July 1, 2015 Volume 6, Issue 7
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June Issue 2015
Club News Items For Sale
OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2015
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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 Inside this issue: Results
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Skeet Program and Results
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FSA Skeet Calender
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Trap Program
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Trapshooting Results
28-29
Youth Program
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OFFICERS •
PRESIDENT—Steve Norris
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VICE PRESIDENT—Eric Toline
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TREASURER—Steve Sagal
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SECRETARY— Joe Loitz
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RECORDING SECRETARY—Jerry Schwab
DIRECTORS: •
Phil Demena
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Steve Sagal
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Rich Nilsen
Contact info: Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays P.O. BOX 8853, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33310 •
www.markhamclaytargets.com
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www.markhamskeet.org
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www.markhamsportingclays.org
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E-mail: snorris204@aol.com
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Newsletter: jloit@bellsouth.net
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Next General Meeting July 2nd Starting at 7:00 PM
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Club News I guess I don’t have to tell you the heat is on and the rainy season seems to be delayed. Not too much to note this month. We would like to thank Art Romberg for his donation of a Winchester Super X3 12 ga. Shotgun to the Youth Program. Thanks again for your wonderful support of the program Art! On a sad note Al Guernsey passed away recently. Although I didn’t know him I had the pleasure of sitting at one of the picnic tables at the club and overheard an overflowing round of affection for him from the people who knew him. Wish I would have known him. He will be missed. If you didn’t know Eric Toline won the gun raffle last month. Congrats Eric! Jeff Meloy has published another book, this time on the BT-99. I have yet to read through it but I expect it is of the same high quality as his gun fitting book. Congrats, Jeff! There is an advertisement for it on page 3. The June sporting clays shoot was very well attended by 61 shooters!
Quite a good turnout for a summer event. Rick Lovelace’s 91 lead the field by the wide margin of one target over Wayne South’s 90. Alex Reira was one more target behind with an 89. Nice turnout and nice shoot! Thanks go out to Steve Haynie and his cadre of volunteers who make these shoots possible. Russ Naples was helped me out and ran the last skeet shoot. Thanks, Russ! Russ lead 12 ga. with a 48 Russ and the doubles with a 45, Phil Keagy led the 28 ga. event with a 48, Neil Woolfork lead .410 with a 44 and 20 ga. With a 45, and Phil won the HOA with a 180. Alex Reira and Angel Estevez lead 27 shooters with 49’s in the Singles event at the last trapshoot. Jose Puerta Velez had a lone 49 over Marcos Vidal’s 48 and the other 16 Handicap shooters. Andrew Loitz lead the Doubles with a lone 48 over 10 shooters. Thanks to Gene and Ed Bryan for helping out with the pulling. 4
Not too much else to say this month. Pictured is Lily Edwards right after she broke her first 25 straight! Congratulations Lily!
The national average is between 7 to 8 shots per bird. Guess that beats the old adage that you need one box of shells for every bird killed. Inside 30 yards shooters killed 43% of the birds shot at. Over 30 yards the number dropped to 32%. I assume this was regardless of whether it was lead or steel.
Although it’s the summer and things are usually slow there are five sporting clays shoots in July at least one every weekend. Stay hydrated, cool, and wear sunscreen. Aside from that, I’m not your mother. Get out and shoot! See ya’ at the club.
Magazine Review
FIELD & STREAM – July 2015
Improved Cylinder proved to be the best choke. Modified choke users killed 21% and full choke users killed 16% of the birds they shot at. Improved Cylinder users killed 26% of the birds they shot at. Finally, unless you are an exceptional shot leave birds beyond 30 yards alone. Inside 30 yards 28.4% of the birds shot at were killed and 13.9% were wounded. Beyond 30 yards the numbers become more even, 15.1% killed and 16.6% wounded. It’s hard to mark and find a dove that’s over 30 yards away when you drop it. Let ‘em go! Interesting study, but one thing they missed and maybe they should talk to Tom Roster about this. How do you think steel performs on a windy day? My bet is you should switch to lead on particularly windy days.
