2016 November Newsletter

Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays November 1, 2016 Volume 7 Issue 11

2016 Richard Merritt Memorial Sunday November 6th 2016 Harvest Clay Charity Shoot Saturday November 19th 1

November 2016

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2015 OFFICERS

Club News - Magazine Review 4-9 Port Malabar Skeet Flyer

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BIG Children Foundation Flyer 12-13

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PRESIDENT—Vacant

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VICE PRESIDENT—Vacant

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TREASURER—Vacant

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SECRETARY— Joe Loitz

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RECORDING SECRETARY—Jerry Schwab

DIRECTORS:

Calender of Events

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Club Calender

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Rich Nilsen

Bermont Flyer /NSCA Schedule 18-19 Pro

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Shop Sporting Clays Program and

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Skeet Program and Results

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FSA Skeet Calender

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Inside this Trap/Skeet issue: Palm Beach

Trap Program

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Trap Results

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Youth Program

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Contact info: Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays 11873 NW 30th Street Coral Springs, FL 33065 •

www.markhamclaytargets.com

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www.markhamskeet.org

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www.markhamsportingclays.org

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E-mail: jloit@bellsouth.net

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Newsletter: jloit@bellsouth.net

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Next General Meeting November 3rd Starting at 7:00 PM

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Club News Hurricane Matthew threatened this month and thankfully missed us but not without disrupting our lives. In anticipation of Matthew’s strike we cancelled our sporting clays shoot for October. This should make the Richard Merritt Memorial shoot to be held on Sunday, November 6th an excellent time to celebrate an uneventful hurricane season. This is a great annual event with belt buckles as trophies given out thru third place in each class. Ammo will be given out for Category winners and for door prizes. Lunch will be provided by Shorty’s BBQ. Our monthly Skeet shoot saw Hector Marrero lead the 12 gauge with a perfect 50 and the HOA with a 185. Robert Vazquez also had a 50 straight in the 20 gauge. Ed Ford won the 28 with a 48 and Dave Hewes won .410 with a 45.

The scores continue to be high at the trap shoots with Angel Estevez leading the Singles event with a lone 99 and he led the Handicap with a lone 91. Alex Riera was close behind in Singles with a 98.

He also won the Doubles event with a 93 in very windy conditions.

We are hosting another charity shoot for the BIG Children’s Foundation.

This is a great charity helping atrisk children transition into society.

There are raffle tickets for a shotgun, pistol, and a 120 quart cooler and there will be a 50 target trap and skeet competition with trophies to be awarded based on Lewis Class. Lunch will be served to the shooters and their families.

There will be a shooting flea market held concurrently with the shoot in the Shotgun Hall. Bring any shooting related items that you want to sell and get rid of them at the flea market. You can sell anything but guns and ammo.

Join us for this truly worthwhile event. Two years ago we made $10,000 for the charity, let’s see if we can beat that!

The NFL Alumni Charity Shoot is Saturday, December 3rd this year.

Shoot with some of your NFL heroes and lend support to another good cause!

See you at the club!

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Magazine Reviews Shotgun Sports – November 2016

ble with the speed.

Where do I start? Michael J. Keyes, M.D. throws several ideas at us this month and attempts to tie them all together under the heading of Assumptions. He starts out talking about speed over accuracy and whether one is better to learn first. This has more to do with learning how to do something subconsciously versus consciously. If we concentrate on speed, we learn to rely on the physical feeling of the move and we let our brain fill in the gaps.

This is learning where the unconscious takes control early in the process. On the other hand, when we learn something consciously we think thru every step and it isn’t quite as smooth as the unconscious meth-

This is part of that assumptions thing. Our brains fill in missing details or make assumptions when we need to act quickly. It’s like dancing. On first learning a dance step we consciously think the right foot goes here the left goes there, etc., etc. Eventually we stop thinking of our feet and let them do their thing. At the same time, we speed up how we move. What if we moved at full speed as we learned the dance step? Would we reach the same level of accuracy of the move in the same time or would we learn faster? Research tells us the dance step would be learned more quickly and at the same level of accuracy. Maybe we would learn it more effectively also, meaning we wouldn’t question ourselves later as to the accuracy of our steps. Perhaps we would just let our brains fill in the gaps and trust our unconscious to do it right. This may be how we should treat our shooting, trust or abilities and don’t over think it.

od. This is what John Shima is talking about all the time. Learn the rhythm and feel of the shot then learn accuracy. Accuracy will come once you become comforta-

Michael also brings up modeling and its similarity to visualization. How this relates to making assumptions leaves me completely lost but modeling is an important training tool. Watching an instructional video or going to a clinic and working with one of the top instructors will improve your shooting.

