August 23, 2010 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

16 Guns Entered

 

      7 Open Guns  --  Class won by Ken Bagley Sr. with a score of 46

          2nd Open --  Tim Kopp with a score of 35

          3rd Open  --  Paul Ries  with a score of 20

 

      9 Limited Guns  --  Class won by Hal Hansen with a score of 45

          2nd Limited  --  Jim Skedd with a score of 43

          3rd Limited  --  Chuck Treat with a score of 42

 

     Welcome back one and all to Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club and another edition of our weekly Clays Match.  August is almost at an end, and the weather is a bit cooler with a heavy overcast, portending the arrival of Fall.   Actually, after the heat we've had of late, the 62degree temperature felt pretty good. 

 

     Many thanks to our Match Staff for bringing us another in a long series of great matches.  Thanks to our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus, our Scorekeeper & DJ Doug McLean, and our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat, for bringing us Page 4 of the

Great Equalizer Series.  16 Guns entered the fray, so let's take a vicarious look at what they saw on Page 4.

 

Round 1

      For the Limited Class entries, a box of 4 Green Standards appeared on each end of the screens.  In a straight line running right through the Green Boxes, 4 orange micros followed a straight line leading to the center of the screen, where the black micro in the middle awaited the attentions of those skillful shooters who were successful in breaking all of their primaries.

 

Round 2

     While still comprised of 4 Green Standards and 4 orange micros, the Green Standard at the 1 OClock position of the box on the left side of the screen, and the one at the 11 OClock position on the right side of the screen, both interspersed the line of orange micros disecting the boxes in Round 1.  3 orange micros have formed a cap over the 5 & 7 oclock Green Standards and the two patterns both border and protect the black micro in the middle.  No matter the actual dispersion of the various clays, if you are entered in the Open Class, pick out your 4 orange micros, or your 4 Green Standards if contesting the Limited Class, break them all, then engage and attempt to break the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 3

     Now, the 4 Green Standards form a rough arrowhead pointing toward the center of the screen.  The 4 orange micros are now pointing toward the outside of the screen, in a reverse arrowhead.  The trick is to determine the best line to engage your appropriate clays in order to use the least time and motion to accomplish your task, namely, breaking all you primaries enabling you to proceed to the center of the screen and engage the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 4

     Using, and abusing, one's imagination, one can almost picture the 4 Green Standards forming the shape of a handgun, with the stock dropping down and three green standards forming a barrel.  The 4 orange micros are all clustered around the "action" of the pistol, like dust off the priming pan of an old flintlock.  If you are shooting in the Open Class, you are going to have to establish a route through the four orange micros, if entered in the Limited Class, hit the outside lower Green Standard, then follow the line of Green Standards that lead right to the black micro in the middle.  Now, it's on to Round 5.

 

Round 5

     The Green Standards are all lined up now, with the 4 orange micros forming a box around the #2 Green Standard, looking from the outside to the inside.  The finess required is now directed to the orange micros, but the Limited Class entrant can simply walk his rounds along the line of Green Standards enroute to the black micro in the middle.  Well, now we have some winners, some that placed, and some that Showed.  Let's learn who's who...........

 

     In the Open Class, Ken Bagley Sr. took the honors with a score of 46, the high score for the match.  2nd Open went to Tim Kopp with a score of 35.  Paul Ries took 3rd Open with a score of 20.  Congrats to our Open Class winners.

 

     In the Limited Class today, this reporter, Hal Hansen, led the way with a score of 45.  2nd Limited went to Jim Skedd with a score of 43.  Our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat,  took 3rd Limited with a score today of 42.  Again, congratulatons to the winners of the Limited Class. And congratulations to all of our match entrants today for a challenging and especially, A Safe Match.

 

     OK folks, that's the action for today.  Join us right here Monday evening, August 30 at 6PM for our make-up Plate Match,

and of course, right here next Sunday afternoon for another Clays Match.  In the meantime, practice a lot, practice with the proper fundamentals and techniques,  and we'll see you right here next week when we play this game again.  In the meantime, always remember:

 

"SHOOT FAST!  SHOOT ACCURATELY!!  BUT MOST OF ALL, SHOOT SAFELY!!!"

 

Hal