Markham 2015 December Newsletter

December 1, 2015 Volume 6, Issue 12

2015 Bud Wolfe Classic Sunday December 27th 2015 NFL Alumni Charity Shoot Saturday December 19*

Inside: Plans for the new Gun Club in Palm Beach County

1

November Issue 2015

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2015 OFFICERS

Club News - Magazine Review

4-10

NFL Charity Shoot

11-13

Calender of Events

14-15

Club Calender

16-17

NSCA Schedule

18-19

Sporting Clays Program and Results

20-21

Skeet and Results InsideProgram this issue:

22-23

FSA Skeet Calender

24-25

Gun For Sale

26-27

Trap Program

30-31

Gun For Sale—Youth Program

32-33

•

PRESIDENT—Vacant

•

VICE PRESIDENT—Vacant

•

TREASURER—Steve Sagal

•

SECRETARY— Joe Loitz

•

RECORDING SECRETARY—Jerry Schwab

DIRECTORS: •

Phil Demena

•

Steve Sagal

•

Rich Nilsen

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

www.markhamclaytargets.com

•

www.markhamskeet.org

•

www.markhamsportingclays.org

•

E-mail: markhamshooter@gmail.com

•

Newsletter: jloit@bellsouth.net

2

Next General Meeting January 7th Starting at 7:00 PM

3

Club News I have been receiving updates on the new club being built in Palm Beach County. The plans are on pages 12-14. You can also access the plans online at: http://www.myfwc.com/ media/2836782/ pbcrangeconcept.pdf.

These are old plans but are essentially the same as the ones presented here. You may notice there will be five international skeet and trap fields, four combination American skeet and trap, two trap only fields, a five-stand, sporting clays course and a pistol and rifle range. Quite impressive!

The NFL Alumni shoot is the 19th and the Bud Wolfe is on the 27th. I will probably pull for the Alumni shoot. We may need more pullers so let us know if you are interested in volunteering.

ers. Rodrigo Mehich lead by an astounding 13 targets over Richard Kilpatrick’s 83. The Trap shoot was cut short by lightning.

Alex Riera lead the field by one target with a 95 over Peter Mills 94. The Skeet shoot was attended by eight shooters. Bruce Gordon and Asif Sheerahamed led the HOA with 170.

Robert Vasquez led the 12 ga with a 49 and also won the .410. Asif lead the 20 ga and doubles while Phil Keagy won the 28 ga event.

As you all probably know Guy Roper passed away recently. Our sympathies go out to his family.

I hope you could attend his services.

I hope you all had a good start to the holiday season over Thanksgiving. I look forward to seeing everyone during December either at a skeet, trap, or sporting clay event. Happy Holidays to all of us!

The Bill Merritt drew 41 shoot4

Magazine Review Skeet Shooting REVIEW – November 2015 Starting your swing too close to the target line of flight is a problem in every shotgunning disciple. Todd Bender reminds us this month how fatal this is in skeet shooting.

Don’t let your hold point be higher than the bottom of the high house window is his first salvo. A lower hold point allows for better visual pickup of the target and allows for targets below the usual line of flight.

Interestingly he is channeling Gil and Vicki in the article when he mentions how you will have to look across the barrels with your non-shooting eye on low incoming targets on 1, 2, and 3. Hold at the bottom of the low house window to defeat this problem.

Holding at the bottom of the window or below the line of flight is not advised when dealing with low 5 and 6. For these targets Todd suggests holding at the top of the window. Any higher than the top of the window will affect visual acquisition of the target. This is all part of the pre-shot routine. Step onto the station, set your stance, do whatever it is that you do to prepare for the call, then mount into your hold point which should be at the same level as the top or bottom of the window depending on the post.

ma tells us this month. The visceral component involves the visceral mechanics of the physical fundamentals: stance, focal point, hold point, mount, etc. With experience and good coaching the response to the flash of the target becomes a visceral response John calls the Shooting Reflex.

After mastering the Shooting Reflex the shooter becomes more concerned with mastering the visual mechanics of shooting. Settling the eye into the focal point with soft focus consistently is harder than most people want to admit. Once you master the concentration this requires you have made a major step forward as a shooter.

