Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays Volume 12 Issue 4 April 2021 Markham Park hours:
Sundays 8:00-6:00 Mondays 1:00-9:00 Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat., CLOSED
Reanna Frauens sweeps Lady’s Championship trophies Florida State Trapshoot
Markham Park Gun Club Youth Program Mondays 6-9 NSSA Skeet Sunday, April 11th ATA Trap Sunday, Apr. 25th NSCA Sporting Clays Sunday, Apr. 18th
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CLUB NEWS STEVE NORRIS SHOOTING INSTR. MAGAZINE REVIEWS 6-11 TRAP & FIELD 12 Shotgun Sports FOR SALE St. Patrick' Day Open EVENTS CALENDAR CLUB CALENDAR SPORTING CLAYS CALENDAR SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM AND RESULTS SKEET PROGRAM AND RESULTS FSA SKEET CALENDAR TRAP PROGRAM TRAP RESULTS YOUTH PROGRAM
PRESIDENT—Vacant
VICE PRESIDENT—Vacant
TREASURER—Vacant
SECRETARY— Joe Loitz
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
E-mail: jloit@bellsouth.net
Newsletter: jloit@bellsouth.net
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Next General Meeting ON REQUEST FROM SECRETARY
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Club News Times and days the club is open have changed again. See the cover for the new times. Also the Youth Program is back on again on Monday nights. We had a great turnout for the sporting clays tournament last month, 79 entrants. Evidently the long targets were a hit with the shooters from what I heard. Gary Gray led the field with an 88 followed closely by Joe Pinchin with an 87. The skeet shoot had 5 shooters with Saverio Riccobono leading the 12 gauge with a lone 47. Ric Sherman lead the 20 with a lone 45 and Joe Loitz won the doubles with a lone 44. Eight shooters attended the trapshoot. Antonio Spadaro broke a 99 to lead the Singles event with Alez Riera and Dax Demena in Runnersup spots with 95. The Doubles event was won by Dax Demena with a lone 90. No news on Palm Beach. Will call them again soon to see what they say. Trail Glades will have their first trapshoot in several years on Saturday, April 17th. There are some issues with several of the Pat-traps and the clubhouse doesn’t have power. If you plan on attending please email me first to make sure the shoot is going to happen as
planned. We all have ammo issues during these times. Otto and Joe Fordham have ammo. Otto’s number is on page 16 and Joe’s is on page 20. Give them a call. Talked to Joe recently and he told me he has several nice used shotguns for sale. Give both Otto and Joe a call if you’re looking for used or new shotguns or ammo. If you still have problems finding ammo, give me a call. I have other sources who might have supplies. On the cover this month is Reanna Frauens with her hoard of trophies from the Florida State Trapshoot. Reanna showed up on Friday and won the Lady’s Class Doubles then continued on to win the Lady’s Singles, Doubles, Handicap, and High All Around Championships. I don’t have those records, but my guess is, Reanna may be the only shooter to sweep all four championships! Great week spending time with her and her dad Barry. Hope we can do it again next year. For those of you who haven’t heard Dave Kelley is the new manager at South Florida Shooting Club. I finally got my second COVID shot and survived both with no side-effects. Very relieved.
Joe Loitz jloit@bellsouth.net 954-857-5278
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STEVE NORRIS SHOTGUN SHOOTING LESSONS
With over 30 years of experience Steve Norris has established his reputation as one of the premier shotgun instructors in South Florida. Whether he is guiding a beginning shooter through their first shots or perfecting an advanced shooter’s game, Steve is the go to coach at Markham Park. He has worked with over 1,000 Youth
shooters in Markham’s Youth Program and has helped guide six of them to national championships. Steve is available for lessons in Trap, Skeet, and Sporting Clays. At $200 for three hours of instruction, targets included, Steve is by far the best shotgun instruction your money can buy! Call him at: 754-264-9584.
