Markham Newsletter October 2024

Volume 14 Issue 10 October 2024

Golf Carts are now available for Sporting Clays!

Markham Park Gun Club Youth Program Mondays 6-9 NSSA Skeet Saturday, November 2nd ATA Trap Sunday, October 27th NSCA Sporting Clays October 20th

Trail Glades Trapshoot November 16th Skeet shoot October 19th

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CLUB NEWS MAGAZINE REVIEWS 6-8 CLAYTARGET NATION 8 Trap & Field 9 Shotgun Sports ROYAL SPORTING ARMS Shoot Flyers Markham Hours and Rules Trap and Skeet Programs CLUB CALENDAR EVENTS CALENDAR SPORTING PROGRAM & 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 Well, we survived two hurricanes without damage to the gun club. Again, another reminder that Markham is now renting golf carts for the sporting clays course! They are $25 for three hours.

Lunch will be provided by CUBAN PRESS—Magic City Cuisine food truck for the Sporting Clays event again this month. The last Sporting Clays Tournament saw 45 shooters in attendance.

We also hosted a 5-Stand event. This month’s event will not have a 5-Stand event, but warm-up is still available.

vanced field and 4-6 on the beginner field. 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.

See you at the club.

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

Trap did well again last month with 17 shooters attending and 2,000 targets thrown. The skeet shoot hosted 6 shooters, shooting 850 targets.

Attendance on Mondays continued to be affected by rain cancellations. We are still getting 5-8 on the ad-

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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 CLAYTARGET-NATION – October 2024 Paul Giambrone III weighs in this month on stance. Paul has issues with the squatting stance many skeet shooters use for their game. There’s reasons why some shooters use this squatting stance. First, it puts you lower to the target than a more upright stance. This means you’re going to be shooting a target that’s showing more of the bottom of the target rather than one that it more of a side on shot. Obviously, more profile allows more chance an errant shot may still break the target. Second, it forces you to use your legs more as you rotate to the target. Both of these are positives, however, the squat puts a lot of strain on the shooter and over the course of a competition could a1ect the shooters performance.

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Stance, feet shoulder length apart, slightly bent knees, and bow forward slightly forward. The bow forward is not more than over the quadricep muscle of your lead leg. Rotation is with your hips and full body. Paul is remiss on this point. An athletic rotation starts from the balls of the feet up which would include the ankles as well. May be a minor point of contention, but athletically most moves start from the balls of your feet and the rest

of your body follows. The swing in golf, tennis, and batting in baseball all start with the balls of your feet not your heels. So, a full body swing starts with the balls of your feet and travels upward as your rotate from your ankles, knees, and hips.

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Paul doesn’t like how skeet shooters mount their gun at the break point then swivel back to the hold point before they call for the target. I’m sure this is blasphemy to the skeet faithful as many of them do this. I never understood it either.

He believes shooters who do this create inconsistencies in their hold points and it interferes with their stance. Rather, he suggests soft mounting at the break point, then rotating back to the hold point before fully mounting the gun to your shoulder.

This solves two issues: the hold point is more consistent because you head is still up allowing you to see where you are on the field and the rhythm of your mount to your shoulder before you call for the target isn’t interfered with.

There is a rhythm to the mount that coordinates your vision with the physical mounting of the gun.

Mounting then moving back from the break point to the hold point interferes with this, especially

the visual aspect of the mount. I feel it ties your eyes to the gun not the look point where your eyes should be. Just doesn’t seem like the dynamics of the mount are in sync with the rhythm of your vision.

My opinion, try it for yourself and see if it makes a di1erence in your shooting.

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Magazine Review CLAYTARGET NATION – October 2024 Do you turn your head to follow a target to your hold point or do you keep your head still and follow it with your eyes?

Clayton M. Rue has it right, you follow the target with your head. According to Joan Vickers of Quiet Eye fame, transitioning from moving your eyes versus following with your head loses about a tenth of a second as you refocus. Keep your eyes still, using your head to follow the target and no transition time is lost. Track the target with your nose, not just your eyes.

