October 23, 2011 Gig Harbor Sportsmans Club Clays Match Report

12 Guns this week under mostly cloudy skies; a brisk, yet mild 56 degrees with 75% relative humidity. Winds out of the southwest gusting to 4 miles per hour. A small craft advisory has been posted just outside the bathroom due to an ill wind near the archery range.

 

      One entry in the Ladies class today so Gitti gets bumped to the Open Class

 

      2 Junior Class Entries - Class won by Kirk Foreman with a score of 42

            2nd Junior - Mary Stevens with a very close 41 clays

 

      5 Open Guns - Class won by Darren Foreman with a score of 45

            2nd Open - Gitti Anable with a score of 43

            3rd Open - Richard Soulam with a score of 41

 

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

            2nd Limited - Jay Schoonmaker with a score of 43

            3rd Limited - Steve Tinner with a score of 42

 

    Wow, what a bunch of high scores today. Before that, a BIG thank you to Tim Anable. Tim stepped up to the plate, or should I say stool, and filled in for Doug "Off with my big gun" McLean. Tim, many mentioned how well you performed today (and called out our scorekeeping duties too!)

So, as you can see by todays scores, none of which were under 40, we had a lot of clays to change. Chuck and Darren, brought us a new set of challenges with todays array that I'll call the TAI CHI EQUALIZER. Tai Chi, loosely translates into English as "The Supreme Ultimate". As far as equalizers go, todays array set was indeed The Supreme Ultimate in equalization.

Everyone, and I mean everyone, started out with 4 large green 4" clays. Then the equalization begins. For Open shooters: a 2" clay with a black center. For the Limited class: a 3" orange.

As the rounds progress, the primary 4" greens remain the same... tough enough for some. But then for rounds 4 and 5, out comes the next level of equalization for shot number 5: 2" orange for limited and the beloved bottle caps for optics/22's.

And thus we have the Tai Chi Equalizer where all pistols face a target at the end that warrants that class.

Great shooting today by all. Let us know what you thought of todays arrays, especially the dual center targets. Our thanks to Chuck Treat for a welcome variation, to Darren Foreman getting us on paper and getting us organized before our shoot out begins. Chuck Nicodemus; we hope to see you soon as we all continue to send our best thoughts to you and Caroline. Tim, one more big thank you for an outstanding job in Doug's absence. And lastly, to myself, for stepping up to the keyboard when Hal is absent.

So alas my good friends, til next week, when the temperature may be another degree colder, the skies may hold another percent of humidity, but the shooting will be one notch hotter as we long to see what our next clay challenge will be. 

Insert shooting mantra here...

Steve