2018 NOVEMBER MARKHAM SKEET AND TRAP

Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays Volume 9 Issue 11 NOVEMBER 2018

Bud Wolfe Classic December 29th Trapshoot November 23rd Skeet Shoot December 1st 1

November 2018

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2018 OFFICERS

Club News - Magazine Review

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FIOCCHI CUP AND THE GUN COLLECTION

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Calender of Events

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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—Vacant

DIRECTORS:

Club Calender

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Palm Beach Trap/Skeet Pro Shop—Sporting Calender

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Sporting Clays Program and Results Inside this issue: Skeet Program and Results

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Contact info:

FSA Skeet Calender

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Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays

Trap Program

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Trap Results

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Youth Program

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Next General Meeting Thursday December 6th Starting at 7:00 PM

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Club News Sorry this is a little late, but I have some good news for everyone. On the opposite page you can see the building going up at the new club in Palm Beach County. I am assuming the rifle and pistol will be open soon after the building is finished.

This October Sporting Clays shoot saw Rodrigo Mehich leading 41 shooters with a lone 92 followed by Rocky Long with an 88 and Bill Weingartner in Class B with an 85.

The Skeet shoot was attended by 7 shooters who shot a weather shortened 700 targets. Ed Ford, Sr. led the 12 gauge with a lone 46 and Geoffrey Peters led the 20 with a 49 and .410 with a 44.

Thirteen shooters trapshooters shot at 2,300 targets at the last shoot with FTA Hall of Famer Angel Estevez leading the pack with a lone 98. Hel was followed closely by Joe Bilecki with a 97. Rafael Carbellido lead the Handicap with an 87, Joe Bilecki was Runner-Up again with an 86 in this event.

Dax Demena won the Doubles with a lone 85.

The Bud Wolfe is always our premier event to end the year. Belt buckles will be awarded three deep in each class plus Hunter class. Concurrents Champion and Runners-Up will also be awarded ammo. Come join us for this event.

We held our annual charity shoot for

the Big Children’s Foundation in last month to good success. I will give a more thorough report on it next month.

The county has asked to take over the registered shooting from the club and we have agreed. This will mean very little in terms of how the shoots are run. In fact, prices for the events should go down marginally, but it will be a price reduction. We will work with the county during the transition and beyond to make the registered events the successes they have been I the past.

We will continue to hold the Merritt and Wolfe Sporting Clays events with the club funding the trophies.

The club has agreed to continue its control and responsibilities for the Youth Program on Monday nights.

Steve Norris and I have been running the Youth program for years and we are committed to continuing this tradition. We have also been running the Skeet and Trap programs along with Cary Keshan and Wayne South for the Sporting Clays Program. It’s time to move on until new younger blood steps up to take up the challenge.

We’ve enjoyed providing the tournaments to our members and will continue to gladly aid the county whenever needed. I would like to thank Tony Boyd for his support in this and I expect nothing but a glowing result.

Looking forward to a wonderful holiday season with lots of shooting.

See you at the club.

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Magazine Review

Pictured above is the registration building at the new gun club in Palm Beach County. Picture was taken two weeks ago.

Jeremy Green records his first 25 straight in trap!

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Magazine Review TRAP & FIELD – October 2018 The off-season is a good time to revamp your shooting. Take a clinic, do some adjusting to your style and gun, you may even purchase a new gun. Switching guns can be a joyous event sometimes followed by tragic remorse. Ian Darroch provides some advice to keep the event joyous for the new gun owner. First and foremost, do not sell your old gun! Buyer’s remorse becomes even worse if you don’t have your old gun to rely on. The best place to try out new guns is the Grand American.

All the best guns on the planet are there and all the manufacturers have demo guns to try. You can demo the same gun or a different one every day if you want.

Ian advises us to insist on certain features when making a new gun purchase. An adjustable rib and adjustable comb are a must. These days most new products have these features.

They certainly make any gun more comfortable to shoot and improves their resale value. Finally, he advises getting a custom stock if you can

afford it.

The off-season is a good time to “dissect” the year and review where you can improve your game.

