Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays Volume 10 Issue 12
Sporting Clays Dec. 28th Trapshoot Dec. 22nd Skeet Shoot Jan. 4th
December 2019 Use Scoringpro for the Bud Wolfe Classic
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December 2019
Club News - Magazine Review Guns for Sale
OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2019
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Fiocchi Cup and NA FITASC 14-15 Flyers Bud Wolfe Classic Flyer
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Calender of Events
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Club Calender
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22-23 Inside this Trap/Skeet issue: Palm Beach Pro Shop—Sporting Calender Sporting Clays Program and Re- 24-25 sults
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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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: Greg Ritch Sporting Chair
Contact info: Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays 11873 NW 30th Street Coral Springs, FL 33065 954-857-5278 •
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 February 6th Starting at 7:00 PM
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Club News On the cover this month are Scot Lauderback (left) and Dax Demena (right). Dax outlasted Scot after 150 shootoff targets to take the FTA Fall Singles Championship at Silver Dollar Shooters Club. Jorge Puignau took home Class B Champion in the same event. Alex Riera took home 6 trophies including the HOA Championship. Dax also took home Class A in the Class Singles. Frank Marshall took home four trophies. To top it off Markham won the team race! Nice shooting guys! The skeet shoot saw nine shooters shoot 1,400 targets. Rich Kassel broke a perfect 50x50 to take the 12 gauge event. Joe Bianculli won the 20 with a lone 46. Rich Kassel also won the 28 and the HOA. Ed Ford, Jr. won the 410 and the Doubles. The Trapshoot saw 13 shooters fire at 1,700 targets. Alex Riera lead both events with a 96 in Singles and an 86 in Doubles. Dax Demena was Runner-Up in both events. The Merritt Memorial shoot was
lightly attended with 38 shooters. Threatening weather might have been the problem. Gary Gray led the event with a lone 96 followed by Lucio Gomez and Scott Cobb with 95 and 94 respectively. Let’s hope the weather is good for the Bud Wolfe Classic. I have been asked continually about the Palm Beach Gun Club and its progress. Last I heard from my sample collectors at work is that there are workers swarming the facility. The roofs of the Skeet houses are being raised so we are getting closer by the day. I’ve heard nothing about opening the facility for rifle and pistol. It was predicted these would be open by late Fall. Well, Fall has less than two weeks left. Doesn’t look like we will be open until late Spring or early Summer. That’s all for this month. See you at the club!
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DELTA WATERFOWL – WINTER 2019 Ever wonder if you can kill a duck with a 20 ga.? Brad Fitzpatrick weighs in with some shotgun research in this issue and the findings are optimistic for those of you who want to downsize to the 20 for your duckhunting. First off, if you are wondering if a #2 pellet shot out of a 20 has the same penetration power as a #2 from a 12 gauge, they do, as long as the velocities are the same. The 12 typically has more pellets per round, but the penetration power doesn’t decrease just because you are shooting a 20. A 20 gauge pellet will also fly the same distance as a 12’s. So, all you lose is the number of pellets in the pattern. “Good shooting with a 20-gauge will kill more birds than poor shooting with a 12-gauge.” Brad’s research tells us the 20 can do anything the 12 can. The only real difference is the number of pellets in the pattern. Recoil on the other hand is usually less in the 12 gauge. Comparable shells will produce less felt recoil in a heavier gun. The 12 usually weights a pound or more than the 20, so less felt recoil. You could put a reducer in the 20 to bring up the weight, but weight may be the reason you are going to the 20. Some shooters go to
the 20 for its compact nature and reduced weight so adding a recoil reducer defeats the purpose. A semi-auto will mitigate some of that recoil difference. Understand, additional recoil may be the price you pay for shooting a 20. Other small items of interest, there are more load options with the 12 than the 20. This is especially true with the more expensive nontoxic shot versus steel. Things are improving and more loads are becoming available, but 12 will always be king. Finally, a 3 ½” shell in a 12 gauge may have 1 5/8 ounce of shot which is twice that of a 20, but the recoil is dramatically different. Also, those shell are very expensive. I’ll pass on the recoil and expense and stick with 3” and 1 ¼ ounce of shot in a 12, but it’s nice to know the 20 is a viable option.
