March 29, 2010 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

14 Guns Entered

 

          2 Guns in Ladies Class - Class won by Giti Anable  Score 34

 

                     2nd Lady -  Carrie Morton  Score  25

 

8 Guns in Limited - Class won by Loren DeShon -  Score 48

 

                    2nd Stock - Dan Moore  Score 41

 

                    3rd Stock - Tim Anable  Score 37

 

6 Guns in Open Class - Class won by Jay Schoonmaker   Score 44

 

Tie For 2nd Open between Chuck Treat & Hal Hansen   Scores 39

 

           3rd Open - Chuck Nicodemus Score 35

 

 Welcome back to GHSC Sports Fans.  It's a another spring day in Western Washington; overcast, raining, and temperatures in the low 50s. Well, Take Heart, Summer's coming soon.

                

     Many thanks to our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus for hosting our match.  Many thanks also to Doug Mclean for scoring and calling the match, and continued thanks to our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat, for bringing us Page 5 of The Great Equalizer Series.  Let's take a look at the arrays from a competitors eye point of view.  The first thing we notice about the match today is that all the clay targets, Standards and micros, are orange. The exception to the rule, of course, is the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 1

     We see 2 straight rows of clays, the top row comprised of 4 Orange Standards, and the bottom row comprised of 4 orange micros.  If you are shooting a Limited Class handgun, you shoot at the 4 Orange Standards,  but if you are shooting an Open Class handgun, you shoot at the micros.  No matter whether Limited  or Open, if you break your 4 primary clays, you then engage the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 2

 

     Round 2 starts to top & bottom a bit.  The top row starts out with an orange micro, then finishes with 4 orange Standards.  The bottom row starts out with an Orange Standard,  and finishes with 3 orange micros.  Break your 4 Primary Clays, then engage the black micro in the middle. 

 

Round 3

 

     The top row starts off with 2 orange micros, followed by 2 Orange Standards.  The bottom row starts off with 2 Orange Standards,  followed by 2 orange micros.  Break your designated 4 Primary Clays, then go for the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 4

 

     The top row starts out with 3 orange micros, The bottom row starts out with 3 Orange Stadards.  The last clay on the top row is an Orange Standard, and the last clay on the bottom row is an orange micro.  Break your primaries, and then go for the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 5

 

     Here we have the mirror image reversed from Rnd 1.  We see 4 orange micros on top, and 4 Orange Standards on the bottom.  Break those, and then the black micro in the middle, and let's take a look at the results.

 

     In the Ladies Class, Giti Anable has the victory.  Giti shot a score of 34 today, leading fellow lady Carrie Morton, with a score of 25, to the wire. 

 

     In the Limited Class, Loren DeShon showed the way, with a score of 48, outscoring even the Open Class guns.

      2nd Limited was won by Dan Moore with a score of 41.  Giti's husband Tim Anable,

with a score of 37 took 3rd Place honors in the Limited Class.

 

     In the Open Class, Jay Schoonmaker continued his winning ways, with a score of 44.

Jay was on fire today, with some runs more resembling those fired from a machine gun than a semi-automatic Ruger. 

          There was a tie for 2nd Open between our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat, and this reporter, Hal Hansen, both sporting scores of 39.  In 3rd Place in the Open Class was our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus, with a score of 35. 

 

     An announcement, Clays Shooters, so Listen UP!!  Next Sunday, April 4, 2010, is Easter Sunday.  NO CLAYS MATCH!!  Easter is for honoring the beliefs of your religion, and for spending the day with your families.  Honor the traditions, and have a great weekend. 

     The following Sunday, April 11, 2010, we'll be right back at GHSC at 4PM for Page 6 of 

The Great Equalizer Series.  Join us for another Spring Sunday of Clays Shooting, and likely the weather will be clear & Sunny.  Well, we'll see.  In the meantime, practice a lot.

Remember your fundamental techniques, and practice them at home as though you were in a Clays Match for MONEY!!  But always remember, when you are practicing:

 

"SHOOT FAST!!   SHOOT ACCURATELY!!  BUT MOST OF ALL, SHOOT SAFELY!!!!

 

Hal