2019 March Markham Newsletter

Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays Volume 10 Issue 4 APRIL 2019

Sporting Clays April 13th Trapshoot April 28th Skeet Shoot April 6th 1

April 2019

Club News - Magazine Review Wilson McMillan FTA State Shoot and For Sale

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2018

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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—Vacant

DIRECTORS:

Calender of Events

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Club Calender

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Palm Beach Trap/Skeet Pro Shop—Sporting Calender Inside issue: Sportingthis Clays Program and Results Skeet Program and Results

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Contact info:

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Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays

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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Next General Meeting Thursday April 4th Starting at 7:00 PM

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Club News March is the biggest month for our trapshooters with the Southern Grand and the State Shoot at Silver Dollar this month. We had a busy trapshoot in February with Joe Bilecki, Angel Estevez, and Dave Sticker led the Singles event with 95’s. Handicap was led by Joe Bilecki and George Klinger with matching 89’s.

John Godwin led the Doubles with a lone 93. Twenty shooters participated shooting at 2,975 targets.

We saw 10 shooters attend the skeet shoot, firing at 1,450 targets.

Paul Billings led all events except the .410. Paul won the 12, 20, 28, and the HOA. Ed Ford won the .410 with a lone 41. Great shooting guys!

Our last sporting tournament saw 53 shooters attend with Joe Pinchin leading the field with a lone 94. Bill Weingartner followed close behind in Runner-Up with a 93. Rodrigo Mehich led Master Class and Alex

Riera led Veteran Category both with 90’s.

I have been keeping up with the progress on the Palm Beach club through my sample collectors at the SFWMD. They sample near the sight and give me verbal updates and pictures I have posted here. Work is progressing on the sign-in building for the Rifle Pistol part of the facility.

As far as I know, nothing has been done towards starting the clayshooting sports area of the gun club.

My wife sent me a great link regarding the Youth trap program in Minnesota. This is the largest shooting program in the world. Over 8,000 students participate in the Minnesota High School State Shoot. It takes a week of shooting to determine a winning team! It is a very inspirational video and article.

Check it out. http://time.com/ longform/high-school-shootingteams/ See you at the Club!

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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – February 2019 According to Mark H. Taylor there are three fundamental truths to teaching shotgunning: Gun fit and mount, look at the target, and keep the gun moving after the shot. Mount the gun properly to your shoulder, bringing the gun to your face, keep your eyes on your focal point then the target when it appears, and keep the gun moving throughout the shot. Good, simple advice.

Michael J. Keyes, M.D. understands quite a great deal about the Mental Game and this month recites the usual mantra on practice: it must push the limits of your abilities. There is a requirement to this mantra. You must first reach an adequate intermediate to advanced level of skill. Why do gymnasts practice their floor routine over and over again? Why do dancers practice their dance routines? They do it to perfect their moves. They aren’t pushing the limits of their skills. Pushing limits is done to develop a specific move then it is choreographed into floor or dance routines. Not all practice is done to push abilities to the edge of an athlete’s talent or skill. Yes, this is part of deliberate practice, but it’s not the whole story. Reach an adequate intermediate level before pushing the edge of your skill reality.

Back to Michael, do you know your game?

Can you diagnose every correct and incorrect move you make with your shotgun? Once you know your game you can start to change and perfect it. Top shooters know their game and Michael explains how these shooters audit themselves and identify changes they need to make in their game. He breaks practice into a three-stage process: analysis, skill building, and performance preparation. This brings us back

to the gymnasts and dancers. They analyze their routine, improve it by adding a new skill or move, then practice it, add it to the routine, then practice everything together in preparation for their performance.

Are you analyzing your shooting routine on a regular basis? Are you adding new skills or filling in holes to improve your performance?

Have you been auditing your shooting, noting things to change, things to correct? Have you been keeping track of how you feel during the whole process? There are clues everywhere in you shooting game if you look for them. Each clue will help you on the road to improvement.

Audit yourself every time you practice.

