insertion point that works best for you.

This is active learning and negates their premise.

Blocked practice allows you to poke around a problem target till you find a solution. Thus if you do blocked practice correctly you can learn not just how to break one individual presentation but almost any similar presentation. It’s not about grooving a specific swing for a target, it’s about finding the correct insertion picture you need that leads you to the right sight picture. You know how to swing, learning how to find the correct insertion point on a target is the skill you want to practice and learn. Blocked practice allows this. If they had said this instead of saying, don’t practice the same target over and over again “without thinking”, they would have said something powerful.

Should we take private one-on-one lessons or are group lessons more helpful? While one-on-one are shorter in duration, more problem specific, and individually tailored, Randy Lawrence makes a strong argument for the group session setting. If you are paying an hourly

rate for personal lessons the total cost may be the same as a group lesson and as long as the group is small, six or less, your experience may actually be better.

You receive a great deal of one-on-one in a small group setting and you have the benefit of hearing the instruction for the other students which may touch on things you hadn’t thought of or even been aware of. Not being in the spotlight with the coach also gives you time to process the lesson targeted at you individually when the coach moves on to the next student. This allows you to stay in the learning mode longer according to Randy, who would know, being a retired professor.

Watching others as they interact with the instructor keeps you actively learning and open to new ideas. We can learn from the other students’ mistakes and successes along with the instruction they receive whether or not it is currently relevant to your shooting style. A good instructor keeps everyone involved even when they are working with another student. The only caution is picking the right coach to get you where you want to go.

Randy Lawrence also wrote an interesting article on Dawn Grant, a hypnotherapist who works with athletes. Dawn believes fear-based consciousness creates tension in our bodies which in turn inhibits the free flow of our higher energy thus preventing us from reaching our true capabilities and potential. Hypnosis accesses the subconscious directly according to Ms. Gray. Tapping the subconscious directly enables our shooting to flow freely.

Hypnosis permits a person to accept suggestions directly into the subconscious bypassing the conscious mind’s “hyper-critical” analysis. With no conscious filter the subconscious accepts new ideas and information directly, shortening the learning curve. Through relaxation exercises, “pre-segment”, and “postsegment” training Dawn helps her students be fully aware and in the present, “free of the suffering that comes from cruddy thinking”. It’s all about being process oriented and free of the emotional problems associated with an outcome oriented mindset.

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“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.�

- Aesop 12

Calender of events: Gun Shows: Sept. 19-20th War Memorial Auditorium, Ft. Lauderdale.

Skeet this month: Markham

Sept. 5th

So. Fl.

Sept. 19-20th

Trail Glades

Sept. 26-27th

Trap this month: Indian River

Sept. 6th

South Florida

Sept. 12th

Markham

Sept. 27th

Sporting This month: Quail Creek

Sept. 12th

shipping. These are 1 1/8 oz, 7 1/2’s, 1200 fps, 12 gauge.

Palm Beach Trap and Skeet Pro Shop: Joe Fordham has a shipment of AA’s coming in. Call him for excellent pricing on these shells after rebate.

Dick’s: Nothing special going n this month.

Rebates: Winchester rebate is over you need to get your rebate mailed now! Offer expired on Sept. 15th. Below is the flyer and the reimbursement form for the program: http://www.rsrgroup.com/ opnrebatesfolder/assets/pdf/2015winchester2.pdf

Indian River Sept.13th South Florida Sept. 19th OK Corral

Sept. 26th

Current shell specials: Walmart: Currently selling Winchester Universal and Federal 4 packs at $21.74 (12 & 20 ga.).

Remington is also giving rebates on some of its Hunting ammo. See this web page for more info: http://www.remington.com/pages/ news-and-resources/rebates-andpromotions/Spring2015-RebateAmmo.aspx

Cabela’s has Herter’s shells on sale for $599.85 for 10 flats. This includes 13

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2015-2016 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments

Date

Tournament

Saturday - Jan 18, 2015

Snow Bird Open

Sunday - Feb 9, 2015

Honest Abe's Birthday Bash

Sunday - Mar 23, 2015

St. Patrick's Day Open

Saturday - Apr 19, 2015

Spring Blast

Sunday - May 17, 2015

Memorial Day Open

Saturday - Jun 27, 2015

14th Annual Sunshine State Classic

Saturday - Jul 18, 2015

Super Sizzle Open

Saturday - Aug 15, 2015

Summers End Open

Sunday - Oct. 11, 2015

Pumpkin Blast

Sunday—Nov. 8, 2015 (Tentative)

Richard Merritt Memorial

Sunday—Dec 27, 2015 (Tentative)

Bud Wolfe Classic

"When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems."