Trap & Field – September 2024 Too many shooters are under the belief that chokes and ammunition will get them better scores. They will to a degree, but not to the level most believe. Ian Darroch’s article this month is about ammunition. Targets inside 35 yards can be broken e1iciently with 8’s and 7.5’s.

Beyond 35 yards, stick to 7.5’s.

Same with the fps. In-

side 35 yards you can use 1145 fps and break any target. Beyond that, go to 1200 fps or more. Same is true with 1 oz. versus 1 1/8 oz., closer targets only require 1 oz. loads, beyond that, go to 1 1/8 oz.

When it comes to the quality of your load, antimony content in the shot is important. Quality ammunition will use 5-6% antimony in their shot, making it harder. Softer shot means the BB’s will deform as they travel down the barrel causing wider, more inconsistent patterning. With harder shot the BB’s remain round which means more uniform patterns. I do know that some ammo just doesn’t perform as well as a premium load. Always buy premium 28 or .410 ammo. Some .410 loads do not perform at the fps stated on the box.

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Shotgun Sports – October 2024 Breaking through a plateau has three components according to Michael J. Keyes, M.D. The first is fundamentals.

Shooters may have a coach or mentor in the beginning of their shooting journey who teach them the best in fundamentals. They master these, then use their own knowledge to solve the more di1icult aspects of the game. Other shoot-

ers have a natural talent to break targets and the ability to “stay within the boundaries of the shot pattern better” than other shooters without the same eyehand coordination. Finally, the most likely reason people plateau is a lack of skill building and knowledge of the game. This is where most shooters fail.

Knowledge of the sport and the knowledge of how to practice correctly are the two best ways to break through a plateau. This is the unknown-unknown and where a good coach can help. Adding to your knowledge base by hearing an expert talk about things you never thought about is always a good idea. The second half of this is learning how to practice.

Deep practice or deliberate practice are designed to be relevant to improving performance, take cognitive e1ort, and have no immediate reward. Going out and shooting round after round, station after station is not deliberate practice.

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Magazine Review Practice needs reason and intent. Going out to work only on right to left chandelle targets is deliberate practice. Start on the beginner course, work through the intermediate course, and finish on the advanced course at a club that has those features. Maybe the next session features only teal or rabbits. Fix on one type of target and master it. Analyze each shot and learn how to master each presentation.

If you are a skeet or trapshooter, master one station or post at a time if you can get a field to yourself. I always tell my Doubles trapshooters to master one post first, post 2 for right-handers or 4 for left-handers. Master that post and the others will come much faster because the principles are the same.

The same is true for skeet. Master one station’s doubles and move on to the next. Master one at a time, not all of

them at one session. One last thing, you’re supposed to miss when you practice. If you aren’t, you aren’t challenging yourself to improve.

Setting up for a second target is something that must be learned through practice on the field. I started hunting at 13 and learned transitioning to a second shot out in the fields and sloughs of Illinois before I ever needed it on a trap or skeet field and decades before the invention of sporting clays.

Sadly, most people never had that experience. Anthony Matarese, Jr. has written a very thorough article on the subject in this issue.

I’m just going to go through some simple highlights from this article. On whether or not to shoot twice at the first target if you miss on the first shot, Anthony says it’s okay if the first is a considerably easier target than the second one. Don’t do it unless you’re absolutely sure the first shot is a total miss.

There’s always the possibility you chipped the first target.

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on the target.

I think one of the best take-aways from this article is Anthony’s advice on second targets where the second target is in a di1erent field of view. In other words, where your eyes move out of the plane of the first target, like a rabbit followed by a target high in the sky. Get your eyes on the second target and let the barrels follow your eyes. Swinging wildly in the direction of the second target means you lose control of the barrels and lose awareness of where the barrels are.

Every swing of the gun must be done on purpose and it can’t be done purposefully if you don’t have your eyes already

Next is the ghost barrel concept.

Here you look under barrels and to the left if the target is coming from the left or under the barrels and to the right if the target is approaching from the right. Keep your eyes in soft focus at your look points o1 to the right or left of the barrels. Correctly done and the barrels disappear in your visual field. Trapshooters use this technique on posts 1, 2, 4, and 5.

