January 1, 2016 Volume 7, Issue 1
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November Issue 2015
OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2015 OFFICERS
Club News - Magazine Review
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Calender of Events
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Club Calender
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NSCA Schedule
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Sporting Clays Program and Results
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Skeet Program and Results
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FSA InsideSkeet this Calender issue:
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Trap Program
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Trap Results
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Youth Program
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PRESIDENT—Vacant
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VICE PRESIDENT—Vacant
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TREASURER—Steve Sagal
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SECRETARY— Joe Loitz
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RECORDING SECRETARY—Jerry Schwab
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Phil Demena
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Steve Sagal
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Rich Nilsen
Contact info: Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays 8299 Cassia Terrace Tamarac, Fl. 33321 •
www.markhamclaytargets.com
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www.markhamskeet.org
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www.markhamsportingclays.org
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E-mail: markhamshooter@gmail.com
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Newsletter: jloit@bellsouth.net
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Next General Meeting January 7th Starting at 7:00 PM
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Club News I had the pleasure of pulling for the NFL Alumni shoot again this year. I enjoy the relaxed atmosphere where I can chat with the shooters and coach the ones who shoot maybe once a year in this event. It was nice seeing Mark Duper and Dick Anderson, two wonderfully memorable players and nice guys on top of everything else! The Bud Wolfe was well attended by 87 shooters. Rodrigo Mehech lead the field again with a lone 93 followed by Brian DuQuesnay with an 89. The food was great and the shoot was well-run as always. Thanks go out to Steve Haynie, Wayne South, Charlie De Angelis, and Cary Keshen for all their hard work! Concurrent with the Bud Wolfe was our registered trapshoot. Ken Carlson and Angel Estevez lead the 24 Singles shooters with 97’s. Angel then came back in the Handicap winning it with a
lone 94. Justin shot a nice 97 in the doubles event to lead the field by six targets. Good shooting by all! The skeet shoots have been plagued for two months by bad weather. John Pilch broke a nice 47 in the 12 gauge event to lead the field by three targets. Storms came in and finished our day early. Hopefully this weekend will give us good weather to finish the whole program. I want to remind everyone of the meeting Thursday, January 7th at 7:00 PM. It is election time again. If you have interest is serving as a club representative please attend the meeting. Alex Rennert stopped by last Monday night. He received his degree from Univ. of Florida this month and will be going onto the Army Marksmanship Team after his basic training which starts in February. If you see him congratulate him and wish him luck! 4
Magazine Review Skeet Shooting REVIEW - December 2015 The mental game theme of the year for 2015 seems to have been our duality: the conscious and subconscious. The conscious is in control until the appearance of the target then the subconscious takes over and performs the shot. The Shima Shooting Method as taught by John Shima programs our conscious and subconscious or as John calls it our adaptive unconscious to break the target at the appropriate spot before the center stake. Part of his reprogramming is the emphasis on an expanded soft focus at the focal point. By retraining the eye to properly acquire the target the Shooting Reflex will recruit the feet and hands to move in concert to the target. John repackages the Quiet Eye phenomena into his Watching Reflex, a state of heightened conscious awareness whose sole purpose is the visual acquisition of the target. A Pre-shot routine that prepares the conscious to effect this one pursuit is probably the most important skill elite shooters master. Giving the conscious one job quiets it, allowing for total absorption into this one task. Total absorption prevents unnecessary and ultimately distracting thoughts from interfering when the subconscious takes over.
Learning how to effectively use soft focus at the focal point is one of Mr. Shima’s best teaching points. The peripheral vision is wonderfully adapted to recognizing a moving object’s direction and speed. Used properly it is a powerful tool and John is the top guru teaching it. Learn how to use your peripheral vision, then trust it, is John’s final advice. We rarely regret missing the “harder” targets as much as we regret missing those “easy” ones. Doesn’t matter if you are shooting skeet, trap, or sporting clays, every event consists of the hard targets and the gimmies. Sadly, we still miss the gimmies with frustrating frequency. Paul Giambrone III reviews his average card and tells us how different his year would have been if he hadn’t missed some of those easy targets. Bottom line, there are no easy targets. He advises giving each target equal attention regardless of its difficulty. Every target counts, so take better care of the easy targets to build your score.
