Aug 21, 2011 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

8 Guns Entered

 

   2 Juniors - Class won by Mary Stevens with a score of 33

        2nd Junior - Kirk Foreman with a score of 27

 

   4 Open Guns - Class won by Jay Schoonmaker with a score of 46

      2nd Open - Darren Foreman with a score of 42

      3rd Open -  Mary Stevens with a score of 33

 

   4 Limited Guns - Class won by George Stevens with a score of 44

      2nd Limited - Chuck Treat with a score of 41

      3rd Limited - David Lee with a score of 40

 

      Good afternoon Ladies & Gentlemen, and welcome to Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club.  It's just plain hot! outside today.  The sky is a clear blue, not a cloud to contrast the color, and the temperature is in the low 80s.  For citizens of Western Washington, that's hot!!  The entry list reflected the summer weather today with only 8 entrants; 4 in Open and 4 in Limited,  who grudgingly left their air conditioners to come out in the summer sunshine.  It appeared that the shooter's fundamentals were taking a summer siesta today as well, as the scores were generally a bit lower than normal. 

     First, as always and with equal enthusiasm we wish to thank our Match Staff.  Many thanks to our Match Director Chuck Nicodemus, our Scorekeeper and DJ Doug McLean, and our Arrays Impesarios Chuck Treat and Darren Foreman.  The arrays today were all Round 1, Page 1 of The Great Equalizer Series.  The repetition was designed to give the shooters a false sense of security, therefore making the shooters relax and let their attention to detail go a bit lax.

Apparently the stategy worked, because the scores were down a bit today.  Let's see who paid the best attention.

 

     In the Junior Class, Mary Stevens took the victory with a score of 33.  Kirk Foreman was the only other Junior, and he turned in a score of 27.

 

     In the Open Class, Jay Schoonmaker took the victory with a score of 46.  Darren Foreman followed with a score of 42.  Mary Stevens took 3rd Open with her Junior Class winning score of 33.

 

     In the Limited Class, George Stevens won it with a score of 44.  Chuck Treat took 2nd Limited with a score of 41 and David Lee took the 3rd Limited Spot with a score of 40. 

 

     That's it for today folks.  Next Sunday at 4:00PM we'll meet right back here again and if the regular shooters will pull themselves away from their ACs and their BBQs long enough to shoot clays, our field of entries will regain most of it's original size.  Practice a lot, practice properly, and always remember:

 

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

 

                                SHOOT SAFELY!!!!"

 

Hal