May 2016 Markham Newsletter

Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays May 1, 2016 Volume 7 Issue 5

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November Issue 2015

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2015

Club News - 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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OFFICERS •

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

DIRECTORS: •

Sporting Clays Program and Results

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Skeet Program and Results

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FSA InsideSkeet this Calender issue:

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Trap Program

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Trap Results

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Youth Program

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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 July 7th Starting at 7:00 PM

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Club News Many of our snowbirds have left us and gone back north and as usual the county will be closing the club on Fridays starting in June. Thankfully the rains are still an month or two off and the weather has been nice on the weekends for our shoots.

Lucio Gomez’s 88 led the field of 45 shooters by one target over runner-up Alex Riera at the sporting clays Spring Blast. The monthly skeet shoot was well attended by 17 shooters who shot a combined 2,550 targets. Bruce Gordon led the 12 gauge and 20 gauge. Paul Billings won every thing else, the 28, .410, Doubles, and HOA. Good shooting guys.

Vazquez, Michael Raley.

Charles McKenna, and Dave Hewes for making their respective Class All -American teams with the NSSA!

Not much else to report for the month of April. John Deedenbender was back in the hospital this month. He is back home as far as I know. If you can, give him a call and give him your support.

Our next club meeting is July 7th. If you have any club business please try and attend.

The FTA Spring Championships will be held at Silver Dollar Shooters Club May 13-15th.

Hope to see you there.

Angel Estevez won the Singles event at the monthly trapshoot with a lone 97. The Handicap was won by Ron Ward and David Golwecki with 92’s and Ron led the Doubles with a 93.

Congratulations go out to Russ Naples, Hector Marrero, Robert 4

Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – June 2016 There are five basics when evaluating a target in sporting clays: target speed, angle, height, distance and line. Two other issues are curl or slice which fall into a sub-area of line but on the whole there are the five major issues.

Mike Alpine presents his advice this month for evaluating a presentation based on these five issues. First off, he talks about target line.

Find the spot where the target changes direction or starts to drop. Change of direction and drop will of course have to be figured into your break point.

His advice on target speed is pretty basic: faster targets, more lead, faster muzzle speed, less lead. Target angle affects lead, the more angle the more lead, obviously. Be cautious of quartering targets the average shooter misses in front. Distance is everyone’s bane. He suggests using diminishing lead or pull-ahead.

Target height leaves the shooter with no reference points yet low targets end up looking faster than they may actually be. Rabbits slow faster than other targets so be aware of this also.

-conscious, outside of the control of our rational mind. Mother Nature didn’t want our reactions delayed by the rational mind, she opted for emotional triggers: fear, hunger, etc.

Not necessarily sure why but Michael believes you need to impress an emotional connection onto your practice sessions when you work on your fundamentals. I guess this makes them imprint more effectively into your subconscious.

TrapShootingUSA – May-June 2016 Larry Grenevicki and Karla Harrison cover the Dixie Grand and the Silver Dollar spring shoots in this issue. There is also a nice tribute to Bill Jacobsen in the issue. For the history of shooting lovers there is a nice piece on the Pennsylvania State Shooting Association going back to 1890 by Richard Hamilton.

Sean Hawley wrote a short review of some of the major players in the trapshooting coaching business. If you are interested in coaching from one of the name coaches this might be a good primer for you.

Targets with confusing, curling or slicing target lines are his final issue. He suggests using the intercept method on these targets. I have to agree. Starting low and moving up diagonally to meet the target can negate any ambiguity as to the target line.

We learn the basics or fundamentals of a sport so that at some point they become automatic when we need them. Michael J. Keyes, M.D. reminds us that control of this function once it becomes automatic is seated in the sub 5

Magazine Review ClayShootingUSA – April-May 2016

gling a golf club. Whatever you do to reset, remember to do it!

The Krieghoff Classic is highlighted in this month’s issue. Local winners were Ashley Little – Lady FITASC – and Joey Pinchin swept all the Sub-Junior trophies. Congrats!