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Magazine Review TrapShootingUSA – January-February 2016 Larry Grenevicki presents us with a truly interesting article on black powder companies this month. Being one of those History and Discovery channel buffs I really enjoy this stuff. Emiliano Achaval’s article on trapshooting in Hawaii was also a good read. I remember the picture of the Baldwin family as one of those iconic pictures and stories from the 70’s. The Baldwin family came to Hawaii as missionaries. They stayed and produced the family seen in Emiliano’s article. I knew the whole family. Really great people to hang out with. If I recall correctly Ed married Miss Grand American 1973. I heard they moved to Colorado at some point and soon after quit shooting. Some mental gurus have advice applicable to any of the clay target sports. Lanny Bassham being a former Olympic Gold Medalist always has some advice and this month is no exception. What happens after you miss a target? Do you ignore it and move on to the next target? Do you get mad? Maybe you rush the next shot or perhaps you become more careful? Hopefully you do the right thing and correct the error before calling for the next target. Ignoring the miss certainly doesn’t do anything to prevent misses in the future and rushing the next pair just puts you off your normal rhythm. Getting angry attaches an emotional impact to the miss, lowering your
self-esteem and image. Being extra careful causes too much conscious control, again not something you want. Fixing the problem is the obvious choice given the other options. What happens if you don’t know what went wrong? Stick to your pre-shot routine and fundamentals would be my suggestion. Changing things in the middle of a round isn’t necessarily good advice. Lanny suggests you change something, anything before calling for the next target. Resetting your stance is a good idea but changing the hold point arbitrarily like he suggests isn’t in keeping with good theory. Sometimes a miss is just a miss which usually means you messed up your soft focus. Fundamentals, always go back to fundamentals first before changing what you are doing. Stance, breathing, hold point, break point, focal point, soft focus should always be checked first before making a change. Who says you can’t fix stupid! Sometimes it’s just a temporary condition we all contract and a little dose of attention to fundamentals will fix it.
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creasing draw length depending on the wait time for the target to get to the break point. The longer it travels in sight, the longer the draw length. Targets that get to the break point quickly should be shot either pre-mounted or with a very short draw length, close to a pre-mount stance. Lastly, mind your muzzle in reZach Kienbaum at 2015 World English lation to the target’s line of flight. Starting with the muzTRAP & FIELD – December 2015 zle above the line should only occur on Visualization is everything in Bob Palmtargets that are rising rapidly otherwise er’s world and this month’s suggestions folstart the muzzle below the line. He below his usual mantra. Self-hypnosis therapy lieves you should start closer to the line of takes the same basic form as Bob’s training flight than I prefer but this is a personal program. Take positive images from past, thing tied to how you see the target. Mind successful shooting events and find comhow you insert on the target line. You may mon threads between them. Build an indiscover you prefer being a specific disternal movie around these common threads tance from the target line when you insert creating as much detail as possible includor start your swing. ing the increased adrenaline you feel from Continued on page 7. being in the event. Eliminate or neutralize past mistakes then rewind and rerun the mental movie, practicing for the real event. Good Luck!
Sporting Clays – January 2016 Having said that, it is refreshing to read Marty Fischer’s less chauvinistic article. He believes there are instances where you should shoot gun-up and others where you should shoot gun-down. He advises in7
Magazine Review Sporting Clays – January 2016 Cont’d Gil and Vicki Ash believe you should never see lead and you should never use anything but Sustained-lead in a move, mount, and shoot manner. Well, that’s pretty naïve. According to them it is a miracle any right or left angle trap targets are ever broken. They want you to believe the brain cannot process coming from behind a target to break it. How do you explain the fact almost all of angle targets in trap are broken using Passthrough? This means trapshooters are coming from behind the target, catching up to it, and processing the information to make the correct shot. This is all done in less than one second. Most times it is done in 0.890 seconds or less. I know, I’ve timed it. They want you to believe you need conscious input to do this. Who has time to involve the conscious if the shot takes less than a second to transpire? They state “The brain doesn’t work that way, and it never will.” I can’t take anything they say seriously when billions of broken trap targets refute their statement. I see no lead when I am trapshooting. Barrel speed takes care of any lead. This isn’t to say I don’t ever use Sustained-
lead. I use it in skeet, sporting and when hunting. I even use their version of move, mount, and shoot, inserting the barrel in front of the target. Do I make mistakes and measure leads on occasion, yes, and I always regret it. In that respect they are correct. Do I see leads, of course I do. On slower targets and ones that are dropping or stalling I “see” the lead all the time. How could you not? Blanket statements can be interpreted by novice shooters as absolute statements of doctrine when coming from supposed knowledgeable sources. This is irresponsible in my opinion. To try to back it up with pseudo-scientific explanations just makes it worse. This would be like telling a basketball player they should never bank the ball because it involves an extra calculation for the effect of the backboard on the ball. Pass-through like banking a basketball, once learned is not something we consciously do. It is a learned skill, kind of like learning Sustained-lead. We aren’t born only being able to use one method over another. We may prefer one over the other but to denigrate a method you don’t teach for the simple fact you find it easier to teach “your” method is more than a little questionable. Anyway, don’t believe everything you read just because it’s printed in a magazine or a newsletter! 8
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“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius 10
Calender of events: Gun Shows: Jan. 23-24th War
for $599.95 for 10 flats. This includes shipping. These are 1 oz., 7 1/2’s & 8’s, 1250 fps, 12 gauge.
Memorial Auditorium, Ft. Lauderdale.
Skeet this month: Markham
Jan. 2th
Trail Glades
Jan. 9-10th
So. Florida
Jan. 15-16th
. Dick’s: There are weekly specials going on. Check their website.
