2021 August Markham Newsletter

Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays Volume 12 Issue 8 August 2021

TRAIL GLADES TRAPSHOOT SATURDAY, AUGUST 21st 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 4 CLUB NEWS 5 STEVE NORRIS SHOOTING INSTR. 6-13 MAGAZINE REVIEWS 6-10 CLAYTARGET NATION 11 TrapShoo#ngUSA 12-13 SHOTGUN SPORTS 14-15 TRAP & FIELD 18-22 Shoot Flyers and Programs 25 EVENTS CALENDAR 26-27 CLUB CALENDAR 28 Palm Beach Trap and Skeet Pro Shop 29 SPORTING CLAYS CALENDAR 30-31 SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM AND RESULTS 32-33 SKEET PROGRAM AND RESULTS 34 FSA SKEET CALENDAR 32 TRAP PROGRAM 38-41 MARKHAM AND TRAIL TRAP RESULTS 36 YOUTH PROGRAM

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2021 OFFICERS 

PRESIDENT—Vacant

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VICE PRESIDENT—Vacant

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TREASURER—Vacant

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SECRETARY— Joe Loitz

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RECORDING SECRETARY—Vacant

DIRECTORS: Greg Ritch Sporting Chair

Contact info: Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays 11873 NW 30th Street Coral Springs, FL 33065 954-857-5278 

www.markhamsportingclays.org

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E-mail: jloit@bellsouth.net

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Newsletter: jloit@bellsouth.net

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Next General Meeting ON REQUEST FROM SECRETARY

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Club News Let’s get the rumors out of the way first. Summer’s End Sporting Clays tournament will be held Saturday, August 14th. It will be the last shoot with Greg Ritch as the Sporting Clays Chair. Trail Glades was closed last Sunday because several of the Range Safety Officers came down with COVID. Dade county policy is to sanitize the facility before it can reopen. It is back open and operating normally.

Palm Beach County Shooting Center is not yet open for Trap or Skeet.

Only three shooters attended July’s skeet shoot. Ed Ford led every event. The Trapshoot was however well attended by 13 shooters in the Singles event and 5 shot the Doubles. Dax Demena Led all shooters with a 95.

Three shooters broke 93, Alex Riera, Steve Cianciulli, and Ernesto Yanhure. Alex Riera led the Doubles with a lone 91.

Not much else to report. Youth program has been well attended. The park is now charging their usual $1.50 on the weekends.

Nicely, the county has refreshed any yearly passcards that were active before the COVID outbreak.

Ammo is still hard to get. I heard several local venders will be getting shipments in early August. Regardless, most sellers limit the amount you can purchase.

Check with Otto and Joe Fordham for ammo. You can’t predict when they get them, so call ahead a check what they have available.

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

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STEVE NORRIS SHOTGUN SHOOTING LESSONS

With over 30 years of experience Steve Norris has established his reputation as one of the premier shotgun instructors in South Florida.

Whether he is guiding a beginning shooter through their first shots or perfecting an advanced shooter’s game, Steve is the go to coach at Markham Park.

He has worked with over 1,000 Youth

shooters in Markham’s Youth Program and has helped guide six of them to national championships. Steve is available for lessons in Trap, Skeet, and Sporting Clays. At $200 for three hours of instruction, targets included, Steve is by far the best shotgun instruction your money can buy!

Call him at: 754-264-9584.

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Magazine Review CLAYTARGET NATION – July 2021 Why do we rise so early to get to the gun club? Is it a desire to be with friends and shoot in friendly camaraderie or is it a compulsion, a craving to see the target and make a perfect shot? For those who crave that feeling, you possess something more powerful than discipline or willpower. Those two admirable attributes don’t enjoy the same

psychological power as the craving for the perfect shot. Discipline and willpower get you through moments of lost self-control, but they can’t replace the itch to become a better shot.

John Shima remembers the need, the craving to get to the club, to practice, and to lose himself in the flow of the shot. Research shows willpower and discipline break down whereas a craving to pursue something overrides outside influences. John’s suggestion this month: design training drills creating the craving to train. Imagine how you can develop training exercises that develop mechanical, visual, and mental habits naturally and in line with that craving. Champions are made from 100 individual shots. Developing the desire to shoot one target perfectly by building fundamentals and skills to do that can happen simultaneously.

Remember 50 deliberate practice shots are better than 500 taken without care or deliberation.

Deliberate practice trumps practice without purpose.

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Magazine Review Gil and Vicki Ash have torn a page from Michael J. Keyes, M.D.’s play book this month, delving into long scientific explanations of how the mind works and how it impacts our shooting. This month the focus in on Anders Ericsson’s monumental work on the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. While interesting there is no good advice here, only a reference back to how visualization is important to peak performance and how an “expert” coach can point out things you wouldn’t become aware of on your own.

