2015 Markham October Newsletter

October 1, 2015 Volume 6, Issue 10

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June Issue 2015

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2015 OFFICERS

Club News - Magazine Review Book Review

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NFL Charity Shoot

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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 Inside this issue: Results

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Skeet Program and Results

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FSA Skeet Calender

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Trap Program

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Gun For Sale

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Youth Program

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

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Club News September is a slow month at the club what with the rain, high temperatures, and humidity. There was not Sporting Clays tournament this month.

The Trap results never arrived but the Skeet results are reported. Tom Mazur and Andrew Loitz let the 12ga. Event with 48’s and David Hewes lead the 28ga. Event with the same score. Tom Mazur lead the 20ga with a 43. We were rained out of the .410 and doubles events.

No real news beyond what I have reported here. October will start out with a return of the Sporting Clays tournaments with the first one on Sunday October 11th. This is one of the best Sporting Clays deals in South Florida at a cost of $50 for 100 registered targets. The Sporting Clays course will be closed on October 10th to reset

the it for the tournament.

You will notice the NFL Alumni Shoot has been set for Saturday December 19th. I have pulled targets for this event three of the past four years. This is a great event where everyone has a lot of fun.

Always a good number of NFL alumni shoot the event aside from the guys we shoot with all the time. The South Florida Council Boy Scouts of America is the recipient of the charity event this year. A great organization worthy of the shoot‘s benefits.

Hope to see you there.

Hope everyone likes the festive nature of the calendar. See you at the club!

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ClayShootingUSA – October/ November 2015 I have only patterned a gun one time. I sent the gun back to the manufacturer immediately afterwards. Don Currie relies on the patterning board as part of his gunfitting evaluations. A patterning board can determine three things: Point of Impact (POI), barrel registration and convergence (do both barrels shoot the same), and pattern distribution. Don recommends using a modified or full choke for POI patterning, don’t use steel shot on metal plate patterning boards, and stand 16 yards away from the board when patterning for POI. He also mentions some interesting observations about patterning: righthanded shooters tend to pattern slightly to the left, left-handed to the right, and recoil can affect POI. Point of convergence is where the patterns of the barrels of an O/U converge. At some distance they will overlap. This distance is their point of registration, generally believed to be somewhere around 30 yards. Special note, trap guns and pigeon guns are designed such that the lower barrel shoots higher than the top barrel.

Patterning for the point of registration is different than the POI. Determining the POI for a low -gun shooter is done by focusing on a point on the patterning board (16 yards away) then raising the gun like you would for a target and shooting at your focal point. Do this three times and you should see where you are shooting. From trap or skeet where you shoot high-gun you aim down the barrels like you would when you mount your gun normally. This is also how you determine

where your gun’s barrels are registered. You have to aim down the barrels. Don and I agree, you should always check a new shotgun this way. As I stated in the first line I got a set of bad barrels and this is how I figured it out. Same thing happened to him.

When should you talk to yourself when you are shooting? You know, the little voice that talks to you as you prepare for the event or while you are waiting for your turn to shoot. Lanny Bassham gives some advice on this internal voice and when it should and shouldn’t be heard. Before the first station or post of the event Lanny suggests doing some visualization and mental rehearsal. Imagine being “comfortable, calm, in-control and confident all day.” This is part of the 30 minutes before shooting time Bob Palmer also espouses. Run a mental program where you rehearse being confident, relaxed, etc., then slip into a mental rehearsal of how you are going to shoot the first stations or posts. Be vivid with the visualizations. The more vivid they are the more your mind believes they really happened. No it’s not an exercise in being delusional it’s simply visualization!

During the competition you need to be process oriented. If you miss concentrate on fixing the problem not on berating yourself. After the event think of all the good shots you made. Don’t reflect on the misses unless you view them as an opportunity to prevent them in the future.

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keep three things in your visual field without messing up miserably. It’s hard enough to keep the gun in your visual field while you are concentrating on the target. Adding a branch or cloud to what you need to be aware of is just too much!