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Magazine Review CLAYTARGET-NATION - March 2021 Over the last 14 years I’ve read over 100 shooting articles a year. That’s just the instructional articles. I read all of the ones on ammo from Tom Roster and L.P. Brezny and some of the new gun critiques also. The instructional articles come under several headings, but the two main ones are the lengthy textbook kind and the actual shooting theory ones. Textbook articles give you long explanations of how your mind works or your eyes. These are great for a coach who can turn that information into something useful when working with a student. For the average shooter they are tedious and never finish with any solutions to your problems in the real world. This is the nature of Ed Lyons’ article this month. It’s more of a textbook chapter than one of instruction. He provides good explanations on the eye and its function in the shooting process. For example, he notes disassociation of the eyes from the target to the barrel obviously causes visual dissonance disrupting the sight picture usually ending in a missed or at best a chipped target. Most of the article is a dissertation on the eye, but Mr. Lyons does give us good advice
along with his physiological explanations. Dry eyes can be a problem, especially early or late in the day. Recently my vision was foggy one morning at the Florida State Trapshoot. I stopped by and asked my friend Dr. Frank Rively, an optometrist who specializes in shooting glasses, for some eye drops. He handed me a bottle after putting some drops in my eyes. It took about 15 minutes, but it did fix the problem. The old saw “use the palest lens to allow the most light into your eye” should be taken with a grain of caution. Mr. Lyons notes, if you are light sensitive using lighter lenses can obviously be counterproductive. Same is true with people sensitive to glare. Stick with the darker lens. Getting regular eye exams is implied as he talks about having the highest visual acuity possible. Seeing the target with more acuity allows for better visual fix on the target and better definition. An Insight to Sports by Dr. Wayne F. Martin is a classic book on vision and its relationship to the shooting sports. Dr. Martin outlines several eye exercises to improve your visual muscles and their ability to see and concentrate on a moving target. While not mentioned in the article, Mr. Lyons does talk about the eye muscles and how they effect your ability to see. 6
Leaving early or moving before you see the target, is a universal problem, not only in skeet, but in all the shotgunning sports. I tell my beginning students, “You can’t start swinging until you see the duck.” Tim Short addresses this in his article. Leaving early means you inevitably shoot in front of the target, but the real problem is you never sync with the target’s speed. Skeet shooters are told to leave on the target’s blur or flash in your peripheral vision. Leaving early results in a headlong swing, having no relationship to the speed or altitude of the target. His solution to leaving early is to wait at your
look point to see the a solidified target in your central vision before starting your move. He says allowing a nanosecond of hesitation before your central vision centers on the target will improve your visual fix on the target. Studies have proven this nanosecond to be around one tenth of a second, an extremely short wait. It’s realistically about 5 hundredths of a second before you should start moving. The important take away is getting your eye centered on the target and keeping it that way. To put this in scientific terms, a 44 mph target travels 6.5’ in one tenth of a second. Since the center hoop is approximately 64 feet from the trap machine this means you have less than a second to react and break the target if you want to be a competitive skeet shooter, so every tenth of a second counts. His whole contention is that we “move on the blur of the target at the center of your eye hold point and track the target from inception to the break point.” Can’t disagree with his point. Getting a fix on the target is the crux of all shotgunning and if this works for you it may eliminate moving out of sync with the bird.
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Magazine Review Gebben Miles breaks practice into three phases to get the most out of your sessions. Like all coaches will tell you, shooting a round of 100 targets over 14 or so stations isn’t true practice unless you are working on the pressure of the competitive environment. The first phase is Conditioning. This is intense training, using a field with 6-10 machines and shooting 250 targets during two sessions in the day. You are conditioning yourself against physical and mental fatigue. He starts by dry firing at 20-40 targets to assure his move is “solid and crisp.” He starts with singles then moves to different doubles combinations. If he has a problem target, he will move closer to it until he learns it, then will move further away to learn it at distance. Next he works on pairs until he’s broken 4 in a row and starts over with a different pair. He may do this three to five times in a week. That’s 1,500 to 2,500 targets in a week. Whew! Skill building is next. This is about stance, posture, move, mount, and consistency. Mindset and developing new techniques are also part of this. If you
have a problem target this is the phase where you work on it. He states he once had a problem was trap targets on the second shot of a true pair. He spent a whole flat of shells on these targets. He also used a trap field and skeet field to work on them. My guess he was shooting the trap doubles in reverse order shooting the angle first then the straightaway. Same on a skeet field, shooting the doubles in reverse order on 1-3 and 5-7. He also uses the “ladder drill” for problem targets at distance, shooting 24 targets at 26 yards, 30 yards, and 36 yards, working his way back to 60-70 yards, even up to 120 yards. Finally, the sharpening phase. This is competition practice. Shoot the course just like you are in competition, even keeping score. If you find problem targets go back to the conditioning and skills phase. Gebben also suggest working with a coach if problem targets continue to vex you.