For sporting clays shooters this works especially well on trap-style targets, going away from the shooter.

Start moving your body and the gun as the target rises to your barrels.

Done correctly you feel the target merge with your gun and you should feel totally in control of the target.

Also, as a sporting clays shooter, you pre-mount on trap-style targets to prevent spot-shooting or spoiling the line over the target line.

On crossing shots Anthony advises establishing lead with the gun mount rather than mounting to the target and running with it. If speeding up your first shot gives you a better chance of succeeding on all the second shots, switch out of your normal tempo to assure second shot success. Finally, remember to switch back to soft focus between shots to 11 pick up the second target.

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Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays

ATA Trapshoot Sunday, October 27th 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 Saturday, November 9th 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, November 2nd 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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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

Gary Player

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Registered Shooting and Events in South Florida Gun Shows Miramar National Guard Armory October 19-20th

Skeet Trail Glades Markham

October 19th November 2nd

Trap Markham

October 27th

Palm Beach

November 2th November 9th

Trail Glades

Sporting Clays South Florida Markham Vero Beach Quail Creek

October 19th October 20th November 2nd Novemer 23rd

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

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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

PUMPKIN BLAST 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SUNDAY OCTOBER 20TH 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 FIVE-STAND HOA 20 ENTRANTS CH DONOVAN AMRITT RU ERIC JOHNSON AA1 ALEX VILLALBA A1 ALEX RIERA B1 ALLEN FURIA C1 OSWALDO BETANCOURT D1 WALTER CIOCCA E1 MARK SHAUNAMAN

2024 FALL FEST HOA 45 ENTRANTS 40 39 38 35 34 36 37 28

CONCURRENTS

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LADY CH YENEY GARCIA SUB-JR CH PATRICK BROOK VET CH EMILIO TEJA VET RU RODRIGO MEHECH VET 3RD DONOVAN AMRITT S VET CH ALEX RIERA S VET RU EDWARD LEE SSR VET CH ALLEN FURIA SSR VET RU ELIO CIOCCA SSR VET 3RD RICHARD REBER HUNTER CH JOHN MCPHERSON HUNTER RU CASEY DETH HUNTER 3RD ZACK BROCKWAY

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CH EMILIO TEJA RU COREY RUGG M1 RODRIGO MEHECH M2 JUAN ALVARADO M3 DONOVAN AMRITT AA1 ALEX VILLALBA AA2 EDWARD LEE A1 ALEX RIERA A2 JAMES BALDWIN A3 FERNANDO ALVARADO B1 DAX DEMENA B2 JUAN CUBILLAN B3 ALLEN FURIA C1 ANTHONY BALSAM C2 MIKE BARANET C3 EROS COLLAZO D1 LUIS LEON D2 JIM CORBY D3 ANDRES GARCIA E1 JAMES JACOBS E2 MARK SHAUNAMAN E3 PATRICK BROOK

88 87 87 85 82 77 74 84 77 68 76 72 69 82 80 76 69 65 62 58 46 45

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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 34

Skeet Results Markham Skeet, Trap, & Sporting Clays

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.

Arnold Palmer

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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. $44.00 (Includes ATA and FTA daily fees)

ATA SHOOT SCHEDULE 2024-25

Additional 100 target events. $36.00

October 27th November 24th December 22nd

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

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SINGLES SCORE SEPTEMBER RESULTS SINGLES ALEX RIERA ORACIO RICCOBONO ADOLFO MILIANI FEDERICO RAMIREZ DAX DEMENA ALEXANDRO CASTILLO LEGNE ALLEGUE ORLANDO PADRON NATAN RECKLES DAVID RECKLES JERRY FELBER NORMAN MURPHY YAACOV RECKLES TED VANDLING BOB MCPHEE

99 97 96 96 95 95 94 93 91 89 87 86 83 78 78

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Handicap NO HANDICAP ENTRANTS

Doubles SEPTEMBER RESULTS DOUBLES FEDERICO RAMIREZ ADOLFO MILIANI ORLANDO PADRON ALEX RIERA JOSEPH LOITZ

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

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