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Markham Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays
June 1, 2016
Volume 7 Issue 6
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OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS 2015
OFFICERS
• PRESIDENT—Vacant
• VICE PRESIDENT—Vacant
• TREASURER—Steve Sagal
• SECRETARY— Joe Loitz
• RECORDING SECRETARY—Jerry Schwab
DIRECTORS:
• Rich Nilsen
Inside this issue:
Trap Program 20-21
Trap Results 23-24
Youth Program 25-26
November Issue 2015
Club News - Magazine Review 4-7
Calender of Events 8-9
Club Calender 10-11
NSCA Schedule 12-13
Sporting Clays Program and Results
14-15
Skeet Program and Results 16-17
FSA Skeet Calender 18-19
Contact info:
Markham Skeet, Trap, and
Sporting Clays
8299 Cassia Terrace
Tamarac, Fl. 33321
• www.markhamclaytargets.com
• www.markhamskeet.org
• www.markhamsportingclays.org
• E-mail: markhamshoot-
• Newsletter: [email protected]
On the Cover: Peter Mills, Federico Ramirez,
and Steve Norris shooting Doubles.
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Next General Meeting
July 7th Starting at 7:00 PM
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with a 47. Hector Marrero’s 48 led
20 ga. Shooting a new gun Luke Ford’s 46 won the 28 ga. Con-
grats on passing the Bar! Finally, Asif Sheerahamed had a career day leading the .410 with a 48,
won the doubles with a 44, and won the HOA with a 180. Way
to go!
On the trapline Alex Riera won
the singles with a lone 99 in this month’s Singles. Angel Estevez
won the Handicap with a nice score of 95 and Federico lead the
Doubles with an 88.
Steve Sagal is doing better and
getting around with a new wheel-chair. We hope to get him back out at the club soon. Mike Free-
man is stepping aside to let Fed-erico take over the duties of Trap
Chairman. I want to thank Mike for doing the job all these years.
Dust your gun off and get out there and do some shooting!
Look forward to seeing all of you at the club in June.
It was a busy month for several of our Youth shooters who partic-
ipate in the Young Guns at Quail Creek. They competed in the
state SCTP Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays championships at Silver Dollar and at Fishhawk.
As expected the performed well taking home all of the team
championships. Congrats every-one!
If you didn’t already know John Bedenbender lost his long battle
with cancer this month. There is a picture of him on page 25.
Hopefully, we will get together for a memorial service this
month. I will keep you posted.
The Sporting Clays shoot was well attended with Rodrigo Me-
hich leading the field of 66 shoot-ers by three targets with a lone
94. Lucio Gomez and Wayne South followed closely with 91
and 90 respectively.
The Skeet program is continuing
to receive good attendance by 10 shooters firing at 1850 targets,
Craig Campbell led the 12 ga.
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can start to formulate a pre-shot that pre-
vents falling into losing attitudes and em-
phasizes positive approaches. Also your
journal helps you figure out the hows of
your failures and can be used to explain
why you shot well when you do. Buy a
notebook and start using it!
Todd Bender gives some advice on how to combat fatigue when at a major shoot.
Come a day early and maybe just shoot one event is a nice way to start a long
week of shooting. As a good preparation for a shoot start an exercise program then
when you get to the shoot do a half hour of cardio to get your day started. Avoid
caffeine overload during the competition and stay hydrated especially here in Flori-
da. If there is lots of time between events either go back to the hotel and re-
lax in your nice air-conditioned room or
maybe event take a dip in the pool.
Shotgun Sports – June 2016
How’s and why’s can either make or
break you when it comes to your self-
esteem. Michael J. Keyes, M.D. delves
into the pitfalls of these two adverbs and
gives us some guidance on how to use
them to our advantage. When you have
a bad day and your scores are less than
you hoped avoid asking yourself: Why is
this happening to me? Instead concen-
trate on solving the mystery of how it
happened.
We have expectations for our score go-
ing into a round based on our past scor-
ing and practice. When we fail to meet
those expectations you need to look for
a concrete cause. Asking yourself how
come you shot poorly is constructive
where the abstract ‘woe is me’ thinking is
a self-esteem killing attitude and destruc-
tive. Ruminating on the failings of the
day and how it has ruined your life does
you no good. Study the details of what
went wrong with your day and try to fig-
ure out how to fix it or prevent it from
happening again.
This is why a shooting journal is a good
idea. Recording your high and/or low
feelings about your day of shooting can
help you get to your ‘happy place’ sooner
the next time you step to the line. You
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profess it does. There is nothing useful in
their article this month unless you have
drunk the Gil and Vicki Kool-Aid.