There are two types of pressure: anxiety and tension. Both effect your shooting at some time. Lanny Bassham talks about anxiety this month and how to deal with it. Anxiety is fear of an uncertain outcome. You know how to shoot, yet you fear the outcome of your final score. We fear our score will be perceived as a personal failure. Truth is, no one cares about your score but you. Quit worrying about score and concentrate on the targets.

Larry Grenevicki published another installment of his work on the history of shooting, this time he reviews The Encyclopedia of Shotgun Shell Boxes. Nice article, I always enjoy his historical reviews.

What’s your plan when something distracts you on the line? How many times have you mounted your gun only to have a dragon fly land on it or maybe there’s a hawk or airliner passing right through your field of view? In Florida there are tons of wildlife distractions and then there are the human ones: golf carts, people carrying-on behind the line, the list goes on. What do you do? If you have a good pre-shot routine you reset and get on with your shot. It’s still hard to clean the slate mentally sometimes. Myself, I always rely on my breathing to get me back on track. Take a breath and slowly let it out until you hit that bottom area where you have just enough air to call for the target. I call, then hold my breath throughout the shot.

Bob Palmer has the right of it, quite worrying about outcome and start enjoying shooting.

Recall the joy of a good score and push your fears of poor outcomes out the window. Each target only takes 2 or 3 seconds to shoot. If you add in the pre-shot routine we are talking about 10-15 seconds to shoot a pair of targets.

That’s all the time you need to concentrate on what you are doing. In those 10-15 seconds turn off your thoughts and let yourself shoot.

Break the target as hard as you can and experience the pure joy of stopping a target cold and turning it into a cloud of smoke! Do this and the outcome will take care of itself.

Bob Dunn advocates a ‘clear the mechanism’ approach to resetting your shooting routine. I told you mine, he suggests closing your eyes and visualizing the target’s flight path with a slight head movement following where the target would go. Some people readjust their shells in the chamber (if you have an O/U) others shift their weight back and forth until they are comfortable. I guess this is like wag6

and over again until the miss has no effect on your breathing. Don’t get too vivid with your imagining, you don’t want to ingrain missing into your subconscious!

Don’t over think the process of shooting. Keep it simple once you are ready to shoot. Your final routine should only consist of two or three important points: focal point, key word, and breathing. Finally, don’t think about outcome, just enjoy shooting.

Kim Rhode - 5 Time Olympic Champion TRAP & FIELD – April 2016 Do you think about your score as you shoot? For most of us we are at least aware of how well we are doing as we shoot but too much concern about score can cause loss of concentration and inevitable collapse. Bob Palmer gives us a way to deal with our mental attachments to score. The idea is to truly believe you are going to win. To do this we need to become fired up with high levels of joy and excitement about our shooting. As an exercise he prescribes the following: Stand in front of a mirror and think of a past successful round. Recall the great feelings you had while you were shooting it, actually feel the adrenaline rise. Focus on your breathing for thirty seconds or so until it is regular. Now imagine a missed target. Does your breathing change? Did you possibly stop at the thought? Start the process over 7

Magazine Review CLAYTARGET NATION – April 2016 Call it the Focal Point or the Visual Pick-up Point or whatever you like, it is the spot where you set your eyes before calling for the target.

To be honest on sporting clays this isn’t a major issue unless the trap is near you or you have a small window for the target. If this is the situation then Don Currie suggests setting your eyes just past where the target stops being a blur. In trap and skeet we generally pick up the target inside the blur zone so I don’t understand the fear here when he predicts you will find yourself behind the target thus requiring a frantic move to catch up to it. The solution for finding yourself behind the target is to delay your mount (if you are shooting low-gun) until you are past the target.

I agree with his advice when he says to set your focal point in the area between your barrels and the trap. The tighter the angle of the target the closer you should hold your eyes to your barrel such as in the Post 2 high house for skeet. For trap-style targets he suggests looking above your barrels. Both are good suggestions. For hard crossers he suggests looking half-way between the trap and the barrels. This is basically what you would do on a skeet Post 4 target so again I agree with him.