If the article interests you, I

suggest Professor Ericsson’s book: Peak:

Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. On a side note it was Ericsson who coined the term “deliberate practice” and

the “10,000 hours of practice” rule.

Last month Bill Miller interviewed top sporting clays shooters and asked about their post-shot routine. This month’s interviews were directed at top skeet shooters and the best advice they ever received from their coach. Rachel Barringer said focus on the next target not on the one you just missed target. Every single target counts.

Stay with the process of breaking targets and don’t get caught up with score. Caile Bradham believes process-oriented training is far superior to result-oriented training.

“The process yields the results.” Process, process, process.

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Sheaffer Stanfill also follows the processoriented advice. Break each target perfectly, don’t be happy with weak breaks. Every shot

in his column. For new shooters who really want to learn how to shoot, switching to the dominant eye shoulder is standard advice. For the hunter who shoots four of five times a year, close the crossdominant eye and shoot from the dominant shoulder.

should look and feel good. Also, perform your whole shooting process throughout each shot. In other words don’t arm shoot or snap shoot a target, use a full body move on each shot.

Billy D. Williams visually concentrates on the target throughout the shot. Something the sporting clays shooters said in their interviews last month. They replayed each shot during the post-shot routine, reviewing what they saw on each shot and how well they saw the target.

Al Magyar says taking advantage of his left eye dominance by switching to left-handed shooting was the best advice he received.

Don Currie gives similar advice this month

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Magazine Review Articles on Pre-shot routine are easy to put together. Victoria Stellato avoids the obvious minutiae of footwork, stance, mount, look point, hold point, and break point. She starts the routine as you move from one station to the next. This works for both skeet or sporting clays. Watch your squadmates’ targets shooting in front of you. In trap you only move five times to the five different posts.

When do you start watching targets? I watch the targets of two shooters in front of me.

For skeet and sporting as you move to the next station when do you start watching the targets? Do you watch everyone’s targets or just the shooter in front of you? For skeet watching the shooter’s targets in front of you would work for stations 1,2,6, and 7 since you get to see four targets.

What about stations 3,4 and 5? Maybe two shooters if you are the third, fourth, or fifth shooter on your squad. Obviously, you are watching for irregularities in the targets’

flight. Make adjustments accordingly when stepping onto the station.

Some shooters visualize targets before the shoot. For skeet and sporting this makes sense. Jack Nicklaus said he visualized every golf shot before he took it, especially visualizing where he wanted the ball to land.

For trapshooters I only suggest imagining the three targets you usually get on each post, angle, quarter-angle, and straight-away.

For skeet and sporting you can visualize your shot as you watch the shooter in front of you.

After stepping onto a station or post Victoria suggests paying heed to your initial setup (feet, stance, look point, hold point). If these aren’t automatic, create a mental checklist as Victoria suggests. Once you establish your style this should be automatic. Finally, trust yourself.

Not where I would have ended the discussion. I would go with concentrating solely on seeing the target. Trust is a mental issue.

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If you are second guessing yourself you need to re-evaluate your mental game. You are thinking about something outside the shot routine and that means you aren’t in a good place mentally. Get back to a processoriented routine.

Her final advice comes after the shot. Relax between stations, you can’t concentrate on shooting 100% of the time. Practice putting pressure on yourself as you practice. Also practice the Pre-shot routine you expect to use in tournaments during practice sessions.

Refine it before you shoot registered targets.

Finally, read all the articles you want, it still comes down to finding what works for you.

TrapShootingUSA – July/August – 2021 This is the Florida Issue with reviews on the Southern Grand, Bill Jacobson Memorial Shoot, and the Florida State Shoot. Also included is a nice story on Ruthie Flayderman. Sandra Jo Jack pays wonderful homage to her.

Part 1 of a series of articles by Matthew Gay on the mental game starts in this issue. First he gives a thumbnail review of all of the important aspects of the mental game. The conscious mind, subconscious, self-talk, selfesteem, and finally a shooter’s reaction to lost targets. Mr. Gay suggests visualization exercises to learn how to control conscious thought and talks about the Quiet Eye principle and being in the zone when referring to the subconscious. When discussing self-talk, he only refers to the negative aspects and how it can interfere with the subconscious and its free expression of the shooting response. As to having a positive self-view, Matthew cau-

tions that it is a long-term process, changing a negative attitude to a positive one.

Lanny Bassham’s philosophy is described in four paragraphs. He concludes that the advancement of a positive selfattitude allows the subconscious to do its job. Finally, move on after a lost target.

