June 2019 Markham Skeet and Trap Newsletter

Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays Volume 10 Issue 6 JUNE 2019

Sporting Clays June 22nd Trapshoot June 23rd Skeet Shoot July 6th 1

June 2019

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Next General Meeting Thursday July 11th Starting at 7:00 PM

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Club News The rains are starting and summer is just around the corner even though the temperatures outside say it hit a few weeks ago. With most of the snowbirds back up north we had a small turnout for the Skeet shoot in May. Six shooters shot at 750 targets with honors being spread around evenly. Saverio Riccobono led the 12 gauge event with a lone 48. Bruce Gordon beat out Robert Vazquez for the 20 gauge event. Rich Kassel won the 28 guage and Robert Vazquez won the .410 and HOA. Fourteen shooters shot 2,500 targets at the May trapshoot. Dax Demena led all shooters in the Singles event with a lone 98 and the Doubles with an 88. Alex Riera won the Handicap and was Runner-up in the Singles event.

Forty-two shooters attended the sporting clays event. Luis Herrera won with a 94. Julio Martinez followed closely with a 93 for Runnerup. Jeff Angello and Alex Riera followed with 90’s.

The big news is the Palm Beach County Gun Club being opened by Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. I received an email from Lynne Hawk a couple of weeks ago outlining what the plans were for

the rest of the year. They are going to start hiring personnel in July and are going to open the 100 yard and pistol ranges as they push to finish the rest of the facility.

Everything hinges on completing a potable water plant for the facility.

Once that is finished the range will be open on weekends until the rest of the club is completed. That should be by the end of the year.

The Registration building and restrooms are ready for occupation.

The club when complete will have five rifle and handgun ranges, five Olympic trap fields, six American trap fields, nine skeet fields, and a 15-station sporting clays course.

Five Olympic trap fields means it could hold the National Championships, Pan Am games, World Cup events, the World Championships, and even the Olympics. Nine skeet fields would make it large enough to hold the state shoot and the Junior Worlds.

This will be quite a facility when it is completed. The plan is for the club to be open Thurday thru Monday, closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I do not know if they plan on allowing night shooting. I can only say I looking forward to its completion.

See you at the Club.

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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – June 2019 Michael J. Keyes, M.D. sends us another article on Match Pressure and how to deal with it this month. Ways of dealing with competition stress come in two forms: self-talk and focus. He was not very helpful as to why or how self-talk works or how to use it, but he did say it had to be very specific. See Lanny Bassham’s use of self-talk is all I can say.

As to focus, Michael joins the ranks of many mental pundits and places emphasis on focusing on the process and external clues. This means focus on the target, seeing it as it appears, and the subconscious move to it. Focusing on an external cue like the target takes you out of a mental state where you feel threatened and into a state where you feel you are the aggressor. This last part is the best reason for focusing externally. Rather than falling into a defensive state you stay in an aggressive mental state.

One last, little piece of mental trivia. Being in a squad of friends helps you relax. Pictures of family members or puppies have been found to relax someone in periods of stress. Interesting idea, carrying a picture of family or puppies with you to relieve match stress, but it’s been shown to work.

Try it is all I can say. Personally, I’ll stick with the aggressive state and concentrate on seeing the flash of the target.

article on Faith. What form does faith take?

In this article it is the faith you place on the subconscious bird/barrel relationship. Trust your subconscious to recognize the correct sight-picture and stop trying to measure lead. Good follow-through is a good indicator of the faith in the sight-picture principle.

Like John Shima says, watch the target break as you follow-through with your barrels.

ClayShootingUSA – May/June 2019 Don Currie’s mantra is Focus, Movement, and Faith. In this issue he spends a whole

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Magazine Review TRAP & FIELD – MAY 2019 I’m not saying I’m an expert on the visual science of shooting, but I am well read on the subject. Ian Darroch throws out some well-intentioned suppositions regarding one -eyed shooting this month without the usual

scientific support most shooting writers use to validate their suggestions. I will give Ian the benefit of the doubt and will relay the essence of his proposals this month for the one-eyed shooter.

Ian believes the one-eyed shooter would be aided by raising their look or focal point a foot or more over their barrels. Raising your focal point eliminates the blind spot created by the barrels of a one-eyed shooter. It also expands their peripheral visual field. There is obviously a comfort level when it comes to raising your focal point above your barrels. For some it may be six inches, others may be able to disconnect from the barrels and are can look one to two feet over their barrels. This is individually unique and you have to test it for yourself.