Lilian Edwards
Ever wonder which is better steel or lead shot? Phil Bourjaily got access to a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) study of dove hunters using steel and lead during their hunts. The study was designed by Tom Roster who has an article this month in SPORTING CLAYS. Some interesting statistics came out of the study. First let’s set the parameters. The steel shot were 7’s and the lead was 7 ½’s. The testing confirmed four things. First, there was no statistical difference between the steel and lead shot as far as number of birds killed. Mean range for the average kill was 29 yards. Actually, the steel killed 5% more birds than the lead. Second, shooters average 1 bird for every 4.4 shots.
P.S. Mossberg came out with a left-handed model 500 shotgun.
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Items For Sale Steve Sagal has the following items for sale: Remington 3200 Trap, complete custom engraving by Bill Mains, gold inlays throughout, very little usage, 30 inch barrels, beautiful nicely figured wood, adjustable pad. Golf cart set up for Sporting Clays (and golf) for sale with charger $2500.00 Trailer available for an additional $500.00. Call Steve 954-682-5000.
When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is i m p o r t a n t .
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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – July 2015 What should you look for in a coach? Interesting question. It really boils down to what kind of shooter you are and how are you looking to improve. Is it technique and form to get you out of the 50’s and 60’s, or are you looking for those finer points to get you out of the 70’s and 80’s. Are you a Pull-Ahead, Maintained-Lead, or Swing-thru shooter? A lot of factors are involved in the decision and Mike Alpine has some ideas about picking a coach this month. He suggests there are five types of coaches and goes on to describe them with no real advice about any of the five types. Mainly he suggests finding a coach that teaches your natural style of shooting: Pull-Ahead, Maintained-Lead, or Swing-Thru. If you want to be a better tournament shooter you should go to a coach who has some established tournament success. I agree on both suggestions. For beginning shooters who want to improve their technique and form they should seek out Level I or II instructors who can work with them on an ongoing basis. Again I agree.
also better planned, goal specific, and are more flexible once problems arise. Experts’ fix problems at their root so they don’t resurface rather than applying cosmetic fixes that may only work in the short term. An expert does not practice failure. The more times you miss a target during a practice session the more likely you are to be imprinting the miss into your subconscious. Don’t stand there and miss target after target without making dramatic changes. Stop rethink the target, change the hold point, change the swing method, change from low-gun to pre-mounted, do something different to change the result. Then once you find the answer, shoot that answer into your subconscious so you don’t keep making the same mistake. If you are a beginning or intermediate shooter it behooves you to seek help when one target continues to vex you. Seek out a coach who may be able to develop a practice routine to fix the problem. Trying to fix it on your own may never get you where you want to be and may cost more than the coach would have cost you.
Why do some people learn to perform at the expert level and others who put in the same time forever under-perform? Michael J. Keyes, M.D. breaks down how experts approach their training differently than non-experts. Experts learn the standard technique and forms then expand and tweak them to get more out of their performance. Experts’ practice methods are 8
She is an advocate of a whole body move to the target rather than just arm swinging and I agree with her on this point also. Harlan Campbell and Wendell Cherry both emphasize this for good reason, it’s makes for a smoother more controlled move.
Wendell Cherry at the 2015 English Worlds TrapShootingUSA – July-August 2015 This is the Florida Issue. There are write-ups of the Southern Grand, Silver Dollar’s Paralyzed Veteran shoot, and the Florida State shoot. Larry Grenevicki again gives us a nice nostalgic article, this time on gun powder cans and kegs. Aside from the historical interest these cans and kegs hold I was also impressed by their values. They ranged from $150 to over $3,000! I have not been overly kind to Lesley GoddardWrench in the past since her articles weren’t anything but infomercials about her coaching abilities. Finally, she throws some good ideas out while relating her work with a client. One thing I have always pushed is setting a trap on just one target, in Lesley’s case this was a left angle, then having the student shoot the target from their normal hold points off each post. I agree with her, this is a much better way to practice versus practicing over an oscillating trap. Practice specific targets, get them down then move on to the oscillating trap. Fixed targets allow you to create consistency for each individual target presentation.