Bob Palmer presents seven steps in this process.

First evaluate your goals. How close did you come to meeting them? Check your log book where you wrote them down. If you don’t have a log book, start one. Next, create new goals for the year and write them down in the log book. Like Ian, Bob suggests you attend some clinics to improve your shooting. Review the clinics you took last year and decide whether they taught you anything. If not, choose clinics that would be more appropriate.

What is limiting your shooting. Do you need a new gun, glasses, stock? How are you going to get them? List what’s limiting your shooting progress then list way of eliminating the limitation. Start planning the next year’s tour. What shoots are you going to attend and how are you going to schedule practice shoots in between them. Review your equipment maintenance and get anything done now before the season starts up again. Finally, plan your down time. Traveling to four of five big shoots in a row can be exhausting. Especially if there is a great deal of travel involved. Work in some down time to recharge and relax.

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Shotgun Sports – November 2018 Outgoing and quartering targets are what make skeet challenging. In this issue Todd Bender gives us the second chapter on solving these birds. One of the biggest mistakes shooters make is leaving early before the target has appeared. Todd believes this is caused by eye movement, where your eyes jump to the break-point and the gun simply follows your reaction. Your gun shouldn’t move until you see the flash of the target when it leaves the house. When you do move it should be a whole body move, turning from the ankles up, into the target. I see this mistake all the time when I’m pulling. The upper body swings but everything below the shoulders remains stationary. The whole body should swing towards the target.

The real crux of breaking any target is seeing it.

The whole body swing allows better visual focus and attachment to the target. As Todd says, “the movement of the gun starts to mirror that of the target”, this allows better visual contact with these targets. Match speed with the target and your visual acuity is greatly enhanced.

Todd professes a visual “launch sequence” consisting of four components: direction, distance, peripheral and eye set. Direction has to do with your individual preference for where to set your visual pickup point. Some people look in the window, some look a third of the way back to the window, Todd looks 10 to 15 feet outside the

window, and others can’t look but a few feet to the right or left of their barrel.

This is individual to each of us and must be discovered by trial and error. Assuming your visual pick up point is correct without playing with different hold and pick up points occasionally is a mistake. Over time your pick up points will change. Play with new ones on a regular basis to improve your shooting.

Distance has to do with where your soft focus occurs. It doesn’t happen at the end of your barrel. It should be centered as far out, past, and through the target’s flight path as makes you comfortable. Again, only practice will tell you where you should be looking. This is your soft focus point which means you are letting your peripheral vision take over. It may sound counterintuitive but you pay attention to your peripheral vision. With practice you will understand what I mean. Your peripheral is where and how you should pick up the target. Let your eyes do the work.

Finally, let your eyes settle out in the distance before you call for the target. Todd calls for a two second pause while your eyes settle. This serves several purposes. As part of your pre-shot routine you settle your eyes in the distance, letting your peripheral vision take over, and it settles your mind. Quiet eyes, quiet mind as John Shima would say. Pay heed to your visual pickup points and swing from the ankles up.

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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – November 2018 Repetitive motion and mental fatigue have been discussed at length recently as one of the new hot topics when speaking of concentration and the mental game. Michael J. Keyes, M.D. suggests paying attention to the rhythm of your shooting as a way of monitoring the effectiveness of your concentration. Are you speeding up or slowing down either your pre-shot routine or your move to the target. With practice you can become more aware of the timing and rhythm of your shooting and it will pay benefits toward defeating the fatigue caused by the repetitive motion of shooting.

Michael also relates how fatigue in shooting is no different than the principles used by engineers to prevent metal fatigue. Reduce stress, monitor vulnerable parts or systems while you shoot, look for new and improved techniques to reduce stress, and practice technique on a regular basis to track whether your shooting has drifted off course. Reducing stress before you get to the line seems obvious to your mental well-being. Don’t arrive late to the line, have all your equipment lined up and ready well before they are needed, and turn the phone off as soon as you get to the club.

Monitoring the rhythm of your shooting has already been discussed.

