MARKHAM NEWSLETTER 2024 FEBRUARY

Volume 14 Issue 02 February 2024 Markham Park Gun Club Youth Program Mondays 6-9 NSSA Skeet Saturday, Feb. 10th ATA Trap Sunday, Feb. 25th NSCA Sporting Clays No shoot in February

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 PRESIDENT—Vacant  VICE PRESIDENT—Vacant

CLUB NEWS MAGAZINE REVIEWS 6-7 CLAYTARGET NATION 8-11 Shotgun Sports FOR SALE RC-USA CUP & JACK LINK’S ROYAL SPORTING ARMS Markham Hours and Rules Trap and Skeet Programs CLUB CALENDAR EVENTS CALENDAR SPORTING CLAYS CALENDAR SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM AND RESULTS SKEET PROGRAM AND RESULTS FSA SKEET CALENDAR TRAP PROGRAM TRAP RESULTS YOUTH PROGRAM

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TREASURER—Vacant

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SECRETARY— Joe Loitz

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RECORDING SECRETARY—Vacant

DIRECTORS: Jon Roberts Sporting Chair Steve Norris Youth Chair Andrew Loitz Director

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 Shoots have well attended this month. Sporting Clays continues to get 60+ shooters and last weekend we had 27 trapshooters who shot at 4,500 targets! Skeet on the other hand has been off.

Hopefully, skeet will pick up as more snowbirds show up to shoot.

Attendance on Mondays has also been excellent. Most nights we have 15-16 shooters. Last Monday we had 5 on the beginner field and 12 on the advanced field. This keeps up and we may be back to a beginner, an intermediate, and an advanced field. We could use more coaches now and if attendance keeps up we could use more in the future. If you are interested in Youth coaching or just getting experience as a coach, come and see us on a Monday night and get the paperwork started.

My re-had has been going well. It has been a month

and a half since the total right-shoulder replacement and I have more mobility that I did after 8 months with the left shoulder. Should be back to shooting by April. If you fear getting a shoulder done, get it done right and go to the doctors at UM. Have nothing but high praises for them.

This is the high season for registered shooting in Florida. All the major shoots are starting this month.

Hope you get a chance to attend either a Sporting Clays, Skeet, or Trapshoot in the next couple of months somewhere in Florida.

If you know someone who would like the newsletter, forward them a copy and tell them to email me so I can add them to the list.

Joe Loitz 954-857-5278 jloit@bellsouth.net 4

SHOTGUN INSTRUCTION BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE, AND ADVANCED TRAP, SKEET, AND SPORTING CLAYS

JOE LOITZ 5-TIME ALL AMERICAN CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR NRA ATA NSCA NSSA 954-857-5278 JLOIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

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Magazine Review ClayTarget Nation – December 2022

It shouldn’t need to be said that any negative emotional response to a lost target is an invitation to further failure on the course. Gil Ash gives a short story about shooters on his squad losing their cool on a Sub-gauge course.

He goes through the biochemical response anger releases and the corresponding response to positive stimuli.

Needless to say, don’t go to the emotional dark side. Concentrate on the positive, keep your posture positive, and concentrate on the process not the score.

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ClayTarget Nation – December 2022 Chris Batha: “A ball-bearing-smooth gun mount is one synchronized movement of the body and gun to the bird with the feet, body, arms, and head making a freeflowing, balanced swing.”

Peter Blakely: “The power driving the gun should come from the ankles up, using the legs, thighs, hips, upper torso, a perfectly smooth, fluid flow of physical movement using all the muscles. The perfect mount and swing are suble blend of arm and body movement, there is no point where the mount ends and the swing begins.”

probably “feels fake or abnormal.”

To resolve this, quit shooting for score and practice the change without concern for breaking the target, rather concentrate on the change and implementing into your “normal” shooting style. John suggests dry firing at targets to release yourself from the “desire to break it or eliminate the fear of missing it.” John believes “14 times to be adequate to program a new habitual move.” Continued deliberate training and practice will ingrain the change into your “normal’ shooting style and solidify the change as the new “normal”. Once ingrained, you can return to giving your full attention to

watching the target break.

One of my biggest problems as a shooting instructor is getting students to pay more attention to stance and using their whole body to swing the gun. Convincing students to use their whole body to swing with the target is difficult and doesn’t come without some resistence. More importantly getting them to remember to do it consistently on each shot is the real challenge. John Shima’s article on adopting a new shooting habit rings true to this problem.

