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5 Open Guns - Class won by 1) Hal Hansen - scores 43 + 4
2) Jay Schoonmaker 43 + 3
Ken Bagley Sr. 43 + 3
3) Chuck Treat - 42
7 Limited Guns - Class won by 1) Steve Tinner with a score of 42
2) Jim Skedd with a score of 40
3) Mathew Reid with a score of 27
Welcome to GHSC everyone, and our weekly, Sunday afternoon Clays Match. It's December in Western Washington and therefore it's cold. At game time today it is 36degrees, and we are all hovered around all the heaters when we aren't shooting.
The weather was clear however, and apart from some fine, and rather sparse snowflakes last night, the weather was non-threatening and, to say the least, invigorating today.
Many thanks as always to those who brought us the clays match. Many thanks indeed to Chuck Nicodemus for hosting and directing our match. Thanks also to the scorekeeper and ad hoc DJ, Doug McLean for keeping the "books" and announcing our match. And a special thanks to our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat, for bringing us Target array series "J" today.
Chuck, we Clays shooters all owe you a vote of thanks for bringing our usually overly dark "micro in the middle" out into the sunlight for all to see. Now our black micros have a white center, and in the center of the white center is a green dot. Suddenly, even in the ambient light of our flood lights shining through the darkness of December evenings, our black "micros in the middle" are standing out and just inviting all the clays shooters to "Plug" them. Well done, Chuck.
Target Array series "J" starts off with Round 1 looking pretty easy. 2 Green standards in a line on top, 2 orange midis in an
offset line below, and the black micro in the middle, now sporting a white center. Yeah! We can do this!!
Round 2 still has 2 standards on top but now one of the standards is black. On the line below are still the 2 orange midis
offset from the standards, and then the black micro in the middle, standing out for all to see.
Round 3 sees the top row with one orange mini, & one black standard, on top, and on the bottom row are still the 2 orange midis. The black mcro waits in the middle and we proceed to rnd 4.
Round 4 sees all the the standard sized clays gone. The top 2 clays are comprised of 1 orange micro, 1 orange midi,
the bottom row having 1 orange micro, and one orange midi. The black micro in the middle beckons the, so far, successful shooters, and folks, it's on to Rnd 5
Round 5 has all orange minis, 4 on each side in 2 offset rows as usual, and of course the one exception to the rule in the form of the black micro in the middle. the clays matches at GHSC have a habit of imparting a false sense of power and invincibility to shooters at the start of the matches, and then morphing into matches that take a great deal of precision, patience, and accuracy.
Our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat, sees to it that in addition to enjoyable competition, the requirements of sound handgun fundamentals are molded into the format as well. Good on ya, Chuck!
And it gets better, clays shooters. At the end of regulation play we have a three way tie, in the Open Class. Open Class shooters Hal Hansen, Jay Schoonmaker, and Ken Bagley Sr. all have matching scores of 43. You know what this means,
folks. Yep!! Shootoff. Target screens back to 44' and a straight line of orange micros punctuated by a center black micro, complete with white spot in the middle. Hal, Jay & Ken are called to the line, "load 5 rounds", Shooters Ready? Fire!!.
Now folks, this shootoff was close. When the smoke clears, and silence returns to the range, Hal Hansen has hit 4 of the 5
shootoff clays lined up on the screen. Jay and Ken each have hit 3, so Hal Hansen is this week's Open Class Victor.
In the Limited Class, Steve Tinner has emerged victorious with a score of 42. Well done, Clays Shooters. We'll see you right back here next Sunday afternoon at 4PM and we'll see who are the TOP GUNS then. In the meantime remember;
"Speed is Fine!! But Accuracy is Final!!"
Hal
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