June 27, 2010 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

14 Total Entries

 

  2 Ladies    Class won by Gitti Anable with a score of 25

 

                2nd Place Lady Carrie Morton with a score of 15

 

 3 Open Class Entries    Class won by Ken Bagley Sr. with a score of 45                

 

2nd Place Open Tim - Kopp with a score of 41

 

                3rd Place Open - Gitti Anable with a score of 25 

 

11 Limited Class Entries  Class won by Alan Caron with a score of 45

 

                 2nd Limited - Jim Skedd, with a score of 44

            

                 Tie for 3rd Limited - Loren DeShon & Chuck Treat, both with scores of 43

                 

     Good afternoon Clays Shooters, and welcome back to Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club, and many thanks to GHSC for hosting our match.  Our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus brought us another good match, and for his efforts we thank him.  Thanks

to Doug McLean, recently back from several surgical procedures,  for running the scoresheet and the microphone, and  special thanks to our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat, for bringing us Page 4 of "The Great Equalizer Series."  We had a field of 14 Clays Match Competitors today, and let's take a "Firing Line" perspective of what they saw.

 

Round 1

     For Open Class competitors today, we saw a straight line of orange micros.  Four Standard Green Clay Targets, configured into a  Square, were positioned at the ends of the line, on the outside, for the Limited Class Competitors.    If the shooter is entered in the Limited Class, he, or she, attempts to "gun down" the Green Standards.  In either case, if, and only if, the shooter is successful in breaking their primaries, they then go to the center of the array and engage the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 2

     Now the Green Standard on the top right corner of it's Square joins the line of orange micros, on the inside of the array right next to the black micro in the middle, replace by an orange micro completing the square.  This adds a bit of vertical movement to the game. 

 

Round 3

     Now both the Green Standards on the inside edge of the Limited Class Squares have joined the orange micro line.  The two inside clays comprising the square are now orange micros.  Now it's time to formulate an actual path through the targets to minimize movement and maximize speed.  Don't get to fast though. No matter which class you are in, you still have to engage and break the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 4

     Three of the Limited Class Green Standards have replaced the orange micros on the center line by now.  Three of the Open Class orange micros are now on the corners of the outside squares.  By now we can see where the different clays are headed for

in Round 5.  And don't get complacent.  When, and if, you break all of your primaries, you still must engage and break the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 5

     Yep!!  Now the squares on the outsides of the arrays are comprised of 4 orange micros.  The 4 Green Standards are all in a line right down the middle.  If you break all of your primaries, you then still have to engage the black micro in the middle.  Let's see what our Clays Shooters were able to accomplish today.

 

     In the Ladies Class, Giti Anable took the win with a score of 25. 

 

     In the Open Class, Ken Bagley Sr. rejoined our ranks to take the win, with a score of 45.

 

     In the Limited Class, Allen Caron took the win with a score of 45.  As usual, Allen was shooting his Single Action Army Revolver.  Our GHSC Clays Match Limited Class  is starting to look like an Old West cowtown, with all it's Single Action Revolvers. 

     Jim Skedd took 2nd Limited today, with his Ultra Modern NightHawk.  Jim's score of 44 was close, but not quite enough.  We had a tie for 3rd Limited between Chuck Treat and Loren DeShon, both shooting Revolvers.  Loren's Revolver was quite a sight.  Picture yourself on the streets of Tombstone, AZ. back in the late 1800s.  Picture Loren with the star of a lawman pinned to his chest.  In the spirit of Wyatt Earp, one could just picture Loren DeShon as he walked with his brothers and Doc Holiday to the OK Corral to deal with the Clantons.  Riding on his right hip is the very pistol personally given to him by none other than Ned Buntline.  It's a (really) long barreled, Single Action Revolver, chambered in .45 Colt, it's rounds fueled with Black Powder.  In a pitched battle, it would take a few minutes after the shooting was over before anyone could see who won.  Both Loren & Chuck Treat finished with scores of 43 today, but I doubt if the Clantons did any better this time than the last time so long ago. 

 

          And that's our match for today.  Remember, there will be NO CLAYS MATCH NEXT WEEK, over the JULY 4TH  HOLIDAY.  This is the time to celebrate our nation's independence, and to remember our Veterans who made it possible.  We'll meet right back here July 11, 2010 at 4PM and start the July 2010 series of our Clays Matches.  This will give us all a chance to practice our shooting, smooth out our techniques, and do a lot of live, and dry, firing in preperation for upcoming battles.  When you are honing your skills with your handguns, remember that SAFETY is priority #1.  #2 is Accuracy.  Only after honing those skills into final form should one become concerned with Speed.  Remember the shooter's axiom:

 

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

 

Hal