2021 February Markham Newsletter

Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays Volume 12 Issue 2 February 2021

Markham Park hours: Sundays 8:00-7:00 Mondays 1:00-9:00 Tues., Wed., Thurs., 4:00-9:00

Markham Park Gun Club Youth Program Currently on hold ATA Trap Sunday Feb. 28th NSSA Skeet Sunday February 14th NSCA Sporting Clays Sunday, Mar 21st

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2020

PAGE 4 CLUB NEWS 5 STEVE NORRIS SHOOTING INSTR. 6-13 MAGAZINE REVIEWS

OFFICERS

6-7 CLAYTARGET NATION

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8-11 CLAYTARGET NATION FOR SALE REANNA FRAUENS PODCAST EVENTS CALENDAR CLUB CALENDAR SPORTING CLAYS CALENDAR SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM RESULTS SKEET PROGRAM AND RESULTS FSA SKEET CALENDAR TRAP PROGRAM TRAP RESULTS YOUTH PROGRAM

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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 Two steps forward one back, isn’t that the old maxim? The club is open now on Sundays 8:00 to 7:00, Mondays 1:00 to 9:00 and Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 4:00-9:00. Better than being closed. Wednesday night games are open, but you must wear a mask.

Skeet shoots have been moved to Sundays: February 14th and March 7th. The Sporting Clays tournament for February could not be rescheduled so has been cancelled. Trapshoots have not been affected. The Youth program is on hold for now.

The Snowbird Open was well attended by 68 shooters and was won by our own Rodrigo Mehich.

Runner-Up was Joseph Pinchin, another Markham shooter in fact he came through our Youth Program. He’s been helping out on Mondays and his help is greatly appreciated. Both Rodrigo and Joey had 95’s.

Other top scores for the day were Alexander Lee, AA Champ with a 93 and Ted Gray, Masters Class Champ with the same score.

We only had two shooters at the

last skeet shoot: Max Votyakov and Ric Sherman.

Since I run the skeet shoots at South Florida Shooting Club I decided to post their monthly shoot scores in the newsletter also.

Angel Estevez and Alberto Lopez both submitted 97’s to lead the last trapshoot in the 16 Yard event. Sixteen shooters showed up for the event. No Handicap or Doubles events were held.

As to Palm Beach Gun Club, I heard they are talking to the head of the Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) to fix their issues. Again, this is a rumor and there is no guarantee this will fix anything. Probably just a rumor.

You will see a notice on page 15 about a podcast with Reanna Frauens and Madison Sharpe. It’s an excellent interview of two exception young women who are tearing up the shooting game. Give it a listen.

See you at the club.

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 TRAP & FIELD – December 2020 Ian Darroch gives a small primer on teaching a new shooter this month. He gets some things correct. A tutorial on safety is a must.

Check eye-dominance is also spot on and teaching correct mount and stance, etcetera is also appropriate with one caveat. When you teach a student you have to be diligent about the stance and mount. Stand next to them and do not allow them to take a shot if the stance and mount are not correct. When he talks about teaching lead he seems to forget he’s teaching trap. There is no lead in trap. It is swing-thru, intercept, or swing-to. No lead.

Gun speed takes care of lead.

did you miss?”, on every missed target. If their response is wrong, then I explain why they missed. Encourage them to figure out what went wrong first. Not a good article.

There’s some other minutiae he discusses, probably because he’s used to teaching adults.

Yeah, his ideas work for adult men, but not for women and youth shooters. The other thing I don’t like is how he gives feedback on why they missed. I ask the student, “Where

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Jim Blevins gives his ideas on one versus two eyes and cross-dominance. Again, not much to see here. He does match my thinking, cross-dominant shooters should shoot from their dominant eye shoulder if possible. This comes with a caveat, as long as they are beginning shooters. If they’ve been shooting for some time, switching them has to be a real commitment from them. His eye dominance test is the wrong one, but it was the one used for years. Jim is over 70. Test for eye dominance by having the student keep both eyes open and have them point at your right eye. Their dominance becomes obvious. Don’t use Jim’s method. As to taping the glasses lens of the dominant eye instead of closing it, I tried this once and tried to shoot from my left shoulder. All I saw was tape. Close the dominant eye. If they can’t then switch shoulders. Don’t take advice from a magazine column on this. Go to someone qualified to help.

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Magazine Review CLAYTARGET NATION – January 2021 Some time ago there was a guy I would find myself squadded with on the practice field at Markham who always shot skeet low gun. It was obvious he was not a seasoned shooter and not good at skeet (scores in the mid to low teens). I asked him why he shot low gun.

He replied he shot that way because it was more challenging and shooting pre-mounted didn’t seem fair. I followed up with a question about his golf game, “Did he hit his driver off a tee?” He responded, “Of course.”

Then why did it seem unfair to premount in skeet when the rules allowed it? He had no response.

The point is, he would have improved as a shooter, especially a skeet shooter, if he would have practiced shooting pre-mounted first. Learn how to shoot as a pre-mounted shooter first, then try to learn how to shoot low gun. Skeet is a fast game. Out-going targets are shot in less that 1.2 seconds even by pre-mounted shooters.