Making a change to your shooting style will at first seem unnatural and it won’t “feel right”.

Change requires you to step outside your comfort zone, so you should initially feel uncomfortable. You are changing your “shooting identity” when confronting a bad habit or change to your normal routine. Experiential learning (learning through experience) “will always percipitate a feeling of inauthenticity” according to John. You are trying something new and it

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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – February 2024 “You can’t know how you will respond to match stress unless you are exposed to the circumstances that engender it.”

Match stress is something you have to experience before you can learn to deal with it.

If you want to compete you have to actually enter a competition and compete. For many, the more competitions you enter, the easier it is to deal with match stress. Others may discover match stress pervasively impacts their ability to perform at their best. Michael J. Keyes, M.D. has made a minor career in Shotgun Sports magazine by expressing his knowledge and opinions on the subject.

Much of his writing

is explaining what match stress is and the psychological and physiological impacts it has on athletic performance. Tough reading if you aren’t interested in learning about what’s happening, but rather how to fix it.

The main psychological impacts from match stress are lack of concentration or misdirection of concentration on the wrong things. Instead of concentration on your shooting process you misdirect your attention to a hightened concern about your score. Match stress also causes negative thoughts to creep in: what will people thing of me if I shoot a bad score, I’m never going to break a right angle, High one, or long

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Michael’s only solution this month is improving skill levels to boost confidence. While he admits it isn’t necessarily a one-for-one correlation with confidence, he does suggest that as skill level improves the change in our hardwiring may be enough to make us “more effective in high stress situations.” Other than that, learn to recognize when negative thoughts start to seep in and head them off before they become pervasive. Occam’s Razor: sometimes the simplest answer is the solution. Concentrate on the process, the target, and the exclusion of all else.

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Magazine Review Matt and Foster Bartholow present some goal setting to improve your shooting this month. They start out each season shooting 25-50 targets a day, working up to 75 then 100. The goal for those first targets and the practice targets that come after is to shoot the perfectly. Problem is, how do you shoot a target perfectly? This means you

know that you actually broke the target how you meant to break it, in a perfect ball of smoke. Learning how to break each target perfectly is something most shooters never learn how to perfect.

That’s a whole magazine article. Just know, if you “watch” your shooting you may find some targets you shoot are always reaction shots rather than shots you made on purpose. Beware the reaction shots. Change hold points or look points to correct them.

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shooting under the lights. If you go to one of the Grands or state shoots you may end up in a nighttime shootoff. Get experience shooting under the lights. You may find you willwant to change beads for daytime and night.

Some beads glow at night and obscure your vision.

Other tidbits the Bartholow’s suggest are not rushing through your practice rounds. “Rushing practice increases your chances of picking up bad habits.” Take your time, don’t rush, and go through your shooting process for every shell.

Also shoot in all weather, windy, raining, hot, and cold temperatures. This prepares you for the unexpected on tournament day. Next, practice shooting in various color lenses if you have them. Get some if you don’t. Personally I have vermillion, gold, and brown. Practice

Don’t be afraid to make changes, different footwear, stance, hold points, look points, footwork, vest or not, new guns, and changes to your stock. Make changes one at a time so you really know what change was for the good and what wasn’t. You might want to allow a change that feels uncomfortable some time. You might find it eventually works once you get used to it.

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FOR SALE

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MX8 O/U and MX8 two barrel set.

Both O/U barrels are 29 7/8” Single barrel is 33 7/8” Contact: Tom Lieberman 561-852-7409 telieberman@aol.com 15

FOR SALE

#4- .380 SIG P36 with ex-mag, 2 h sters, NIB never $575. #1- Ruger Ranch Mini 14 SS, 2-30rd & 2-10rd clips.$650

#2- Golden Eagle .338 Win Mag with scope. Made by Nikko Arms.

Weatherby look alike. $600

#3- .380 SIG P365xl with ex-mag, 2 holsters, NIB never fired. $575.

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65xl holr fired.

#5 Browning Hi-Power 9mm luger with ex clip.

Aso comes with older shoulder holster. $875

#6- .Beretta BL1 OverUnder Double trigger, 28"bbl F/M.$525.

