Markham Newsletter 2024 May

Volume 14 Issue 05 May 2024

Volume 14 Issue 05

2024 STATE CHAMPIONS Jake Hooper Dax Demena Reanna Frauens

Markham Park Gun Club Youth Program Mondays 6-9 NSSA Skeet Saturday, June 8th ATA Trap Sunday, May 26th NSCA Sporting Clays March 19th TRAIL GLADES TRAPSHOOT SATURDAY, MAY 18TH

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OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2021 OFFICERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 4 CLUB NEWS 6-9 MAGAZINE REVIEWS 6-9 Clay Target Na on 10-15 Pictures 16-19 ROYAL SPORTING ARMS 20-23 Markham Hours and Rules 22-25 Trap and Skeet Programs 26-28 CLUB CALENDAR 29 EVENTS CALENDAR

 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

31 SPORTING CLAYS CALENDAR 32 SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM 33 SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS 34-35 SKEET PROGRAM AND RESULTS 36 FSA SKEET CALENDAR 38 TRAP PROGRAM 40-41 TRAP RESULTS 42 YOUTH PROGRAM

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 FLAVOR HOUSE GRILL for the Sporting Clays event this month. I haven’t shot a registered event for some time since I got my shoulders done last year. I think I’ll be attending this shoot. I may not shoot well but I know I’ll eat well.

As you can see by the cover, some of our Markham shooters did well at the latest state shoots. Jake Hooper walked away with the Sub-Junior State Championship trophies in Handicap, Doubles, and HAA at the Florida State Trapshoot.

Dax Demena is again our Florida State Singles Champion. Reanna Frauens took home the Ladies Championship in the Main Event and was the overall Champion in 5-Stand. Great shooting!

Trap was well attended by 23 shooters who shot 3,375 targets. The skeet shoot was still disappointing this

month with only 3 shooters and 250 targets.

Attendance on Mondays continues to be excellent.

Most nights we have 15-16 shooters. 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.

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

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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 – April 2024

Probably the most profound problem with shooting a shotgun is not looking at it. Your shotgun is the equivalent of a tennis racket, golf club, baseball bat, etcetera. You look at the ball in all those examples and more importantly, you don’t check where your racket, club, or bat is by looking at it!

Albert Scooter approaches this idea in this month’s article when he advises us on his technique for shooting skeet High 1. He suggests looking 45 inches above his barrel when you call for the target. This takes the barrel/bead out of play, letting the target be the first thing you see.

Taking the barrel/bead out of play doesn’t receive enough emphasis in shotgunning articles. My belief is: your eyes should be gazing at

the look point when you mount the gun not looking down the barrel.

Some great shooters mount the gun looking down the barrel, then shift to the look point. Can’t deny their success, but I have always done my best shooting when I’ve focused solely on the look point as I mount.

When hunting, shooting FITASC, or International Skeet you are not premounting the shotgun and you are totally focused on the bird in the air whether it has feathers or is made of pitch and clay. There isn’t time to look down the barrel. You’re swinging with the target, bringing your gun to your face, and shooting in a perfect rhythm. In a pre-mounted 6

One of the fundamentals of all shotgunning is keeping the target above your barrels as it appears. In skeet this means setting a hold point below the target line and looking above the gun into the target line. “Spoiling the line” is no doubt the biggest error in shotgunning where your barrels run over the top of the target line and the target is lost visually. The almost immediate result is a stopped swing and trigger pull, placing your shot over and behind the target.

To sum up Albert’s article, look above your barrels as you mount the gun, so your focus is on the target, not your gun. Don’t call for the tar-

get until you are mentally focused on seeing the target and all other thoughts have left the building. He does say to point your barrels higher also. Not a fan of that idea. Hold points are very personal. Try it, see how it feels. It might work. To me that idea plays with how I see the sight picture creation as I move to the target. Don’t think that would help me. This is why missing is expected in practice.

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Magazine Review Clayton Rue reminds us to stick to our shot plan this month. See the target, execute your shot plan, shoot the target. Your shot plan is basically three parts, hold point, look point, break point.

You could throw in correct stance, swing method, and shot visualization, but I think you get the point. Decide on a plan and stick to it. Thinking is something you do before you go to your look point and call for the target. Once you’ve cleared your mind and are totally focused on seeing your target, stop thinking. Call for the target, see the target, execute your swing method, and shoot at the break point. See the target and shoot, no thinking about leads, the second target, or hitting the first target.

Call and watch the target break in the words of John Shima.

Speaking of John Shima, his article fits in with the first two. He talks about the “Cadence of Focus” where we visualize before we step into the station, go through our pre-shot routine, and finally settle our eyes into expanded, soft focus at the look point. Done correctly this allows us to “adopt a state of patient awareness” in anticipation of seeing the target. How do you know you’ve done all this correctly? If your move to the target is a smooth swing, bringing your lead and the target into a relaxed merging of all elements into the perfect sight picture, you know you’ve succeeded.

John always says “Watch the target break.” What makes this statement so

true is that feeling/knowledge you’ve merged into the perfect sight picture as you pull the trigger.

Subconsciously you know when it’s perfect and remembering and repeating that feeling is the essence of the highest level of shotgunning. Watching the target break means everything has gone right with the shot. I cannot tell you how many of my students rarely see the target break as they shoot.

I know I’m on my game when I see every target break and I know exactly where I was on the target as I re- 8 leased the trigger.