Mental mechanics are the final step. Here is where you have to balance the need to concentrate on the process with the need to eliminate self-talk. John advocates the dispassionate state where you disengage expectation, intention, and judgement. Let the process happen and simply manage with a light hand rather than an iron fist. John believes your best results can be achieved once you learn to still your mind before settling into the hold and focal points. He also believes that for the average shooter this is harder than they want to believe.

The game of skeet is 100% mechanics consisting of three components: visceral, visual, and mental. At least that’s what John Shi5

Magazine Review Sporting Clays – December 2015 Gil and Vicki Ash examine a problem in sporting clays that’s contrary to everything we know to be true in trapshooting. In trap a right-handed shooter typically finds the leftangle target off Post 1 to be easier to break than a right-angle off of Post 5. Just so we are all on the same page, a right-angle in trap is a left to right crossing target in sporting, a leftangle is a right to left crossing target. The difficulties with the right-angle target can be explained by the tendency right-handed trapshooters have when they swing to the right.

They pull the gun away from their face as they swing in this direction. The gun moves in concert with the face when they swing to the left.

This has always been the age-old explanation for the difference in the two targets. Doesn’t mean it’s perfectly correct but it was the explanation I heard too many times. I never believed it.

Gil and Vicki come up with a more cogent explanation but they think the left-angle is the difficult target and the right-angle is the easy one. Why the difference of opinion on the left -angle and right-angle? Very simple, they use Sustained-lead, trapshooters use Swingthrough. With Sustained-lead the shooter inserts the barrel in front of the target meaning the non-shooting eye has to look across and over the barrels to look back at the target when it is a left-angle. This doesn’t happen when shooting Swing-through. Coming from behind a left-angle target using Swing-through means the non-shooting eye picks up the target clearly without having to look across the barrels. If you go after the right-angle with Swing-

through you do have this problem. Now the non-shooting eye has to look across the barrels to see the target. Using Sustained-lead you insert in front of the target and neither eye runs into any interference from the barrels. They both have an unobstructed view of the target.

So what does this all mean? If you have problems with either a right or left-angle target in sporting clays I recommend switching your swing method. For sporting clays try Swingthrough on right to left crossing targets and use Sustained-lead on left to right crossing targets. In trap we have no option. We have to use Swing-through to get in front of angle targets. Personally, I think most right-handed shooters have problems with right-angles because they approach too closely on the targetline. If you swing to the right-angle from underneath, under the target-line, the target is seen more clearly and you won’t pull the trigger too early and you won’t end up over the target.

Our shotguns are set up to shoot with a POI of 60/40 or higher so being under the target isn’t a bad thing.

Over the last six months Tom Roster has become the Bill Nye of the shooting world. His scientific approach to shotshell ballistics can be seen in a number of magazines every month.

6

ples. See the target, recognize its speed, and pull-ahead to the correct lead is Jon’s advice.

We always receive great grounding in the basics and fundamentals from Marty Fischer and this month is no exception. He gives a very succinct description of how the mount is a “push to the visual focal point with the front or forearm hand and a lift to the Bill McGuire at the 2015 English Worlds face with the trigger hand.”

This month as in many of his recent articles Take some video of yourself and see if you he cautions against the reliance on speed to aren’t pulling the gun back into your shoulder break targets. Within 35 yards you will not see to finish your mount. If you are maybe you a significant difference between an 1145 and a should go to a shrug mount where the gun is 1300 fps load. Over 35 yards the extra velocialready seated to your shoulder then all you ty may help some shooters. There is a real efdo is raise the comb to your face to finish the fect on leads when shooting the ultra-fast vemount. locity loads (1,400-1,700 fps) versus a 1,200 I like his advice to always insert or start your fps load regardless of distance. He does adgun in the same place relative to the target mit there is a psychological factor involved for every time you begin your swing. Visually this some shooters. If 1300 fps is what they bekind of consistency is vital to good scores. lieve in then 1300 fps is what they should Read your target both vertically and horizonshoot! tally. I carry a small straight edge with me to Greg Moats took a lesson from Jon Kruger this month and came away with some interesting ideas or at least ones different from the usual doctrine. Jon shoots and teaches a Pullahead style of shooting. His hold point is usually half way back to the trap and his break point is close to his break point. He lets the target come to him, matches speed, then pulls and looks ahead to his lead. Jon is not a great believer and neither am I in the hard focus on the target where you actually count the dim-

help determine how the bird is flying. A shell box edge also works. A good read allows you to correctly match speed with the target. Finally, watch the shooters in front of you and mark your second target so you know exactly where to look for it after breaking the first one.