#7- Browning B 2000 12 ga 2 bbls luggage case. 1-30" full choke bbl and 1-26" Skeet bbl with vent ribs. $600

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FOR SALE

#8- Remington 700 SS .50cal Synthetic Stock Black Powder $425

#9- Browning B 2000 12ga 26" skeet bbl vent rib. $475. #10- Browning B 2000 12ga 18.5" bbl $395.#11- Browning B 2000 20ga. 28"bbl Modified vent rib.$475.

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#12– AP-74—.22 Cal— No Clip - $200.

#13 - One Flat—10 boxes - $75

Contact: Don Bonner 954-243-1100 debeeser@aol.com 19

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JACK LINK’S CUP February 13-18th 2024 Main Event 200 Targets 200 Targets 3 Courses 3 Courses 12 Stations 12 Stations Open Friday - Sunday Rotation times from 8:30am- 3:30pm HOA $25,000 Runner Up 15,000 Pos

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ROYAL SPORTING ARMS located in Davie, FL right on I-595 and 5 Minutes From Markham Park Trap Skeet and Sporting Clays Club. We are open year round to serve you at our FL Location.

Here at Royal Sporting Arms we are excited to help you with your next gun purchase.

We carry new and used Beretta, Perazzi, Rizzini, Krieghoff, Blaser, Syren, Fabarm, Caesar Guerini.

We are a full service shop, offering Fine guns, Ammo, stocks, over and under Barrels, gunsmithing, Gunstock work, recoil pads etc We'll Pay TOP DOLLAR for your used guns and also take firearms on trade / consignment!

We are excited to see and work with you! Please contact our team to make an appointment or to stop in!

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FLORIDA / USA: (954)-676-0714 / (954)-394-5134 Federico Ramirez Royal Sporting Arms Phone: (954) 394-5134 Email: royalsportingarms@gmail.com Website: https://www.royalsportingarms.com

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Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays

ATA Trapshoot Sunday, February 25th Signup starts 8:00 Shooting Starts at 9:00 100 16 Yard targets 100 Handicap targets 100 Doubles targets $42 first 100 targets $36 for each additional 100 Additional Shoot Dates See Page 34 30

Trail Trap & Skeet

ATA Trapshoot Saturday, February 17th Signup starts 8:00 Shooting Starts at 9:00 100 16 Yard targets 100 Handicap targets 100 Doubles targets $40 first 100 targets $34 for each additional 100 2023 Trail Shoot Dates Saturday September 16th 31

Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays

NSSA Skeet Tournament Saturday, February 10th Signup starts 8:00 Shooting Starts at 9:00 50 targets 12 gauge 50 targets 20 gauge 50 targets 28 gauge 50 targets .410 gauge 50 targets Doubles $22 each 50 targets 32

South Florida Shooting Club

NSSA Skeet Tournament Saturday, February 24th Signup starts 8:00 Shooting Starts at 9:00 Lunch is available in the clubhouse

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Forget your opponents; always play against par.

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Registered Shooting and Events in South Florida Gun Shows Miramar National Guard Armory February 17-18th

Skeet Trail Glades Markham So. Florida

February 1-4th February 10th February 24th

Trap PBS Complex Trail Glades Markham

February 10th February 17th February 25th

Sporting Clays South Florida Vero Beach

February 1-4th February 5-12th

Quail Creek February 13-18th Gulf Coast Clays February 25th Markham No Shoot

When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

Sam Snead

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2024 Schedule NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments Date

Tournament

Saturday Jan. 27th

Snow Bird Open

February

No Shoot in February

Saturday Mar. 30th

St. Patrick’s Day Open

Sunday April 14th

Gerry Stumm Memorial

Sunday May 19th

Memorial Day Open

Saturday June 22nd 23rd Annual Sunshine State Classic Saturday July 13th

Super Sizzle Open

Saturday Aug. 10th

Summers End Open

Saturday Sept. 14th

Markham Fall Fest Open

Sunday Oct. 20th

Pumpkin Blast

Sunday Nov. 3rd

Richard Merritt Memorial

Sunday - Dec 22nd

Bud Wolfe Classic

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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM

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

SATURDAY MARCH 30TH 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, $60.00 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. Tiebreaker station rankings will be posted during registration.