This isn’t your conscious mind interfering with the shot. It’s your conscious mind doing what it is supposed to, watching the target throughout the whole implementation of the shot.

Don’t be confused, if you see that perfect merging of the shot at the break point, you are probably in perfect rhythm and harmony with your gun, your vision, and mind. If you didn’t see it, what exactly were you looking at?

Not the target and the shot execution.

You probably lifted your head to see the result not the execution or you looked at your barrel to check the lead. I hope that makes sense. John talks about his student Denny from Honolulu who stated, “I would rather center my shots on 24 targets and miss one due to a lapse in concentration than chip and hack 25 targets to complete a straight.” The joy in shooting, as Denny suggests, is where the gun and target are merged in the perfect execution of a shot. The joy of the perfect execution of 24 shots will always trump 25 lucky breaks and in the long run will lead to 25 perfect breaks.

What I’m getting at is purposeful, focused practice teaches you to execute a shot where you know the target is going to break. It isn’t a hope, it is a purposefully executed shot. Until you can repeat a shot over and over again, because you know absolutely how to execute the shot, you will never be consistent. You need to step onto a station knowing what needs to happen to break the target. Execution by rote practice and a memorized lead never works in

In the long run. Watching the target break, seeing the execution of the shot as it happens is the only way to improve your shooting permanently.

Every target is unique regardless of the station. Every Low 1 is unique and requires the same concentration as a Low 4. Low 1 may be the easiest target for a right-handed shooter, but each one flies its own unique path as it approaches you. Don’t just break it, break it on purpose to perfection.

Learn the easy targets to perfection, then the more difficult targets will be easier to see and break. Watch the target break!

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Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays

ATA Trapshoot Sunday, May 26th 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 22

Trail Trap & Skeet

ATA Trapshoot May 18th 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 24

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“Did I win? Did I lose?

Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort? That’s what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.” ― John Wooden

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Registered Shooting and Events in South Florida Gun Shows Miramar National Guard Armory May 25-26th

Skeet Trail Glades Markham

May 27th June 8th

John Wooden

Trap PBS Complex Trail Glades Markham

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

May 11th May 18th May 26th

Sporting Clays Bradford Sarasota OK Corral Quail Creek Markham Polk Amelia Bermont Quail Creek Blackjack

May 11th May 11th May 12th May 18th May 19th May 19th May 25th May 25th May 26th May 27th

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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

GERRY STRUM MEMORIAL 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SATURDAY MAY 19TH 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

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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS 2024 GERRY STUMM MEMORIAL HOA 48 ENTRANTS

CONCURRENTS

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LADY CH ANN LITTLE SUB-JR CH PATRICH TOBIN SUB-JR RU JAKE HOOPER JR CH DANIEL PYRIG JR RU ALEX PYRIG VET CH DONOVAN AMRITT VET RU OLEG PYRIG VET 3RD WAYNE AMRITT S VET CH RICHARD THOMPSON S VET RU ALEX RIERA S VET 3RD EDWARD LEE SSR VET CH ROCKY LONG SSR VET RU RICHARD REBER SSR VET 3RD ELIO CIOCCA HUNTER CH BARRY CORWIN HUNTER RU JURGEN BAUER HUNTER 3RD PERRE RENAUD

69 66 57 75 62 79 78 74 85 81 74 76 65 65 73 65 62

CH HERBERT KANSKI RU RICHARD THOMPSON M1 DONOVAN AMRITT M2 OLEG PURIG M3 MIKE LITTLE AA1 ROCKY LONG AA2 EDWARD LEE AA3 ANN LITTLE A1 ALEX RIERA A2 WAYNE AMRITT A3 TOM DALY B1 ELIESER SIGLER B2 JEAN BERNARD DUPOUX B3 MIKE ROUSER C1 WYATT MCLEOD C2 DANIEL PYRIG C3 LUIS COLL D1 MICHAEL HIDALGO D2 RICK TOBIN D3 EROS COLLAZO E1 JEAN MARIE BOUCHER E2 NICHOLAS RAILSBACK E3 JACLYN RAILSBACK

87 85 79 78 74 79 74 69 81 74 72 70 63 59 82 75 73 73 72 68 54 46 41 33

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 34

Skeet Results Markham Skeet, Trap, & Sporting Clays

“Perfection is what you are striving for, but perfection is an impossibility. However, striving for perfection is not an impossibility.

Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts.” ― John Wooden 35

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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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16 Yards

TRAP RESULTS Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays APRIL RESULTS SINGLES DAX DEMENA ORLANDO PADRON JERRY FELBER JAKE HOOPER IZZY LOPEZ DANIEL CARBALLIDO MARLON LOPEZ ADOLFO MILIANI ROGELIO FOLCO DIEGO CARBALLIDO ISAIAS VARGAS JORGE SOLARES IVAN VILLALOBOS RAFAEL CARBALLIDO MIKE BARANET NORMAN MURPHY ORACIO RICCOBONO VALENTIN MILLAN JOSE LOPEZ EIKEL PERAZA BOB MCPHEE TED VANDLING

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IZZY LOPEZ ORLANDO PADRON JAKE HOOPER JOSE LOPEZ MARLON LOPEZ IVAN VILLALOBOS VALENTIN MILLAN

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Doubles MAY RESULTS DOUBLES ORLANDO PADRON ADOLFO MILIANI MARLON LOPEZ JORGE SOLARES JAKE HOOPER

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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. 42

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