-Michael Jordan

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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club

PUMPKIN BLAST 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

Sunday October 11th, 2015 Markham Park , 16001 W. State Road 84, Sunrise , FL 33326 (954) 357-5143 Registration: Opens 8:30 a.m. and will close at 10:00 a.m.

All scorecards must be turned in by 1:00 p.m. in order to be posted.

Entry Fee: $50 N.S.C.A., $50 Hunter, $35.00 Sub-Junior, Junior Includes: Targets Only.

No Scorers or Trappers will be provided.

Shooters will be asked to squad themselves into groups of at least 4 and designate a field judge to verify scores for the squad.

This is a Targets Only format with No Lunch served.

COURSE RULES: All shooters and spectators are required to wear ear and eye protection on the course.

MAXIMUM LOADS PERMITTED: 12GA, 3 DR EQ, 1 1/8 oz. Shot 7 1/2.

For additional information contact: Steve Haynie (954) 980-4240 email: sdhaynie@comcast.net For Tournament Schedules and Shoot Results Please Visit Our Website: www.markhamsportingclays.org

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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS SUMMERS END OPEN 2015 46 Shooters

CONCURRENTS 76 74 75 63 86 85 77 74 60

MICHAEL PILCH ALEXANDER STEWART TRACY PINCHIN CHARLIE DE ANGELIS GERRY STUMM WAYNE SOUTH ROCKY LONG JOE L FORDHAM ARTHUR V WHITTAKER

SJCH SJRU LYCH LYRU VTCH VTRU SVCH SVRU SSCH

86 67 59

FARID ZANDI BILL ELMORE GIL NEHAMKIN

H1 H2 H3

Score 88 86 85 83 83 78 78 77 77 74 70 82 74 71 75 75 68 83 78 76 76 64 63

Name JULIO MARTINEZ GERRY STUMM WAYNE SOUTH ANGEL RAMOS JEFFREY P ANGELLO DAVID STEWART RICHARD A LEEDS STEVEN PASKOSKI TED F GRAY JOE L FORDHAM RICHARD S ORCUTT GARY F GRAY ALEXANDER STEWART CARY KESHEN DONOVAN H AMRITT TRACY PINCHIN ANTONIO E MATOS WESLEY B PARADISE STEVEN D HAYNIE NATHAN BUSSCHER MICHAEL PILCH CALVERT CULLEN CHARLIE DE ANGELIS

Award HOA RU M1 M2 M3 AA1 AA2 AA3 A1 A2 A3 B1 B2 B3 C1 C2 C3 D1 D2 D3 E1 E2 E3

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MONTHLY SKEET PROGRAM Daily Fees .410 gauge 28 gauge 20 gauge 12 gauge Doubles

$5/100 Targets

50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets

$19.50 $19.50 $19.50 $19.50 $19.50

Shoots usually held the first Saturday of every month.

Gauges may be shot out of sequence with the permission of management. More than one 50 target program may be shot in the same gauge as a preliminary event.

AWARDS Break a 50, 75, or 100 Straight and get one of these guaranteed awards!

50 Straight Kennedy Half Dollar 75 Straight Eisenhower Dollar 100 Straight Morgan Silver Dollar 50 Straight Doubles Liberty Silver Half 20

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Trap Program ATA SHOOT SCHEDULE 2015 –2016

May 24th June 28th July 26th August 23rd September 27th October 25th November 22nd December 27th January 24th February 28th March 27th April 24th May 22nd June 26th

We are back to the normal shooting program of 100 singles, 100 handicap, and 100 doubles. We are always in need of pullers for these shoots. If you are interested in helping let us know.

Program Starts promptly at 9:00.

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Alan Harris, Ruthie Flayderman, Glen Ehlers and Marilyn Lehrfeld at the “Dollar�

Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination - Grace Lichtenstein American Writer & Editor 25

"The more I talk to athletes, the more convinced I become that the method of training is relatively unimportant. There are many ways to the top, and the training method you choose is just the one that suits you best.

No, the important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top."

- Herb Elliott

Trapshooting Results

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Youth Program

Alex Rinnert and his dad Howie, stopped by recently to say hi!

Alex will be graduating UF in December and plans on going on the US Army shooting team in January. How cool is that! How many youth programs in the country can boast of a graduate who is on the team? Not many.

With school starting we always see a slight drop off in attendance for a few weeks then it picks right up again. Hopefully the storms will stay away on our Mondays.

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