2023December Markham Newsletter

Volume 13 Issue 04

December 2023 Markham Park Gun Club Youth Program Mondays 6-9 NSSA Skeet Saturday, Jan. 6th ATA Trap Sunday, Dec. 30th NSCA Sporting Clays Sunday, Dec. 17th

TRAIL GLADES TRAPSHOOT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16th

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 4 6-11

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CLUB NEWS MAGAZINE REVIEWS 6-8 CLAYTARGET NATION 9-11 Shotgun Sports PICTURES Bud Wolfe Classic Program RC-USA CUP ROYAL SPORTING ARMS Markham Hours and Rules Trap and Skeet Programs EVENTS CALENDAR CLUB CALENDAR 2024 Skeet Calendar SPORTING CLAYS CALENDAR SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM AND RESULTS SKEET PROGRAM AND RESULTS FSA SKEET CALENDAR TRAP PROGRAM TRAP RESULTS YOUTH PROGRAM

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2021 OFFICERS · PRESIDENT—Vacant · VICE PRESIDENT—Vacant ·

TREASURER—Vacant

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SECRETARY— Joe Loitz

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RECORDING SECRETARY—Vacant

DIRECTORS: Jon Roberts Sporting Chair Steve Norris Youth Chair Andrew Loitz Director

Contact info: Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays 11873 NW 30th Street Coral Springs, FL 33065 954-857-5278 · www.markhamsportingclays.org · E-mail: jloit@bellsouth.net · Newsletter: jloit@bellsouth.net

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Next General Meeting ON REQUEST FROM SECRETARY

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Club News On page 14-15 you will find the Bud Wolfe Classic program and awards payouts.

Lunch will be served by Flavor House Grill. I’m looking forward to attending the shoot, but I will not be shooting the event. I’m having surgery on Thursday, December 14th for my right shoulder. I just got back to shooting after my left shoulder surgery in January this year and now I will be back to rehab and waiting until June or July before I can shoot again. Hoping for no complications this time.

Youth program has been busy. We are surely missing Steve and the extra set of hands. For anyone interested in becoming a coach, give me a call. We could use the extra help and I cannot begin to tell you how rewarding it has been for all of us over the years.

Trapshoots have beenwell attended lately and Jon Rob-

erts has been doing a great job on the Sporting Clays program. Hoping that the Bud Wolfe will be back over 100 shooters like it has been in the past.

Skeet shoots are still very small.

The snowbirds haven’t migrated like they did in the past. Hoping numbers will pick up in 2024.

Just so everyone knows the ATA Trapshoot for 12/17 has been moved to:

ATA Trapshoot December Saturday 12/30 I look forward to seeing all of you at the Bud Wolfe.

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

SHOTGUN INSTRUCTION

BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE, AND ADVANCED TRAP, SKEET, AND SPORTING CLAYS

JOE LOITZ 5-TIME ALL AMERICAN CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR NRA ATA NSCA NSSA 954-857-5278 JLOIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

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Magazine Review CLAYTARGET NATION—Nov. 2023

John Shima introduced the blended focus idea several months back as a way some people see the target and gun. With blended focus for example, visual focus is a blend of 70% on the target and 30% on the gun. According to John, as we get older, we tend to shoot more visually and we fire when the lead picture looks right. The intention to break the target can affect this by causing us to shift focus between the gun and target.

To fix this to more visual focus on the target he suggests we use two watching drills. John wants us to shift our mental focus and intention away from trying to break the target to paying attention to just looking at the target and “watching it continuously until it breaks”.

The first drill uses stations 2 through 6 and involves just the incoming targets: four L2, four L3, four H4, four H5 and four H6. The second drill uses all outgoers: four H2, four H3, four L4, four L5, and four L6. Load only one shell at a time. This makes you concentrate on each target, rather than rushing through the exercise.

The idea is to improve mental and visual discipline. Concentrate on the pre

-shot routine and how you use your eyes, using the correct focus on the target and not a blended focus approach. Your last thought before call-

ing for the target is to watch the target not look for the correct sight picture. Count how many times you properly execute the shot visually not how many targets you break. Concentrate on the process not the outcome.

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Gil and Vicki Ash are inveterate sustained-lead shooters and coach this method as the best method for shooting a flying target. They believe the best way to approach breaking a target is by being in front of it. They also understand, we are not predisposed to looking in front of target as it moves through the sky. They admit you have to commit to practicing this before you can consistently create the perceived lead you need to as you shoot. Experience shooting targets at different speeds, distance, height, and direction is required before your brain will consistently tell your subconscious how fast to move the gun and in what spatial relationship you need to perceive the barrel in relation to the target. Only by having done it successfully and deliberately numerous times will the idea sink into your sub-conscious.

Seeing a target behind your barrels is not intuitively natural without the practice and experience. This is why they emphasize visualization as another aid to learning how to shoot sustained-lead. Your brain

needs to picture what you want to do. It needs that prediction if you want a break the target. Visualize

the shot, execute it, adjust, and practice what’s successful.