There are beginning, intermediate, and advanced shooters on the line shooting every day. The first two groups of shooters are still learning and figuring out how to shoot. The advanced group are shooters who can slide into a problem group Lanny Bassham calls the over-informed. The overinformed are shooters who have done extensive research, some good, some possibly bad, to help improve their shooting. Lanny thinks the overinformed knows too much for their own good which ends up meaning they try changing things that already work in an effort to push their scores higher. Changing from one method, technique, or form to another can cause doubt and indecision at critical points in the shooting process. Mr. Bassham warns against flitting around from one style to another without first having a well-established primary method of shooting you can fall back on. To avoid clutter in your thinking and to prevent distracting thoughts from affecting your shooting, develop a primary method you can rely on before you start experimenting with new shooting methods. Also in the same manner you develop a primary hold point, stance, and mount, Lanny believes you should have a primary way of thinking. This may take some ruminating on your part to figure out what you should think about before you step to the line and then a separate thought routine after you get to the line. It needs to be simple and efficient. Find your ‘happy thought’ for both steps of the shooting process and you will be a better, more relaxed shooter. And as always, Mr. Bassham reminds us to eliminate negative and harmful thoughts. 9
Magazine Review SPORTING CLAY – July 2015 I didn’t see anything to report from Gil and Vicki Ash. They mention a theme discussed earlier about Dr. Rotella in Bob Palmer’s article. Get out of your own way and let the subconscious make your move for you. Randy Lawrence presents us with a profile of Don Currie this month. Don says some interesting things in the interview. He credits Robert Churchill for being the first instructor/ writer to recognize the need to put full focus on the target. It is nice to hear someone admit freely some targets should be approached premounted and some not as Don does. This is quite an admission for some instructors and I admire the fact he said it. One thing I do disagree with is his statement that pre-mounted shooters have to be committed to the line of flight. You can start your hold well below the line. You don’t need to be on the line with a pre
-mounted gun. The Intercept method is specifically designed for starting off the target line. As with most instructors Don agonizes over the fact so many of his students succumb to the temptation of checking their beads and lead. Personally, I believe this comes from lack of fundamental training, not enough time spent on a trap or skeet field. Get the basics down and this activity probably goes down precipitously. Marty Fischer emphasizes practicing your gun mount until it is second nature. As he says: “the better your mechanics are, the better you will shoot.” Interesting stuff out of Tom Roster this month. He tested ammo against edge on and dome-on targets at 30, 40, and 50 yards. Bottom line, when shooting .410 – use 1300 fps and 8 ½’s and use mod. or full choke. For .28 ga. use 8 ½’s for the first shot and 8’s for the second, both at 1300 fps, from 30 to 40 yards use mod. or full choke. For 20 ga. use 8’s and use mod. or light mod. and change to improved mod. for 40 yd. shots. Finally, for 12 ga. use 7 ½’s with 1 oz. or more of shot, 1200 fps will break anything under 40 yards, over 40 yards go to 1300 fps loads.
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TRAP & FIELD – June 2015 Bob Rotella’s books on golf hit many of the key points on entering and staying in the ZONE that Bob Palmer preaches. Mr. Palmer’s methods press us to remember and enter the frame of mind we had the last time we had a great day shooting. Dr. Rotella’s methods are more subtle but this is not to say Mr. Palmer’s aren’t exactly what you are looking for. Mr. Palmer is big on ‘fusing’ bad memories with good ones to lessen the bad memories affect. Think of a bad experience and key that memory to a cue such as pinching your left thumb and index finger together then link it to a good experience. Link it to a day where every shot went right, every mount felt perfect, every sight picture was crystal clear. Link the good experience to your right thumb and right index finger. Now pinch both sides at the same time. Forget the negative and let the positive take over. Bob believes if you take all of your bad feelings, bad experiences, angry moments, etc. and fuse them with a positive experience you can wipe the bad times from your mind and replace them with positive ones. Try it maybe it will work for you. Ron Sutton relates a story this month how he switched from 2¾ Dram shells to Handicap loads from the 27 yard line during a windy April day. Let me tell you how I decided that light shells aren’t something you want to mess with under windy conditions. One particularly windy day dad and I were duck hunting in Minnesota. I had just knocked down a bufflehead who was doing his best to swim away from us about 25