Port Malabar Jan. 29-31st
Trap this month: Indian River
Jan. 3rd
South Florida
Jan. 9th
Markham
Jan. 24th
Sporting This month: OK Corral
Jan. 2th
Quail Creek
Jan. 3th
Indian River
Jan. 9th
Markham
Jan. 16th
South Florida Jan. 17th
Current shell specials: Walmart: Currently selling Winchester Universal and Federal 4 packs at $21.74 (12 & 20 ga.). Cabela’s has Herter’s shells on sale
“Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.” – Bruce Barton 11
JANUARY 2015 Sun
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FEBRUARY 2016 Sun
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2015-2016 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments
Date
Tournament
Saturday - Jan 16, 2016
Snow Bird Open
Sunday - Feb 7, 2016
Honest Abe's Birthday Bash
Sunday - Mar 20, 2016
St. Patrick's Day Open
Saturday - Apr 17, 2016
Spring Blast
Sunday - May 15, 2016
Memorial Day Open
Saturday - Jun 25, 2016
15th Annual Sunshine State Classic
Saturday - Jul 16, 2016
Super Sizzle Open
Saturday - Aug 13, 2016
Summers End Open
Sunday - Oct. 9, 2015
Pumpkin Blast
Sunday—Nov. 6, 2016
Richard Merritt Memorial
Saturday—Dec 31, 2016
Bud Wolfe Classic
“If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.” – Bruce Lee
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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club
SNOW BIRD OPEN 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations
Saturday January 16th, 2016 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: $50 N.S.C.A., $50 Hunter, $35.00 Sub-Junior, Junior No Scorers or Trappers will be provided. Shooters will be asked to squad themselves into groups of at least 4 and designate a field judge to verify scores for the squad.
This is a Targets Only format with No Lunch 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: Steve Haynie (954) 980-4240 email: sdhaynie@comcast.net For Tournament Schedules and Shoot Results Please Visit Our Website: www.markhamsportingclays.org
Markham Park , 16001 W. State Road 84, Sunrise , FL 33326 (954) 357-5143
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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS 2015 BUD WOLFE CLASSIC 87 Shooters
CONCURRENTS LADY CH CHARLIE DE ANGELIS
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LADY RU ROBIN MIXON
62
SUB-JR.CH JOSEPH PINCHIN
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SUB-JR. RU MICHAEL PILCH
59
JR. CH SAM HAYDEN-KAPLAN
88
JR. RU ROBERTO OLIVIERI
84
VET CH BRIAN DU QUESNAY
89
VET RU WAYNE SOUTH
85
SR. VET CH LARRY L CRISMOND
74
SR. VET RU ALBERTO A SOLARES
70
SUPER SR. CH BUD E WOLFE
66
SUPER SR. RU KURT WILLINGER
63
HUNTER CH BARRY CORWIN
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HUNTER RU MARK OMARA
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CH RODRIGO A MEHECH RU BRIAN DU QUESNAY M1 WAYNE SOUTH M2 RICARDO OLIVIERI M3 LUCIO GOMEZ AA1 GERRY STUMM AA2 TED F GRAY AA3 WENDELL W MIXON A1 SAM HAYDEN-KAPLAN A2 RONALD SHYCKO A3 JULIO MARTINEZ B1 CHRIS KAUFMAN B2 CARY KESHEN B3 JOSEPH W LOITZ C1 DONOVAN H AMRITT C2 MAX REPIK C3 WESLEY B PARADISE D1 LARRY L CRISMOND D2 CHARLIE DE ANGELIS D3 RICHARD GABRIEL E1 JOSE CESA E2 CALVERT CULLEN E3 JOHN PILCH
93 89 85 85 84 84 82 81 88 83 82 83 78 74 76 75 75 74 73 73 78 77 66
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MONTHLY SKEET PROGRAM Daily Fees .410 gauge 28 gauge 20 gauge 12 gauge Doubles
$5/100 Targets
50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets
$19.50 $19.50 $19.50 $19.50 $19.50
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 18
Skeet Shoot Results
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Trap Program ATA SHOOT SCHEDULE 2015 –2016
January 24th February 28th March 27th April 24th May 22nd June 26th July 24th August 28th Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
The current program is 100 singles, 100 handicap, and 100 doubles on the fourth Sunday of the month. We are always in need of pullers for these shoots. If you are interested in helping let us know. Program Starts promptly at 9:00.
Bob Feller
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The NFL Alumni shoot and the Bud Wolfe were well attended this year. Above is the NFL shoot crowd getting their safety talk. To the left is Otto’s Pro Sporting Goods trailer. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that. Rafael Nadal
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Trapshooting Results “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
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Youth Program
Youth shooting is open on Monday throughout the Holiday Season. We continue to stay busy with new shooters and have some promising intermediate shooters. Looking forward to a busy new year! 26
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