August 22, 2010 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

16  Guns Entered

 

2 Ladys - Class won by Ariel Kimura   Score 30 + 5

 

          2nd Lady Carrie Morton  Score 30

 

          5 Open - Class won by Chuck Nicodemus  Score 44

 

          2nd Open -  Herb Shahon  Score 35

 

          3rd Open - Brian Tinner Score 34

 

 11 Limited - Class won by Jim Skedd  Score 45

 

          2nd Limited Mark Wuesthoff  Score 44

 

          tie for 3rd Limited between Hal Hansen & Jay Schoonmaker   Scores of 38

 

     Good afternoon, Ladies & Gentlemen, and welcome back to Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club and another mid-summer Clays match.  It's a bit cooler today, with an overcast sky and temperatures in the mid sixties.  Many thanks today to our Match Staff

for bringing us this match.  Thanks to our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus for hosting and directing the match.  Thanks to our Scorekeeper and DJ, Doug McLean for officiating the event, and thanks to our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat for bringing us

Page 3 of The Great Equalizer Series. 

 

     Let's take a look at what our Clays Match Competitors saw today.  

 

Round 1

     The Top Row saw a Green Standard, followed by an orange micro, with the pairing repeated.  The bottom row saw the same pattern.  If you are entered in the Open Class, you engage the orange micros.  If entered in the Limited Class, you engage the Green Standards.  In either case, IF you are successful in breaking your primaries, you engage the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 2

      We see the same pattern, but with both the top and bottom rows beginning with the orange micros, followed by the Green Standards, with the pairing then repeated.  The black micro in the middle awaits those successful in breaking all of their primaries.

 

Round 3

     Now the 4 Green Standards form a Square, corralling the 4 orange micros which are configured in the shape of a diamond.

As always, the black micro in the middle awaits those successful in breaking all of their primaries.

 

Round 4

     Now the 4 Green Standards, still configured in the shape of a square, are actually surrounded by the 4 orange micros, still in the shape of a diamond, but now interspersed with and bracketing the Standards.  The black micro in the middle is well protected, but still in the middle.  Break all of your primaries and then engage the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 5

     Now the 4 orange micros and the 4 Green Standards both assume the general shape of arrowheads, pointing toward the

black micro in the middle.  So let's see who won what today.

 

     In the Ladies Class, Ariel Kimura, back from Southern California and visiting her Nephew Mark Kimura, decided that since she was visiting anyway, she may as well take home a winner's medallion from the Ladies Class at GHSC's Clays Match.  Ariel & Carrie

Morton shot tie scores of 30.  Now here's a novelty, we're going to have a Powder Puff shootoff. 

     Ariel was contesting the Open Class, with a Ruger Mark III .22 cal pistol with a red dot optic.  Carrie Morton had her Model 19 Glock.  The screens stayed at 10 yds, but only the objective clays for each Ladies Class stayed on the screen.  Ariel was shooting in the Open Class, so she saw only Orange Micros, while Carrie was contesting the Limited Class, so she saw only Green Standards.  Our Scorekeeper and DJ, Doug McLean makes the call.  Shooters to the line, load 5 rounds!  Shooters Ready?  FIRE!!  Ariel walked her Ruger Mk III across the Orange micros and the black micro in the middle quickly and accurately.  Carrie Morton had apparently peaked for the day already, as she shot at her Green Standards and just couldn't make contact.  Hey Carrie.  "It Happens".  Just forget about this one, and carry on.  Try it again next week.  Ariel Kimura takes the win in the Ladies Class today, and Congratulations to ya, kid.  I'll bet the politicians in the "Peoples Republic of California" would be surprised that you remember so much about shooting from the last time you were here.  "The Terminator" will be watching you closely. 

 

     In the Open Class, our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus pulled out a win with a score of 44.  Chuck, you haven't been in the winner's circle for awhile.  Welcome Back!!  2nd Open was won by Herb Shahan with a score of 35.  3rd Open today went to our Junior Clays Shooter, Brian Tinner, with a score of 34.  Congratulations to all of you.

 

     In the limited Class, Jim Skedd shot the high score for the day with a 45!!  Jim's Predatory NightHawk squeaked in ahead of

Mark Wuesthoff, and his brand new Smith & Wesson Revolver by 1 solitary point, giving Mark a score of 44.  Sharing a tie for 3rd Limited, both with scores of 38 were this reporter, Hal Hansen and his Kimber, and Jay Schoonmaker with his Single Action Army Revolver with rounds about the size of his thumb.  Congratulations to all of todays Clays Match Competitors for a safe, fun match. 

 

     OK Folks, that's it for today.  We'll see you all right here next Sunday and we'll play the game again.  In the meantime, practice a lot, properly!!  Keep in mind when you are thinking about what it takes to win a clays match;

 

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

 

Hal