October 3, 2010 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

12 Guns Entered

 

     2 in Open Class - Class won by Ken Bagley Sr. with a score of 43

             2nd Open - Chuck Treat with a score of 42

 

     10 in Limited Class - Class won by Loren DeShon with a score of 47

             2nd Limited - Hal Hansen with a score of 46

             Tie for 3rd Limited between Darren Foreman & Dan Moore, both shooting scores of 41

 

     Welcome back to Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club and another Sunday afternoon Clays Match.  It was a beautiful day today, with cloudy but dry skies, and temperatures in the upper 50s.  Lots of T-Shirts were still worn without jackets, and it was a beautiful day for a clays match.  Thanks so much to our Match Staff for hosting and presenting another great match.  Specific thanks go to our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus, our scorekeeper and DJ, Doug McLean, and our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat.  As usual, our match ran like a well-oiled machine and did honor to the matches host, Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club.  We certainly wish to thank our gun club for offering their great facilities, and the facilities are getting better progressively as the finishing touches are about to be put on the renovations.  Looking Good, Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club.

     Our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat started the Great Equalizer Series over today with Page 1.  Each week for 6 weeks we'll see another page of the series, each page presenting new challenges and new target arrays.  12 Shooters came out and entered the match today, 2 in the Open Class, and 10 in the Limited Class.  Let's take a vicarious look at what the competitors saw on the screens on Page 1. 

 

Round 1

     The match started out with 4 orange micros on the top row on each side, and 4 Green Standards on the bottom row.  Of course, the black micro in the middle, now sporting a bright, white center dot, to make it easier to hit as the days grow shorter.  If you have entered the match in Open Class, the Orange micros are your targets.  If you entered the Limited Class, then it's the Green Standards for which you are gunning.  Either way, if successful in breaking your primaries, you then move to the middle of the screen and engage the black micro in the middle.  Now though, it's on to Round 2.

 

Round 2

     Round 2 is a repeat of Round 1.  This is intended to give the Clays Match competitors a false sense of security, and lull them into a relaxed, complacent mode. If the attempt at competitor somnolance is successful, many misses will result.  The hot tip...

pay attention!! Don't let up.

 

Round 3

     Round 3 finds the orange micro nearest the center of the screen has moved to the bottom row, changing places with the innermost Green Standard.  Nothing has really changed.  Track your respective primary clays, break them if possible, and move into the center of the screen to engage the black micro in the middle.  Follow me now to Round 4....

 

Round 4

     Once again, in an attempt to instill a false sense of securityand induce complacency, Round 4 is a repeat of Round 3.  Again, nothing has changed.  Break your primaries if possible and move in and engage the black micro in the middle.  And on to Round 5

 

Round 5

     Now there is a Green Standard on each end of the top row, bracketing 2 orange micros.  On the bottom row, 2 orange micros bracket 2 Green Standards.  If you successfully break all of your primaries, then move to the center of the screen and engage  the

black micro in the middle.  Let's see how the competitors did today.

 

     We had but one Lady shooting our match today, Carrie Morton.  Carrie and her Glock 19 shot a score of 19, appropriate while using a Model 19 Glock. 

     In the Open Class we had only 2 shooters, our class winner, Ken Bagley Sr. shooting a score of 43, and our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat who shot only 1 target less, scoring 42.  Close!!!

     In the Limited Class, 10 guns entered, and the scores were really close here as well.  Loren DeShon won the limited Class shooting the high score for the match, 47.  One target behind was this reporter, Hal Hansen, with a score of 46.  I wonder when the last time was that the top 2 Limited Class shooters shot scores higher than the top 2 in the Open Class?  As has been mentioned before, this game provides some truly inspirational training for when it's not a game.

 

     OK folks, that's it for today.  Don't forget tomorrow, Monday, October 4, 2010, at 6PM right here at Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club will be the next installment of our Reborn Plate Matches.  We shoot at falling plates, a competitor can enter 2 Guns (or the same gun twice), $5.00 per gun and it provides fun, a test of skill, and more outstanding training.  So practice a lot, and remember your fundamentals so you practice properly.  Remember your priorities:  1) Safety  2) Accuracy and finally, after those are mastered, 3) Speed.  From the mouths of Champions come words to live by: 

 

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

 

Hal