October 17, 2010 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

10 Guns Entered

 

     3 Open Guns - Class won by Chuck Treat with a score of 44

           2nd Open won by Chuck Nicodemus with a score of 38

              3rd  Open won by Herb Shahan with a acore of 36

 

7 Limited Guns - Class won by Hal Hansen with a score of 43

           2nd Limited won by Darren Foreman with a score of 30

              3rd Limited won by Rolf Lunde with a score of 29

 

     Good evening Ladies & Gentlemen, and welcome back to Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club and another Sunny Sunday afternoon's

Clays Match.  It is a sunny, clear, but cool afternoon, with the temperature just barely above 50degrees.  Fall is here and it won't be anytime before the heaters are out and roaring.  Warm weather or cool though, the match must go on, and go on it did today, with style.  For this we thank our Match Staff, in the persons of our Match Director Chuck Nicodemus, our Scorekeeper & DJ Doug Mclean, and our Arrays Impressario Chuck Treat, who brought us Page 3 of The Great Equalizer Series.  Let's take a look at what the competitors saw today from the firing line.

 

Round 1

     In Round 1 we saw the screens adorned with 2 boxes on each side.  4 Green Standards interspersed with 4 orange micros were on each side of The black micro in the middle.  If you are entered in the Open class, shoot at the 4 orange micros.  If entered in the Limited Class, engage the 4 Green Standards.  In either case, if you break all of your primaries, engage the black micro in the middle.  Then it's on to Round 2

 

Round 2

     Now the orange micros change places with the outside Green Standards.  From the outside one first sees the 2 vertically stacked  orange micros, then 2 vertically stacked Green Standards with the pattern repeated, forming 2 differently colored squares.

As before, if shooting in the Open Class, engage the orange micros.  If entered in the Limited Class, engage the Green Standards.  If successful in breaking all of your primaries, then engage the black micro in the middle and prepare for round 3.

 

Round 3

     The Green Standards remain in the shape of a square, but now the orange micros form a tight diamond shape inside the Green Square.  If entered in the Open Class, shoot the orange micros.  If entered in the Limited class, engage the Green Standards.

If successful in breaking ALL of your primaries, move in and engage the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 4

     Once again, the Green Square remains, but now the diamond formed by the orange micros surrounds the Green Squares.

No matter, engage your appropriate primaries, and if fully successful, engage the black micro in the middle.  At this point you can kick back and wait for the presentation of Round 5.

 

Round 5

     The 4 orange micros and 4 Green Standards now both point to the center of the screen, where the black micro in the middle awaits.  Both arrows of both Colors may as well be backlit with Neon, they are so bright.  The black micro in the middle, with it's ubiquitous, characteristic white center dot seems almost subdued, but waits in the middle anyway for either shooter already fully successful in vanquishing his primaries.  So let's see who did what today.

 

     We had no Ladies shooting today, so it was between the 3 Open Class guns and the 7 Limited Class guns.  In the Open Class,

Chuck Treat won it with a score of 44.  After the match, Chuck came up to this reporter and told me to write down 5 more points, as in Round 1, our scorekeeper and DJ Doug Mclean inadvertantly wrote down 0 instead of 5 for Chuck's score.  Well, you see Chuck,

in Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Matches, it's not always enough simply to beat the other shooters, 1st you have to negotiate with the scorekeeper.  Anyway, finally Chuck Treat ended up with his rightfully earned score of 44, high score for today's match.

     2nd Open today was won by our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus, with a score of 38.  3rd Open was taken by Herb Shahan with a score of 36.

 

     In the Limited Class, this reporter won it with a score of 43.  Darren Foreman took 2nd Limited with a score of 30,  Rolf Lunde

took 3rd Limited with a score of 29.  Just goes to show, no one has said this game was easy.

 

     So that's it for another Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match.  We'll see you  all right back here next Sunday at 4PM and we'll see who is hot, and who is not, then.  Practice hard, always remembering the priorities of competitive shooting.  1st and Foremost is SAFETY!!  2ND is ACCURACY!!  Only when Safety & Accuracy are well in hand should one even consider attempting to gain SPEED!!  Don't forget our plate match Tuesday evening at 6PM, and there as well always remember:

 

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

 

Hal