August 8, 2010 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

14 Guns Entered

 

    3 Ladies shooting today - Class won by Gitti Anable with a score of 30

       2nd Lady - Carrie Morton with a score of 18

       3rd Lady - Lisa Wray with a score of 15 

 

    2 Open Guns - Class won by Ken Bagley Sr. with a score of 45

           2nd Open won by David Lee with a score of 39

 

  12 Limited Guns Entered - Class won by Mark Wuesthoff with a score of 40 + 2

        2nd Limited - Hal Hansen with a score of 40 + 1

        3rd Limited - Mark (OJ) Kimura with a score of 39

 

Welcome back to Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club for our Sunday Clays Match.  Many thanks to our match staff today.  Doug McLean pulled double duty, acting as Match Director in Chuck Nicodemus' absence, while doing his usual gig as DJ and & Scorekeeper.  Thanks to our Arrays Impressario for bringing us a modified version of Page 1 of The Great Equalizer Series.

In an ongoing effort to keep the field guessing, and not becoming complacent with familiarity, Chuck modified the script a bit today.

Page 1, Round 1 was shot twice.  Then Page 1, Round 3 was shot twice, followed by engaging Page 1, Round 5 once for a total of 5 Rounds.  Let's take a look at what the field saw today.

 

     Rounds 1 & 2

 

     4 orange micros on the top row, and 4 Orange Standards on the bottom row.  You know the drill.  If you are shooting in the Open Class, you engage and attempt to break the orange micros.  If you are shooting in the Limited Class, you engage the Orange Standards.  When you have broken all four of your primary clays, then you go to the middle of the screen and engage the

black micro in the middle.

 

     Rounds 3 & 4

 

     Now we're looking at 3 orange micros followed by an Orange Standard on the top row.  On the bottom row we have 3 orange Standards followed by an orange micro.  IF you break all your primaries, you go to the middle of the screen and engage the black micro in the middle.

 

    Round 5

 

     On the top row we see an Orange Standard followed by 2 orange micros and then another Orange Standard.

On the bottom row, an orange micro leads the way, followed by 2 Orange Standards, and finally 1 more orange micro.

If successful in engaging and breaking your primaries, advance to the black micro in the middle.  Let's see the results of our efforts today.

 

     We had 3 Ladies competing today, including a new lady, Lisa Wray.  Welcome Lisa.  We hope you had a good time and will return just as often as possible.  Lisa shot a score of 15 today, just getting edged out by Carrie Morton with a score of 16.  Giti Anable showed the way to the winner's circle today with a score of 30.  Good shootin' Ladies.

 

    We had but 2 entries in the Open Class today.  Ken Bagley Sr. had the winning Open Class score with 45.  David Lee finished 2nd Open with a score of 39.  Close David, but no cigar.

 

     In the Limited Class, at the end of regulation play we had a tie between Mark Wuesthoff & Hal Hansen, both with scores of 40.  We're gonna have a Shootoff!!  The screens stayed at 10yds, but at this point our Arrays Impressario declared loudly:

"No More Mister Nice Guy" !!  Mark & Hal were looking at, and trying to see, 4 black micros all in a row on each side of One (1) orange micro in the middle.  At this point the contest was between Mark & Hal against the Course designer.  By now the ambient light had faded, and while the orange micro stood out ok, the black micros were mostly deliniated by the clothespins.  Our DJ, Doug McLean called the action.  Shooters to the line, load 5 rounds.  Shooters Ready?  FIRE!!

Mark & Hal, mostly shooting at shadows, engaged the clays, took their best shots and when the thunder ebbed, Mark Wuesthoff had hit 2 of the black micros, and Hal felt lucky to get 1.  I think next time this reporter gets in a shootoff, I'll have a weapon mounted FlashLight!!  3rd Place in the Limited Class was won by Mark (OJ) Kimura with a score of 39.  Hey Mark!!

If you had hit one more clay, you could have shot at shadows too!!  It looks to me as though the Course Designer won this shootoff by a score of 6 to 3. 

 

     OK folks.  That's it for this week.  We'll see you all right here next Sunday and we'll play the game again.  Until then, drive safely,  we want to shoot with you, not read about you.  Practice a lot and practice properly.  Always bear in mind your techniques and safety protocols when shooting.  Bear in mind a basic truth to execution of firearm fundamentals:

 

"PRACTICE ONLY MAKES PERMANENT.  PERFECT PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT"!!

 

Hal