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Interesting article from Gil and Vicki Ash this month on how to quantify a course. They present a chart developed by one of their students that keeps track of the direction the targets are coming from throughout a course. The walk-away from this is that some courses may tend to be right to left or left to right courses. If you find the majority of targets over a particular course tend to come from one direction or another, practice up on those targets the day before a tournament. You also may find some course setters like an abundance of trap style or teal targets. Interesting trend analysis. Give this article a read if you get a chance. ——————————— Mark Chestnut gives us an article this month on tower targets, getting advice from a fellow instructor Arnie Little of Edmond, Oklahoma. First and foremost, focus on the target. Tower targets don’t typically have any background to give them perspective as to speed or distance. Pick a break point where you see the target clearly. Once committed to the break point, determine the best hold point for it. Keep your gun below the target line so you can see it clearly coming off the trap. Stance is critical to these targets. Set your feet towards the trap if it is a true incomer or toward the break point on crossing or quartering targets. Mark also sug-
gests keeping your feet closer together and keeping the gun sufficiently out in front of the trap, 10 to 12 feet. Many clubs don’t have tower targets. You may have to travel to get access to them for practice. Find a club that has several towers and practice them on a regular basis, especially if you are going to compete at a club that is going to present them. South Florida Shooting Club has several towers with a variety of presentations. 9
Magazine Review John Shima combines both types of magazine articles into one, textbook and instructional. Like Gebben Miles’ article, John breaks practice into three parts. Basic practice, skill building, and scorebased practice. This matches up with Gebben’s conditioning phase, skill building, and sharpening phase. John is a great advocate of Anders Ericsson the peak performance guru from Florida State University. Professor Ericsson is famous for prescribing deliberate and purposeful practice. The goal of practice is two-fold, learning new skills and turning them into unconscious habits. Deliberate and purposeful practice do this. Purposeful practice is required to develop new skills. This practice must have a goal and must exceed your usual comfort zone. Practice with a speci c purpose, creating or improving an established skill. Basic practice under John’s de nition creates the required mechanical skills needed for ultimate mastery. Nothing can move forward without good technique. This is the beginning of habit building and the blocking of bad habits. Skill building practice is applying the habits created through good technique to speci c presentations. Finally, score based practice simulates competitive practice such as keeping score during a round. Also, include drills such as running a post or station be-
fore leaving it. This improves your ability to concentration and your ability to manage control over your conscious mind. Deliberate practice is also where you set reasonable benchmarks and increase them over time, striving for a perfect score. Remember, careless practice produces bad habits which are hard to unlearn. Deliberate practice requires rst establishing good fundamentals, then adding coaching to give feedback and advice on practice routines needed to push you to the next level. One nal take-away. Your conscious mind is there when doing basic practicing and skill building to evaluate and correct. During a competition, leave it behind, control it, and let your unconscious release your good shooting habits to their best affect. Watch the target break.
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How do we get past a plateau in our shooting? More targets and range time is obvious, but what else can we do? Paul Giambrone III presents suggestions as to things that may also be holding you back on your current plateau. Gun t is step one. If your gun doesn’t t you it will impede your progress. Poor gun t affects your stance, mount, and your visual eld. Get some advice on your gun t from a quali ed expert or coach. Everyone’s different when it comes to gun t, so be careful the advice you get is good. Are you making a good rotation with the target is the next step. Paul and I both advocate a full body swing to the target. A full body swing is simply more athletic and will cause less muscle tension and constriction when you move. I differ from Paul in his advice to swing from your heels. I prefer swinging off the balls of my feet. You decide. Hold and look points are also critical to improvement. They both work in concert. Once you establish the best hold point for your style, the look point becomes critical. Paul suggests looking half-way back to the window from your hold point. Everyone is different. Some people can look almost to the window on every station. I like the halfway back look for High 2 and Low 6. Otherwise, I look just off the window except for High 1 and Low 7 of course. How you set your vision at the look point is
also important. Look into the flight path, not below it. You want the target to cross your central vision, look up. Soft focus and the Quiet Eye are required to fully pickup the target. Any eye movement as you call will put you at a distinct disadvantage and usually results in a recovery shot. Look off into the distance and through the flight path. As Paul notes, in a perfect world your barrels won’t be visible if you gaze properly at the look point. Finally, you must perform you pre-shot routine consistently. Plan your shot before you step onto the station. Know where your hold and look points will be and how you will position your feet. Step onto the station and set your feet and stance. Only accept a perfect mount. If it’s wrong start over and remount. Set your concnetration to seeing the flash of the target and go into soft focus, concentrating on picking up the target. Hard focus on the target when it appears and follow through watching the target break and follow the pieces. If something distracts you, take your gun down and remount, reset your visual routine, then proceed with the shot.