For a beginner add in the low gun move to the shoulder and there’s little time left to break the target in 1.2 seconds. Not to mention the variability the low gun causes to a new shooter. Learn how to shoot premounted first then go low gun or at least just do it on the incoming targets. Just as you would use a tee for driving and you use irons or fairway woods to hit off the fairway. I believe the guy would have been better off learning how to break in the 20’s first as a pre -mounted shooter before attempting skeet

low gun.

As to low gun and sporting clays you have a completely different situation. Many shooters learn sporting clays as a low gun shooter.

With courses like the Whitetail at South Florida Shooting Club and the Red Course at Quail Creek you have targets totally conducive to learning low gun as a mount and shoot technique. Lots of time to see the

target and mount to shoot it on most stations. Skeet and Trap are too fast to start as a low gun shooter.

Anyway, Paul Giambrone III talks about shooting American skeet from the low gun position. When he asked people why they do it they either respond that they want to simulate hunting or they see the target bet8 ter from the low gun mount. He does not address the hunters.

It’s the ones who think they can’t shoot premounted to see the target effectively that are his target audience. He addresses the skeptics with two pointers. The hold point for the High house, out-going targets needs to be below the flight path of the target. Easy reference, hold level with the bottom of the window or below it. With the Low House, hold in a spot where the target must pass

over your barrels. If it comes out below your barrels you are in for a world of visual confusion.

Now that the barrels are correctly situated find your ideal look point. This is so personal to each shooter I’m only going to tell you what Paul advises, look half-way back to the window from you hold point. I’m able to disassociate my eyes from the barrels at my hold point and look back much further

than most folks. It took me years to work up the courage to try this and when I did I found it was what was missing in my skeet game. I also want to give my friend and coaching partner at times, Russ Naples, kudos for suggesting standing in the back of the box on 2, 3, 5, and 6. This allows for a wider visual range back to the window.

You wouldn’t think it would help that much, but it did improve my look back to the target. I read everything and Russ is the only one who ever suggested this. Thanks, Russ!

Look above your barrels is another good suggestion from Paul.

Look above your barrels and go into soft focus!!! Look into the distance and concentrate on just seeing the target. That last part is vitally important. Look. For. The. Target! That’s where your conscious mind should be focused, looking for the target to appear. Don’t just gaze off into the distance. Look for the target!

This is the biggest mistake people make on 2, 3, 5, and 6. They don’t use the Quiet Eye technique to pick up the target. When you call and see the target, ROTATE, from the ankles up. Swinging from the waist and arms only isn’t going to keep you ahead of the target every time.

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Magazine Review CLAYTARGET NATION – January 2021 Cont’d Gil and Vicki Ash talk to the Master Class shooter this month. The ones who expect to shoot in the mid to high 80’s or into the 90’s at every event. When their scores don’t reach the heights they expect is it their training regimen or is their personal life intruding into their athletic pursuits? Sometimes readjusting our goals to more realistic goals ones in line with what’s happening in our lives outside of the range can reduce the stress and frustration we feel from less than optimal scores. The take-away from their article is, don’t beat yourself up for having a personal life that may temporarily be keeping you from your shooting goals. Readjust those goals until you can pursue loftier ones when your personal life is under control. Beating yourself up just adds to your frustration. Get a handle on the direction of your life and how it’s going to affect your shooting, then move forward with a more reasonable plan.

“The harder they try to break a target the less likely it is to break.” Wise statement from John D. Shima this month. John is all about process shooting. Watch the target, let the shot happen, and forget the rest.

John brings up a paradox that happens with a shooter’s intention shifts from watching the target to breaking it. They look at the gap between the target and gun rather than at the target. His point is a valid one. The conscious mind inserts its intention to break the target into the shooting process, measuring lead and interfering with the uncon-

scious mind’s ability to take care of the target shooting business. Don’t let your desire to break the target interfere with the process of shooting is the fix for this issue.

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Missing a specific target on a station is a training problem, random misses are the issue above, poor concentration on the process and conscious interference in the process. Good mental habits can fix the conscious interference problems. Trust is important. Quit placing emotional attachment on breaking the target. Reward the feeling you get from placing unconditional trust in your pre-planned move to the target. Reward your concentration on watching the target break. Feed the good habits and starve the bad ones is the take-away.

You can’t value the last target on a station, post, or round more than you do the first one. Avoid the value trap. The value is in the process and executing it perfectly for each target. That’s the reward while you’re shooting. Don’t jump to the end. Score takes care of itself if you execute the pro-

cess perfectly each time.

Use visualization to relieve stress and prepare for the shot. John uses a quick visualization after he mounts his gun in the station. He swings to his break point, visualizes the shot, and the rotates his body back to the hold point, visualizing the target’s flight path in reverse. This activates his mental discipline to watch the target.

Finally, there is a performance mindset and a training mindset. Training mindset gets the conscious involved in analyzing the shot and consciously programming the shooting reflex.

