2017 January Markham Newsletter

Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays January 2017 Volume 8 Issue 1

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January 2017

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2016

Club News - Magazine Review 4-9 10-11

Calender of Events

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Club Calender

OFFICERS •

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:

NFL Shoot Flyer

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NFL Flyer/2017 Sporting Schedule

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Palm Beach Trap/Skeet Pro Shop

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Inside issue: Sportingthis Clays Program

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Results Skeet Program and Results

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FSA Skeet Calender

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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 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 Thursday January 5th Starting at 7:00 PM

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Club News Happy New Year! We finished the year on a high not with a nice turnout of 89 shooters for the Bud Wolfe Classic. As usual it was a shootout between Joey Pinchin, Charlie Alvarez and Rodrigo Mehich. Joey prevailed with a lone 95. Scott Cobb won a tie-breaker between the three 93’s for RunnerUp. Angel Estevez led the last trap Singles event with a lone 98 and came back with a 91 to lead the Handicap. Steve Norris and Alex Riera led the Doubles with 87’s. In skeet Luke Ford led the 12 and .410 and tied with high in the HOA with Russ Naples with 184’s. Russ also led with a lone 49. Tod Bowman led the 20 and Doubles events with 48 and 44 respectively.

The Trap season begins with the Hall of Fame shoot and Dixie Grand at the end of January at the Silver Dollar Shooters Club. Note that our trapshoot will be held on Sunday, January 15th. The Skeet and Sporting season start in February with a blizzard of big shoots.

We want to thank all of our volunteers for their work during 2016.

Thanks again to Steve and Mary Norris, Gene and Ed Bryan, Steve Haynie, Cary Keshan, Wayne South, Charlie De Angelis, Richard Weissman, Andrew Loitz, Federico Ramirez, and Tony Moreno. Without your help we couldn’t put on our shoots or run our Youth Program. Thanks again to Tony Boyd and Doug LaPrade and the rest of the county staff for their assistance and support.

I have received no nominations for directors or officers for the club.

Our next meeting will be Thursday night January 5th. Feel free to attend the meeting and bring your ideas and suggestions for improving the club.

So many of our friends left us this year, most notably Steve Sagal and John Beedenbender. Steve’s family has donated over $250 in support of the Youth Progam from sales of his reloading supplies. We would like to extend a special thanks for the donations. May the new year bring all of you a safe and healthy shooting season!

See you at the club!

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Magazine Reviews TRAP & FIELD – December 2016 If Bob Palmer is anything, he is consistent. Presented in fairy tale format, this month’s message is in line with all his others. Remember the last time you felt great shooting and try to recapture that feeling before you go to the line. “Feel it in your heart” is his mantra and I if you think about it, he’s right. Recall the last time shooting was effortless and you may recall your shooting was thought-free and could also be said to come from your heart.

He is big on visualizing yourself as a giant compared to your competition. Imagine yourself as a giant and watch your opponents shrink to insignificance. Defeat the demons of your mind and put the competition to rest. Go out and shoot without expectations and a great deal of your mental burden is relieved. Shoot for the sake of shooting. If that means imagining yourself as a giant, then by all means do it.

Keep a journal and note your mental state after each competition. Next, concentrate on basics and fundamentals. This means different things to different people. What are basics and fundamentals in trap? What about skeet or sporting? Mostly it is visual lock on the target and smooth followthrough. For skeet it can mean the baseline targets and incomers as Paul Giambrone III noted in his article. For sporting it may mean spending time on the Red Course at Quail Creek working on fundamental targets and making them yours. Finally, Michael suggests adding some pressure to your practice. If this means betting a beer on each station maybe it would be worth trying it!

Shotgun Sports – January 2017 After a long diatribe on how humans are not hard-wired for high pressure situations such as competitions, Michael J. Keyes, M.D. advises us to develop our mental skills in preparation for competitions. Do this by practicing your relaxation, visualization, and imaging skills. Prepare for match pressure by accepting that it exists and examine your thinking and note any negative thoughts that creep in. These are the first steps.

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Magazine Review until it breaks.

Gary Walstrom tells us we need to be prepared when we come to shoot. Have everything you might need ready to use in your shell bag. Not much else to report from Gary.

CLAYTARGET NATION – December 2016 Anxiety comes with both psychological and physiological components. The physiological ones cause tension when you want to be relaxed. The psychological ones create doubt and negative self-talk. How do you defeat the onset of anxiety and its negative effects? John Shima suggests using powers under your control, mental and visual. First simplify the function at hand, focusing your mind on one thing, the appearance of the target. Aside from giving you a physiological imperative, see the target, it gives you a mental imperative, watch the target break.