He finishes by noting you always want your peripheral vision to pick up the target then hand it off to your central vision. This is true. You don’t want to look right where the target is going to appear regardless of what discipline it is.

Don’t look into the skeet house window, don’t look directly at the edge of the traphouse or directly at the trap. Raise you vision or move your

eyes to a spot where your peripheral vision will pick up the target first.

There are two ways to coach breaking the high house 2 in skeet. One way is to espouse the basics: foot position, hold point, look point, break point, and visualize the shot and sight picture.

This is what Paul Giambrone III does this month. This is all fine and well but all too often the shooter hasn’t really ever learned how to deal with this target in any effective fashion. Some people never learned how to capture the target visually as it leaves the streak zone then create a sight picture for the target after they get visual lock on it. To be honest this took me some time to see and understand what they have been talking about all these years. Moving the gun before getting visual lock on it is against all the established shooting principles in most of the other shooting disciplines. In skeet we make an exception for high 2, high 3, low 5, and low 6, we move with the streak.

Yeah, what does that mean? Some people never learned how to do this and in the process never learned how to break any of these targets effectively. Yes, they can break them. They learned a patch method that works most of the time.

They may even break 100 straight on occasion when the planets are aligned correctly, but truth is they learned a method that works for them 80% of the time so they never develop the “correct” method for this target. John Shima talks about learning the move to the target first before putting an emphasis on breaking it. This is what he is talking about. It takes time and a lot of missed targets but once the feel for the move is in place the eyes will take over and suddenly you are breaking these targets 95%+ of the time.

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Coaching sporting clays shooters in skeet makes you painfully aware that there easy ways to break those four targets. Clays shooters move the hold point way out and shoot the target just past the stake. They don’t care about shooting skeet doubles from station 3 or 5 and how their setup will affect those pairs. All they care about is breaking the target during a normal round. Maybe if skeet instructors went back to basics and taught how to break these four targets the easy way then worked backwards to moving with the streak we wouldn’t see some of the convoluted moves on these stations that are embarrassing to watch. Just a suggestion.

son III said he used to practice shooting every target coming out of the house in his mind while waiting for his turn to shoot and Paul is no different.

Anyway, I digress, Paul tells us to move to the right side and back of station 2 to allow our peripheral vision a better chance at the target. The hold-point should be one third of the way to the stake and place your muzzle level with the bottom of the window. Paul’s look-point is four feet to the left of his barrels and 2-3 feet over them. You need to experiment with your own look and hold-points to find your own sweet spot where you see the target best and can start your move. Finally, move with the streak and visualize the shot and shot picture before every shot.

How many shooters’ scores yo-yo from good to average on a consistent basis? This is a dead giveaway for someone with consistency problems and for someone who has fundamental flaws in their shooting program. If the problem is consistency in application of the pre-shot routine and basic strategy they can fix themselves simply by committing themselves to shooting to their abilities. Go to the easy course like Quail Creek’s Red Course and make a committed effort to breaking every target on every station. If station 3 is four report pairs then don’t leave the station until you have broken pairs four in a row. Some people just need practice running a station and the Red Course is the place to do that.

Paul also wrote an article focusing on increasing your confidence. Having no expectations concerning your score is probably one of the big issues that mess with many shooters. Concentrating on the process and ignoring your expectations for a perfect score will serve you well any time you go out to shoot. On stepping up to a post or station all you should be thinking about is the process of seeing and shooting the target, nothing else. Lastly, visualize your shot while waiting for the other shooters to finish, then pick out your hold and focal points. Leo Harri-

What creates a shooting slump? Generally it is an abandonment of fundamentals. Something is missing, whether it is visual, strategic, or fundamental and the shooter just isn’t aware of it.

In Marty Fischer’s opinion the shooter has probably gotten away from basic fundamentals and needs a good instructor to set him back on track. A basic lack of consistency in the shooter’s shooting program may be more frequently true than some shooters would like to admit.