Prepare for the next shot and leave the last shot behind. This is a general overview article. Part 2 will not doubt have more detailed strategies.

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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports – 2021 July There are two articles this month on hearing protection for the shooting sports. Lowell Strauss provides one in this issue and Garry Gordon wrote one for the latest issue of TrapShootingUSA. Both provide good explanations of the impact of shooting on your ears. Mr. Strauss provides a listing of several manufacturers and their products. Dr. Gordon’s has an in-depth guide on questions to ask when purchasing your protection.

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Mental training is a skill and requires focused practice. Michael J. Keyes, M.D. asks the question this month, how do we quantify our mental training? Using score to quantify your mental skills is fraught with problems. How can you compare scores when one may be from an event where you were trying out a new skill? Obviously, this score would have nothing to do with your mental state and more to do with improving your technique. It also doesn’t ac-

count for the fact that time and practice will improve your technique, becoming better as an eventuality with little to do with mental training.

So how do we use score to measure our mental game progress? Michael suggests using a moving average as a guide to measuring performance. Take the average of the last ten matches you have shot and start tracking your average. After the next shoot drop the oldest score and recalculate your average.

This is a more realistic way to track if you are showing improvement.

In this way you calculate a new average after only your last ten tournaments. This assumes quite a wide range of assumptions: consistent and timely entering of tournaments, consistent practice sessions, and focused mental practice sessions.

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There are so many things you can do to improve your mental training. You can choose from a veritable smorgasbord of techniques. You can follow the Lanny Bassham school where you work on your selfesteem, the visualization and “In the Zone” teaching of Bob Palmer and Dawn Grant, or the process-oriented training of John Shima. Whether you choose one school of thought or if you steal a little from each one, you need to devote time to focused practice for your mental game.

Tracking practice time is also good if simply to remind yourself when you last devoted time to your mental game.

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Magazine Review TRAP & FIELD – JULY – 2021 Ian Darroch gives out advice on shotshell loads this month. Honestly, it is obvious to most experienced shooters, but to novices this could be good info. For Singles, 1145-

1150 fps for 1 1/8th oz., and 8 shot or 1180 fps for 1 oz., 8’s. Use the same shell for the first shot in Doubles. Second shot in Doubles is whatever gives you confidence. Many shooters shoot the second shot with those same 1 1/8th oz., 8’s as in Singles. I shoot a 1200 fps 1 1/8th oz., 7 ½ shot for the second shot. Calm days I use 8’s for the second shot.

As for Handicap Ian suggests 1200 fps, 1 1/8th oz., 7 ½’s for shooters closer than the 23-yard line. After that Ian likes to switch to the 1235-1250 fps Handicap loads.

These Handicap specific loads have harder lead which is better for distance shooting.

Finally, as to cheap off-brand shells, for Sin-

gles they’re fine, but you see the difference when you step back to shoot Handicap targets.

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Bob Palmer has nothing new this month.

His article is a take off on the Quiet Eye principle which he and John Shima have equated to a Quiet Mind process. Settling into the Quiet Eye where you allow your eyes to expand into soft focus maximizes utilization of your peripheral vision and at the same time quiets the conscious mind. This happens because the premise of Quiet Eye gives the conscious only one thing to concentrate on, seeing the target and reacting to it.

Bob wants us to stay in the quiet mind mode as part of our life training to make it easier to enter quiet mind while we are shooting. The

key to this is keeping our eyes fixed in the distance, not close up, “looking at the mountains in order to see the person (in front of you)”. He is telling us to stop engaging our conscious mind all the time and just stay unfocused to see everything around us. If this helps you get past your tournament anxiety then use it.

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Trail Trap & Skeet ATA Trapshoot Saturday, August 21st 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, September7th 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 $21 each 50 targets 19

Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays

ATA Trapshoot Sunday, August 22nd 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 Same Program for South Florida Shooting Club on Saturday, August 7th 20

South Florida Shooting Club

NSSA Skeet Tournament Saturday, August 28th Signup starts 8:00 Shooting Starts at 9:00 Lunch is available in the clubhouse

50 targets 12 gauge 50 targets 20 gauge 50 targets 28 gauge 50 targets .410 gauge 50 targets Doubles $21 each 50 targets 21

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10704 Wiles Road, Coral Springs, FL 33076 954-846-2336

Pressure comes from fear. If you start thinking about the result or what might happen if you do something, that's the only time there's pressure.

