Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays March 1, 2016 Volume 7 Issue 3
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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
DIRECTORS: •
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 April 7th Starting at 7:00 PM
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Club News The big skeet and sporting clay shoots of February are over. Joey Pinchin shot fantastic at the Krieghoff Classic, winning most of the Sub-Junior trophies and I believe he finished 8th in Masters. Congrats Joey! The February Sporting Clays shoot was cancelled. Hope you can attend the March shoot. The February Trapshoot was well attended by 27 Singles shooters. Justin King led the field with a 98 followed by Alex Riera and Ron Ward with 96’s. Handicap was won by Steve Norris with a 93 and Justin lead the Doubles with the same score. Andrew Loitz led the 12 ga., 28 ga., .410 and the HOA at the skeet shoot this month. Ed Ford led the 20 ga. with the high score of the day, 48. Asif Sheerahamed led the doubles with a lone 45. The Youth Program has been going gangbusters lately. Last Monday we had 10 new kids
show up!
I stopped by to see Steve Sagal on Monday. He is doing much better. It will take him some time to get back into shape so he can get around more freely. John Beedenbender gave us a scare last month going into the hospital for pneumonia. He is out now. Be sure to wish both of our friends well as they get better. The Southern Grand and State shoot are the second and third weekends of March. Many of us will be attending. I will be attending both shoots. Hope to see you there. John Marley called me and wants to hold another charity shoot for the adoption agency supported by the Calvary Chapel church. It will be in October or early November. I look forward to helping this great cause. Many of you either helped run the shoot or donated to it last year. Thanks again, I look forward to this falls event. 4
Magazine Review CLAY TARGET NATION – February 2016 I don’t know if you are receiving this magazine but if you aren’t you are denying yourself the best overall shooting publication on the market today. There are tons of insightful articles on the shooting sports and instructional articles aplenty. Do yourself a favor and subscribe to this periodical. Don Currie handles the ASK THE INSTRUCTOR column and usually does a great job but I disagree with one of his points this month. He suggests picking out a background landmark for your break point. I have read you should never do this and in trying to do it myself I see why you shouldn’t either. Now you have to keep track of not only the landmark for the break point but the target and your barrels also. This is too confusing. I would think setting up your hold point so that you naturally move into the break point would be the best way of assuring you hit the same break point on each pair. Don suggests practicing using a landmark on a skeet field – station 4. For this he suggests the center stake. Break the target 10 times in a row at the stake to cement the consistent move and shot into your subconscious. Now, I’m sure he doesn’t mean you should look for the landmark as you move to the target but more explanation may have been in order. How do you decide which target to shoot first in sporting clays? Don says there are four questions you have to ask yourself first:
number 3 and 4 in combination. There are certain targets I hate to see so I like to take them first. In planning your shooting sequence consider each of these in making your plan of attack. I also agree with his suggestion to take the lower target first. It is much easier to swing up to a second target than it is to swing down to one. Each year I get to work with Ralph Aaron the NSSA Chief Instructor during the Youth Camp in Winter Haven and also held in Palatka. Ralph proposes some preseason and off-season training, service, and maintenance before the tournament season starts. During the off season shoot at least once a week, have all your guns serviced, and get your yearly eye exam. When you practice, make it deliberate practice, working on your problem areas not on the targets you have already mastered. Dedicate some practice sessions to working on fundamentals, hold points, break points, and followthrough. Pay particular attention to your vision fundamentals. Ralph believes this is one of the common errors many shooters make, losing their sharpness with their visual fundamentals. Pay particular attention to how you look for the target during the season and note it in your journal. Too many of us assume we won’t forget the simplest basics. We all forget what seemed so obvious during the tournament season. Why reinvent the wheel? Write it down so you have a starting point each season.