yards out from our blind. I put some steel 6’s in the gun for use on cripples. The first shot at the duck went two foot to the right of him. Did I mention it was windy? Not 15-20 mph windy, more like 25-35 mph windy! I shot again, same effect, two feet to the right of the duck. I put in the same load in 4’s. It stopped him like a rifle shot! Since then I have never shot anything less than 4’s at ducks. The 6’s were simply pushed aside by the wind. Same can be true of light target loads and 8’s on a windy day. If I get a calm day I shoot heavy 8’s from the 27 otherwise I stick with heavy 7 ½’s. Same is true for the second shot in doubles. Ron prefers to stick with the same shells he always shoots. Consistency is the key. Nora Ross suggests shooting the same shells in practice as you shoot in registered events. For singles I don’t think it matters but for handicap and second shot in doubles I suggest you stick with the same shells. Ron doesn’t change the POI on his gun on high targets and doesn’t believe we should either. Raise your hold point is his suggestion. Finally, if you mount the gun wrong take it down and reset yourself. How many times have you put up the gun thinking it wasn’t right but it wouldn’t matter and it did? Don’t miss targets due to a bad mount, reset and start the mount over. The Florida State shoot write-up is in this issue. Check out the article and pictures of Billy Osceola, Federico Ramirez, Marilyn Lehrfeld, Samir Chebat, and Andrew Loitz. 11
Magazine Review Skeet Shooting REVIEW – June 2015 John Shima referenced a particularly poignant passage from poet and philosopher Jami Criss this month. Mr. Criss states that it isn’t that we hate learning so much as we hate being taught. Being taught places us in a position of inferiority in an area where we like to feel superior to our peers. I understand this. No one likes to have their faults pointed out to them. It is the exceptional person or should I say personality that accepts being taught once they have reached an advanced level of training in their field of interest. John also paraphrases Carol Dweck’s work, reminding us your mindset is what ultimately determines your probability of success in whatever endeavors you are pursuing. The fixed mindset resists change for fear they will lose ground which would conflict with their current false sense of superiority. They feel they need to protect their ego at all costs. This limits their ability to grow. Unless you take risks in pursuit of growth you cannot expect to improve. Some people have success one time using a technique they developed on their own then refuse to take advice or to risk change since their method proved successful in the past even though it happened only one time. When it doesn’t work they shrug it off as lack of practice. Granted if they execute their technique perfectly they have a chance at suc-
cess but by pursuing growth they could have abandoned a limited technique for one easier to execute and ultimately more successful for them. There are few silver bullets for advanced students, just small tweaks that add-up to two or three additional targets. Push towards full focus and proficiency is John’s philosophy. “Mastery is not about beating everyone; it is about becoming the best you can be!” according to John and I agree. Find the simple joy in breaking one target perfectly and before you know it you will see your scores improve. Let the True Self out and let the subconscious do the shooting. Those of us who have shot for a number of years take etiquette and gun safety for granted. We forget sometimes that newcomers don’t necessarily know what comes as second nature to us. Paul Giambrone III reminds us of some of the core ideas we should be passing on to new shooters as we introduce them to our sport. Some guns aren’t allowed at many clubs: sawed off shotguns and pistol gripe assault shotguns may not be acceptable, they certainly aren’t at Markham or Trail Glades. Use the right ammo, especially regarding shot size. This means nothing larger than 7 ½’s or 7’s in steel. Arrive at your field early (30-40 minutes), have the equipment you need, shells, glasses, ear plugs, choke tubes, and correct lenses. Don’t talk if you aren’t on the line and if you do keep it at a tolerable level.
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“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gavewin or lose. -Gordie Howe 14
Calender of events: Gun Shows: July 4-5th South Florida Fairgrounds, West Palm Beach.
Skeet this month: Markham
July 4th
South Florida July 11-12th Trail Glades
July25-26th
Trap this month: Indian River
July 5th
South Florida July 12th Markham
July 26th
Sporting This month: South Florida July 5th Indian River July 11th OK Corral
July 12th
Markham
July 18th
Quail Creek
July 25th
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 for $599.95 for 10 flats. This includes shipping. These are 1 1/8 oz, 7 1/2’s, 1200 fps, 12 gauge. Palm Beach Trap and Skeet Pro Shop: Joe Fordham has a shipment of AA’s coming in. Call him for excellent pricing on these shells after rebate. Dick’s: Federal Top Gun shells are on sale for $5.48 a box.