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Magazine Review CLAYTARGET NATION – January 2019 John Shima dives deeply into visualization this month. John calls this kinetic visualization where you “virtually feel and see” your next shot before you take it. This is done before stepping into the station as part of your prestation routine. Rehearse your next shot, feeling, seeing, hearing, even smelling it. Prestation virtual rehearsal of a shot builds confidence and makes you feel more prepared for the target. Rehearse the shot in your mind, step into the station, quiet your eyes and mind, then can call for the target. Done correctly, it heightens your awareness and confidence.

CLAYTARGET NATION – February 2019 Gun fit seems to be a common theme this month and Paul Giambrone III weighs in with his thoughts. Paul gets it right, saying the gun should shoot where you look. Doesn’t matter what the POI is, the only thing that matters is that the gun shoots where the shooter is looking. Paul’s next big point and a very valid one is the gun fits the shooter not the

other way around. I’ve seen countless people shooting guns that don’t fit them, accommodating themselves to the gun through bizarre physical contortions of their body. Paul suggests mounting the gun in a mirror to see if you are compromising yourself physically to make the gun to fit.

Talk to a professional if you have any doubts about your gun fit. There are many good instructors out there who can help you get the right fit out of your gun. Finally, nothing is more telling as to whether the gun fits or not as shooting targets. Paul likes to take clients out to shoot low 7’s on the skeet field. If you’re having problems shooting a low 7, you probably have gun fit issues.

Finally, there’s a reason there is a standardized stance for shooting. Shooting is an athletic endeavor. Set up correctly and you have freedom of movement and good field of vision. Talk to someone you can trust and get on track with good stance and gun fit.

Here we are back to the Michael J. Keyes, M.D. article on deliberate practice. You can’t do this without good foundation and knowledge. Gil and Vicki Ash also chime in on this subject. They emphasize not resting on your laurels after a good score. Great shooters note every flaw and near flaw after every event and flag it for practice and rehearsal later. Great shooters, like great performers, push to challenge themselves to reach for the next plateau. You should too.

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your mental game. All you need in a mental game is enough to focus on the target. Some shooters have long mental checklists to remind themselves of everything involved in taking a shot. Keep it simple and limit your checklist to cues affecting the one important aspect of the shot, seeing and focusing on the target. Pour your attention into visual focus and let your adaptive unconscious unleash itself for the shot.

Many studies show the correct self-talk can be beneficial to your performance, but too much or the wrong self-talk can be detrimental. In the early stages of a shooters career there is a great deal of self-talk, but as they progress, self-talk is eliminated or pared to just what is necessary. The real focus of everything is to walk onto a station with all self-talk set aside. A top shooter’s whole focus is on entering the quiet eye, quiet mind state or as John calls it the “shooter’s trance”.

Here the focus is on visually preparing for the target and heightening your awareness.

John Shima is the guru of the mental game and this month he is there giving us more solid advice. He wants us to think about what we are thinking while we shoot. If you are thinking or self-talking too much you need to abridge all the internal chatter and clean up

Use the right self-talk to eliminate all unnecessary internal chatter. Do this by preparing a pre-station routine then a Pre-shot routine.

The pre-station routine has three phases.

First is the technical phase, stance, hold point, look point, break point, etc. Phase two is the kinetic visualization of the shot, the mental rehearsal and phase three is the preparation for the visual acquisition of the target. The actual quiet eyes and quiet mind mode are part of the pre-shot routine once you step into the station. A simple phrase is all you need for self-talk at this stage. Personally, I tell myself, “look point” and it usually takes care of everything. Keep it simple and your chances for success will increase exponentially.

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Magazine Review TrapshootingUSA – January-February 2019 Some find Goal setting to be an incredibly powerful psychological tool. Jacque Snellenberger believes goal setting is imperative for achieving success and I agree with her but on a different dimension of the mental and athletic plane.

Jacque uses the SMART acronym to explain her goal setting philosophy. Be Specific when setting goals. Start with your next practice session.

Work on one aspect of your game, stance, eye placement, or shooting rhythm, but don’t work on all of them at once. Concentrate on bettering one issue not a combination of them.

When you have perfected the one aspect, which may take several practice sessions, move on to the next relevant issue in your game. This part of her goal setting stratagem is one I agree with.

Goals need to be Measured to track your progress.

Not a big fan of using score to measure your progress, you risk introducing score related pressure into your game. You would be better served observing the quality of your breaks. Qualitative

measurement always beats out a quantitative one.