Which target do you see first? Does one target disappear from view before the other? Which shooting sequence allows the best move to the second target? Which target gets more difficult first? Personally I would add a fifth, which target do I not want to engage second. There are some targets that are easier if taken first that become more difficult as a second shot. I guess this encompasses Don’s 5
Magazine Review CLAY TARGET NATION – February 2016— Cont’d We don’t regret the hard targets we miss during a sporting tournament. In fact we all seem to commiserate how we broke one or two of them and we take a certain pride in it, as we should. No, the targets we regret are the gimmees that we let go out of sheer stupidity or lack of concentration. Those are the targets that haunt us and Clayton M. Rue reminds us this month to consider how important these targets are to our score. Break all the easy targets and your score is almost assured to be in the 80’s. Break a third of the hard targets and you get close or into the 90’s. Too much emphasis on breaking the hard targets is not good for your self-esteem. Break the easy targets and don’t let missing some of the hard ones bring you down. Clayton advises working on targets within your skill set and mastering these before you start loading your practice sessions with the more difficult presentations. Go to Quail Creek’s Red Course and you probably don’t have to think through any of the shots. All of the focal points, hold points, and break points are obvious. Why? You know these presentations and understand the approach to the targets and the leads. They are well-established in your subconscious. What do you do on the Blue Course when you are confronted with a more difficult presentation? Gil and Vicki Ash give some good advice this month on the pre-load for these targets. On targets we are learning we should visualize the shot and pre-load it before we attempt it. Visualization should be as detailed as possible and not just a snap-shot. Visualize the target from the focal point all the way to the pieces hitting the ground. John Shima likes to go deep, digging for root causes and this month is no exception. Trust your peripheral vision. According to all the sports research on peripheral vision it is best to let the target pass through your peripheral vision first before locking your vision on it. Using your central vision to stare at the target’s appearance point goes counter to good visual cooperation between your vision and your subconscious re-
action. Don’t look where the target is going to appear, set your peripheral vision so it catches the target as it appears. John then talks about your intent. Do you want to break the target or do you want to watch the target break? An interesting question which brings up correlations between shooting and other sports. First you may ask what’s the difference between wanting to break the target and watching it break? The desire to break the target is strictly an intellect pursuit while watching the target break is part of the physical and subconscious act of actually shooting the target. Ever notice on a good golf shot, tennis stroke, baseball swing, or jump-shot in basketball how our eyes follow the ball to our target. When we do this the shot seems to go where we intended. This is also true in shooting when we watch the target break as we follow-through with our shot. Ever notice your follow-through is rarely abbreviated on hits but seems to stop on misses? This is what John is getting at, when we watch the target break we are totally invested in nothing but hitting the target and our follow-through comes naturally. If all we are concerned with is hitting the target we don’t watch the target break we look to see if the target broke. This usually means we are lifting our head to look instead of making a nice follow-through. Settle your vision on your focal point and disengage your mind. Go into soft focus and let the target activate your subconscious shooting response then enjoy the ride, watching the target break as you follow-through.
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tice. Finally, let go of your anxiety about winning or losing. One more time, focus on the process, focus on breaking the target perfectly. When you walk to the line you should be thinking about how you are going to hit each target perfectly and nothing else. How many times have I related how Paul Giambrone III practices each skeet target 100 times each year before tournament season? He doesn’t just practice breaking them, he Wendell Cherry 2015 World English Championships practices crushing them perfectly. This month he encourages us to pracTodd Bender has four tips for our mental game tice the easy targets in skeet along with our probthis month. First, trust yourself. Focus on the lem targets but to practice the easy targets to pertarget and let your subconscious be free to do fection! Just like Mr. Rue said about sporting what it does best, shoot! Once you step to the clays there are no easy targets and practicing the line there is no room or time for second guessing, supposed easy targets will improve our perforput your total concentration on the target and mance on the difficult ones. forget everything else. Focus on the process not the outcome. The minute you start worrying about the score instead of the next target you set yourself up for failure. Stop over-trying. Pick one thing to concentrate on and let it be your focus. Keep a shooting journal. I stated earlier it is important to record what you did when you shot well. Recording what you did when you succeeded in the past may help you succeed in the future. Right after you get done with a practice session write down plans for your next training session. Do it while it’s fresh in your mind. Record what you learn and what you need to learn. Consolidate these things on a 3x5 card for the next prac7
