May 16, 2010 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

16 Total Entry

 

            Only 1 Lady today, Carrie Morton and her Model 19 Glock.  Well Carrie, I hope some more ladies show up soon to give you some competition.

 

 8 In the Open Class, won by Hal Hansen with a score of 45

 

          2nd Open - Jay Schoonmaker with a score of 44

 

          3rd Open - David Lee with a score of 37

 

8 in Limited Class, Class won by Dan Moore with a score of 44

 

              2nd Limited was a tie between Tim Walberg

                                                                          with scores of 43

                                                                 Jim Skedd

             

              3rd Limited - Mark (OJ) Kimura with a score of 36

 

     Good Afternoon Ladies & Gents, and welcome to another great day at Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club and another great Clays Match.  The weather is fine, the skies lightly overcast, the weather shirt-sleeve warm, the course challenging and we are going to have Fun!

 

      Many thanks to the Clays Match Staff for bringing us the match today.  Thanks in particular to our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus, absent today,  for hosting our match,  thanks to our DJ & Scorekeeper, Doug McLean for cooking the books, running the match and keeping everything working smoothly.  Doug was also the Match Director, Pro Tem today.  Thanks to our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat for bringing us Page 5 of The Great Equalizer Series.  Last week the course laid out all sorts of geometric shapes and designs, today it's a series of straight lines. Now I ask you: "What could be easier?"  "Live in hope, Grasshopper."  First & foremost, you have to be accurate.  Then, just to liven up the action, you have to be faster than your opponent.  Let's see what challenges our Arrays Impressario has wrought.

 

Round 1

     2 Stacked lines, Green Standards on top and orange micros below.  Just follow the dotted line to the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 2

     2 more stacked lines, but mixed this time.  The top row starts out with an orange micro, then morphs to 3 Green Standards.

The bottom row starts off with a Green Standard, morphing to 3 orange micros.  Pick out your clays according to your class of entry, then go to the middle of the array to engage the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 3

     2 orange micros start the top row, folowed by 2 Green Standards.  Reverse the sequence for the bottom row and then head in to the black micro in the middle. 

 

Round 4

     Now the top row starts out with 3 orange micros, and ends with a Green Standard.  The bottom row starts with 3 Green Standards followed by an orange micro.  Pick out your 4 Primaries then engage the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 5

     Now we see the inverse of Round 1, with the top row comprised of 4 orange micros and the bottom row comprised of 4 Green Standards.  As always, after engaging and breaking your 4 Primaries,  engage the black micro in the middle, then look to the scorekeeper and see the results of the action.

 

     Today, at the end of regulation play we have some winners.  In the Open Class, with today's high score, was this reporter, Hal Hansen with a score of 45.  Jay Schoonmaker took 2nd Open with a score of 44 & David Lee took 3rd Open with a score of 37.  After the match concluded, Jay was bemoaning the fact of a misfire that cost him a crucial target.  Sorry Jay, "There is no crying in clays shooting."  As has been heard at the pistol range so very many times over the years after a clays match, and I quote: "There's always next week."

     

     In the Limited Class, 1st Place went to Dan Moore with a score of 44.  2nd Limited went to a name we are going to be hearing in the near future, Tim Walberg.  Tim is a relatively new clays shooter, and Tim & his Kimber turned in a score today of

43.  Tim & Jim Skedd shot to a 2nd place tie in the Limited Class today, Jim returned to our Sunday Clays Matches today, after a bit of an absence, and he & his NightHawk found all the competition they could handle.  In 3rd Limited, also shooting a NightHawk, was Mark (OJ) Kimura.  Congratulations on fine shooting, one and all.

 

     We'll see you all right here next Sunday at 4PM.  In the meantime, come on out to the GHSC Plate Match, Monday May 17, 2010 at 6PM and help us celebrate the return of the Rattling Steel.  $5.00 buys you a ticket to play, and $10.00 lets you play twice.  The matches are over by 8:30PM so you won't even be late going to bed.  See you then.  In the meantime, practice a lot,

and practice properly.  Remember the handgun axiom:

 

"IT'S ALL ABOUT SIGHT ALIGNMENT AND TRIGGER SQUEEZE, THE REST IS JUST THERE TO CONFUSE YOU."

 

Hal