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:

Jon Roberts (786)-210-9448 email: MarkhamSportingClaysClub@gmail.com

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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS 2024 SNOWBIRD OPEN HOA 63 ENTRANTS

CONCURRENTS

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LADY CH YENEY GARCIA SUB-JR CH PATRICK BROOK SUB-JR RU TYLER ELMORE JR CH DANIEL PYRIG JR RU ALEX PYRIG VET CH OLEG PYRIG VET RU RODRIGO MEHICH VET 3RD DONOVAN AMRITT S VET CH ALEX RIERA S VET RU JOHN CAMPBELL S VET 3RD JAMES SMALLEY SSR VET CH ELIO CIOCCA SSR VET RU ALLEN FURIA SSR VET 3RD SILVIO PLANT HUNTER CH ANDRES LICASALE HUNTER RU FARAD VELASQUEZ HUNTER 3RD LARRY TATE

34 69 68 78 64 92 90 90 92 91 87 80 80 77 76 71 70

CH ROB WORSWICK RU ALEX RIERA M1 OLEG PYRIG M2 LUIS HERRERA M3 RODRIGO MEHICH AA1 JOHN CAMPBELL AA2 GREGORY MORISSET AA3 ANDRES CAMPOS A1 TOM DALY A2 RICHARD THOMPSON B1 FERNANDO ALVARADO B2 JEAN BERNARD DUPOUX B3 ALLEN FURIA C1 ANTHONY BALSAM C2 JUAN CUBILLAN C3 MELVIN SOSA D1 FRANCISCO LICASALE D2 MIKE INGANAMORT D3 GLENN HUBER E1 JAMES JACOBS E2 JEAN MARIE BOUCHEREAU E3 JOSEPH GUINTA

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MONTHLY SKEET PROGRAM Price per 50 targets includes $5/100 NSSA/FSA Fee

.410 gauge 50 Targets $22.00 28 gauge 50 Targets $22.00 20 gauge 50 Targets $22.00 12 gauge 50 Targets $22.00 Doubles 50 Targets $22.00 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 42

Skeet Results Markham and South Florida Shooting Club

Shoot Canceled.

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

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Trap Program Trap Program: SPECIAL NOTICE

100 target 16 Yd, Hdcp and Trap Tournaments are Doubles events. usually the fourth First 100 targets.

Sunday of the month. $42.00 (Includes ATA and FTA daily fees)

ATA SHOOT SCHEDULE 2024

Additional 100 target events. $36.00

January 28th February 25th March 10th

See Joe Loitz for details: 954-857-5278

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT SHOOTING IS STILL POPULAR WITH THE SHOOTERS. SIGN UP WITH 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 Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays

16 Yards JANUARY RESULTS SINGLES 99 DAX DEMENA 96 ALEX RIERA 96 ISIDORO LOPEZ 95 JAKE HOOPER 94 BRETT VANDLING 93 ORLANDO PADRON 92 AL PENACHO 92 LEGNE ALLEGUE 91 JORGE SOLARES 91 ADOLFO MILIANI 91 JOSE CALVO 90 RICHARD BUCCHERI 90 MILLAN VALENTIN 89 JOSE LOPEZ 89 STEVEN ORTIZ JERRY FALBER 88 88 IVAN VILLALOBOS 88 JOHN GODWIN 86 MICHAEL COLLINS 85 GRACIA PIERRE 85 MARLON LOPEZ 83 ANGEL ESTEVEZ 81 TED VANDLING 78 MIKE FREYER 71 REAGAN ELTUS 69 NORMAN MURPHY JEFF GLASBERG 38

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Handicap JANUARY RESULTS HANDICAP YDG 19 JAKE HOOPER 19 GRACIA PIERRE 20 JOSE CALVO 22 ALEX RIERA ORLANDO PADRON 21 20 MARLON LOPEZ RICHARD BUCCHERI 22 24 ADOLFO MILIANI

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Doubles DOUBLES JOHN GODWIN ADOLFO MILIANI JOSE CALVO IVAN VILLALOBOS JORGE SOLARES MIKE FREYER ORLANDO PADRON JAKE HOOPER MARLON LOPEZ MILLAN VALENTIN

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Youth Program

Markham Youth Program Ages 10-17 $20 includes targets & ammo Shotguns available free of charge Every Monday 6-9 PM. 50

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If you would like to sponsor our newsletter: contact me at: jloit@bellsouth.net Joe Loitz at 954-857-5278

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