Richard Faulds 2015 English Worlds Nothing personal but I hate it when instructors tell you to rotate like a tank turret when you swing to a target. Don Hollon says this then goes on to say how you should swing from your feet up letting “your lower body create the swing power when moving to the target.” Kind of a contradiction to talk about tank turrets then recommend using your lower body to power your swing. This is what you want to do, swing with your whole body not just your upper body. The tank turret analogy contradicts this and can give the wrong impression. What he is trying to get across is the need for a relaxed stance where you set up for the break point. When you walk up to a station or post you should always be aware of where you are going to break the target and set your feet so you are set up for that particular break point.

Don presents an interesting idea about break points later in his article. On his advice we should not find a field marker for our break point. Using a branch or cloud to indicate where we should shoot is not a good idea. You can’t

One last thing, Don brings up the idea of breaking 25 targets in a row on a station in sporting clays. His explanation of why you want to do this is vague but I appreciate where he’s going. I suggested a similar thing to one of my students recently. He missed some easy targets last time we shot together. He crushed the first two pairs then whiffed on the last pair on two stations!

No excuses. Send him back to those two stations and he would probably crush another pair.

What happened? On both pairs he followed the first target 2 yards past where he broke the previous presentations. He got too careful. He shot for score. He shot to run the station.

To take the special nature out of those final pairs it’s a good idea to practice running targets. As Don suggests, 25 in a row on one station. My recommendation was to see how many targets he could run on the Quail Creek Red Course. For an advanced shooter you should be able to run 100 on that course. If you can easily break 95 or better on that course then you should be able to run 100. My guess is you didn’t miss because of the targets, you missed because your head wasn’t right! Get your head right, concentrate! Practice Red Course targets so you get the feel for running 20, 30, 40, or more targets. Take the pressure off by doing it on the Red Course. It will make it easier to handle if you start to run them on the Blue Course!

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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – October 2015 I like historical articles and Todd Bender’s article on Ken Barnes is an excellent one.

Ken Barnes broke the first 400X400 in skeet and he did it with Model 12 pump guns and a Model 42 .410! If you get a chance it’s a good read.

Sadly, most of us are of an age that physically we are all starting to break down in one way or another. John Bulger submitted an article this month on his journey to correct his cataract problems. Interesting read, bottom line his eyes are fixed and he had only minor problems during his recovery. Not looking forward to eye problems but it is probably inevitable. If you have any worries about cataracts give this article some attention.

Ron Jones submitted an article on the margin of error allowed when swinging a shotgun on a target. For example a station 4 target in skeet has only three times the thickness of the bead as a margin of error. This may not seem like a lot but I’m pretty sure it would seem like a great deal if you were looking down the barrel of your gun. Personally I found the article uninformative. If you take the article to heart it is a miracle we ever break a target when we have less than a 10 mm margin of error, yet I know differently. Useless information.

books and one of his central themes is practicing “routine” shots. In golf these are the short irons and putter. In sporting clays these would be the equivalent of skeet targets or Quail Creek’s Red course. If all you practice are 40+ yard targets on the Blue course are you making your overall game better? Too many golfers practice their long irons and driver to the detriment of everything else.

Have you ever broken 40+ sporting targets on either a red or blue course? If you haven’t why not? If you can’t do that how is practicing only long targets going to help your overall score? Even the NBA pros run some routine layup drills before a game or before practice. Michael J. Keyes, M.D. suggests a layered training program where you practice a “simple” routine first before attempting something more difficult. As an example he uses pianists running through scales and etudes before each practice session. Maybe next time you head out to practice you should shoot two or three Red course stations as a warm up. Short irons and putters then the driver and long irons.

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Ducks Unlimited – September/ October 2015 There are two things I try to avoid when buying ammo for duck hunting: buffered shot and 3 ½” shells. Phil Bourjaily tries to make an agreement for 3 ½” shells but it isn’t very convincing.

You can get the same performance out of a 3” shell with the same load of shot. He compares a 3 ½” shell with 1 ½ oz. of shot to a 3” shell with 1 ¼ oz. You can buy 3” shells with 1 3/8 oz. and 1 ½ oz. The extra velocity you get from the 3 ½” isn’t worth it in my book. Phil even admits it is hard to stay in the gun after shooting one of these 3 ½” shells. I guess an argument could be made for using the 3 ½” shells as a third shot for semi-autos and pumps since this is your last shot.