Only caveat here is remembering to incorporate any of the instructional information into your shooting. If you are going to make a change work include it in your training.

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Magazine Review CLAYTARGET NATION – October 2016 Work smarter not harder is one of John Shima’s cornerstone philosophies.

Create a workout program containing “specific goals designed to eliminate your weaknesses and self-defeating habits”. Train with a purpose during each session, set a specific goal for each session and stay on program to accomplish that goal. John is a process teacher. Work on the process of shooting and let the outcome take care of itself. Become a better shooter by learning how to master the target break. If you can control that the scores will take care of themselves.

He likes to use High 2 and Low 6 to condition your approach to the target. See the target enter your visual field and rotate your body to move the gun into position. Program the move then program accuracy. Get the move down and make it unconscious. Perfect this and you will perceive the target slowing down as it nears the break point. A slower target is easier to control even if it only a perception.

together scores above their normal capabilities when it is tournament time.

What Clayton never overtly states is how some people are better at managing the rules of sporting clays to their benefit even if they have less than stellar shooting skills.

If you want to score better at sporting clays you must realize about 70 targets on the course are gimmes. You cannot leave any of these unbroken. Break those and 50% of the rest assures you an 85. Break two thirds of them and you are at 90! Understanding this simple principle is half the battle. If you have problems breaking more than 8 targets in a row maybe you should spend some time on the Red Course at Quail Creek. Work on breaking streaks of targets. The Red Course is perfect for this. Learning how to put long runs of targets together is a skill just like any other. Can’t remember who said it but one of the top shots admitted that he spent time on a Red Course just before a big tournament for exactly this reason, working on simple fundamentals and breaking long runs of targets.

What is a good shooter versus someone who turns in good scores? Clayton M. Rue makes the argument some good shooters simply do not score well yet others seem to be able to put 6

Part of managing your score is figuring out how to maximize it instead of stroking your ego by showing off your shooting chops. He gave the example of the shooter who pre-mounted to break an 8 and the one who shot low-gun and broke a 7. He believed the low-gun shooter was a better shooter. Wonder what he thinks about Bill McGuire’s skill set? Doesn’t he do a softmount on many of his targets? Premounting to improve your score isn’t necessarily an indication of lessor skill but it is a way of limiting errors and building your score.

Drop your ego if you want to raise your score. There is little practical advice in the article. Don’t ever give away a target you should break, manage your risks, and improve your concentration skills is all I can glean from the rest of his message.

saying and should be an automatic part of the pre-shot routine. Setup correctly and as Marty Fischer says, “the magic” will kick in.

Towards this magic Marty recommends using the lightest color lenses possible for the conditions. In sporting clays perfect your mount to eliminate more reasons to miss. Finally, let the misses go, reset, and just concentrate on the next target.

Gary Walstrom classifies all people in three groups: those who think in the past, the present, or the future. If you are keeping score in your head you are living in the past. Thinking in the future has to do with expectation to shoot a specific score. Stay in the present and in the process is always the best strategy. Let go of your expectations and what your score should be. Just shoot the next target and enjoy the moment.

Never give yourself a reason to miss, a paraphrased quote from the late great Wayne Mayes should be everyone’s basis for developing a pre-shot routine. Doesn’t matter which shotgunning discipline you enjoy, all of them have a focal point, hold point, and break point. Stance and mount go without 7

Magazine Review TRAP & FIELD – October 2016

Bob Palmer’s message on selftalk is sometimes confusing. When you are on the line you should not be reciting a long detailed mantra to pump up your selfimage. If your self-image needs that much support you should be doing it all day long when you aren’t shooting.

While you are shooting a simple key phrase or key word is all you want. This isn’t to mean you shouldn’t be talking to yourself as part of your pre-shot routine but keep it short and simple. Butt, belly, beak, bang is short and simple if you are a swing-thru shooter. “Beak” reminds you to look at the front of the

target. “Smooth” reminds me to stick with the process and relax.