Brooks Koepka

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Registered Shooting and Events in South Florida Gun Shows Miramar National Guard Armory August 21-22

Skeet Markham So. Florida

August 7th August 28th

Trap So. Florida Trail Glades Markham

August 7th August 21st August 22nd

Sporting Clays Quail Creek Markham OK Corral South Florida Vero Beach

August 7th August 14th August 15th August 21st August 22nd

'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary.

When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Tommy Lasorda

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2021 Schedule of NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments Date Sunday - Jan 17 Saturday - Feb 27

Tournament Snow Bird Open

Cancelled

Sunday - Mar 21

St. Patrick's Day Open

Sunday - Apr 18

Gerry Stumm Memorial

Sunday - May 16

Memorial Day Open

Sunday - Jun 13

21st Annual Sunshine State Classic

Saturday - Jul 10

Cancelled

Saturday - Aug 14

Summers End Open

Saturday - Sept. 11

Markham Fall Fest Shoot

Sunday—Oct. 10

Pumpkin Blast

Sunday - Nov. 7

Richard Merritt Memorial

Sunday—Dec. 26

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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM

Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club

SUMMER’S END OPEN 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SUNDAY AUGUST 14TH Registration: Opens 8:00 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: $60 N.S.C.A., $60 Hunter, $40.00 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.

Lunch will not 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: Greg Ritch (561) 271-5319 email: gregsritch@gmail.com

Please Preregister using: scorechaser.com

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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS

CONCURRENTS

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MONTHLY SKEET PROGRAM Price per 50 targets includes $5/100 NSSA/FSA Fee

.410 gauge 28 gauge 20 gauge 12 gauge Doubles

50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets 50 Targets

$20.00 $20.00 $20.00 $20.00 $20.00

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!

'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Tommy Lasorda

50 Straight Kennedy Half Dollar 75 Straight Eisenhower Dollar 100 Straight Morgan Silver Dollar 50 Straight Doubles Liberty Silver Half 32

Skeet Results Markham and South Florida Shooting Club

South Florida Shooting Club

For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

Aaron Rodgers

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Trap Program Trap Program: SPECIAL NOTICE

Trap Tournaments are usually the fourth Sunday of the month.

100 target 16 Yd, Hdcp and Doubles events.

First 100 targets. $40.00 (Includes ATA and FTA daily fees)

ATA SHOOT SCHEDULE 2020-2021

Additional 100 target events.

October 25th

$32.00

November 22th December 27th January 17th

See Joe Loitz for details: 954-857-5278

February 28th March 14th April 25th May 23th June 27th July 25th August 22nd

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT SHOOTING IS ON HOLD UNTIL SHOOTING RESUMES DURING THE WEEK. WHEN IT RESUMES SIGN UP WITH STEVE NORRIS AND 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

SINGLES DAX DEMENA ALEX RIERA STEVE CIANCIULLI ERNESTO YANHURE HENRY OVARES ORACIO RICCOBONO CHRISTOPHER MOLINA ISIDORO LOPEZ RAFAEL CARBALLIDO NICOLA FONTANA ISAIAS VARGAS LAIRD FERGUSON PABLO GONZALEZ

16 Yards

CLASS SCORE A A B C C C D D D D D D D

95 93 93 93 91 88 85 82 82 79 76 75 68

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Handicap No Handicap event was held.

Doubles DOUBLES ALEX RIERA CHRISTOPHER MOLINA STEVE CIANCIULLI DAX DEMENA RALPH LONG

CLASS SCORE B D D B D

91 86 80 77 66

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TRAP RESULTS TRAIL TRAP & SKEET SINGLES ISIDORO LOPEZ MICHAEL FREYER ALEX RIERA DAX DEMENA STEVE CIANCIULLI ALEXANDER HEDEROS MANUEL CESPEDES ANTHONY RAMOS PEPY GRACIA SERVANDO VALDEZ IVAN VILLALOBOS DOMINGO CESPEDES ALAIN SEQUIERO VALENTIN HILLAN ED GREENE JORGE SOLARES

16 Yards CLASS SCORE A B A A D

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97 97 94 94 93 93 91 90 90 89 89 87 80 76 71 66

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Handicap No Handicap event was held.

Doubles DOUBLES MICHAEL FREYER ALEX RIERA DAX DEMENA STEVE CIANCIULLI ALEXANDER HEDEROS MANUEL CESPEDES ANTHONY RAMOS PEPY GRACIA IVAN VILLALOBOS DOMINGO CESPEDES JORGE SOLARES

CLASS SCORE B C C D D D D D D D D

91 89 78 78 61 74 72 72 69 66 78 41

Youth Program

Markham Youth Program Ages 10-17 $18 includes targets & ammo Shotguns available free of charge Every Monday 6-9 PM. 42

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