June 20, 2010 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

 

16 Guns Entered

 

     5 Ladies   Class won by Carrie Morton with a score of 27

        2nd Lady - Gitti Anable with a score of 25

        3rd Lady - Marla Couch with a score of 22

 

  7 In Open Class    Class won by Hal Hansen with a score of 44

            2nd Open - Jeff Morton with a score of 39

            3rd Open - Kirk Foreman with a score of 24

 

  9 In Limited Class    Class won by Loren DeShon with a score of 44

            2nd Limited - Chuck Treat with a score of 43

            3rd Limited - Jay Schoonmaker with a score of 40

 

     Welcome back to Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club, Ladies & Gentlemen.  We're back here for another Sunday afternoon Clays Match, and we have 16 guns entered to make it a good one.  As always, we offer our sincerest thanks to Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club for hosting our event.  We thank our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus,  for running the match, and we thank Jon Lagerquist for running the scoresheet & the microphone in Doug's absence.  Chuck Treat, our Arrays Impressario,  brought us Page 3 of The Great Equalizer Series today, and it was an appropriate series of arrays, too.

     The weather dawned cool and rainy today.  The sky was totally overcast, a light rain was falling, and the heaters were out to offset the 55degree temperatures.  Today was a classic example of early fall weather in the Pacific Northwest.  Unfortunately,

tomorrow, June 21, 2010, is the first day of summer.  The weatherman is getting either ahead, or behind, schedule.

     Page 3 of The Great Equalizer Series epitomized the fall weather, bringing us an early halloween.  The clays arrays were comprised of orange micros, for the Open Class Guns, and Black Standards for the Limited Class Guns.  Rather Open or Limited Class though, when the shooter successfully engages his/her appropriate array, he or she then heads in and engages the

Black Micro in the Middle.

 

Round 1

     Round 1 today was composed of a series of boxes.  On the outside of each array were two vertically stacked Black Standards.  Working toward the middle of the screen we then came upon a vertically stacked pair of orange micros.  Then another vertical set of Black Standards followed by another vertically stacked set of orange micros.  If the shooter engages and breaks their primaries, they go to the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 2

     Round 2 is the same as round 1, except the vertically stacked sets of clays are reversed.  On this array, one first encounters the two vertially stacked orange micros, and then goes from there.

 

Round 3

     Round 3 finds the 4 Black Standards forming a box, and enclosing the 4 orange micros which are forming a diamond.  In the middle of the screen, waiting for it's turn, is the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 4

     Now the square is formed by the Black Standards, which are bracketed by the orange micros, still in the outline of a larger diamond.  Find the fastest way to engaging and breaking your primaries, then proceed to the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 5

     Round 5 is a bit different.  The clays are still Orange Micros for the Open Guns, and they are still black Standards for the Limited Guns.  The clays appear to form two arrows, one each for the micros and Standards, and each arrow, overlayed with the other arrow, is pointing toward the black micro in the middle.  So let's see how our shooters did today.

 

     We were privileged to have 5 Ladies competing today.  We want to welcome back, after a long absence, Mark Kimura's Niece,

Ariel Kimura, here all the way from Sunny Southern California.  Admit it Ariel, you came up here to Western Washington for the weather, didn't you?  Well, welcome back and we hope to see you as often as possible.  Tomorrow is the first day of Summer,

so when you return, be sure to bring suntan lotion. 

     Carrie Morton took the honors in the Ladies Class today, with a score of 27.  Carrie, you had that Glock 19 working for you.

Congratulations.  Taking 2nd in the Ladies Class today, was Gitti Anable, shooting a score of 25.  Marla Couch took 3rd place in the Ladies Class, shooting a score of 22.

 

     In the Open Class, this reporter, Hal Hansen, won the class with a score of 44.  Taking 2nd Open today was Jeff Morton with a score of 39, and 3rd in the Open Class was Kirk Foreman. with a score of 24.

 

     It might be noted that this reporter's winning Open Class score of 44 only tied for the high score of the match.  Loren DeShon,

shooting his H&K 9mm won the Limited Class, also with a score of 44.   Our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat finished 2nd in the Limited Class with a score of 43, followed by our 3rd place Limited Class finisher, Jay Schoonmaker, with a score of 40.

 

     OK Folks, there you have it for today.  Tomorrow is the first day of summer, and we hope to see some summer weather soon.  We'll be back right here, same time and same station, next Sunday, June 27, 2010 for another clays match. We hope to see you here with us.  Until then, drive safely, practice hard, and always remember:

 

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

 

Hal