2021 November Markham Newsletter

Volume 12 Issue 11 Markham Park Gun Club November 2021 Youth Program Mondays 6-9 NSSA Skeet Saturday, November 6th ATA Trap Sunday, November 28th NSCA Sporting Clays Sunday, Nov. 7th

TRAIL GLADES TRAPSHOOT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20th

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 4 CLUB NEWS 5 STEVE NORRIS SHOOTING INSTR. 6-13 MAGAZINE REVIEWS 6-9 CLAYTARGET-NATION 10 Shotgun Sports 11-12 TRAP & FIELD 14-21 Shoot Flyers and Programs 23 EVENTS CALENDAR 24-25 CLUB CALENDAR 26 Palm Beach Trap and Skeet Pro Shop 27 SPORTING CLAYS CALENDAR 28-29 SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM AND RESULTS 30-31 SKEET PROGRAM AND RESULTS 32 FSA SKEET CALENDAR 34 TRAP PROGRAM 35-39 MARKHAM AND TRAIL TRAP RESULTS 40 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: Jon Roberts 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 The sporting clays shoot was cancelled last month, but the Richard Merritt shoot is scheduled to go on. I wish Jon and all his helpers the best running the shoot.

Hope you join them and have a great time.

There were nine shooters at the last Trapshoot. Milan Tlaskal led the event with a lone 97. Antonio Spadaro was Runner-Up with a 94 and Pierre followed with a 91. Only a Singles event was held.

Ed Ford, Jr. led all the events at the latest skeet shoot. He finished with a 190 for HOA on the 200 targets. He recently broke a 50x50 in a .410 event at South Florida Shooting Club’s September shoot. I sent his picture into CLAYTARGET-NATION and they are planning on running it in the KUDOS section of the magazine. Look for it in the November issue. Congrats Ed!

I ran an email received about the Palm Beach Shooting Complex on page 13. A nice update on how tings are progressing at the club.

Monday nights have been well attended by Youth shooters. We have been seeing about 9 shooters on the beginner field and 4 to 5 shooters on the advanced field.

The shooting season is just around the corner. The Fall Championships for the FTA is November 12-14th at Silver Dollar. There is a Flyer for the RC/USA CUP at South Florida Shooting Club December 10-12th on page 16 and Flyers for the February shoots at Vero and South Florida on pages 14 and 17. Hope you can attend.

See you at the club.

Joe Loitz jloit@bellsouth.net 954-857-5278 4

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 – 2021 September In golf and tennis we are told to relax our hands on the club or racket until just before contact with the ball. Paul Giambrone III reminds us, this is true for shooting as well, remain relaxed. “Relax the grip and you release the body” is the message. The eyes are no different. Get into your stance and mount, go to your hold point, then relax your eyes at your look point. For skeet this means looking halfway back to the window for High 3 and only one-third of the way back on High 2. Another important point, look up into the targets flight path, not at

the same level as your gun’s hold point, which should be at the bottom of the window.

A relaxed body usually makes for a more relaxed visual, target pickup. Remember, tension in the body limits your ability to react and affects your initial move to the target.

Relaxed body and grip, relaxed vision at the look point. John Shima would remind us, the purpose of the relaxed vision is to look for the target. Our focus is on picking up the target in our peripheral vision to obtain hard visual lock on it. Mentally we are focusing on seeing the target, anticipating its arrival.

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Skill comes from repetition during deliberate practice. Gil and Vicki Ash give pointers on unlearning bad habits this month and repetition of correct behavior is the essence of the process. You can’t unlearn something. You write correct behavior into your memory and the old behavior fades away. Visualization in detail of the behavior you want to learn is a great aid in the unlearning process.

Other talking points are missing targets in the third or fourth pair on a Station where you have broken the first two pairs.

You have either fallen into rushing through your shooting process or you are more concerned about your score than working through the process. Also, read the target correctly at your break point. Careless preparation at the breakpoint is a common fault leading to needlessly missed targets.

Don corrects the situation by altering your hold and look point. Move your hold point to one-third of the way back from the breakpoint and keep your eyes close to your gun to avoid visual disorientation caused by the speed of the target.

Use your peripheral vision to pickup the target then slowly move the gun to the breakpoint as you merge with the target’s speed.

————————————— ——— Stations where you feel you need to reposition your feet between targets are a problem for every shooter. Don Currie suggests setting up for the second target with your lead leg and foot. If you must move, pivot off your front leg and move only your trailing leg. This minimizes the problems from readjusting your stance.

As to fast quartering targets where you may habitually find yourself shooting behind them,

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Magazine Review How do you deal with the “People Effect” at a tournament? Bob Palmer weighs in on how to eliminate the People Effect on your shooting. The People Effect can come from slow or fast shooters on your squad. Maybe you’re squadded with people outside your skill level. People can affect your concentration. How do you avoid letting it bother you?

your ability to concentrate.