7

Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – December 2015 Like Tom Roster, L.P. Brezny provides some much needed and welcome science to the shooting sports.

L.P. tested the new Winchester AA steel shot sporting clay loads and found them to be exceptionally good ammunition. Inside of 40 yards he could not find any significant differences between them and equivalent lead loads. In fact the steel shot performance was superior to the lead. It was the patterning that truly seemed to make them superior. Without the usual flat surfaces caused by compression doesn’t occur with steel leaving the pellets to travel in a more uniform and compact pattern. As to the use of steel shot and possible long term damage to your barrel, Mr. Brezny believes it is over-hyped and probably more urban legend than fact.

Michael J. Keyes, M.D. In the shooting world where the exception is the shooter who has been actively shooting his whole life, planning is a significant tool you can use to become more successful. The first step of planning is to have a goal. Simply wanting to improve is all you really need.

Now, how are you going to create a plan to achieve this? It doesn’t take much. The plan actually is part of the improvement process. It highlights areas to concentrate on, allows the creation of deadlines, puts things in perspective, helps you to organize, in some respects it takes the place of your mom when you were back in high school!

The first step in planning is to write out a plan. Get the first step done and let the planning process take care of the rest.

There is an extensive and well documented article on the evolution of the skeet gun by John Bulger in this month’s issue. If you are interested in the history of skeet this is a wonderful read.

Planning is the topic this month for 8

9

10

11

On this and the next two pages you can see the plans for the new state managed gun club. It will go in on three phases.

Phase 1 are the rifle and pistol lanes. Phase 2 is the spoting clays course and Phase 3 is the Trap and Skeet facility. You will note there are 6 lanes for the 300 yard and there are five combo international skeet and trap fields. This will be a very unique facility! Can’t Wait!

Proposed Palm Beach County Shooting Park

Phase 1 Design Features: 300 yard rifle range – 6 shooting positions 200 yard rifle range – 20 shooting positions 100 yard small bore rifle range – 20 shooting positions 25/50 meter pistol range – 20 shooting positions 10 meter / 50 foot pistol range – 30 shooting positions

12

13

Phase 2 Design Features: One 14 position sporting clays course One 5 stand

Phase 3 Design Features: (4) Combination connection trap and skeet fields (2) Trap fields (5) Combination International Bunker Trap and Skeet Meeting: October 22 – Palm Beach Co. Board of County Commissioners – 9:30AM – 6th Floor of the P.B. Co. Governmental Center, 301 N. Olive Ave., WPB Range Location: West of West Palm Beach. Across from the south entrance of the J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area on Seminole Pratt Whitney Road. The NW corner of the old Mecca property.

14

15

“Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.�

Wilt Chamberlain 16

Calender of events: & 8’s, 1145 fps, 12 gauge.

Gun Shows: Nov. 21-22nd War Memorial Auditorium, Ft. Lauderdale.

Skeet this month: Markham

Dec. 5th

Trail Glades

Dec. 12-13

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: There are weekly specials going on. Check their website.

Trap this month:

Rebates:

Indian River

Remington is also giving rebates on some of its Hunting ammo. See this web page for more info:

Dec. 6th

South Florida Dec. 12th Markham

Dec. 27th

Sporting This month: Quail Creek

Dec. 6th

http://www.remington.com/pages/ news-and-resources/rebates-andpromotions/Spring2015-RebateAmmo.aspx

Indian River Dec. 12th South Florida Dec. 19th OK Corral

Dec. 26th

Markham

Dec. 27th

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

Cabela’s has Herter’s shells on sale for $599.95 for 10 flats. This includes shipping. These are 1 1/8 oz, 7 1/2’s

"If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived."