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Magazine Review TRAP & FIELD – 2019 November Can you train for competition? Here is where I really disagree with Bob Palmer. Most shooting games don’t allow time to practice for competition. It takes so much time and effort just learning the game and perfecting fundamentals. I think his best idea for learning how to compete in a competition is to enter one. I suggest you enter the next competition with no expectations in mind. Concentrate on one station or post at a time being very attentive to what’s going on in your head. It’s just shooting. If you can’t get yourself totally involved with clearing the post or station, then you need to work on your priorities. You need to be totally in the moment when you compete. Whatever happens for the next two, four, five, six, or eight targets is all that matter. If you can’t do that, you need to work on just being in the moment. Bob does suggest some good postcompetition ideas. Play the event over in your head. Take notes between stations or
posts if you need. Get coaching help, form a plan, then figure out how to practice it on a small scale. Practice on a small scale and apply it when you enter the larger environment of a competition. ————————————————— Ian Darroch speaks on transitioning from Singles to Handicap this month. Obviously, you need to shoot faster, but only slightly faster. The angles from further back actually require less movement than from the 16 yard line. Also, once you get past the 22 yard line you need a gun with a higher Point of Impact (POI). For most people this means about a 10% higher POI. If you shoot 70/30 at Singles you need to go to 80/20 or higher for long yardage. Hold points should be lower from further back. Having a greater field of vision from long yardage has something to do with this. Finally, use factory shells for handicap if you are at or past the 24 yard line. It may only be psychological, but I always felt factory shells performed better than reloads at long yardage.
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Being a shooting coach makes you look at goals differently than a shooter would. I don’t believe trying to move up in class is a goal. Breaking every target perfectly is a goal. Remembering to control your breathing on every shot is a goal. Conquering targets going right to left or left to right is a goal. Setting goals like moving up in Class simply puts pressure on your shooting and doesn’t make you a better shooter. Jim Blevins suggests setting the normally accepted goals of moving up in Class and touts this is the important if you want to improve. I don’t buy it. Later in his article he sets some better goals. Going a whole 25 targets without lifting your head. My question is, why are you lifting your head in the first place? Fix that, work on that and you will improve. That’s a goal, not moving up in Class. Jim then goes on to state you shouldn’t work on two things at once. Not bad, but if the changes are sequential you can work on two things at once. For instance, looking at the correct look point and not moving the gun until the target appears are sequential, so you can do both.
Go into soft focus at your look point, then mount the gun keeping your attention at your look point until the target appears. It works in sequence and concentrating on the target’s appearance should hold you in place. Two corrections working together. Pick something to work on each time you practice. Whether it’s your breathing, your look point, or any of your pre-shot movements, pick one and work on it. Work on your follow-through or watching the target break. Finally, Jim gets around to “glitches” in your game. Find the root cause, decide on a remedy, implement it, and practice it. If you have a glitch, I suggest getting help. Then again, how do you know you have a glitch? Want to improve? Take a lesson and see what happens.
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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – December 2019 How do you fix a slump? Mark H. Taylor examines the slump phenomena and how to get back on track when your shooting is in the dumps. First, try a new game. Shoot skeet or sporting clays if you are a trapshooter. Shoot sporting if you are a skeet shooter. I don’t recommend skeet shooters shooting trap. This is a world foreign to them. Trap is solely a swing -through game. You are always chasing the target and there are no “seen” leads. This plays havoc with skeet shooters and will not help their game. Trapshooters on the other hand can shoot skeet using swing-through without too much trouble. Picking up a new game and dropping your old one for a while allows you to get away from any bad habits that have evolved in your game. Working on a new game forces you to “relearn” some of your shooting fundamentals. Mark reminds us for this to really work you must strive to learn the new shooting discipline. Just taking some time off to shoot
something else doesn’t cut it. Really working to master a new game can reawaken your ability to concentrate, something that may have been the problem from the beginning. Try new equipment. Changing guns can reawaken your ability to concentrate while you shoot. It also makes you work on your fundamentals and can break up any bad habits formed using your old gun. Mark cautions there may be a re-adjustment period when you go back to your original gun. Next, try shooting at a different range than your usual one. You should be shooting other clubs on a regular basis anyway, but if you haven’t been doing that, shooting at a new club will make you hyper aware of your environment. This jump-starts your abilities to concentrate and can get you out of your slump. Other suggestions include taking a lesson from an instructor. That doesn’t mean talking to your shooting buddies and getting their advice. Mark doesn’t emphasize enough that the instructor should be qualified in the game where you want help. The first paragraph of this review states quite plainly the difference between shooting games and the swing techniques involved. If you want trap help, find a trap coach. Skeet and sporting clays shooters should get help from someone who is qualified in their discipline. Finally, take a break from shooting. How long? That’s up to you. A month works for some. In an extreme case it may be up to six months. Most slumps are a breakdown in fundamentals that have become ingrained as a habit. It sneaks up on you and before you know it the bad habits seem normal. A good coach, educated in swing dynamics, can pick this out right away. Find a good8 swing coach and get yourself fixed.
