April 17, 2011 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

 

18 Guns Entered

 

     2 Ladies  -  Class won by Carrie Morton with a score of 20

              2nd Lady - Krystal Wasson with a score of 19

 

     No Juniors today

 

     5 Open Guns - Class won by Jay Schoonmaker with a score of 48

         2nd Open won by Darren Foreman with a score of 46

         3rd Open won by Chuck Nicodemus with a score of 36

 

   13 Limited Guns - Class won by Chuck Treat with a score of 43

         2nd Limited won by John Iverson with a score of 40

         3rd Limited won by Tim Anable with a score of 39

 

       Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, and welcome to another Clays Match at Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club.   For most

or the day today, the weather was fine, with blue skies and more than just a little sun.  As the match approached, the sky clouded up and it started raining.  Fortunately, as the match wore on, the skies dried out and it got a lot brighter.  Temperatures started out at 52 degrees and by the end of the match the temperature was still 50 degrees.  The heaters were all on, and the weather was the least of the shooter's worrys today.  It should be noted that the wet start to our match can be laid directly at the feet of Jay Schoonmaker.  Jay was heard to tell a fellow shooter that he had washed his car earlier in the day, so of course it rained.  Jay, next time you want to wash your car, do it on Wednesday so Mother Nature can have her tantrum and the weather will still be ok for the weekend.

 

     Thanks to our Match Staff for another great match today.  Thanks to our Match Director, Chuck Nicodemus, our Scorekeeper and DJ, Doug Mclean, and to our Arrays Impressarios, Chuck Treat and Darren Foreman for producing another great match.

Our Arrays Impressarios, Chuck Treat and Darren Foreman brough us Page 5 of The Great Equalizer Series today.  This target array set will hereafter be known as Lines and Shadows in honor of the straight lines of clays, both micros and Standards

that gradually worked their way from top to bottom and bottom to top.  Round 1 started with 4 orange micros on the top row, and

4 Green Standards on the bottom row.  In each of the following 4 rounds one of each of the clays changed from the top row to the bottom row and vice-versa, until for Round 5 the top row had 4 Green Standards, while the bottom row had 4 orange micros.

In each and every case of course, if the Limited Class shooters and the Open Class shooters all hit their primary targets, they go to the center of the screen and engage The Black Micro In The Middle.  Let's see how we did today.

 

     In the Ladies Class, Carrie Morton took the win in a very close duel with Krystal Wasson, 20 to 19.  It doesn't get much closer than that. No Junior Class shooters were in attendance today, so let's go to the Open Class.

 

     5 Guns entered the Open Class today, and Jay Schoonmaker took the win with a match high score of 48.  2nd Open was taken by Darren Foreman with a score of 46.  3rd Open today was won by Chuck Nicodemus with a score of 36.

 

     13 Guns were entered in the Limited Class, with the class win going to our Arrays Impressario, Chuck Treat, shooting a score of 43.  John Iverson took 2nd Limited with a score of 40, followed very closely indeed by Tim Anable with a score of 39.

Congratulations to all of our competitors for a fast, accurate, and most especially SAFE match.  Now, an announcement!!

 

Next Sunday, April 24, 2011 is Easter Sunday.  No Clays match!!  Our clays matches will resume as usual the following Sunday, May 1, 2011 - MAYDAY - at 4:00PM.  Use you time wisely.  Pracice a lot, practice properly, and always remember the axiom:

 

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

Hal