Markham Newsletter 2024 June

Volume 14 Issue 06 June 2024

Markham Park Gun Club Youth Program Mondays 6-9 NSSA Skeet Saturday, June 8th ATA Trap Sunday, June 23rd NSCA Sporting Clays June 22nd

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CLUB NEWS MAGAZINE REVIEWS 6-7 CLAYTARGET NATION 8 Shotgun Sports 9 ClayShoo(ngUSA PICTURES ROYAL SPORTING ARMS Markham Hours and Rules Trap and Skeet Programs CLUB CALENDAR EVENTS CALENDAR SPORTING CLAYS CALENDAR SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS SKEET PROGRAM AND RESULTS FSA SKEET CALENDAR TRAP PROGRAM TRAP RESULTS YOUTH PROGRAM

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2021 OFFICERS  PRESIDENT—Vacant  VICE PRESIDENT—Vacant 

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 Lunch will be provided by CHICAGO ME UP food truck for the Sporting Clays event this month. I still haven’t shot a registered event since I got my shoulders done last year and looks like I’ll be missing this shoot because of a prior commitment. I really wanted to see what CHICAGO ME UP had to offer!

Love a good Chicago Hotdog!

Trap was off last month, only 13 shooters attended, shooting 1,500 targets. The skeet shoot was still disappointing this month with only 3 shooters and 250 targets. Sporting Clays was up with 58 shooters last month.

Guess lunch does draw people in!

Attendance on Mondays continues to be excellent.

Most nights we have 12-15 shooters. 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.

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.

There are some nice Ruger shotguns for sale on page 12, also a Browning Citori.

Check them out.

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

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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 CLAY TARGET NATION – May 2024 Missing isn’t affected by the ammunition you use or your gun’s choke. If you read this month’s issue you will come away from the article on George Digweed knowing full and full fixed chokes will break any target they throw, including skeet. Don’t think for one minute using a more open choke will get you an extra target. It may, but what did it prove, instead of a 70 you broke 71. Working on your mechanics, visual game, and mental game will get you to the stage where choke and ammo doesn’t matter.

John Shima confronts missing this month

and breaks the solution into three components: mechanical, visual, and mental. Improve any one of these components and your scores will improve. John’s emphasis is always on the visual game and he’s not wrong. I’ve found however, most people have never improved their mechanical game enough to where improving their visual game will have a long-term beneficial effect on their overall game. Same is true with the mental game. If your mechanical game is flawed it’s hard to implement a good visual or mental game.

The mechanical aspect of the game is the gun mount, foot position, and the actual swing mechanics. Proper gun mount/stance will keep your head on the stock, create a smoother swing, and creates an athletic move to the target.

Poor mount/stance prevents a proper integration between the mechanical and visual games. If your mount/stance isn’t correct you’ll lift your head either as soon as you see the target or as you swing on it, or you will lean back to move the gun, which causes spoiling of the line and a swing over the target, or you will swing the gun up first before swinging towards the target, now you’ve lost sight of the target and have to reacquire it, or you may swing in a banana shaped swing, because physically it’s easier to swing the barrels up than swinging parallel with the target’s flight path. If your stance was proper you would6 n’t do this.

What I’m getting at is, most people think they swing the gun just fine in perfect coordination with their visual lock on the target. They don’t. Like John says, there are shooters who have 100% visual lock on the target and then there are those who are visually aware of both the target and barrels as they swing. This is like looking at your racket, bat, or golf club as you hit a ball. Your swing will never be perfect until you fix this visual dependence on the barrels and part of the problem is that poor mount/stance worsens the issue, preventing

you from visually locking on the target and swinging freely.

Get help on your mount/stance and swing mechanics before trying to improve your visual and mental games. Get an opinion from a qualified coach, then start working on the more advanced items. If your mechanics are messing up your visual and mental game what good does it do, trying to improve them before fixing the real problem, your mechanics.

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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports– June 2024

Mindsets are “a set of core assumptions about the nature of the many things we encounter and how processes appear to work.” Without mindsets our brains would be overwhelmed by the amount of information we have to process each day. Mindsets allow us to predict how we should react to this huge set of information we receive every day. Unfortunately, mindsets are hard to change.

Michael J. Keyes, M.D. walks us through how to change our mindsets to improve our game this month.

How do you change your mindset?

Change-up your practice routine by varying intensity, changing focus on different aspects of your game, and taking time off. Wayne Mayes, one of the greatest skeet shooters of all time credited much of his success to an intense period of shooting early in his career. As I recall he shot something like 5,000 targets in a month and it forever changed his game, obviously, to the better.

Changing focus on different aspects of your game can be something like working only on right to left, left to right, straight-away, dropping, or incoming targets for a whole weekend. Or work on your transition between doubles/truepair targets. If you take time off, do it for a reason. Maybe you’re moving too

soon on targets before you get true visual lock on them. Concentrate on the issue by visualizing what you want and take some time off to let the idea sink in.

Michael ends this missive with stress and its effect on the mindset. He says stress itself isn’t the problem, but how we view stress. Studies show that people who view stress-is-enhancing are more successful in their efforts than people who view stress-is-detrimental.

If you succumb to a negative view towards stress, your efforts to improve will be less effective than if you embrace the stress as part of the process of improving.