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Magazine Review Bill Elliot gives advice this month on tournament shooting and selfawareness. Don’t try new techniques on tournament day. If you are a pullahead shooter on crossing targets,

don’t go trying sustained-lead. More importantly, be self-aware that you just tried sustained-lead on a target when you usually shoot it with pullahead and you missed. Self-correct and go back to pull-ahead.

Review your shooting log on a regular basis, monthly or more frequently. Again, more importantly, review the log and make notes on what to work on or what to remember when

you are out on the course. Also list the things you are doing well and what you need to work on. Visualize what you want to accomplish when working on your problem targets.

Video is also a good training aid. Have a partner take video of

your shooting. Using a ShotKam is also a great idea. You may want to have a coach review both for a more in-depth opinion of the video. A good coach will see things you don’t. Finally, don’t judge your shooting on tournament day. Pretty basic stuff, work the process and let the score take care of itself.

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Shotgun Sports—December 2023

Match stress surfaces frequently when expectations are not met. When things start to go south with your shooting, self -doubt raises its ugly head and with it comes a loss of concentration and an abandonment of the pre-shot routine and adherence to working the process. Michael J. Keyes, M.D. explains factors contributing to match stress this month

and while he always produces interesting articles, his solutions are sometimes lacking in practicality.

His best advice this month is experience, training, and getting guidance from a coach. You need to experience match pressure before you can develop ways to relieve it. Michael talks about emergency doctors who go into their field with great confidence which helps them through the pressure they experience. Their overconfidence is their motivation to improve. They learn through self-assessment, simulation, mentoring, and research. For a shooter this means learning how to diagnose their problems on their own or with the help of a coach. Visualization, coaching, and reading articles like these are additional aids.

Self-assessment also means knowing how match stress affects you and what works to get the mental train back on the tracks. This means when you experience it, get that log book out and record your feelings in the situation. Review it for solutions you’ve learned in the past and apply them when they are needed.

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Magazine Review Shotgun Sports– November 2023 Visualization: “I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head,” Nicklaus said.

“First, I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then, the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing.

Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous

images into reality.” Jack Nicklaus.

If you have any doubts whether visualization works, the above quote from Jack Nicklaus should eliminate them.

When it comes to GOAT’s, Jack is still the GOAT of golf: 18 majors, 19 runner-ups, 74 top-10 finishes in a major.

Michael J. Keyes, M.D.’s November article on visualization is a good breakdown of the how’s and why’s of its effectiveness.

According to Professor Russell Hurlbert, 50-70% of the population doesn’t have an internal dialogue going on in their heads and it’s suspected that there’s a similar inability to visualize.

Obviously, Jack Nicklaus can create a vivid visualization for a golf shot.

Let’s assume you can visualize and go from there. Visualization is truly only effective after an individual has reached an intermediate level of ability in whatever task they want to do. Like any problem, you need to be able to manipulate it in your mind to find a solution. Without the proper amount of knowledge, understanding, and experience, visualization will not be as effective. Once you have reached the proper level of experience and understanding then visualization can and will be a very effective tool.

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and more consistent.” Gil and Vicki Ash, who are true advocates of visualization, advise, creation of, “a visual prediction of where and how you want the shot to come together and then executing that prediction.”

Let’s assume you have reached the level required to make visualization effective.

There are two aspects of visualization making it properly effective, vivid imagery and mental practice of the skill. Jack Nicklaus has given us a fine example of the vivid imagery we want during visualization. In his example, he tells us he visualizes before every shot. Michael advises practicing recalling, “as precisely as possible, your technique in great detail.”

The idea is to recall this and automate your technique, making it “more efficient

At a higher level, visualization is an extremely effective problem-solving and relaxation technique, using it to calm yourself as you visualize your shot before calling for the target. Research has proven, use of visualization before sleep has a better chance of producing a solution to problems on waking than just walking around and mulling it over in your mind. Also, visualizing different approaches to a problem or going over several similar but separate problems stimulates the mind to find solutions more quickly. As an aid to mental training, Michael believes by using visualization, “shooters will be able to anticipate and control the effects of stress while improving their consistency and automatic skills.” Visualization works for many athletes, give it a shot and see what it does for you.

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BUD WOLFE CLASSIC ADDED MONEY HOA CH - $400 HOA RU - $300 MASTER, AA, A, B, C, D 1ST– $250 2ND- $150 3RD- $100

CONCURRENTS 1ST - $125 2ND - $75 Lady Sub Jr/Junior Veteran Sr. Veteran Super Sr. Vet

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Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays

ATA Trapshoot Sunday, December 30th 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 Additional Shoot Dates See Page 34 24

Trail Trap & Skeet

ATA Trapshoot Saturday, December 16th 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 2023 Trail Shoot Dates Saturday September 16th 25

Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays

NSSA Skeet Tournament Saturday, January 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 $22 each 50 targets 26

South Florida Shooting Club

NSSA Skeet Tournament Sunday, December 23rd 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 $24 each 50 targets 27

954-846-2336

Winning is great, but it's the long road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

Stan Smith

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Registered Shooting and Events in South Florida

Gun Shows Miramar National Guard Armory December 16-17th

Skeet Markham Trail Glades So. Florida

January 6th December 16th December 23rd

Trap PBS Complex Trail Glades Markham

January 13th December 16th December 17th

Sporting Clays Quail Creek January 3rd South Florida December 10th OK Corral December 16th Markham December 17th Gulf Coast Clays December 23rd Vero Beach December 30th

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.