Rebates: Winchester is giving rebates of $2.00 a box on AA’s until August 31st. Below is the flyer and the reimbursement form for the program: http://www.rsrgroup.com/ opnrebatesfolder/assets/pdf/2015winchester2.pdf Remington is also giving rebates on some of its Hunting ammo. See this web page for more info: http://www.remington.com/pages/ news-and-resources/rebates-andpromotions/Spring2015-RebateAmmo.aspx
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2015-2016 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments
Date
Tournament
Saturday - Jan 18, 2015
Snow Bird Open
Sunday - Feb 9, 2015
Honest Abe's Birthday Bash
Sunday - Mar 23, 2015
St. Patrick's Day Open
Saturday - Apr 19, 2015
Spring Blast
Sunday - May 17, 2015
Memorial Day Open
Saturday - Jun 27, 2015
14th Annual Sunshine State Classic
Saturday - Jul 18, 2015
Super Sizzle Open
Saturday - Aug 15, 2015
Summers End Open
Sunday - Oct. 11, 2015
Pumpkin Blast
Sunday—Nov. 8, 2015 (Tentative)
Richard Merritt Memorial
Sunday—Dec 27, 2015 (Tentative)
Bud Wolfe Classic
"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top." Paul Coffey
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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club
SUMMER SIZZLE OPEN 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations
Saturday July 18th, 2015 Markham Park , 16001 W. State Road 84, Sunrise , FL 33326 (954) 357-5143 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 Includes: Targets Only. 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
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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS SUNSHINE STATE CLASSIC 2015 61 Shooters
Anthony Materese, Jr. at the 2015 World English
CONCURRENTS 80 73 64 64 90 89 84 83
ALEXANDER STEWART JOSEPH PINCHIN TRACY PINCHIN CHARLIE DE ANGELIS WAYNE SOUTH ALEX RIERA JIM C THOMAS W T MUIR
91 88 77
RICK LOVELACE WESLEY PARADISE TONY MASON
SJCH SJRU LYCH LYRU VTCH VTRU SVCH SVRU
Score 90 89 85 84 84 86 80 72 83 80 80 87 83 81 80 75 72 77 72 71 83 68 64
Name WAYNE SOUTH ALEX RIERA CHARLES ALVAREZ MARIO O'FARRILL JIM C THOMAS DAVID STEWART RICHARD C KILPATRICK EDWARD J LEE GERRY STUMM JOE L FORDHAM TED F GRAY GARY F GRAY ROBERT MACKLIN JOSEPH W LOITZ JAMES FRAMPTON ANTONIO E MATOS DONOVAN H AMRITT STEVEN D HAYNIE GABRIEL F VALLE JOHN B DEXTER FRANCISCO LICASALE RICHARD J RHATIGAN CHARLIE DE ANGELIS
Award HOA RU M1 M2 M3 AA1 AA2 AA3 A1 A2 A3 B1 B2 B3 C1 C2 C3 D1 D2 D3 E1 E2 E3
H1 H2 H3
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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 22
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Trap Program ATA SHOOT SCHEDULE 2015 –2016
May 24th June 28th July 26th August 23rd September 27th October 25th November 22nd December 27th January 24th February 28th March 27th April 24th May 22nd June 26th
During the months of June, July, and August the trap program will consist of 50 target events: Singles, Handicap, and Doubles. Normal 100 bird programs return in September. Shooting Star ts promptly at 9:00.
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. - George Burns
Trapshooting Results
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Youth Program
Thanks again to Art Romberg for his donation to the Youth Program. Donations like these make our program one of the best in the state of Florida if not the country. We still share several of our Youth model guns among our Monday night shooters. The addition of every shotgun means one more child is serviced by their own firearm. Some nights we have to wait on the intermediate field for a gun to become available and donations like Art’s allow us to provide a more enjoyable experience for our students. Thanks again! 30
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