Ever been distracted on the line? At Mark-
ham we have an inordinate number of drag-
on flies and airliners skating across our
skies, disrupting our concentration. John
Shima gives us a nice three step process
this month on how to reboot after a distrac-
tion or a miss. First, acknowledge the dis-
traction. For me I look right at what is
bothering me so I lose all curiosity and in-
terest in it. See it, recognize what it is, and
move on. There’s no point assigning any
emotion to it, just recognize it as part of the
landscape and restart your pre-shot routine.
John suggests opening the gun, stepping
back, acknowledge the distraction, then as I
said restart your pre-shot routine.
The second step is an add-on to your pre-
shot routine. Take a cleansing breath, go
into your soft focus mode, and visualize
your shot from the target emerging from
the house until it falls to the ground in piec-
es. Finally, complete your pre-shot routine
after the visualization. Good advice, espe-
cially the second step.
CLAYTARGET NATION – May 2016
Paul Giambrone III says nothing new
when he advises us on how to nail low 6.
He does like to move his shooters to the far
left side of the station to expand their pe-
ripheral vision which is not necessarily ad-
vised in the standard skeet textbooks. He
also believes moving to the back of the sta-
tion helps. Hold point is one third of the
way to the center stake and the focal point
is half-way or three-quarters of the way
back to the window. Finally, start your
swing on the flash of the target. We should
know all this but sadly we forget to apply it
sometimes.
Never was there a more rabid, sustained-
lead pair of instructors than Gil and Vicki
Ash. There chauvinism for this swing
method is understandable if you are always
dealing with beginning students but this is
like teaching adding and subtracting as the
only way to do math. At some point the
student should be learning their multiplica-
tion tables and their ‘goes inta’s’. They also
mistakenly believe your eyes are inexorably
drawn to the fastest moving object in your
visual field. I discussed this with Dr. Joan
Vickers (Quiet Eye). Her research shows
that a trained athlete’s vision would not be
drawn to something like their gun if this is a
common occurrence in their sport. So, your
vision being drawn to your gun is a fallacy
they continue to perpetrate through their
writing. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen,
just means it doesn’t always occur like they
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ClayShootingUSA – June-July 2016
This is the Florida edition of
ClayShootingUSA. There are shoot
reports on the Gator Cup, the Carib-
bean Classic, and the Florida Chal-
lenge. Another installment from Lar-
ry Grenevicki on his ongoing series
on antique gun powder and ammuni-
tion makes this magazine more than
just a shoot report bulletin board.
Good writing as always!
Trap & Field—May 2016
Bob Palmer’s article has little meat
this month. It is a setup for next
month’s where he will reveal a trick for
getting into the Zone quickly. I guess
we can all tune in next month for
some of his Zone wisdom.
Notice the picture on your left.
This is Scott Robertson, a perennial
All-American Sporting Clays shooter.
Scott swears he is left-eye dominant
and shoots from the right. To me he
looks like he has central vision and
shoots with the gun effectively
mounted under his nose. I talked to
John Woolley about this and he ad-
mitted to me he had tested Scott and
he believed he had central vision.
If you really zoom in on the picture it
is obvious he does not mount the gun
directly under his right eye. I actually
have two pictures of him and both
look suspiciously like he shoots this
way. Difficult to learn I would think
but once mastered I don’t see it as be-
ing a problem.
Scott Robertson
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. Yogi Berra
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& 8’s, 1200 fps, 12 gauge.
Dick’s: They are running specials eve-
ry other week. Watch the papers and
check out their website.
Gun Shows: June 25-26 Ft.
Lauderdale War Memorial Aud.
Skeet this month: Markham June 4th
Trail Glades June 11-12th
South Florida June 25-26th
Trap this month: Indian River June 5th
South Florida June11th
Markham June 26th
Sporting This month: Quail Creek June 26th
Markham June 25th
OK Corral June 11th
South Florida June 18th
Indian River June 19th
Current shell specials: Walmart: Currently selling Winches-
ter Universal and Federal 4 packs at
$21.74 (12 & 20 ga.).
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
Calender of events:
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 Trap
Night
2 Sporting
Clays
3 4 Skeet
Tourney
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6 Youth
Program
7 Skeet Night
8 Trap
Night
9 Sporting
Clays
10
11
12
13 Youth
Program
14 Skeet Night
15 Trap
Night
16 Sporting
Clays
17 18
19
20 Youth
Program
21 Skeet Night
22 Trap
Night
23 Sporting
Clays
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25 Sporting Tourney
26 Trap
Tourney
27 Youth
Program
28 Skeet Night
29 Trap
Night
30 Sporting
Clays
June2016
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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
2 Skeet
Tourney
3
4 Youth
Program Cancelled
5 Skeet Night
6 Trap
Night
7 Sporting
Clays
8 9
10
11 Youth
Program
12 Skeet Night
13 Trap
Night
14 Sporting
Clays
15 16 Sporting Tourney
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18 Youth
Program
19 Skeet Night
20 Trap
Night
21 Sporting
Clays
22 23
24 Trap Tourney
25 Youth
Program
26 Skeet Night
27 Trap
Night
28 Sporting
Clays
29 30
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There are basically two types of people. Peo-ple who ac-complish things, and people who claim to have accom-plished things. The first group is less crowded.