Magazine Review TRAP & FIELD – February 2016
Have you ever been in the Zone? It’s a place where time ceases to exist and what you are currently doing is the only thing of relevance. The outside world doesn’t penetrate its confines. It’s a nice place. Bob Palmer is the Johnny Appleseed of the Zone, a Zone guru so to speak. He introduces four exercises this month to get you to the Zone. First, know your Zone. Remember how it felt to be in the Zone, relive the experience in your mind. Next time you go out to shoot reflect on that feeling before you go to the line. Try to bring it to your shooting before you step to the line. Don’t wait around for it to arrive, prepare for it. Having a winning attitude is his next suggestion. Walk positively, think positively, eliminateing negative thoughts, and having a positive attitude all go along with this “I will win” attitude. I prefer to simply think about crushing the next target and nothing else. The simple joy of breaking each target perfectly is where I would rather be. If you can implement that ideology winning will naturally follow. I don’t even like to think of it as a competition. You only ever compete against yourself so why even think about winning? There are clubs I hate to shoot at because of their background. Mr. Palmer says we should ignore the background and he has a point. Learn to love every club and get over your problems with clubs you find challenging because of background issues. One must remember, Bob comes from a one on one competitive background where you actually face
off with your opponents. He suggests looking up your competitors’ faces in TRAP & FIELD then visualize yourself in a shoot-off with them. Again, I believe the competition is the target, the people are irrelevant. Beat the target and don’t worry about the people. Not much out of Ron Sutton this month. If you believe you can do it then you can is about the only solid advice he had to offer up. He’s right, if you believe you can break 100 you have a better chance than not believing it. This all comes about because of a friend of his who told Phil Kiner how he broke 98’s and 99’s all the time but couldn’t break 100. Kiner’s response was it was on his friend to make his own destiny. Personally, I would look not so much at his mental make-up which Phil implies, but at his fundamentals. There may be one flaw that takes one or two targets away from every hundred he shoots. No one breaks 98’s and 99’s all the time without breaking 100. There’s something wrong with more than just his head. Shotgun Sports – March 2016 Goal setting and planning give us more than just direction according to Michael J. Keyes, M.D. By setting goals and planning we are taking action is a specific direction. With a definite direction in mind some of the worry caused by the chaos of our lives is appeased. Have specific, reachable goals set for your training. This gives you a feeling of security in your shooting progression when trying to reach your goal. Reaching your goal is also much more likely through appropriate planning.
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“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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Calender of events: Gun Shows: Mar. 12-13th South Florida Fairgrounds WPB.
Skeet this month: Markham
Mar. 5th
Trail Glades
Mar. 12-13th
Trap this month: Indian River
Mar. 6th
South Florida Mar. 12th Markham
Mar. 27th
Sporting This month: Indian River
Mar. 5th & 27th
Quail Creek
Mar. 13th
South Florida Mar. 19th Markham
Mar. 20th
OK Corral
Mar. 26th
Current shell specials: Walmart: Currently selling Winchester Universal and Federal 4 packs at $21.74 (12 & 20 ga.).
. Dick’s: They are running specials every other week. Watch the papers and check out their website.
"One important key to success is selfconfidence. An important key to selfconfidence is preparation." — Arthur Ashe
Cabela’s has Herter’s shells on sale for $529.90 for 10 flats. This includes shipping. These are 11/8 oz., 7 1/2’s & 8’s, 1200 fps, 12 gauge. 11
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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
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. Roger Staubach
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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club
St. Patrick’s Day Open 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations 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
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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
“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” ― Pablo Picasso
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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 You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go. ~Dr. Seuss
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.
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Larry, Ruthie, Glenn, Scarlett and Alan at Silver Dollar The Southern Grand will be held: March 8th—March 13th. The 100th Florida State Shoot will be held: March 15—March 21st. 23
Trapshooting Results
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Youth Program
The Youth program has been busy this winter averaging about 18 kids a night. Thankfully the weather has been nice for us, raining during the day instead of at night. A friend of mine donated all his old silver Junior and Sub-Junior trophies to the program. Many are without engraving. We will be giving them out whenever the chance arises. 26
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