Michael J. Keyes, M.D. takes the long way around to tell us we need to give new techniques time before they will work consistently. When we take a lesson or read about something designed to make us a better shooter, we need to practice it and give it time to cement into our normal routine before it will work. Bias and beliefs will get in the way of learning if we aren’t diligent in policing our thoughts. Allow change to happen. It doesn’t come about by chance. Sometimes that’s called a slump, so go back and read the first review.
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Magazine Review CLAYTARGET NATION – 2019 November I’m always fascinated by the suggestion we start moving at the flash of the skeet target. This is a common mantra skeet shooting coaches talk about on outgoing targets. I do not see a flash. I also don’t know how you can only set up two or three feet in front of your look point and still move so you are always in front of the target. For me, I need to look back 6 to 9 feet from my gun’s hold point to effectively see the target and get moving if I want to stay in front of it. I accept others can do this. I can’t and I believe it is a disservice expecting the average shooter to see the target by looking back only two or three feet. Paul Giambrone III tells us this is where to
look and hold our gun for effective sustained-lead. He also says we need to be set up appropriately to make this happen. The barrels need to be at the bottom of the high -house window and no higher than the top of the low-house window. We need the perfect look point in relation to our hold point (more on this later – read the top paragraph again). Add in proper foot positioning, stance, soft focus, and breathing. Now you are ready to move at the flash. You may be ready, but that doesn’t mean your body will react consistently to the flash. Some of us need more and earlier input to make that move. After eight years of skeet shooting I finally kinda get this game. I look a great deal further back, away from my barrels that any of the pundits suggest. If I do that, I can move at the flash they’re talking about and I can stay in front of the target. It may be another two or three thousand practice targets before I truly move automatically when I should. Hopefully this will come early next year. What I’m saying is this, you need to experiment with your hold and look points before you find the “perfect” ones. You may be surprised sometimes you can do what you thought you couldn’t. You may also be a little angry when you discover a simple fix to a target that has been vexing you for years. Don’t believe that everything you read is within your wheelhouse. Sometimes you need to step outside the supposed norms to make something work for you. Good luck with what you find! 10
Clayton M. Rue spends a whole article telling us to shoot fearlessly. Set aside your doubts, fears, questions, expectations and shoot fearlessly. I added the expectations part. For many of us, if you eliminate your expectations all the fears, doubts, and questions disappear. Go back to the review of Bob Palmer’s article. Enter your next competition and simply try to clear one post or station. Be in the moment with no expectations. Then you can shoot fearlessly. ————————————————Lead is a personal issue and it’s due to the vast variation in our approach to the target. For a swing-through shooter most targets inside 35 to 40 yards require no “perceived” lead. Barrel speed takes care of lead. Beyond that range it gets complicated. Perceptually, barrel speed gets hard to measure in comparison to the target beyond 40 yards, especially for targets under speed. Sustained-lead shooters always see lead and become accustomed to seeing separation between the barrels and the target. This can be unnerving for swing-through shooters. Seen lead is adjusted based on distance and speed of the target. This adjustment is created by matching the speed of the barrels with the speed of the target. Match them up, get a feel for the speed, and the lead in front of the target will create itself unconsciously. At least that’s the theory. Gil and Vicki Ash are Sustained-lead coaches and this month they give a thorough primer on how to create lead and how to adjust it. They went into some detail on the beginner side of Sustained-lead which I will skip and just concentrate on the theme, calculating lead. Assuming you understand how to adjust your gun speed with the target so they match and
assuming you know how to self-correct, if you miss after you have matched speed with the target, you must correct the lead. Their solution is either double the lead or cut it in half. Missed targets under speed generally need the doubled lead. For fast quartering targets, cut the lead in half. Matching speed is critical if you want to reproduce your shots. If you are pulling away from the target as you take the shot, you are probably going to shoot in front. If the target is catching up to your barrels, you are not matched with the target’s speed and your shot will be behind. “Focus on the target, create separation and match gun speed to target speed” is their mantra and for Sustained-lead it is invariably true.
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“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.� Satchel Paige
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Calender of events: Gun Shows: November 30December 1st Miramar National Guard Armory
Dick’s: They are running specials every other week. Watch the papers and check out their website.