Finding new ways to reduce

competitive stress such as adding the Quiet Eyes, Quiet Mind philosophy to your pre-shot routine are always a good idea. Finally, taking inventory of where you are in your shooting is recommended on a regular basis. Get pictures and video of how you are shooting now and compare to new images and video at scheduled intervals. If you’ve

drifted, get back on track asap.

CLAYTARGET NATION – October 2018 Have no expectations when you go to the line.

Expectations only get in the way of breaking the next target. Thinking only gets you in trouble.

The conscious mind with its expectations will interfere with your shooting routine. Go to the line expecting to see the next target come out of the house so you can shoot it. Paul Giambrone III tells us to have confidence in our game and just shoot targets, the score will take care of itself.

Expectations only cause unwanted stress. Avoid the pressure and concentrate on seeing the next target.

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Does your gun fit? Clayton M. Rue advises us to mount our gun in front of a mirror and look for key telling points that suggest we may have gun fit issues. Are you moving your head to the gun when you mount?

Mount the gun to your face not your face to the gun is the classic adage about mounting a shotgun. Are you tilting your head or canting the gun? These could be signs you need a stock adjustment. How high is your eye over the receiver or is it below it? More signs you need an adjustment. Finally, how centered is your eye down the rib? This may be an indication of a bigger issue but start with getting the stock adjusted.

How do we break three pairs in a row at the same breakpoints for each target? In sporting clays this is the height of consistency. I can’t tell you how many times I have watched myself or a squad-mate break two pairs in a row and on the third pair the shooter changes the breakpoints on the first or second target and ends up missing one of them. Don Currie suggests we stick to our pre-shot planning for each pair, being consistent before we call for each pair. Can’t disagree with

him. I think some shooters double think that last pair thinking they can shoot it better. Most times they take one target or the other at a later break point. Stick with the same break points that worked on the first two or three pairs.

Marty Fischer is one of the gold standard writers in sporting clays. This month he gives a brief primer on all of the different swing methods used in sporting. Loads of good advice is provided on these methods and he finishes with good pre-shot planning advice. Establish a good hold point based on where you see the first bird clearly. Pick a break point with the least amount of stress.

I like that little piece of advice best. Watch the look targets and the targets of your squad-mates and determine what is the target doing and read the target line to your breakpoint. Set the hold point and the right elevation so you can move directly to the breakpoint.

Like the advice given earlier, if you break the first pair, do the same thing on all the subsequent pairs. There are times and reasons to adjust the breakpoints and you do have to adjust them even if you break the first pair. If you break the first pair nicely, don’t change a thing.

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You have power over your mind not outside events.

Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

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Calender of events: Gun Shows: November 1718h Ft. Lauderdale War Memorial Aud.

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

Skeet this month: Markham

Dec. 1st

Trail

Nov. 17-18th

So. FL

Nov. 24th

Trap this month: Indian River

Dec. 2nd

South Florida

Dec. 8th

Markham

Dec. 23rd

Sporting This month: Quail Creek

Dec. 2nd

OK Corral

Nov. 17-18th

Gulf Coast Clays Nov. 18th Okeechobee

Nov. 24th

South Florida

Nov. 25th

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 $549.90 for 10 flats. Shipping is $19.95. These are 11/8 oz., 7 1/2’s & 8’s, 1200 fps, 12 gauge.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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Sporting Clays

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5 Youth Program

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Trap Tourney

Youth Program

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7 Skeet Night

13 Skeet Night

20 Skeet Night

27 Skeet Night

8 Trap Night

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Sporting Clays

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Trap Night

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Youth Program

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Trap Tourney

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Skeet Night

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6 Trap Night

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Sporting Clays

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Sporting Tourney

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2018 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments

Date

Tournament

Saturday - Jan 20, 2018

Snow Bird Open

Sunday - Feb 4, 2018

Honest Abe's Birthday Bash

Sunday - Mar 18, 2018

St. Patrick's Day Open

Saturday - Apr 15, 2018

Spring Blast

Sunday - May 20, 2018

Memorial Day Open

Saturday - Jun 23, 2018

15th Annual Sunshine State Classic

Saturday - Jul 14, 2018

Super Sizzle Open

Saturday - Aug 12, 2018

Summers End Open

Sunday - Oct. 14, 2018

Pumpkin Blast

Sunday—Nov. 4, 2018

Richard Merritt Memorial

Saturday—Dec 29, 2018

Bud Wolfe Classic 17

SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM

Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club

BUD WOLFE CLASSIC 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SATURDAY DECEMBER 29TH 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: $80 N.S.C.A., $80 Hunter, $40.00 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.