Bob has always espoused the 30-minute buffer zone idea. Get to your first Station or trap 30 minutes ahead of schedule and avoid socializing. Prepare mentally for what

Bob says there are three ways, take a leadership role, create a buffer zone, or use the “Tony Soprano” approach. The leadership role includes working on your focus in the same way as Joe Fanizzi suggests in the last article, practice pressure-situational shooting where you will experience adrenaline. Also, be careful in your squadding. Create and join only those squads that will accentuate

you are about to do and don’t let anyone interrupt that contemplation period. The “Tony Soprano” approach disappears the other competitors, officials, and distractions from your conscious. You ignore them.

Bob has his devotees visualize being on a stage with your opponents, then visualize growing head and shoulders larger than them. Effectively making them disappear. I always liked the 30-minute buffer zone idea.

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Bill Miller asked the 2021 National Sporting Clays Champion Joe Fanizzi about his practice regimen before large tournaments and Joe passes along good advice. Practice with one thing in mind, mental preparation, fundamen-

from a miss. Place pressure on yourself to break them all and work on total focus.

————————————————-Concentrate on the process and don’t evaluate what you are doing when you are in a tournament is the message from Gil and Vicki Ash in their second article. Let your subconscious rule and your skills will excel.

Conscious interference disrupts the natural flow of the subconscious skills. Stop trying, stop thinking, and let the process happen. Once the conscious is engaged either by over-evaluating every little thing or by worrying about score you’ve lost everything you need to break targets consistently.

Build a rhythm to your shooting process and stick to it. No rushing through the last pairs on a Station to get to the end.

You aren’t done until you’ve broken that last pair. Don’t let your mind leave the process until you step out of Station or Post.

tals, or specific target presentations. Each day have a goal. As tournaments get closer, focus on repetition, putting lots of shells through the gun. A week before the tournament, work on three or four pairs at a Station with total focus. Finally, simulate tournament pressure by pushing yourself outside your comfort zone. Envision yourself at the tournament and put pressure on yourself to break targets.

This is practice on total focus and most shooters neglect it. It’s easy to wander around a course shooting targets with no consequences

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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports - 2021 October How do you reduce Match Stress? Michael J. Keyes, M.D has suggestions this month that are very relevant and helpful once you distill the article. Two important ways of dealing with match stress are shooting competitions to inure yourself against it and to simulate it thru you practice routines. Both help immunize yourself against it, but they are not an end-all solution. Other solutions are improving your physical fitness, improving your shooting fundamentals, and adding mental tools such as self-talk, visualization, and relaxation techniques to your mental game repertoire. These boost your overall confidence. Also revisit positive shooting experiences to aid in that effort.

Much of match stress is due to dealing with variations in conditions and a lack of consistency in your pre-shot approach. A consistently applied pre-shot routine can eliminate distractions and inconsistencies in your technique. A well prepared and followed preshot routine should aid you by focusing your attention to the job at hand, the shooting process.

Focused, deliberate practice builds consistency and confidence. Full application of your pre-shot routine during these intense sessions is paramount. The pre-station and pre-shot routine mean different things to different people. This could mean relaxation exercises, visualization, footwork, look point, hold point, break point determination, shot planning, and timing your breathing. Whatever you do, do it during practice too. Rushing through 100 targets in 20 minutes isn’t as

beneficial as 25 targets carefully planned and shot in the same timeframe.

Michael says the “pre-shot rituals induce an altered state that helps shield you from the doubts that match pressure brings”. He is exactly right. Give yourself to the shooting process and wipe everything else off the mental slate. Tabula Rosa. The moment of truth as defined by John Shima is when the shooter settles their vision into soft focus and calls for the target. Going into soft focus “Quiet Eye” allows you to go into Quiet Mind mode, which is what you need for a successful shot, one from the subconscious level. Michael broadens that time frame to the point where you no longer have a choice and you have to perform. Isn’t it better to create the best conditions for this moment whether it is Michael’s or John’s. Build consistency into your shooting process and work on building overall confidence in any way that fits you.

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TRAP & FIELD – 2021 October Do you need a custom stock? Ian Darroch has ideas on the subject this month. A custom stock should make your mount effortless, should help you shoot where you look, and should reduce perceived recoil. He believes many custom stocks are too long and have too much offset. Finding a good stockfitter is a paramount concern, obviously.

I like his suggestion that you get a “try stock” cut in the rough to practice with before making a major commitment. The “try stock” can then be modified with wood putty or can be filed to fit perfectly before the final product is determined. If the stock you currently use feels comfortable, use it as a baseline for the new one. Remember, a custom stock will not make up for technical deficiencies in your shooting style.

Bob Palmer suggests a simple “pinch away” technique for forgetting a miss.

Think of the mistake and using your left thumb and index finger, pinch them together for several second then release the bad emotions associated with the event.