This means the one-eyed shooter can hold their barrels above the traphouse rather than on the edge. Hold points for 2, 3, and 4 are usually higher than on 1 and 5 which is no different from the two-eyed shooter. It doesn’t mean they are holding two feet over the house but six inches to a foot isn’t unreasonable. Finally, Ian prescribes tape on your off-eye to increase your peripheral vision to the maximum allowable. Hold and Focal points are very individualistic. Play with them from time to time as you progress as a shooter. You may be surprised what you find.

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correctly this drill works on creating a smooth mount to the target and shot for sporting clays shooters.

For skeet shooters it works on a smooth swing with the target and followthrough.

Bob Palmer has some ideas for our northern brethren as they prepare for a new season. This doesn’t mean he doesn’t have some good advice for those of use moving into the doldrums of summer waiting for the Zone shoots and the Grand. Actually, I would propose that his article could be used to recover from a slump and I will approach it as such.

Practice basic shots before you move on to working on score. I like to lock a trap on a right or left angle and shoot five shots on each Post. Do the same with a straightaway from Post 3. These are basic targets and working on each, five shots from each Post allows you to center in on these targets and learn them in a way a regular round doesn’t allow. For skeet and sporting clays I like John Shima’s incomer drill.

You shoot only incoming skeet targets on each Station, 1 through 7. Shoot three incomers on each Station, expect for 4 where you shoot two highs and two lows. Shot

When getting ready for a new season or working your way out of a slump, go back to having fun and take the pressure off your performance. Practice basics and have fun doing it. Do the incomer drill or shoot a Red Course like Quail Creek’s. Work on crushing targets rather than score.

An article by Bob wouldn’t be complete without visualization. Visualize yourself at the club having fun crushing targets. Also do some role-playing, stepping into the shoes of one of the shooting sports greats and feel what it’s like to move to the target like them. Finally, practice like you mean it!

Get to the club early, so you can give yourself 30 minutes of alone time before you shoot. Rehearse your rounds in your mind. Give yourself those 30 minutes of alone time to prepare for what you want to accomplish. This is your time, not social time. Use it to inventory your mount, stance, pre-shot routine, relaxed posture, etc. Practice like you mean it!

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Magazine Review CLAYTARGET NATION – May 2019 Shooting a clay target is such a simple enterprise. See the target, go to the target, shoot the target. Sounds so easy. Only problem with this is our expectations for a final score that strokes our needy ego. This begs the question, “What are you trying to prove?”

That’s the question John Shima asks. Are we at the gun club to enjoy shooting or are we there trying to prove something to ourselves and our peers. Trust me, I don’t care what score you shot and neither does anyone else.

Eliminate your ego from the shooting equation then your enjoyment and scores are certain to climb. John as always urges us to give our attention to the process of shooting not the results. Try to break each target perfectly has ever been my credo.

John likes watching each target till it breaks.

Either way, place your attention on the process of seeing the target and shooting it.

Let the score take care of itself.

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Practice with a purpose, whether you’re heading out to drill yourself on one presentation, working on your course management, or you just want to blast through a bunch of different presentations for the sheer enjoyment of popping caps. Clayton M. Rue speaks this month on these three different practice scenarios.

Drill yourself on one specific presentation, shooting 10 in a row then stepping back 10 yards or to the right or left if your club al-

lows it. Repeat the process until you own the presentation. Or you could work on your course management, trying to run several preselected stations in a row. Finally, it’s all about having fun. Sometimes a practice session is simply about enjoying the moment and shooting without a care in the world except for the next target.

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I’ve only met Todd Bender a couple of times, but I’ve walked away from those meetings feeling that he’s a decent guy. I enjoy his articles and this month is no exception. He gets down to the basics and has no patience for the inexperienced gun club “instructor”. I agree with him. Unsolicited advice is typically worth what you paid for it. If you do get advice, ask for an explanation. What’s the theory behind the advice? If they can’t elaborate you need to question whether you should listen to them. Or say you do get an explanation, but something just doesn’t ring true. Now what? Be cautious and get a second opinion is all I’m going to say.

Todd tells us nothing beats good fundamentals. Learn good fundamentals and progress from there. He brings up a good point. Many shooters are in a constant state of experimentation, trying to improve their scores. Blindly trying one technique after another in the hopes of improving without first establishing good fundamen-

tals will not get you where you want to go.

If your fundamentals are sound, you can build on them and always go back to the beginning if the change doesn’t help.