The next point - that's all you must think about.

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Rod Laver

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2023 Schedule NSCA Sporting Clay Tournaments Date

Tournament

Saturday - Aug 12

Summers End Open

Saturday - Sept 9

Markham Fall Fest Shoot

Sunday - Oct 15

Pumpkin Blast

Sunday - Nov 5

Richard Merritt Memorial

Sunday - Dec 17

Bud Wolfe Classic

January 2024

Snow Bird Open

February 2024

Honest Abe's Birthday Bash

March 2024

St. Patrick's Day Open

April 2024

Gerry Stumm Memorial

May 2024

Memorial Day Open

June 2024

23rd Annual Sunshine State Classic

July 2024

Super Sizzle Open

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SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM

BUD WOLFE CLASSIC 100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations

SUNDAY DECEMBER 17TH 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: $80 N.S.C.A., $80 Hunter, $60.00 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. Tiebreaker station rankings will be posted during registration.

Lunch provided by: Flavor House Grill 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: MarkhamSportingClaysClub@gmail.com

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SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS 2023 RICHARD MERRITT HOA 91 ENTRANTS

CONCURRENTS

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LADY CH MEGAN THOMPSON LADY RU CATHY WHIDDEN SUB-JR CH MALAKAI DENNARD SUB-JR RU PATRICK BROOK JR CH MEGAN THOMPSON VET CH EMILIO TEJA VET RU RICHARD THOMPSON VET 3RD TED GRAY S VET CH ALEX RIERA S VET RU MELVIN SOSA S VET 3RD EDWARD LEE SSR VET CH ROCKY LONG SSR VET RU WILLIAM T. MUIR SSR VET 3RD ELIO CIOCCA HUNTER CH BARRY CORWIN HUNTER RU PIERRE RENAUD HUNTER 3RD LARRY TATE

83 70 75 66 83 90 84 83 87 81 79 83 82 71 84 76 76

CH JOSEPH PINCHIN RU CHARLES ALVAREZ M1 EMILIO TEJA M2 JUAN CUETO M3 JUAN ALVARDO JARA AA1 THOMAS ALLEN AA2 ROCKY LONG AA3 LENIN THOMPSON A1 ALEX RIERA A2 RICHARD THOMPSON A3 EDWARD LEE B1 WAYNE AMRITT B2 CATHY WHIDDEN B3 DAVID DEBRULE C1 MEGAN THOMPSON C2 MELVIN SOSA C3 JUAN CUBILLAN D1 PEDRO ZAMBRANO D2 DARIN IVES D3 MALAKAI DENNARD

91 90 90 86 85 88 83 76 87 84 79 76 70 68 83 81 79 79 77 75

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

.410 gauge 50 Targets $21.00 28 gauge 50 Targets $21.00 20 gauge 50 Targets $21.00 12 gauge 50 Targets $21.00 Doubles 50 Targets $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!

50 Straight Kennedy Half Dollar 75 Straight Eisenhower Dollar 100 Straight Morgan Silver Dollar 50 Straight Doubles Liberty Silver Half 36

Skeet Results Markham and South Florida Shooting Club

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don’t have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you’ve finished, nothing’s changed.

You’ve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

RAFAEL NADAL 37

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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 2023-2024

Additional 100 target events.

June 25th

$34.00

July 23rd August 27th September 24th October 22nd

See Joe Loitz for details: 954-857-5278

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT SHOOTING IS STILL POPULAR WITH THE SHOOTERS. SIGN UP WITH 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

16 Yards

NOVEMBER RESULTS SINGLES 98 DAX DEMENA ANGEL ESTEVEZ 95 ALBERTO LOPEZ 95 ROGELIO FOLCO 95 DAMIEN CRELLER 95 VALENTIN MILLAN 93 92 IVAN VILLALOBOS DANIEL CARBALLIDO 91 RAFAEL CARBALLIDO 91 ORACIO RICCOBONO 90 PEPY GRACIA 89 MIKE FREYER 89 87 JOSE LOPEZ JAKE HOOPER 86 ISIDORO LOPEZ 86 42

Handicap No Handicap event was held.

Doubles NOVEMBER RESULTS DOUBLES 89 DAX DEMENA DAMIEN CRELLER 85 MIKE FREYER 83 JAKE HOOPER 81 81 IVAN VILLALOBOS ALBERTO LOPEZ 80 ISIDORO LOPEZ 78 76 JOSE LOPEZ VALENTIN MILLAN 74

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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. 44

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