Now pinch your right thumb and index finger together and think of a positive Zone memory and hold for several seconds then release. Think of another positive Zone memory and repeat. Do it a third time with another memory. Try it.

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Magazine Review How do you eliminate mental logjams that eat away at your concentration. Bob Palmer suggests there are four main causes of mental logjams: anxiety and worries, frustrations from illegal targets, tightening up during competition, and other people watching you shoot. For the first problem, anxiety and worry, Bob suggests you keep moving, keep your body in motion. Whether it is pacing or simply shifting your weight from one foot to

the other, keep moving. Visualizing the Zone during this kinetic activity is even better.

Illegal targets and other distractions can be expunged by resetting the shot process. This is a big one for many people. Can’t count how many times I’ve seen people miss after calling and getting a broken target. Reset using your pre-shot routine. As to tightening up, keep your posture positive and visualize yourself in this powerful physical attitude.

As to people, remember the 30-minute rule.

Give yourself that 30minute buffer before going to the line.

Keeping a journal helps.

Write down distractions affecting you during a competition and how you dealt with them.

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The latest on the Palm Beach Shooting Complex may best be explained by an email received about the club received recently by a Lambert Johnson who forwarded it to me.: Thank you for your interest in the bunkers at the Palm Beach County Shooting Sports Complex.

The modifications the contractor was required to make to the bunkers are finally complete. This week the Howell Traps is working on the installation of the traps.

They will need one or two more trips worked into their schedule before they have all five bunkers wired and ready. Once Howell has finished their installation, I'll let you know. All the other amenities - handgun, rifle ranges, sporting clays and 5-stand - are open. The last phase of the project is completing the paving. The requested for bids for paving of the entry road and parking is currently advertised. Once this final phase of paving is complete we'll have a grandopening.

We've been in contact with Mr. Waldron. He has a standing invitation to come down and take a tour of the facility and to use it in any way beneficial to promotion of the sport.

Mr. Waldron is the coach of the Army Marksmanship Unit. I have talked to several friends about the Sporting Clays course and all have had a positive review about the course and facility. Hearing that they are getting bids on paving the road is good to hear. I look forward to seeing the completion of the club as are many of you.

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Trail Trap & Skeet ATA Trapshoot Saturday, November 20th 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 2021 Trail Shoot Dates DECEMBER

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Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays

NSSA Skeet Tournament Saturday, November 6th 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, November 28th 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, Nov. 13th 20

South Florida Shooting Club

NSSA Skeet Tournament Saturday, November 27th 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

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

A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

John Wooden

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Registered Shooting and Events in South Florida Gun Shows Miramar National Guard Armory November 20-21st

Skeet Markham So. Florida

November 6th November 27th

Trap So. Florida Trail Glades Markham

November 13th November 20th November 28th

Sporting Clays Vero Beach

Markham Gulf Coast Quail Creek OK Corral South Florida

November 6th November 7th November 14th November 20th November 21st November 28th

“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”

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PALM BEACH TRAP/SKEET PRO SHOP FIREARMS ALL NEW FIREARMS WHOLESALE PLUS 10% TRADES INS ACCEPTED

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561-793-8787 THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR BUSINESS JOE FORDHAM 26

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

RICHARD MERRITT MEMORIAL 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 7TH 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: Jon Roberts (786)-210-9448 email: jonroberts45@gmail.com

Please Preregister using: scorechaser.com

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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS No results October shoot was cancelled

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

$21.00 $21.00 $21.00 $21.00 $21.00

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 30

Skeet Results Markham and South Florida Shooting Club

South Florida Shooting Club

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

John Wooden

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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 2021-2022

Additional 100 target events.

September 26th

$34.00

October 24th November 28th December 26th

See Joe Loitz for details: 954-857-5278

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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

16 Yards

CLASS SCORE

MILAN TLASKAL ANTONIO SPADARO

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PIERRE GRACIA ORACIO RICCOBONO ADOLFO MILIANI ERNESTO YAMHURE FEDERICO RAMIREZ ANGEL ESTEVEZ IVAN VILLALOBOS

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97 94 91 89 88 86 86 85 75

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Handicap No Handicap event was held.

Doubles

No Doubles event was held.

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16 Yards

TRAP RESULTS TRAIL TRAP & SKEET

SINGLES MICHAEL FREYER SERVANDO VALDES ALEXANDER MEDEROS ERNESTO YAMHURE ADOLFO MILIANI MIKE ZOGBY LUIS MORALES JORGE SOLARES

CLASS SCORE B B C D D D D

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93 93 91 86 86 84 82 74

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Handicap No Handicap event was held.

Doubles DOUBLES MICHAEL FREYER ADOLFO MILIANI JORGE SOLARES SERVANDO VALDES ALEXANDER MEDEROS

CLASS SCORE B D D D D

85 80 73 69 54

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Youth Program

Markham Youth Program Ages 10-17 $18 includes targets & ammo Shotguns available free of charge Every Monday 6-9 PM. 40

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