Like Bob says, your key phrase should be like a starter’s gun going off that unleashes the zone.

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SHOOTING SPORTSMAN – NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2016 This is the Labrador issue, if Labradors are your dog then you will enjoy this issue.

Duck hunting season is upon us and Tom Roster gives his advice on ammo for a successful hunt. HEVI-Shot is his recommendation for distance shooting. Don’t want to spend that kind of money on your shells then use steel two sizes larger than you would if you used HEVI-Shot. This means No. 2’s in steel and 4’s in HEVIShot.

His research says there is no support for the lethality or quality of pattern for steel or HEVI-Shot above 1350 fps beyond 40 yards. What you are looking for is 85-90 pellets in a 30” circle. He likes Improved Modified or full choke beyond 45-60 yards for HEVI-Shot or No. 2 steel. Modified is fine up to 50 yards for either but beyond go with the previous recommendation.

No.4 steel for the second shot, and a HEVI-Shot No. 4 or a steel No. 2 for the third shot. In the old days I used copper plated No 7 ½ pigeon loads for the first shot, a standard No. 5 or 6 second, and the greatest duck shell ever made for the third shot, the Winchester Double XX buffered No. 4. I cannot tell you how many ducks I stopped cold with those XX’s. They kicked like a mule, but man, they dropped ducks dead! Oh well, I like Tom’s recommendations. All of the research I have read leads me to believe he is spot on, especially about the Blind Sides for decoying ducks and the HEVIShot for distance shooting.

One caveat, HEVI-Shot is not the best choice inside 30 yards.

Winchester Blind Side ammo works great inside this range and conversely don’t use them beyond 30 yards. If you want a good mix, load your pump or autoloader with a Blind Side first shot, in 4’s, a standard 1 ¼ oz.

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Some of you may recall the 4KIDS shoot we held two years ago.

We will be hosting this shoot again. The event consists of 50 targets, either skeet or trap.

Awards will be given to the winners of three Lewis classes. There will be raffles, a Silent Auction, and we are

planning a Shooting Flea Market to be held in the club house atrium. The Flea Market will be for all of the shooting accessories you have been accumulating all these years. No Firearms or Shells may be sold at the event. The big prizes are a 12 ga.

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Shotgun, a 9 mm pistol, and a 120 qt cooler. Last time Ruthie took home the big prize, maybe this time it could be you!

Most of all, this is for a good cause: BIG CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Arnold Jacob “Red�

Auerbach (1917-2006, 14

Calender of events: Gun Shows: Nov. 19-20th Ft.

every other week. Watch the papers and check out their website.

Lauderdale War Memorial Aud.

Skeet this month: Markham

Nov. 5th

South Florida Nov. 26-27th

Trap this month: Indian River

Nov. 6th

South Florida Nov. 19th Markham

Nov. 27th

Sporting This month: Indian River

Nov. 12th

Markham

Nov. 6th

South Florida

Nov. 19th

OK Corral

Nov. 20th

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 $579.90 for 10 flats. This includes shipping. These are 11/8 oz., 7 1/2’s & 8’s, 1200 fps, 12 gauge.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Arnold Daniel Palmer

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November 2016 Sun

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Trap Night

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15 Skeet Night

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We Are Expanding!

Bermont Shooting Club is excited to announce the expansion of our sporting clays course! Course one will soon have an additional 3 stations. That's a total of 17 stations to put your shooting skills to the test! The work on the 2nd sporting clay course which will include 14 more stations on the south side of the property, is slated to begin in August. We are working hard to complete our cart barn and add the wraparound porch in August as well. Thank you for your continued support as we grow and expand!

We are excited to be working with the NSCA and the Florida Sporting Clays Association. This is going to allow Bermont Shooting Club the ability to host registered tournaments soon. We are working closely with the association on dates for these future events. We will be sure to let you know all about our tournaments soon!

Don't forget Bermont Shooting Club is open Wednesday - Sunday 8am - 4pm. Memberships are available for $200. Which gives you discounted sporting clays and access to fishing in our beautiful ponds. Club Manager LJ Duke is available to work with anyone wanting to learn the sport or perfect a particularly hard target!

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2015-2016 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments

Date

Tournament

Saturday - Dec 31, 2017

Bud Wolfe Classic

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, 2016

Pumpkin Blast

Sunday—Nov. 6, 2016

Richard Merritt Memorial

Saturday—Dec 31, 2016

Bud Wolfe Classic

No matter how good you get you can always get better and that’s the exciting part.

Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods

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Rottweil 30" Trap Gun, with an extra set of 26" 12 gauge barrels, with a full set of Briley tubes in 20 gauge, 28 gauge, and 410, with screw in chokes in all barrels and tubes for sporting clays and skeet, and a quality fitted Americase. Has a 14½ inch LOP of 14 ½ inches and a drop trigger.$1850 for the package. Call Palm Beach Trap & Skeet at 561-793-8787 for an appointment.

Ljutic Mono Gun single barrel Trap gun that comes in a Silver Seitz case. Has 34" barrel with a .735" bore and a .035" restriction (full). This shotgun went back to Ljutic in 2013 for their $1K rebuild of internals and all metal factory refinish (receipt available on request), and it is in excellent low use condition. $2400 or $2300 without the case. Call Palm Beach Trap & Skeet at 561-793-8787 for an appointment.

Perazzi MX-8 12 gauge, 30 3/4" barrels, live bird setup with tuned fast reset trigger, with "G squared " air recoil management system, and original Perazzi case. LOP 15 1/8", LAC - 1 3/4" and LAH - 2 3/8", ll mm rib, and all serial numbers match. Recently used as a sporting clays gun with Briley #2 skeet screw-in choke tubes. $3600 Call Palm Beach Trap & Skeet at 561-793-8787 for an appointment.

Left Hand Browning Combo Trap set with 34" single barrel and 30" double barrel. The set is in as new condition with only minor use marks on the wood, and has a neutral cast, left hand palm swell, with the adjustable comb mounted for a left hander. $3600 Call Palm Beach Trap & Skeet at 561-793-8787 for an appointment.

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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club

RICHARD MERRITT MEMORIAL 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6TH 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: $70.00 N.S.C.A., $70.00 Hunter, $35.00 Sub-Junior, Junior Includes: Targets, Lunch, Awards and Fees.

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.

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

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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

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Gary Player

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Trap Program SPECIAL NOTICE

Trap Program:

*** PROGRAM CHANGE ***

We are changing our Trap Tournaments back to Sundays for the 2016-2017 season.

100 target 16 Yd, Hdcp and Doubles events.

First 100 targets. $37.00 (Includes ATA and FTA daily fees)

ATA SHOOT SCHEDULE 2016-2017

September 25th October 23nd November 27th December 18th January 15th February 26th March 26th

Subsequent 100 target events. $32.00 See Joe Loitz for details: 954-227-5936

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT SHOOTING IS STILL POPULAR WITH THE SHOOTERS. SIGN UP WITH STEVE NORRIS AND THE REST OF THE REGULARS AND TRY YOUR SKILL AND LUCK AT ALL THE GAMES.

See, even the old guys have a chance on Wednesday nights! Come out and join the fun!

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Trapshooting Results

Singles SINGLES

CLASS

SCORE

ANGEL ESTEVEZ

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99

ALEX RIERA

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98

STEVE NORRIS

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97

WU SHENG

B

89

WARREN LEDFORD

C

88

WILSON MCMILLAN

C

87

RICHARD WEISSMAN

D

87

ED GREENE

D

86

TED VANDLING

D

85

EMILIA EBIHARA

D

83

JACK MOORE

C

82

ADOLFO MILIANI

D

79

CARLOS BERNAL

D

78

ED FRUSTACI

D

77

MARY NORRIS

D

72

NICK JARRIEL

D

66

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Handicap HANDICAP

YARDAGE

ANGEL ESTEVEZ ALEX RIERA

SCORE

21 24.5

91 87

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86

WILSON MCMILLAN

22.5

86

STEVE NORRIS

24.5

86

TED VANDLING

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81

CARLOS BERNAL

20

71

ADOLFO MILIANI

20

61

WU SHENG

Doubles DOUBLES

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ALEX RIERA STEVE NORRIS WILSON MCMILLAN MARY NORRIS ANGEL ESTEVEZ

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A C D D C

SCORE 93 85 72 67 38/50

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Youth Program

The program is going strong into the new school year. Intermediate field is going strong, we get about a dozen shooters every Monday night. One or two new shooters start on the beginner field every Monday also. Come out and see us some time.

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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

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