I used to use the Winchester XX buffered 4’s for my last shot when we could still use lead shot.

Let me tell you, those things kicked like a mule but they were deadly. I can’t tell you how many times I folded ducks at 60+ yards with those things on the third shot. I can still picture some of them in my mind. If you really think you need it, go for it! In my mind this is the Black Licorice rule. I hate Black Licorice but I am not going to stop you from eating it. In fact you can have all of mine. Same with the 3 ½” shells, you can have all mine!

on making before you go out to shoot the second hundred. If it involves something in the pre-shot routine you have time to practice the change before you decide to apply it in the second hundred.

Lanny’s biggest concern with making a change in the middle of a competition has to do with what you are thinking about as you call for the target.

Under ideal circumstances you should be concentrating solely on your hold point and look point with your eyes in soft focus. If you are trying to implement a change your mind will be preoccupied with the change rather than on the process of shooting. This is also a recipe for over-trying. Relax and shoot. Don’t worry about outcomes, just concentrate on the process and let it happen.

When should you think about winning? According to Mr. Bassham you do this when you are training. It is a great motivator, so is losing or being told you can’t do something. Goal-setting is another important way to keep you motivated and working towards the outcomes you want.

When you are on the post or station however you should always be process-oriented.

Larry Grenevicki submitted another article on black powder tins. Love this stuff. Wish I had some of those $2,000 cans!

TrapShootingUSA – September/ October 2015 If you find you are doing something wrong on the first hundred, when do you make a change to correct the problem? Lanny Bassham brings up a good point when he addresses this issue.

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Sporting Clays – October 2015 Randy Lawrence channels Gil and Vicki Ash this month for his dissertation on dove hunting. They recommend a practiced ready position with the gun at a 45o angle to the horizon and the gun butt resting high on the rib cage. That’s about it. They then slid into their ridiculing of the Swingthru method and anything else that isn’t some version of sustained lead. They do mention how you should slow down and ease through the target if you are going to use Swing-thru. Perhaps if people were taught Swing-thru correctly we wouldn’t be having this conflict. Slashing thru a target claiming it is the Swing-thru method means the shooter never really learned how to shoot in the first place. Maybe that’s why they believe their method is so successful.

It’s the first real instruction many of their clients have ever received.

TRAP & FIELD – September 2015 I never liked an overly fast squad but I also certainly don’t like a squad where one or two members take too long. There is a natural rhythm to most squads and then there are some where you find yourself looking for 4-leaf clovers in the grass next to your post between shots! Ron Sutton is not a fan of fast squads. He suggests finding a new squad if your usual one is causing you to feel rushed and anxious.

be they singles, doubles or handicap. He feels many shooters get into the Pullbang!

Syndrome when it is better to shoot with a slower cadence of Pull…bang! I have been guilty of this myself. Slowing down between your call and the shot would probably save all of us some targets.

There are some routines Bob Palmer espouses in his book and articles which he reiterates here this month. He teaches a little routine where you make people “disappear”.

Someone bothers you when you are getting ready to shoot and you make yourself bigger and make them smaller. He also has a routine where you visualize the targets getting bigger and slower.

Like Dr. Rotella and Lanny Bassham, Bob Palmer suggests you get to the field 30 minutes early. This gives you time to psych up for the event and prepare yourself mentally.

This is something many people don’t think about. Get to the line early and prepare yourself mentally for the event. Review your strategy for the day and remind yourself of anything you have been working on recently. Bob Palmer suggests you build a routine to get yourself into the Zone. This way when you get to the line you are ready to do your best.

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Book Review The Unstoppable Golfer - Dr. Bob Rotella This is the second of Dr. Rotella’s books to reach my library and I have to say it is just as good as the first.

The Golfer’s Mind was the first of his books that I read and I have to admit I picked numerous quotes out of it for use in the Markham newsletter. Golfing and Tennis books lend themselves quite well to the clay shooting games. Why wouldn’t they? Most golfers are like ball crazy Labrador Retrievers. In other words they are just like us. Whether you are chasing a little dimpled ball or a dimpled clay target our mindsets and strict adherence to athletic form and technique are on a parallel course.