- Ben Hogan

17

DECEMBER 2015 Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

1

2

3

4

5

Skeet Night

6

7 Youth Program

13

14 Youth Program

20

21 Youth Program

27 Bud 28 Wolfe Classic Trap Tourney

8

Trap Night

9 Skeet Night

15 Skeet Night

22 Skeet Night

29

10 Trap Night

16 Trap Night

23 Trap Night

30

Skeet Tourney

Sporting Clays

11

12

18

19

25

26

Sporting Clays

17 Sporting Clays

24 Sporting Clays

31

Youth Program

18

JANUARY 2016 Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

1

2 Skeet Tourney

3

4 Youth Program

10

11 Youth Program

17

18 Youth Program

24

25

Trap Tourney

Youth Program

5

6 Skeet Night

12 Skeet Night

19 Skeet Night

26 Skeet Night

7 Trap Night

13 Trap Night

20 Trap Night

27 Trap Night

8

9

15

16

22

23

29

30

Sporting Clays

14 Sporting Clays

21 Sporting Clays

28 Sporting Clays

31

19

PALM BEACH TRAP/SKEET PRO SHOP FIREARMS ALL NEW FIREARMS WHOLESALE PLUS

10% TRADES INS ACCEPTED AMMUNITION AMMUNITION WHOLESALE COST PLUS $2.00 PER CASE WITH 10 CASE ORDER $4.00 LESS THAN 10 DELIVERIES TO Ft Lauderdale/Miami CONFIRMED WITH ORDERS

CALL FOR CURRENT PRICES ON FIREARMS/AMMUNITION

561-793-8787 20

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

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

21

SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club

BUD WOLFE CLASSIC 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

Sunday December 27th, 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: $75 N.S.C.A., $75 Hunter, $35.00 Sub-Junior, Junior Belt Buckles (3 places) will be given as trophies, ammo will be given to two places for concurrents.

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.

There will be a BBQ 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

22

SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS RICHARD MERRITT MEMORIAL 2014 41 Shooters

CONCURRENTS LADY CH CHARLIE DE ANGELIS RU MICHELE DIAMOND ASHLEY MARTINEZ SUB-JR CH MICHAEL PILCH JUNIOR CH ASHLEY MARTINEZ RU ANDREW LOITZ VET CH RICHARD C KILPATRICK RU ALEX RIERA SUPER VET CH W T MUIR RU ALBERTO SOLARES SENIOR SUPER VET CH JOHNNY GAVINO RU JOSE LIBOS

68 49 46

Score 96 83 82 81 78 78 73 81 77 77 72 64 46 73 72 71 80 77 76 71 68 67 74 66 62

Name RODRIGO A MEHECH RICHARD C KILPATRICK ALEX RIERA W T MUIR WAYNE SOUTH TED F GRAY GERRY STUMM JULIO MARTINEZ GARY F GRAY DAVID M KORDZIKOWSKI MARK J BAUER JOSEPH S DOBOS ASHLEY MARTINEZ ALBERTO A SOLARES DONOVAN H AMRITT LARRY BALL NAJEEB HABER STEVEN D HAYNIE ROBERT VAZQUEZ MICHAEL PILCH FRANCISCO PONS JOHN PILCH JOHNNY GAVINO JOSE LIBOS WAYNE AMRITT

Award HOA RU M1 M2 M3 AA1 AA2 A1 A2 A3 B1 B2 B3 C1 C2 C3 D1 D2 D3 E1 E2 E3 H1 H2 H3

71 46 23 83 82 81 73 74 66

23

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 24

Skeet Shoot Results

25

26

27

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

The current program is 100 singles, 100 handicap, and 100 doubles on the fourth Sunday of the month.

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.

28

Glen Ehlers and Ruthie Flayderman at the FTA Fall Championships.

The November shoot was cut short due to lightning. All we shot was the 16 yard event.

Hopefully the December shoot will see us deep into our absent dry season!

29

Trapshooting Results

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind.

- Peyton ManDue to a two hour rain and lightning delay ning, the Handicap and Doubles events were canceled.

CUSTOM EAR PLUGS Advanced Quality Hearing Sample Rd. & FL. Turnpike @ Festival Flea Market Mall By appointment only

Coupon $10. Off In-office only Cash and carry

954-975-5756 30

Youth Program

Thanks to the Quail Creek Young Guns program Coach Joe received training for his NRA Shotgun Instructor certificate last month. He plans on also getting a Chief Range Safety Officer classification so we can certify our new coaches.

Our program continues to get new kids every week. It looks like we have a good start to the new year!

31

ADVERTISERS Professional and Industry Vendors

We are going to update this section of the newsletter on a continuing basis as requests come in.

If you would like to advertise your business in this section of the newsletter contact me at: jloit@bellsouth.net Joe Loitz at 954-857-5278 Business Cards - $50 for one year Full Page ads - $200 for one year

32