You override the unconscious mindset during training to improve. You don’t want that going on during a competition. You want unconditional trust in your preplanned move. Remember the difference. Performance mindset is about watching the target and allowing your pre-planned move to take the shot without conscious interference.

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Winchester SUPREME 12 Gauge 28” barrels excellent condition with choke tubes and selectable barrels. Also includes a gun sleeve and 4 boxes of ammo.

This gun was made by FN for Winchester for several years around the turn of the century (2000)

Fired less than 50 shells - asking $1,000 (negotiable) Call Gary: 954-240-6967 garylea@bellsouth.net 12

Beretta 682 Golden Skeet 30” barrels excellent condition with choke tubes Stock has a high gloss finish done by Pedro Bernal asking $3,000 Give a call to: Phil Keagy 954-258-0085 13

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Frauens and Sharpe SCTP and NSCA Champions and Friends

Reanna Frauens and Madison Sharpe are featured in a podcast interview at:

Shotgunsportsusa.com Tune in and listen to Reanna and Madison discuss their wonderful adventure to the ranks of the top women in the SCTP and NSCA.

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Registered Shooting and Events in South Florida Gun Shows Miami-Dade Fairgrounds Feb. 27-28th

Skeet Markham So. Florida

February 14th February 27th

Trap Gulf Coast South Florida Trail Glades Markham

February 7th February 13th February 20th February 28th

Sporting Clays Gulf Coast Clays February 28th

Vero Beach Markham Quail Creek

February 3-8th March 21st February 9-14th

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

Walter Hagen

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FEBRUARY Sun

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21 22 Club is Club is Open Open 8:00-7:00 1:00-9:00 28 Trap

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7 Club is Open 8:00-7:00 14 Skeet Tourney Club is Open 8:00-7:00

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21 Sporting 22 Tourney Club is Club is Open Open 8:00-7:00 1:00-9:00

23 Club is Open 4:00-9:00

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28 Trap 29 Tourney Club is Club is Open Open 1:00-9:00 8:00-7:00

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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

Saturday - Apr 24

Gerry Stumm Memorial

Saturday - May 15

Memorial Day Open

Saturday - Jun 19

21st Annual Sunshine State Classic

Saturday - Jul 10

Super Sizzle Open

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

Bud Wolfe Classic 21

SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM

Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club

SAINT PATRICK’S DAY OPEN 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SUNDAY MARCH 21ST 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 JR CH JOSEPH PINCHIN JR RU KONSTANTIN IANSHIN LADY CH MEGAN THOMPSON LADY RU MELISSA STURDIVANT VET CH RODRIGO MEHICH VET RU TED GRAY S VET CH DALE MELTON S VET RU JOHN ALEXANDER SUPER SR CH VET W T MUIR S SR VET RU CHIP DERICKSON HUNTER CH LENIN THOMPSON HUNTER RU ISSAC MAIR

95 85 76 74 95 93 86 83 87 84 85 83

SNOW BIRD OPEN HOA 68 ENTRANTS CH RODRIGO MEHICH RU JOSEPH PINCHIN M1 TED GRAY M2 GARY GRAY M3 LUIS HERRERA AA1 ALEXANDER LEE AA2 NEIL WOOLFOLK AA3 JOEL BUENO A1 DONOVAN AMRITT A2 EDWARD LEE A3 RONALD DZIEMA B1 TIMOTHY BLACK B2 CHRIS KAUFMAN B3 JOHN PILCH C1 LARRY CRISMOND C2 RICHARD THOMPSON C3 ANTHONY DIAS D1 JAIME GARCIA D2 ERIC JOHNSON D3 NEY DIAS E1 JOHN ALEXANDER E2 ALLEN FURIA E3 ANDREW GALIACHATOS

95 95 93 92 91 93 86 86 90 83 82 82 79 74 82 81 81 83 82 78 83 78 69

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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!

50 Straight Kennedy Half Dollar 75 Straight Eisenhower Dollar 100 Straight Morgan Silver Dollar 50 Straight Doubles Liberty Silver Half 24

Skeet Results Markham and South Florida Shooting Club

South Florida Shooting Club

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

Sam Snead

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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 STILL POPULAR WITH THE SHOOTERS. 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 SINGLES

16 Yards CLASS SCORE

ALBERTO LOPEZ

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97

ANGEL ESTEVEZ

B

97

ISIDORO LOPEZ

B

92

JOSE LOPEZ

D

90

HENRY OVARES

C

90

GENE BARNES

D

89

LAZARO LOPEZ

D

87

GLENN HAAB

D

86

NICOLA FONTANA

D

84

ISAIAS VARGAS

D

81

ERNESTO YAMHURE

C

79

CARSON HAAB

D

77

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Handicap No Handicap event was held.

Doubles

No Doubles event was held.

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Youth Program

The Youth Program is currently on hold until the park returns to normal operations.

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SPONSORS Professional and Industry Vendors

We are going to update this section of the newsletter on a continuing basis as requests come in.

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

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