This book is about the short game in golf: chipping and putting. You could make analogous comparisons to the shooting games, the 16 yardline in trap, posts 1, 7, and 8 in skeet (you could make an argument to include 2 and 6 also), and all targets inside 30 yards for sporting clays. Remember most of all sporting clay courses are built on these targets and what are the ones we bemoan missing? That’s right, these same targets. No one begrudges themselves the missed 40+ yard targets. It’s the short ones that are the most painful to lose. Same goes for trap and skeet.

Emotion and self-image Dr. Rotella has the same self-image philosophy as many other sports psychologists. Let’s start this section on the local scale then move to the global. Emotion brings the conscious mind into the foreground.

When you put value and thought into a miss it brings the conscious mind to the fore. As a rule this is counterproductive. The only thing you want the conscious paying heed to is the appearance of the target.

You certainly don’t want it actively thinking about the quality of your shooting. Every time you get upset over a shot you awaken the conscious mind, giving it

something to fret over.

A conscious m i n d without a specific task to perform will do nothing but interfere with the efficiency of y o u r s h o t .

This also means you have to turn your conscious mind off before you call for the next target. Not so easy to do sometimes.

This isn’t to mean you shouldn’t be evaluating your shooting on a conscious level. Evaluating yes, not placing emotional value on it. Thoughts attached to strong emotions carry more weight in your memory and thus in your self-image. If you are going to feel emotion when you shoot expend it on the good shots.

Celebrate your great shots and attach positive emotion to them. This builds a confident self-image. Allow yourself to feel good about the good shots instead of being self-critical about your miscues.

In theory all shots have the same value. Whether you miss or hit your 3rd target or your 72nd you need all of them to create your score. When you only get emotional about your misses you cement only negative feelings onto your self-image. Not a wise strategy. We choose what we pay attention to. Pay attention to the good and stop beating yourself up over your miscues.

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Thankfully, Dr. Rotella isn’t as emphatic about the selfimage being the end all like Lanny Bassham. He does believe you are what you think yourself to be. Madonna once said: “I’ve always been famous. It just took a long time for some people to recognize it.” You have to believe in yourself, as long as it isn’t too delusional!

Like Bob Palmer and Lanny Bassham, Dr. Rotella suggests avoiding locker room conversations that would lead to negative thoughts. Avoid shooters who are always complaining about their shooting. Be upbeat and use phrases like, ‘coming along’ or ‘doing great’ when asked about your shooting. Don’t use negative statements such as, ‘I couldn’t hit the right angle today’ or ‘couldn’t get in front of low 5’.

Keep the message positive and avoid the negative.

Pre-shot Routine The pre-shot routine is both physical and mental. Everyone is aware of the physical preparation for a shot but sometimes you don’t think about what you do mentally in preparation for each shot. Some review the shot in their mind, some regulate their breathing, and others have a key phrase or word they use as a mantra before the call. Regardless of what your pre-shot routine happens to be, you have to be consistent in its application.

Rather than being worried about the results Dr. Rotella wants you to make a commitment to be more concerned with implementing your pre-shot routine followed by a smooth, fluid shot. Execute the physical and mental aspects of your pre-shot routine to perfection and you win even if you miss the target. Create a rhythm to your shot. Shoot, load the gun, review the shot in your mind, look point, hold point, break point, go to the ready position, execute the mount and call for target. Don’t rush your shot just because you hate the presentation, the post, background, or station.

Fluidity and graceful movement are sacrificed. Bob believes it’s not whether you hit or missed, it’s whether you followed your normal routine to perfection.

The doctor is very much a process coach. Believe in the process, your abilities, and your ability to execute your preshot routine and the process of shooting. Did you hit or miss the pre-shot routine is more important than the results.

Stick to your normal pre-shot routine regardless of whether you are 1 straight or 1000. Don’t abandon it or your normal shooting process just because the weather or your abilities that day seem to be failing you. Stay with the routine, a registered program is not the place to experiment. He advises attaching your self-image and self-confidence to the process

rather than to the results. Place the emphasis on the process and the results will take care of themselves.

The average golfer probably hits between 80 or 100. Dr. Rotella suggests the pre-shot routine should take 15-40 seconds per shot. During this time your focus is on the shot and nothing else. In trap an average rotation for each target on a squad of five shooters is between 20-24 seconds.