Skeet this month: Markham
January 4th
So. Florida
December 28th
Trap this month: South Florida
Jan 18th
Markham
Dec 22nd
Sporting This month: Indian River
Jan 4th
South Florida
Dec 13th
Gulf Coast
Dec 15th
OK Corral
Dec 21st
Okeechobee
Dec 22nd
Markham
Dec 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 $549.90 for 10 flats. Shipping is $19.95. These are 11/8 oz., 7 1/2’s & 8’s, 1200 fps, 12 gauge.
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2020 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments
Date
Tournament
Saturday - Dec. 28, 2019
Bud Wolfe Classic
Saturday - Jan 18, 2020
Snow Bird Open
Sunday - Feb 2, 2020
Honest Abe's Birthday Bash
Sunday - Mar 15, 2020
St. Patrick's Day Open
Saturday - Apr 11, 2020
Spring Blast
Sunday - May 17, 2020
Memorial Day Open
Saturday - Jun 22, 2020
15th Annual Sunshine State Classic
Saturday - Jul 11, 2020
Super Sizzle Open
Saturday - Aug 8, 2020
Summers End Open
Saturday - Sept. 12, 2020
Markham Fall Fest Shoot
Sunday—Oct. 11, 2020
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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM
Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club BUD WOLFE CLASSIC 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations
SATURDAY DECEMBER 28TH Registration: Opens 8:00 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: $75 N.S.C.A., $75 Hunter, $40.00 SubJunior, Junior No Scorers or Trappers will be provided. Shooters will be asked to squad themselves into groups of at least 3 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: Greg Ritch (561) 271-5319 email: gregsritch@gmail.com
Please Preregister using: scoringpro.com
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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS
CONCURRENTS LADY CH CHARLIE DE ANGELIS LADY RU KATHY TREBBI VET CH ALEX RIERA VET RU TED GRAY SUPER VET CH W.T. MUIR S VET RU DAVID KORDZIKOWSKI HUNTER CH BARRY CORWIN HUNTER RU FREDDY GONZALEZ HUNTER 3RD JUAN CABANILLAS
70 64 93 91 85 83 87 82 78
MAIN EVENT HOA 38 ENTRANTS CH GARY GRAY RU LUCIO GOMEZ M1 SCOTT COBB M2 ALEX RIERA M3 TED GRAY AA1 JULIO MARTINEZ A1 DONOVAN AMRITT A2 DAVID KORDZIKOWSKI A3 BRUCE TAYLOR B1 MICHAEL STURDIVANT B2 JOHN PILCH B3 RICHARD LEEDS C1 JOEL BUENO C2 WAYNE AMRITT D1 RICHARD THOMPSON D2 TIMOTHY COUGHLIN D3 RONALD TREBBI E1 DWIGHT HYOTTE E2 CHARLIE DE ANGELIS
96 95 94 93 91 91 95 83 79 83 78 70 82 73 84 79 78 88 70
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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 26
Skeet Results
“There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.” Pat Riley
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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 2019-2020
Additional 100 target events.
October 27th
$32.00
November 24th December 22rd January 12th
See Joe Loitz for details: 954-857-5278
February 23rd March 29th April 26th May 24th June 28th July 26th
August 23rd
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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 SINGLES
16 Yards CLASS
SCORE
ALEX RIERA
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96
DAX DEMENA
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95
BILL SCHAEFER
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94
ANGEL ESTEVEZ
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93
JORGE PUIGNAU
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92
REINALDO FERNANDEZ
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THOMAS JETT
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HENRY OVARES
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87
TIM COUGHLIN
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86
ROCKY LONG
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84
NICHOLAS JARRIEL
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77
GARY ROTHSTEIN
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72
KENNETH JARRIEL
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Handicap HANDICAP NO ENTRANTS
Doubles DOUBLES ALEX RIERA DAX DEMENA ROCKY LONG THOMAS JETT
CLASS A C D D
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86 84 75 65
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Youth Program
Mondays continue to be well attended. The Beginner field typically has eight to ten students and a similar number are on the intermediate/advanced field. Mark O’Meara recently donated some reloading equipment to the program. I will take pictures of the reloaders and supplies and post them in the newsletter. All proceeds will go to the Youth Program coffers providing shells and targets for our shooters. Thanks again goes out to Ramiro Rodriquez and David Glowacki for the help on Mondays. Their help and coaching is what makes this program so unique. Thanks guys!
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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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