This is important to the second component of his cure. Don’t concentrate on breaking the target, this imposes conscious control, ergo creating tension, the thing we are trying to avoid.

We want our adaptive unconscious (subconscious) to do our shooting with our conscious only marginally aware of the process and only there at the trigger pull. Convert your anxiety into arousal and watch the next target

Training and practice are different. In football blocking drills are training and scrimmages are practice. Paul Giambrone III suggests training would be working on baseline targets (1, 7, and 8) and incomers. Practice would be shooting a regular round of skeet. Training is designed for you to work on technique, embedding specific subconscious responses into your shooting style. Practice is like the walk-through before an event. Practice is where you discover how you are going to react during a competitive event.

All the major adjustments should be made before the competition. Only minor changes based on physical conditions such as lighting, wind, weather, and the physical arrangement of the shooting field are made on game day. Hold points, look points, and break points are adjusted to meet these conditions. Major adjustments are made on the training field, rarely before or during a competition. Never try to fix mechanics during an event. It usually ends in disaster.

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Are you aware of what you do on every shot? What about your thoughts? All good questions and the point of John Shima’s article on The Shooter Self.

Your best shooting is done when you are totally involved in the act of shooting. To become totally involved you need to find, develop, and use mental discipline to redirect your attention to the act of watching the target break. This is where you want to be mentally, totally involved with the act of shooting without regard to outcome.

6 low house targets.

Awareness of spirit and “shooting in spirit” is John’s version of Bob Palmer’s sermons on The Zone. John description of the emotional detachment and tension free balance you feel brings us closer to what being in The Zone feels like. Embrace the process and focus on the target is the best advice you can give or get.

John wants to be attuned to watching the target break rather than to the ego’s desire to break the target. He suggests expanding your soft focus to decrease your anticipatory tension and to expand your peripheral vision. He does not, however, describe how to do this. An old trapshooter ploy is to open your eyes wider than you usually would. This seem to increase your peripheral awareness.

He also reminds us to use a full body swing to the target, ankles up and to prepare our bodies for the move to the target. In the same way a sprinter takes the line and waits for the starter’s gun you should be preparing to move at the first sight of the target after your call. For me this means putting slightly more bend in my knee and winding into my stance on stations 2 and 3 high house targets and 5 and 7

“A golfer has to learn to enjoy the process of striving to improve. That process, not the end result, enriches life.” ― Bob Rotella, Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

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Calender of events: & 8’s, 1200 fps, 12 gauge.

Gun Shows: Jan. 14-15th Ft.

Dick’s: They are running specials every other week. Watch the papers and

Lauderdale War Memorial Aud.

Skeet this month: Markham

Jan. 7th

South Florida Jan. 29th

Trap this month: Indian River

Jan. 1st

South Florida

Jan. 14th

Markham

Jan. 15th

Sporting This month: OK Corral

Jan. 1st

Indian River

Jan. 7th

Quail Creek

Jan. 8th

South Florida

Jan. 15th

Markham

Jan. 21st

Gulf Coast

Jan. 8th & 29th

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

“The smaller the target, the sharper the athlete’s focus, the better his concentration, and the better the results.” ― Bob Rotella, Golf is Not a Game of Perfect 9

January 2017 Sun

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Youth Program

Youth Program

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23 Youth Program

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Skeet Night

10 Skeet Night

17 Skeet Night

24 Skeet Night

27 Skeet Night

Trap Night

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18 Trap Night

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Skeet Tourney

Sporting Clays

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Sporting Clays

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Sporting Clays

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February 2017 Sun

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Trap Youth Tourney Program

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8 Skeet Night

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21 Skeet Night

9 Trap Night

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Skeet Tourney

Sporting Clays

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Sporting Clays

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Sporting Tourney

Sporting Clays

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Sporting Clays

28 Skeet Night

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2015-2016 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments

Date

Tournament

Saturday - Jan 21, 2017

Snow Bird Open

Sunday - Feb 5, 2017

Honest Abe's Birthday Bash

Sunday - Mar 26, 2017

St. Patrick's Day Open

Saturday - Apr 16, 2017

Spring Blast

Sunday - May 21, 2017

Memorial Day Open

Saturday - Jun 24, 2017

15th Annual Sunshine State Classic

Saturday - Jul 15, 2017

Super Sizzle Open

Saturday - Aug 12, 2017

Summers End Open

Sunday - Oct. 8, 2017

Pumpkin Blast

Sunday—Nov. 5, 2017

Richard Merritt Memorial

Saturday—Dec 30, 2017

Bud Wolfe Classic

The person delivering a speech will find it much easier to win over their audience if they’re RELAXED and CONFIDENT about what they have to say and not consciously worrying about how well the speech is received.