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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – March 2021 Michael J Keyes, M.D. gives another psychological primer to help us get past our mental issues in shooting. This month it is on cognitive dissonance, the holding of two conflicting ideas in your mind. Acting with conflicting ideas rattling around in your head causes psychological stress which will manifest as physical stress when your mind is telling you to do two different things at the same time. This usually occurs when you are working on a new shooting technique and your mind is telling you “this isn’t the way we did things in the past.” How do we resolve this? Michael gives us three ways to get past the dissonance. Change your attitude. This new technique will make me a better shooter. I know my performance will dip, but it’s a price I’m willing to pay in the short-term to improve long-term. In your mind build value on this new technique and make learning it more valuable than holding on to the old one. Secondly, keep looking for information that will reinforce your decision to make the change. The more information you nd the easier it is to accept
the new technique as the correct move. Finally, trivialize the old technique as one of a beginner and you are no longer such. As you start to master the new technique the old one will lose its emotional hold on you and will be replaced by the improved technique.
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Registered Shooting and Events in South Florida Gun Shows Natl. Guard Armory Miramar May. 8-9th
Skeet Markham So. Florida
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Trap So. Florida April 10th Gulf Coast Clays April 11th Trail Glades April 17th Markham April 25th
Sporting Clays South Florida Vero Beach OK Corral Markham
May 2nd April 10th April 8-11th April 18th Gulf Coast Clays April 24th Quail Creek April 25th
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2021 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments Date Sunday - Jan 17 Saturday - Feb 27
Tournament Snow Bird Open
Cancelled
Sunday - Mar 21
St. Patrick's Day Open
Sunday - Apr 18
Gerry Stumm Memorial
Sunday - May 16
Memorial Day Open
Saturday - Jun 19
21st Annual Sunshine State Classic
Saturday - Jul 10
Super Sizzle Open
Saturday - Aug 14
Summers End Open
Saturday - Sept. 11
Markham Fall Fest Shoot
Sunday—Oct. 10
Pumpkin Blast
Sunday - Nov. 7
Richard Merritt Memorial
Sunday—Dec. 26
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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM
Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club
GERRY STUMM MEMORIAL SHOOT 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations
SUNDAY APRIL 18TH 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: $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 3 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: Greg Ritch (561) 271-5319 email: gregsritch@gmail.com
Please Preregister using: scorechaser.com
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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS
CONCURRENTS JR CH JOSEPH PINCHIN JR RU MEGAN THOMPSON LADY CH MEGAN THOMPSON LADY RU MELISSA STURDIVANT VET CH ALEX RIERA VET RU ANGEL RAMOS S VET CH RICHARD REBER S VET RU GARY AVEY SUPER SR CH VET W T MUIR S SR VET RU LARRY CRISMOND HUNTER CH FERNANDO ALVAREDO HUNTER RU CORWIN BARRY
87 67 67 66 82 79 68 67 73 69 76 71
ST. PATRICK'S DAY OPEN 79 ENTRANTS CH GARY GRAY RU JOSEPH PINCHIN M1 LUIS HERRERA M2 OLEG PYRIG M3 TED GRAY AA1 ALEX RIERA AA2 ANGEL RAMOS AA3 JOEL BUENO A1 EDWARD LEE A2 RONALD DZIEMA A3 DAKE MELTON B1 DAX DEMENA B2 JOHN PILCH B3 RICHARD HEW C1 ANTHONY DIAS C2 LARRY CRISMOND C3 RICHARD REBER D1 COLIN BOWE D2 BRIAN ANDERSON D3 LUKE BROADWAY E1 PETER KOROTHLY E2 MANUAL VEGA E3 ANA RAMOS
88 87 86 80 74 82 79 78 77 67 66 74 64 64 76 69 68 75 71 69 60 60 52
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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 24
Skeet Results Markham and South Florida Shooting Club
South Florida Shooting Club
You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy. Arthur Ashe
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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 2020-2021
Additional 100 target events.
October 25th
$32.00
November 22th December 27th January 17th
See Joe Loitz for details: 954-857-5278
February 28th March 14th April 25th May 23th June 27th July 25th August 22nd
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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 ANTONIO SPADARO ALEX RIERA DAX DEMENA ENRIQUE BERNET ORACIO RICCOBONO ANGEL ESTEVEZ OVIDIO LOPEZ
CLASS SCORE B A A B C B C
99 95 95 91 88 85 62
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Handicap No Handicap event was held.
Doubles DOUBLES DAX DEMENA ALEX RIERA RALPH LONG ENRIQUE BERNET OVIDIO LOPEZ
CLASS SCORE B A C C D
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Youth Program
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