May 9, 2010 Gig Harbor Sportsman's Club Clays Match Report

    12 Guns Entered

 

                       2 in Ladies Class, Class won by Gitti Anable  Score 25

 

                                  2nd Lady, Carrie Morton  Score 13

                                 

      4 in Open Class, Class won by Hal Hansen Score 46

 

              2nd Open - Ken Bagley Sr.  Score 43

 

              3rd Open - Herb Shahan  Score 33

 

     8 in Limited Class, Class won by Loren DeShon Score 43

 

               2nd Limited - Chuck Treat  Score 39

 

    Tie for 3rd Limited between

                                    Mark (OJ) Kimura

                                                       Scores 37

                                    Allen Caron

 

     Welcome back to Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club, where we have a beautiful, sunny warm 65degree day in which to shoot clays.  Yes indeed folks, it's well into Spring, and Summers coming.  12 handgun competitors showed up to enjoy the sunny weather, and to enjoy the competition and camaraderie of today's Clays Match.  Our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus, is out of town today, and our Announcer & Scorekeeper, Doug McLean has got the Match Director's gig in his place.  Our Arrays Impressario,

Chuck Treat, has brought us Pg 4 of The Great Equalizer Series today.  Pages 1 - 3 have certainly been challenging, so let's take a look at the challenges of Pg 4, from the shooter's perspective.

 

Round 1

 

    We see 2 stacked diagonal lines, the top row consisting of orange micros, the bottom row consisting of Green Standards.  If you are shooting an Open Class gun, you go for the orange micros, if shooting a Limited Class gun, you go for the Green Standards.  In either case, when/if you break your 4 primary targets, you then engage the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 2

 

     We see the same two stacked diagonal lines as in Round 1, but this time the orange micros & Green Standards are reversed, with the Green Standards on top, and the orange micros on the bottom.  Again, having hit your 4 primaries, you then engage the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 3

 

     The two stacked diagonal lines are still on the screens, but now the top row starts off with an orange micro, followed by 3 Green Standards.  The bottom row starts out with a Green Standard, followed by 3 orange micros.  Now you know the drill.

After engaging the 4 Primaries, engage the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 4

 

     In round 4, the top diagonal line starts off with an orange micro, followed by 2 Green Standards, and culminates with an orange micro.  The bottom row starts with a Green Standard, followed by 2 orange micros, and culminates with a Green Standard.  Engage and break all your primaries then engage the black micro in the middle.  And on to.....

 

Round 5

 

     In round 5, both rows alternate evenly between orange micros & Green Standards.  The top row starts with an orange micro,  the bottom row with a Green Standard, and the clays alternate right up the line to the black micro in the middle.

 

     At the end of regulation play, we have some winners.  In the Ladies Class, Giti Anable

has emerged the winner with a score of 25.  Carrie Morton takes the 2nd Ladies spot with a score of 13. 

 

     In the Open Class, this reporter, Hal Hansen has the high score for the match with 46.

2nd Open was taken by Ken Bagley Sr. with a score of 43.  Herb Shahan takes 3rd Open with a score of 33. 

 

     In the Limited Class, Loren DeShon took the honors with a score of 43.  It's of interest to note that Loren used the handgun he carries on the flight deck of his Boeing 737.  I don't believe even Allah could help a troublemaker on Loren's flights.

 

     Our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat took 2nd Limited today, with a score of 39.  Good shooting Chuck.  It's good to know that not only can you design the arrays, you can engage them well also.

 

     We had a tie for 3rd Limited between Mark (OJ) Kimura & Alan Caron, both with scores of 37.  There was a wide disparity in historic eras between OJs & Alan's weaponry today.  Mark was shooting his ultra-modern NightHawk, while, as is his custom, Alan was shooting his "Old West" era Single Action Army.  In the right hands, apparently there isn't much difference between potential for the two vintages of sidearms, as both OJ & Alan shot scores of 37.

 

     And that's it for another week folks.  Next Sunday at 4:00pm we'll meet back here at Gig Harbor Sportsman's Club and do it again.  Our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat,

will bring us Page 5 of "The Great Equalizer Series" next week, and it looks like it will require both speed & accuracy to prevail.  Practice often, and practice well.  Keep in mind that practice, in and of itself, only makes permanent.  Perfect practice makes perfect.  Until next week then, always remember:

 

     "SPEED IS FINE, BUT ACCURACY IS FINAL!!"

 

Hal