Mark Twain
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 Clas-
sic
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
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Markham Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays Club
15TH ANNUAL SUNSHINE STATE CLASSIC
100 Targets Shot over 14 Stations
SATURDAY JUNE 25TH
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:
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
SPORTING CLAYS PROGRAM
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CONCURRENTS
SPORTING CLAYS RESULTS MEMORIAL DAY OPEN
66 ENTRIES
CH RODRIGO MEHICH 94
RU LUCIO GOMEZ 91
M1 WAYNE SOUTH 90
M2 MARIO O'FARRILL 89
M3 DAVID STEWART 88
AA1 RICHARD SLEEM 86
AA2 GERRY STUMM 84
AA3 TED F. GRAY 82
A1 EDWARD J. LEE 88
A2 DAVID A. SCHLACHTA 81
A3 DAVID M. KORDIZIKOWSKI 79
B1 ALEXANDER STEWART 89
B2 JOE FORDHAM 88
B3 WESLEY B. PARADISE 79
C1 MAX REPIK 83
C2 DONOVAN H. AMRITT 81
C3 CALVERT CULLEN 81
D1 NATHAN BUSSCHER 77
D2 CHARLIE DE ANGELIS 77
D3 JOSE E. LIBOS 74
E1 WAYNE AMRITT 72
E2 JOHN PILCH 71
E3 CHRIS WHITE 71
LADY CH CHARLIE DE ANGELIS 77
LADY RU JACLYN RAILSBACK 56
SUB-JR CH ALEXANDER STEWART 89
SUB-JR RU ALEX BAUER 58
JR CH MICHAEL PILCH 70
VET CH WAYNE SOUTH 90
VET RU EDWARD J. LEE 88
SUPER VET CH ROCKY LONG 84
SUPER VET RU W. T. MUIR 84
SR. SUPER VET JOE FORDHAM 88
HUNTER CH ANDRES ARAMI 81
HUNTER RU BARRY CORWIN 70
HUNTER 3RD CHRIS WEINGARTNER 68
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50 Straight Doubles Liberty Silver Half 50 Straight Doubles Liberty Silver Half 50 Straight Doubles Liberty Silver Half 50 Straight Doubles Liberty Silver Half
Daily Fees $5/100 Targets
.410 gauge 50 Targets $19.50
28 gauge 50 Targets $19.50
20 gauge 50 Targets $19.50
12 gauge 50 Targets $19.50
Doubles 50 Targets $19.50
Shoots usually held the first Saturday of every month.
Gauges may be shot out of sequence with the per-
mission of management. More than one 50 target
program may be shot in the same gauge as a prelimi-
nary event.
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Skeet Shoot Results
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”–Aristotle
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TrapProgramATA SHOOT
SCHEDULE 2015 –2016
January 24th
February 28th
March 27th
April 24th
May 22nd
June 26th
July 24th
August 28th
A creative man is moti-vated by the desire to achieve, not by the de-sire to beat others.
Ayn Rand .
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 in-
terested in helping let
us know.
P r o g r a m S t a r t s
promptly at 9:00.
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I never knew anyone who became so instantly infatuated with a new gun and so quickly lost that infatuation as Johnny B. A greater friend to our club you would never find. I cannot tell you how many times he did work on the Youth guns and for the shooters in the program at little or no charge. I always admired his positive attitude throughout his illness. I have not received a date for his funeral. He has already been cremated and I believe the plan is to have his ashes interred at the Veterans Cemetery. When I get word on a definite date I will let everyone know. He will be missed.
The death of
someone we know always reminds us that we are
still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we
ought to re-examine.
Mignon
McLaughlin
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Singles
Trapshooting Results
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Handicap
Doubles
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Joey Pinchin, Nick and Ashley Blenker have been dominating the SCTP shooting this spring. Joey and Ashley won the state Sporting Clays championships in May. Joey won the HOA and Ashley won the Ladies title. Nick was a member of sev-eral winning teams in Trap and Sporting Clays. Joey also broke 100 straight in a recent charity shoot, winning $10,000! He received $1,000 and donated $9,000 to the Young Guns Program. Michael Pilch and Andrew Loitz also won team tro-phies. Congrats go out to all of them!
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