Believe me, at the end of each post you know whether your breaks are better. If they are you are improving if not you have more work to do. One target at a time, one post at a time, one trap at a time. Measure the quality not the quantity and the score will take care of itself.

The goal must be Attainable. Again, stick with a qualitative goal rather than a quantitative one.

Concentrate on conquering one quality post at a time. For example set a goal of perfecting your breaks on Post 1. Conquer the left angle, quarter left, straight-away, etcetera, one post at a time.

You can’t attain a 97+ average if you can’t consistently break all the targets on any one post. Perfect one attainable aspect at a time.

Your goal must be realistic and Relevant to your life and abilities. If you don’t have the time to commit to making an All-State Team then don’t set it as your goal. Don’t set goals that are unachievable under your current lifestyle. Set a reasonably achievable goal, yet still one that takes some effort to accomplish. Finally, set a Time limit 8

TRAP & FIELD – January 2019

same spot when you swing over to it.

This month brings Part 2 of Ian Darroch’s column on Doubles. His first subject this month is hold points for the one-eyed shooter. Ian suggests the one-eyed shooter hold a high gun for their first target. Instead of holding on the house directly in line with where the target appears, which is the normal suggestion for oneeyed shooters, he says hold 1-2” over the house just outside the target’s path. This is of course, exactly what a two-eyed shooter would do. Since you know the target’s flight-path, all you do is hold outside the path, see the target rise, then intercept it. Holding a higher gun allows less movement and means less barrel speed on the first target. Moving from the edge of the house to break your first target means more barrel speed and more movement, contrary to good doubles tactics.

TRAP & FIELD – February 2019

For the two-eyed shooter Ian advocates the same technique, but also allows that two-eyed shooters may also hold directly on the first target’s line of flight and look under the gun for the target. I prefer holding off the direct line of flight. Holding right on the line of flight can promote trapping the first bird. Trapping is fine but it can lead to problems that holding off the direct line of flight doesn’t cause. Flinching is one of the big problems. Not a fun affliction, so stick to holding off the line of flight.

One thing always to remember, breaking the first target quickly doesn’t guarantee a successful doubles shot.

The most important concept to take home about the first bird is this maxim: break the first bird in the same spot each time and the second target will be in the

Bob Palmer gives us ten ideas to develop laser focus this month. First you need to find your internal brilliance, your personal Zone. When are you really at your best and why? Capture those feelings and bring them forth when you shoot. Peter Pan would tell you to find your happy thought and I couldn’t agree more.

Next, deal with your situation and any challenging circumstances you encounter. Find ways to handle these challenges and confront them before they take over your conscious thoughts.

Bob likes to visualize winning as a coping mechanism for handling nerves. He suggests visualizing winning three or four times a day. Next, avoid negative people and or people in general before or during a competition or practice session. They are unwanted distractions. I agree on that one. You’re there to compete, socialize later.

This is a new one from Bob, if you find yourself thinking or involved in self-talk, focus your eyes off in the distance to give your mind something to do. Myself, I like to go to my focal point one or two targets before my shot. This way I am already engaged at the look point so I don’t forget to be there when I mount the gun for my shot.

I don’t understand his sixth suggestion, so I’m going to skip it. Music is suggestion seven and it does help some people focus, like white noise in the background.

He believes using a variety of music keeps things fresh but I disagree. Sometimes one song repeated over and over in your mind keeps you focused on what you are doing. Number eight, find squadmates who are better than you. Shooting with squadmates one or more classes better than you teaches things you are unaware of.

Placing yourself in a situation where excellence is expected will make you a better shooter.

Bob thinks it’s ok to think about your score, just don’t obsess. Go back to looking at your focal point and clear your mind. Finally, concentrate on one thing, the focal point and forget the rest. Don’t think about your technique while you’re shooting. This just wakes up your mind. Put it to sleep. Quiet eyes, quiet mind.

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WILSON MCMILLAN

I can’t look at these pictures and believe my friend is gone. One of my favorite days fishing I spent with Wilson and my son Andrew. Wilson had always told me how he was a Master bluegill fisherman and man, did he deliver. He took us out bluegill fishing in Lake Okeechobee and we caught over 150 of the largest bluegills I have ever caught! They were enormous and on ultralight rigs were spectacular fighters. Truly a wonderful a3ernoon with a dear friend and my son. I will cherish that memory forever as I will cherish our friendship.