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ClayShootingUSA—January-February 2024

While Matthew Gay’s article’s focus is on our northern brethren and off-season drills, there’s some good advice to be found in his article.

Foot position is something that comes naturally to me, but it doesn’t for many shooters. Always check your foot position whenever you step up to a post or station. Are you setting up so your foot positioning leaves you in a comfortable stance at the break point? Many shooters just walk up to a post or station and assume the rifleman stance and foot position, lead foot at 12:00-1:00 and trailing foot at 2:003:00 (right-handed). Left-handed would be 11:00-12:00 and 10:00-9:00. This is great if the target’s thrown straight-away from you but is problematic if it is an extreme right to left target for a right-hander or extreme left to right target for a left-hander.

Always set your feet for the break point of the extreme target or second target in a pair.

Some drills Matthew suggests can be done all year long. Practice mounting your gun 50-100 times a day isn’t a bad idea

It builds consistency and strength. The caveat is that your gun should fit you properly. Before practicing your mount it’s a good idea to get an opinion on how your mount looks. A trusted, knowledgeable shooter or instructor is the opinion you’re looking for.

Speaking of second opinions, if you are a lowgun shooter, have someone watch your mount to the target. Do you move with the target, bringing the gun to your face as you near the break point?

Or do you call for the target then immediately mount the gun to your face before you move to the target. If you do this, you’re doing it wrong. Finally, review your pre-shot routine. Is there more you could do to clear your mind and enter soft focus for the target. Visual focus on the target is paramount to a successful shot. Be sure you are fully invested visually on the target as you shoot. Be mindful of this and “watch” yourself shoot on some easy quartering targets.

You may be surprised by what you see.

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FOR SA.LE

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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!

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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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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ATA Trapshoot Sunday, June 23th 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 38 20

Trail Trap & Skeet

ATA Trapshoot June 15th 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

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Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays

NSSA Skeet Tournament Saturday, June 8th 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 22

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When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

Stan Smith

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Registered Shooting and Events in South Florida Gun Shows Miramar National Guard Armory Junr 15-16th

Skeet Trail Glades Markham

June 29th June 8th

Trap PBS Complex Trail Glades Markham

June 8th May 15th June 23th

Sporting Clays South Florida Quail Creek Bradford OK Corral Bermont Markham Polk Amelia Vero Beach

June 8th June 9th June 15th June 15th June 16th June 22nd June 22nd June 22nd June 23rd

Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

John McEnroe

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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

23rd Annual Sunshine State Classic 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SATURDAY JUNE 22ND Registration: Opens 8:30 a.m. and will close at 10:00 a.m.

All scorecards must be turned in by 1:00 p.m. in order to be posted.

Entry Fee: $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 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

Please Preregister using: scorechaser.com

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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS 2024 MEMORIAL DAY SHOOT HOA 58 ENTRANTS

CONCURRENTS

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LADY CH RACHEL SUB-JR CH DAMIEN CRELLER SUB-JR RU PATRICK BROOK JR CH JOSEPH MARLEY JR RU LIAM MARLEY VET CH TED GRAY VET RU FERNANDO ALVAREDO VET 3RD WAYNE AMRITT S VET CH ALEX RIERA S VET RU EDWARD LEE SSR VET CH ALLEN FURIA SSR VET RU RICHARD REBER SSR VET 3RD ELIO CIOCCA HUNTER CH BARRY CORWIN HUNTER RU PERRE RENAUD HUNTER 3RD RACHEL GONZALEZ

24 68 62 69 63 83 82 81 90 77 69 69 62 75 70 69

CH JUAN JARAMILLO RU ALEX RIERO M1 TED GRAY M2 LUIS HERRARO M3 DONOVAN AMRITT AA1 MATTHEW DANIELS AA2 GREGORY MORISSET AA3 EDWARD LEE A1 FERNANDO ALVARADO A2 DANIEL NARANJO A3 TOM DALY B1 JAMES BALDWIN B2 DAX DAMENA B3 ALLEN FURIA C1 ANTHONY BALSAM C2 MIKE BARANET C3 RICHARD WILLIAMS D1 EROS COLLAZO D2 LUIS RAMOS D3 OSWALDO BETANCOURT E1 GEORGE CAMPBELL E2 AUSTIN SWEENY-HENLEY E3 PATRICK BROOK

95 90 83 82 81 80 77 77 82 75 75 84 77 69 84 79 74 82 81 80 67 65 62

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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 32

Skeet Results Markham Skeet, Trap, & Sporting Clays

No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been better. Perhaps this is why golf is the greatest of games. You are not playing a human adversary; you are playing a game. You are playing old man par.

Bobby Jones

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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 17th

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 SCORE

MAY RESULTS SINGLES ALEX RIERA ORACIO RICCOBONO ADOLFO MILIANI ROGELIO FOLCO BOB MCPHEE RAFAEL CARBALLIDO ED GREENE MAURICIO AGUERO LEGNE ALLEGUE NORMAN MURPHY MIKE BARANET JERRY FELBER

98 96 95 94 93 93 92 91 89 88 78 64

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Handicap No event was held.

Doubles MAY RESULTS DOUBLES JOSEPH LOITZ 84 ADOLFO MILIANI 82 ALEX RIERA 81

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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. 40

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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