It would not be a complete Todd Bender article without a reference to Lanny Bassham. Lanny’s three keys to consistency are: learn good fundamentals, master them, then trust what you’ve mastered. If you are searching for that last piece of the puzzle to push you into the winner’s circle, consider whether you have mastered your fundamentals. Maybe you don’t even know if you have good fundamentals.

Perhaps you should find out.

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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing.

Don't ever say no.

Carl Lewis

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Calender of events: Gun Shows: June 8-9th Miramar National Guard Armory

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

June 22-23rd Ft. Lauderdale National Guard Armory

Skeet this month: Markham

July 6th

June

June 22nd

Port Malabar

June 28-30th

Trap this month: South Florida

July 13th

Markham

June 23rd

Sporting This month: Indian River

July 6th

OK Corral

July 7th

Okeechobee

July 13th

South Florida

June 15th

Markham

June 22nd

Quail Creek

June 23rd

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 &

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Jesse Owens

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2018 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments

Date

Tournament

Saturday - Jan 19, 2019

Snow Bird Open

Sunday - Feb 3, 2019

Honest Abe's Birthday Bash

Sunday - Mar 17, 2019

St. Patrick's Day Open

Saturday - Apr 13, 2019

Spring Blast

Sunday - May 19, 2019

Memorial Day Open

Saturday - Jun 22, 2019

15th Annual Sunshine State Classic

Saturday - Jul 13, 2019

Super Sizzle Open

Saturday - Aug 10, 2019

Summers End Open

Sunday - Oct. 13, 2019

Pumpkin Blast

Sunday—Nov. 3, 2019

Richard Merritt Memorial

Saturday—Dec 28, 2019

Bud Wolfe Classic 15

SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM

Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club 15TH ANNUAL SUNSHINE STATE CLASSIC 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SATURDAY JUNE 22ND 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: $60 N.S.C.A., $60 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 NOT 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

CONCURRENTS LADY CH ANN LITTLE

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LADY RU CHARLIE DE ANGELIS

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VET CH JEFF ANGELLO

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VET RU ALEX RIERA

90

SUPER VET CH JOE FASULO

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SUPER VET RU DENNIS WAGNER

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HUNTER CH JUAN CABANILLAS

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HUNTER RU JOSE GONZALEZ

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HUNTER 3RD MEGAN THOMPSON

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MAIN EVENT HOA 42 ENTRANTS CH LUIS HERRERA RU JULIO MARTINEZ M1 JEFF ANGELLO M2 ALEX RIERA M3 DAVID STEWART AA1 ARMAND LAVINA AA2 CHARLIE ALVAREZ AA3 ANGEL RAMOS A1 DAVID KORDZIKOWSKI A2 NATHAN BUSSCHER A3 BRUCE TAYLOR B1 ARMAND YVES B2 DONOVAN AMRITT B3 BILL WEINGARTNER C1 CARLOW RUBIO C2 WAYNE AMRITT C3 ANTONIO MATOS D1 JOEL BUENO D2 RICHARD THOMPSON D3 DAVID RUBIO E1 REX BELCHER E2 ANA RAMOS E3 MELINDA BASS

94 93 90 90 89 87 86 84 82 80 80 92 90 86 83 83 75 84 83 79 64 64 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 18

Skeet Results

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Jesse Owens

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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

Additional 100 target events.

September 23th

$32.00

October 28th November 25th December 23rd

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

DAX DEMENA ALEX RIERA MICHAEL PILCH DAVID GLOWACKI ANGEL ESTEVEZ FRANK MARSHALL JORGE PUIGNAU DAMIEN CRELLER RAFAEL CARBALLIDO ISAIAS VARGAS TIM COUGHLIN HENRY OVARES PABLO GONZALEZ GARY ROTHSTEIN

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98 95 94 93 91 91 91 90 88 87 85 82 81 76

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ALEX RIERA

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FRANK MARSHALL

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DAX DEMENA

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TIMOTHY COUGHLIN

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DAMIEN CRELLER

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MIKE KAZAMIAS

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ALEX RIERA

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MIKE KAZAMIAS

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ANGEL ESTEVEZ

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TIMOTHY COUGHLIN

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Youth Program

Reanna Frauens blasted the competition at the SCTP State shoot in May. She tied for top score in Sprorting Clays with a 98, taking home 3rd place overall and Runner-up in Ladies. She walked away with the Skeet and Trap Titles among Ladies with a 48x50 and 97x100 respectively. Another Markham shooter Joey Pinchin won the Skeet title outright with a lone 49x50. Congratulations to these great shooters!

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