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I stated before that Wilson would donate flats of shells to the Youth Program. No special reason, he would just give Steve or I a couple of flats and tell us to give them to the kids. I like to think a3er I re8re and my fortunes con8nue, I will do

these same acts of random kindness like Wilson did. He never asked for recogni8on. He just wanted to help. Says a lot about someone’s character that he wanted to help kids he didn’t even know, enjoy a sport he loved so much.

It was well over two weeks before I saw him a3er his son died. I didn’t want to bring it up and as soon as he saw me he recognized my hesita8on. He told me the worst thing about his son’s passing was having to relive the pain every 8me he saw a friend and accepted their condolences. Always the gentleman, he tried to make me feel be:er when he was the one in pain. I am a be:er person for knowing him. How many people like that do you get in your life? Not many.

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103rd Florida State Shoot March 19-24, 2019 Featuring 41 Open, 201 Non-Resident, and 236 Resident Trophies $40,000 in Trophies and Added Money Plus $5,000 Out of State Added Money Donated by Silver Dollar Shooters Club 12

FOR SALE 1. Ponsness Warren Model 800 Convertable Serial # 7633 20 Guage.

2. Ponsness Warren Model 800 B Size o matic Serial # 18482 12 Guage + mounting table.

3. 2 5 pound cans of Dupont HI-Skor 700 X Powder.

4. 3 5 pound cans of Dupont Hi- Skor 800 X Powder.

5. 1 4 pound can of Hercules Red Dot Powder.

6. 2 Boxes 5000 each Winchester 209 Primers.

7. 37 25 pound Bags of # 9 lead shot ( New Star Magnum)

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The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

Rod Laver

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Calender of events: Gun Shows: March 30-31st 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

Apr. 6th

Trail

Apr. 20th

Trap this month: South Florida

Mar. 23rd

Gulf Coast Clays Apr. 14th Markham

Mar. 31st

Sporting This month: Indian River

Apr. 13th

Gulf Coast Clays Mar. 31st Quail Creek

Mar. 10th

South Florida

Mar. 16th

Markham

Mar. 17th

Okeechobee

Mar. 17th

OK Corral

Mar. 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 & 8’s, 1200 fps, 12 gauge.

It can be a daunting prospect for any player to know that his opponent will never, ever quit.

Rod Laver

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CALL FOR CURRENT PRICES ON FIREARMS/AMMUNITION

561-793-8787 THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR BUSINESS JOE FORDHAM 18

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 19

SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM

Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club

ST PATRICK’S DAY OPEN 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SUNDAY MARCH 17TH 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.

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

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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 22

Skeet Results

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to selfsatisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Steve Prefontaine

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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 SINGLES JOE BILECKI ANGEL ESTEVEZ DAVE STICKER MARCUS VIDAL GEORGE KLINGER ORACIO RICCOBONO DAX DEMENA JOHN GODWIN HENRY OVARES DAVE GLOWACKI AL PENACHO KEN BOYCE TIMOTHY COUGHLIN SEBASTIAN COPPOLA DAMIEN CRELLER PABLO GONZALEZ ISAIAS VARGAS GARY ROTHSTEIN ED FRUSTACI

16 Yards CLASS

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

95 95 95 92 92 91 90 90 89 86 85 83 83 81 80 79 78 76 67

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Handicap HANDICAP

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JOE BILECKI

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GEORGE KLINGER

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JOHN GODWIN

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MARCUS VIDAL

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DAX DEMENA

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TIMOTHY COUGHLIN

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DAMIEN CRELLER

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Doubles DOUBLES DAX DEMENA ANGEL ESTEVEZ JOHN GODWIN JOE LOITZ

CLASS D D A B

SCORE 70 75 93 86

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Youth Program

Mondays are still going well. We have four or five coaches on most nights now. There are always an intermediate and beginner field open and lately we have been opening a skeet field for the advanced students to work on their skeet game. We also plan on opening a field for trap doubles and wobble for the advanced kids. They should be more than ready for the SCTP tournaments this spring and summer.

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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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