Lunch will be 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: Cary Keshen (954) 536-7146 email: ckeshen@bellsouth.net For Tournament Schedules and Shoot Results Please Visit Our Website: www.markhamsportingclays.org

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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS MAIN EVENT HOA 41 ENTRANTS

CONCURRENTS LADY CH MELINDA BASS LADY RU KATHY TREBBI VET CH BILL WEINGARTNER VET RU ANGEL RAMOS SR SUPER VET CH JOE FORDHAM SR SUPER VET RU MELINDA BASS SUPER VET CH ROCKY LONG SUPER VET RU CARY KESHAN HUNTER CH BARRY CORWIN HUNTER RU SY BLOOM HUNTER 3RD MANNY ROSENDO

61 49 85 84 71 61 88 84 80 53 36

CH RODRIGO MEHICH

92

RU ROCKY LONG

88

M1 ANGEL RAMOS

84

M2 GARY GRAY

83

M3 TED GRAY

81

AA1 ED COYNE

75

A1 NATHAN BUSSCHER

80

A2 BRUCE TAYLOR

79

A3 RAMON PITTER

75

B1 BILL WEINGARTNER

85

B2 RICHARD AZAN

83

B3 GREGORY MORISSET

76

C1 ASIF SHEERAHAMED

74

C2 RON TREBBI

64

D1 CARY KESHAN

84

D2 RICHARD THOMPSON

81

D3 JOEL BUENO

76

E1 DWIGHT HOYTE

74

E2 MELINDA BASS

61

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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

$20.00 $20.00 $20.00 $20.00 $20.00

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 20

Skeet Results

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Trap Program Trap Program: SPECIAL NOTICE

Trap Tournaments are usually the fourth Sunday of the month.

100 target 16 Yd, Hdcp and Doubles events.

First 100 targets. $40.00 (Includes ATA and FTA daily fees)

ATA SHOOT SCHEDULE 2018-2019 September 23th October 28th November 25th December 23rd

Subsequent 100 target events. $32.00 See Joe Loitz for details: 954-857-5278

January 27th February 24th March 31st April 28th May 26th June 23rd July 28th

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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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TRAP RESULTS

16 Yards

SINGLES

CLASS

SCORE

ANGEL ESTEVEZ

A

98

JOE BILECKI

B

97

MARCOS VIDAL

B

92

RAFAEL CARBALLIDO

D

92

DAX DEMENA

B

92

ISAIAS VARGAS

D

86

DAMIEN CRELLER

D

85

ORACIO RICCOBONO

D

85

TED VANDLING

D

78

PABLO GONZALEZ

D

78

GARY ROTHSTEIN

D

77

JORGE PUIGNAU

D

71

RICHARD GAETA

C

68

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Handicap HANDICAP

YARDAGE SCORE

RAFAEL CARBALLIDO JOE BILECKI DAMIEN CRELLER ISAIAS VARGAS PABLO GONZALEZ GARY ROTHSTEIN

20 20 20 20 20 20

87 86 85 80 57 46

Doubles DOUBLES DAX DEMENA ANGEL ESTEVEZ RAFAEL CARBALLIDO ISAIAS VARGAS

CLASS D D D D

SCORE 85 79 76 70

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Youth Program

During October our Youth program has seen a huge jump in new shooters. We have 1416 new shooters on the beginners’ field. Intermediate stays consistent at eight shooters.

Thanks to coaches Ramiro and Michael we are able to handle the large numbers of shooters. Thanks again to our volunteers!

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SPONSORS 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 sponsor our newsletter: contact me at: jloit@bellsouth.net Joe Loitz at 954-857-5278

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