11/28/10 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

10 Guns Entered

 

     2 Ladies - Class won by Giti Anable with a score of 33

 

     Jay Schoonmaker took the Open Class with a score of 45

 

     Chuck Treat took the Limited Class with a score of 41

 

     Good afternoon, Ladies & Gentlemen, and welcome back to another GHSC Clays Match.  10 Guns came out in the cold, wet air today to shoot the match, and our Match Staff pulled off another good match despite the late Fall temperatures.  This reporter is still down with the "BUG OF THE MONTH", and it seems to be taking most of it's month to clear up.  Among the other virus induced problems caused by this reporter's ailments, the propane heater(s) ran out of propane.  Honest folks, I'll get back to work as quickly as I can.  I'm sorry :( 

     Heaters or no heaters, the match went on under the direction of our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus.  Doug McLean ran the scoresheet and the microphone, & our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat,  trotted out Page 2 of The Great Equalizer Series today. So lets take a look at what the competitors saw from the firing line. 

 

Round 1

     Two straight lines of clays on each side of the screens,  The top row was comprised of 4 Orange Micros, and the bottom row was comprised of 4 Green Standards.  Nestled stealhfully in the middle of the screen is the black micro in the middle.  If you are entered in the Open Class, the orange micros are your targets.  If entered in the Limited Class, the four standards are yours for the shooting.

 

Round 2

     Now, the second clay in has switched from the top to the bottom, and from the bottom to the top.  Now the top row starts with an Orange Micro, then comes a Green Standard, and then back to 2 orange micros.  If successful in breaking all of your primaries, you can then engage and attempt to break the black micro in the middle.

 

Round 3

     Now there is two of each color and size of clays on each row.  The top row starts off with an orange micro, morphs to 2 Green Standards, and finishes with another orange micro.  Logically, the bottom row begins with a Geen Standard, goes to 2 Orange Miros, and back to another Green Standard.  Hit all of your primaries, and you are encouraged to engage and attempt to break the

black micro in the middle.

    

Round 4

     The top row now alternates, starting with an orange micro, then a Green Standard, and the pairing is repeated.  The bottom row starts off with a Green Standard, becomes an orange micro, and again, the pairing is repeated.  The black micro in the middle

hasn't moved though.  It's still hanging around, just waiting. 

 

Round 5

     X marks the spot.  On each side of the screen is an X, comprised of a line of Green Standards and a line of orange micros.  On the left side of the screen  going from top left to bottom right are the Green Standards.  These are intersected with a line of orange micros hanging from top right to bottom left.  The right side of the screen is a mirror image of the left, with the ubiqutous black micro in the middle separating the Xs.  So let's see who did what today.

 

     We had 2 Ladies shooting today, and Giti Anable won her class with a score of 33.  Well done Giti.  In the Open Class, Jay Schoonmaker took the honors with a score of 45.  In the Limited Class, our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat won it with a score of 41. 

 

     OK Folks, that's it for today.  We'll meet right back here next Sunday at 4PM when we'll start the month of December.  It's probably not going to get any warmer outside, but if we can get one of the heaters repaired, and the others filled with Propane, and get this reporter repaired as an afterthought, we'll be back to normal for another match next week.  In the meantime, practice hard.  This weather is custom made for dry fire practice inside one's nice warm house, so make sure your ammo is in the other room, and make sure you take the dry-fire practice seriously.  One note for you Open Class Shooters, DON'T DRY-FIRE YOUR .22S without snapcaps.  Do what you have to do to get appropriate snap-caps, then have at it.  Take your Dry Fire practice seriously, remembering your grip, stance, sight picture and trigger prep stages.  You can learn & practice everything necessary with dry firing, and it FREE!! Practice a lot, dry and live fire when possible, and always remember the axiom:

"IT'S ALL ABOUT SIGHT PICTURE AND TRIGGER PREP.  THE REST IS JUST THERE TO CONFUSE YOU.!!!"

 

Hal