Bob Rotella

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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club

SNOW BIRD OPEN 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SATURDAY JANUARY 21ST 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 SubJunior, 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

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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS MAIN EVENT

CONCURRENTS LADY CH DEE ORR LADY RU STEPHANIE COBB S. JR. JOSEPH PINCHIN JR. JUAN RODRIQUEZ JR. RU DAVID RUBIO VET CH ALEX RIERA VET RU DEE ORR SUPER VET CH R. DIMAURO SPELLIN SUPER VET RU JOHN B. DEXTER SR SPR VET CH FRANCISCO FULLANA SR SPR VET RU STEVEN QUINT HUNTER CH ROBERTO OLIVIERI HUNTER RU BARRY CORWIN HUNTER 3RD CHRIS WEINGARTNER

86 75 95 92 85 87 86 86 86 88 72 90 83 80

HOA CH JOSEPH PINCHIN RU SCOTT COBB M1 CHARLES ALVAREZ M2 RICARDO OLIVIERI M3 RODRIGO MEHICH AA1 GARY G. GRAY AA2 GERRY STUMM AA3 BRUCE TAYLOR A1 JULIO MARTINEZ A2 WES PARADISE A3 DAVID KORDZIKOWSKI B1 JOSE CESA B2 FRANCISCO J. FULLANA B3 R. DIMAURO SPELLIN C1 DONOVAN H. AMRITT C2 CQLVERT CULLEN C3 FRANCISCO PONS D1 JUAN A. RODRIQUEZ D2 JOHN DEXTER D3 DAVID RUBIO E1 FRANCO DI MAURO E2 JAMES OLYMPIOS E3 CARLOS E. GARVIA

95 93 93 93 92 86 84 80 89 84 73 88 88 86 82 82 82 92 86 85 92 82 80

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MONTHLY SKEET PROGRAM Price per 50 targets includes $5/100 NSSA/FSA Fee

.410 gauge 28 gauge 20 gauge 12 gauge Doubles

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 16

Skeet Shoot Results

“Nothing else in the world interests you except making this particular putt. There is no future and no past. You’re not dwelling on the good shot you hit to get your ball to this spot. You’re not thinking of how you’ll feel if you miss. You’re just rolling this ball into that hole.” ― Bob Rotella, Putting Out Of Your Mind

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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: 954-857-5278

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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.

Come out and join the fun!

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Trapshooting Results

Singles SINGLES ANGEL ESTEVEZ ALEX RIERA KEN CARLSON RUTHIE FLAYDERMAN WU SHENG STEVE NORRIS ALFRED PANACHE DAX DEMENA LARRY HILL PETER MILLS WILSON MCMILLAN EMILIA EBIHARA ED GREENE WARREN LEDFORD DENNIS McCARTHY HENRY OVARES SARAH CUCCIO NICHOLAS JARRIEL JACK MOORE KRISTINE JARRIEL MARY NORRIS PHIL DEMENA RICHARD PODBER WILFREDO BERNABE PAULA KEIM HENRIQUE DE LA CRUZ THOMAS SCHMIDT GARY CUCCIO

CLASS

SCORE

A A B D B A D D B A C D D B D D D D D D D D D D D D D D

98 96 95 94 94 93 88 88 88 88 88 86 85 85 84 81 80 79 78 74 74 74 74 74 72 71 71 63

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Handicap HANDICAP ANGEL ESTEVEZ STEVE NORRIS WU SHENG PETER MILLS EMILIA EBIHARA DENNIS McCARTHY RUTHIE FLAYDERMAN ALEX RIERA CHRISTINE JARRIEL WILSON MCMILLAN DAX DEMENA PHIL DEMENA PAULA KEIM MARY NORRIS HENRIQUE DE LA CRUZ

YARDAGE

SCORE

21 24.5 20 20 20 18.5 20 24.5 19 22.5 22 21 19 19 20

91 85 85 84 81 81 81 80 80 76 73 72 71 66 52

Doubles DOUBLES STEVE NORRIS ALEX RIERA ANGEL ESTEVEZ WILSON MCMILLAN DENNIS McCARTHY MARY NORRIS DAX DEMENA RUTHIE FLAYDERMAN PAULA KEIM

CLASS C B C D D D D D D

SCORE 87 87 86 84 78 76 68 68 54 23

Youth Program

Thanks again goes out to Steve Sagal’s family for their recent donation to the Youth Program. We will be using the money for free shooting nights for our shooters in the program.

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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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