Physically the average shot from time of call to the pulling of the trigger takes less than one and a half seconds. This leaves about 20 seconds between shots to check your stance and the physical aspects of your routine, load the gun, etc.

The rest of the time needs to be filled with your mental program. Develop a routine to occupy the time between shots so your conscious doesn’t get a chance to rear its head.

In sporting clays and skeet where you are all alone on your station you need to build a rhythm between shots. For the first shot or pair you should take 10-15 seconds once you are on the station to prepare mentally and physically for the target. You should already have been preparing mentally while you were waiting for your turn on the station or while you were being shown the targets. All you should have to do is implement the final stages of your personal pre-shot routine.

The targets I’m concerned about are the ones after the first single or pair. How do you manage your time after the first shot? Do you spend the same amount of time between shots or do you speed up? Do you prepare the same way mentally for each subsequent target or pair of targets? Do you speed up after the second pair or do you actually go slower? For the out of shape shooters that fourth pair on a sporting clay station may require them to take an extra five seconds or so to recover physically if they want to execute the same shot at the same level of physical awareness and ability. Of course that means you need to think of something to keep your conscious mind occupied for those extra seconds. Perhaps you should just concentrate on your breathing. Just a thought.

For skeet shooters each target should get the same rhythm and timing between shots. The Low 2 should be given the same time between shots as the pair will be. Granted you need to reload for the pair but give yourself a second or two after the high house shot to reset for the low house.

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Book Review cont’d Expectations “It is useless to guess what someone else may do, and worse than useless to set a score for yourself to play for.” Bobby Jones Few mental game pundits ever have anything to say about expectations and how they interfere with a good mental game. Dr. Rotella addresses this subject nicely. Having goals is good, having expectations is something quite different. Goals are set for somewhere is the future. Expectations are more immediate. Expecting to shoot at or above your class or above some set score is an attempt to support or protect your self-image. The goal of shooting is to break the target not to prop up your self-image. Trying to meet expectations puts undue pressure on your performance and when is adding more pressure a good strategy?

Expectations are imposed by the conscious mind not the subconscious. Once imposed the conscious wants to make sure its expectations are met subsequently interfering with the subconscious’ ability to perform. You end up with the untrained conscious swinging to the target instead of allowing the trained subconscious. The subconscious needs unfettered freedom to react if you want to play at your best. Unless you consciously shoot every target this is not the best way to shoot. Once you have visual lock on the target the conscious mind needs to stay out of the actual shooting process.

Expectations place you in the future rather than keeping you firmly rooted in the present where you belong. Good scores have to be allowed to happen not forced. Dr. Rotella is a fan of letting the process take priority. Stick to your pre-shot routine, both the physical and the mental. Place your attention in the hands of the process, setting

the conscious mind’s distractions aside. Stay in the present, stay in the moment. The future will take care of itself.

Subconscious Dr. Rotella is a big proponent of letting the subconscious play the game without interference from the conscious mind. He acknowledges how some players play totally in the conscious and doesn’t really dare to explain how they do it. He would rather you surrender yourself to the process letting the conscious do its job separate from the subconscious. The conscious is there to remind you of things, move when you see the target, hold points, look points, break points, etc. Keep the conscious talk positive. Don’t let negative reminders sneak into your self-talk during your pre-shot routine.

Don’t panic when things start to go wrong. Stick to the process. You have to have confidence in your own game. Step to the line and execute your shooting routine not someone else’s. Don’t overthink the process when you get close to the end.

Let the process work – just shoot.

Sticking to a process oriented mental program is designed to get you in the Zone. Start thinking and you leave the Zone. Leaving the Zone is a matter of thinking in the future, thinking of results not the process. Being in the Zone is living in the process. In the Zone the target is seen clearly.

You are in control of the shot. You can visualize each shot before you take it. Place yourself in the mindset of a nine year old. They don’t care what score they shoot, they just want to shoot. Every broken target is something to be celebrated.

Missed targets are immediately forgotten and broken targets are reveled in. Kids always play in the present and so should you!