Funny thing about fundamental flaws, with tons of practice some shooters get pretty good even with the flaw. Stop practicing however and their scores plummet. If this is you or someone you know then they probably have a fundamental flaw in their shooting. See a good coach and get it fixed and the yo-yoing scores will end.

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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature 10

Calender of events: Gun Shows: Apr. 30-May 1st

running specials every other week.

Watch the papers and check out their website.

Ft. Lauderdale War Memorial Aud.

Skeet this month: Markham

May 7th

South Florida May. 28-29th

Trap this month: Indian River

May 1st

South Florida May 14th Markham

May 22th

Sporting This month: Quail Creek

May 7th

Markham

May 15th

OK Corral

May 21st

Indian River

May 28th

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 $529.90 for 10 flats. This includes shipping. These are 11/8 oz., 7 1/2’s & 8’s, 1200 fps, 12 gauge.

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~Richard Kline

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2015-2016 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments

Date

Tournament

Saturday - Jan 16, 2016

Snow Bird Open

Sunday - Feb 7, 2016

Honest Abe's Birthday Bash

Sunday - Mar 20, 2016

St. Patrick's Day Open

Saturday - Apr 17, 2016

Spring Blast

Sunday - May 15, 2016

Memorial Day Open

Saturday - Jun 25, 2016

15th Annual Sunshine State Classic

Saturday - Jul 16, 2016

Super Sizzle Open

Saturday - Aug 13, 2016

Summers End Open

Sunday - Oct. 9, 2015

Pumpkin Blast

Sunday—Nov. 6, 2016

Richard Merritt Memorial

Saturday—Dec 31, 2016

Bud Wolfe Classic

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere.

It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Roger Staubach

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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club

MEMORIAL DAY OPEN 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SUNDAY MAY 15TH 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 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

Markham Park , 16001 W. State Road 84, Sunrise , FL 33326 (954) 357-5143

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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS SPRING BLAST 45 ENTRANTS CH LUCIO GOMEZ RU ALEX RIERA M1 HERBERT KANZKI M2 CHARLES ALVAREZ M3 W T MUIR AA1 TED F GRAY AA2 GARY F GRAY AA3 BRUCE TAYLOR A1 EDWARD J LEE A2 BRETT THWAITES A3 DAVID M KORDZIKOWSKI B1 YVES ARMAND B2 JOE L FORDHAM B3 CARY KESHEN C1 WESLEY B PARADISE C2 ALBERTP A SOLARES C3 CALVERT CULLEN D1 STEVEN D HAYNIE D2 RONALD A WARD D3 JORDAN C THWAITES E1 STEVEN QUINT E2 CHRISTIAN KANZKI E3 WAYNE AMRITT

CONCURRENTS LADY SUB-JR VETERAN

CH CHARLIE DE ANGELIS CH CHRISTIAN KANZKI CH ALEX RIERA RU EDWARD J LEE SUPER VET CH W T MUIR RU ALBERTO SOLARES SR SUPER VET CH STEVEN QUINT RU JOE L FORDHAM HUNTER CH BARRY CORWIN RU DWIGHT CHIN-SANG 3RD CHRIS J. WEINGARTNER

88 87 86 85 84 83 77 69 83 80 65 76 74 70 85 77 71 74 74 72 75 68 59

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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 18

Skeet Shoot Results

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.� ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Trap Program ATA SHOOT SCHEDULE 2015 –2016

The current program is 100 singles, 100 January 24th handicap, and 100 February 28th doubles on the fourth March 27th Sunday of the month.

April 24th We are always in need of pullers for these May 22nd shoots. If you are inJune 26th terested in helping let July 24th us know.

August 28th Program Starts Our doubts are traitors, promptly at 9:00.

and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

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Wednesday night practice.

The Spring FTA Championships are May 13-15th at Silver Dollar Shooters Club. The state meeting will be held Saturday night May 14th. At this time there are no items on the agenda. If you have any issues to discuss send them to me and I will add them to the meeting agenda.

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Youth Program

The Youth Program has been busy as usual. Several of our shooters are participating in the Quail Creek Young Guns Program and will be going to the SCTP state shoots. Good Luck!

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