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Practice Dr. Rotella related an interesting practice routine Brad Faxon uses which I think has application to the shooting sports. Brad practices putting at three different speeds: fast, aim straight at the hole, slower pace, play more break, very slow roller, play lots of break. You can do this too: fast swing with no lead (swing-through), slower swing slightly more lead (pull-ahead), and matched speed with the most lead (maintained lead). The 20 inch inner circle crushes a target and is the killing part of a .410 pattern. Don’t practice just breaking targets practice crushing them. Practice putting that inner 20” circle of pattern on the target. Don’t be happy just breaking it. Learn how to find that inner 20” pattern no matter where you are standing or where the target is going.

In sporting clays go back out on course and practice your problem targets. Supplant the memory of a missed target with one where you crush it by reshooting it until you get it right. Erase the miss or overwrite it with the right way to break the target.

Practice the short game in shooting: rabbits, targets under 30 yards. Make the short game perfect just like in golf. Probably 70% of the targets in any program are these targets. Own these and the other 30 will hold less pressure.

Rehearsal Swings Maybe in sporting clays we should take a rehearsal swing before the first pair like golfers do. He calls these rehearsal swings not practice swings. Practice swings mean you are searching for how to hit the shot. You shouldn’t be practicing in a tournament you should be rehearsing. If you are consciously searching for a way to hit the target you have a problem. Pick how you are going to shoot

the target then rehearse the swing. The rehearsal can point out flaws in your plan and may remind you of a similar shot you executed in the past and the particulars of how you executed that shot.

Take the rehearsal swing with the target in mind.

Look past the barrels into the break point you are planning on using. However you decide on your plan don’t second guess it. Execute it and accept the results whether you are successful or not.

Visualization “You’d be surprised how often a golf shot turns out just the way you are thinking.” Patty Berg Will the shot. Make the shot in your mind then execute the shot as you visualize it. If you can’t manage to break the target in your mind how do you expect to do it on the field? You need detail when you visualize, everything from the smell of the grass and powder, sun on face, finger on trigger etc. Visualize crushing the target not just breaking it. Visualization is good for sorting through the alternatives, changing the hold and look point in skeet and trap and changing the order of shots in sporting clays. Choose between alternative methods: swing-through, pull-ahead, maintained-lead. Create a whole movie when you are visualizing. All the details. If all else fails pick the easy target and be sure and break it.

This is an exceptional book. Dr. Rotella’s delivery and style of teaching always hits a chord with me.

I have two more books of his to review. If they also provide good insight into the mental game as the first two you will see reviews for them here.

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

Skeet this month:

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.

Markham

Oct. 4th

Dick’s: Nothing special going n this month.

So. Fl.

Oct. 10-11th

Rebates:

Trap this month: Indian River

Oct. 6th

South Florida

Oct. 18th

Markham

Oct. 25th

Sporting This month: Quail Creek

Oct. 4th

Indian River

Oct. 3th

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

South Florida Oct. 10th OK Corral

Oct. 24th

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 $599.85 for 10 flats. This includes shipping. These are 1 oz, 7 1/2’s & 8’s, 1250 fps, 12 gauge.

Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind..

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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

The secret of concentration is the secret of selfdiscovery.

You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Arnold Palmer

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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

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Thursday night sporting clays with Gary Stoye

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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 24

Skeet Shoot Results

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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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If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

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FOR SALE Beretta Silver Pigeon I (Field) 686 White Onyx

Model No.:J6862J8

28� Barrels

Serial No. R78867S In excellent condition with only 350 rounds fired. It features excellent wood with great figure. There a few minor blemishes on the butt stock. The automatic safety has been disabled but can be restored with included part.

Included; 5 Beretta MobilChokes: SK, F, IM, M, & IC. 4 Beretta Victory Extended Chokes: F, LM, IC & CL. Also included is a Beretta extended choke tube wrench, a spare butt pad, trigger lock, Beretta oil, manual and factory hard case.

$1,350.00 Jack --- 954-643-6882

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Youth Program

Haven’t had any rainouts lately which is nice. September started out slow with school starting then picked up at the end of the month with four new shooters on each of the last two Monday nights. Last year we gained steam as the school year got underway and looks like this year is no different. I want to thank Tony, Steve, and Samir for helping me on Mondays. Great job Guys!

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