Hello everyone!
Now that we’re back and into a somewhat regular routine again I wanted to take a minute and send a note highlighting our trip to 2010 SCTP National Championships. To sum our trip up in a word it would be “Fantastic”. Hot would be the second word that comes to mind but we survived and we definitely plan to do it again next year!

After a 14 hour drive, we arrived at our St Louis hotel on Monday the 19th. Our hotel was fantastic but located about an hour away from the World Shooting Complex. Our first look at the Complex came on Tuesday when we went over to shoot some practice. “WOW” is all I can say, 3 ½ miles of trap houses, two 15 station sporting clay courses and a bunch of combo skeet/trap ranges.

As many of you may know, Luke and Mark shot with the Central Penn Crushers Sporting Clays team this year. Central Penn took 12 shooters from their team to the championships where they competed on Wednesday and Thursday. Mark and Luke both shot excellent, placing well with their squads as well as individuals.

The change of guard came on Thursday when we said goodbye to the Crushers and greeted the arriving Clay Busters. Jack, Dalton, Brain, Thomas and their families joined us for the remainder of the week.
Friday was our first 100 trap targets and the team did excellent. The squad combined for a 471 besting our PA State shoots score by 8 targets. On their last trap of the day the squad shot an impressive 124 out of 125 targets. Steph and Thomas both shot well also with Thomas breaking his first 25 straight.

Saturday brought some tougher conditions but after a slow start the squad managed to pull it together and shoot a second straight 471 for a two day total of 942. Think about it – that is a 94 plus average, which is some really good shooting.

During the week the kids competed admirably with the top shooters in the nation, played lots of shooting games, made new friends, and bonded as friends as well as a team. It was an experience that I’m sure they will remember for a long time.

Below are a few team and individual accomplishments from this year’s National Championship. As I said earlier, we had a great time and the official start for planning for next year’s event begins right now! Put it on your calendar, the 2011 SCTP National Team Championships are July 18-23, 2011.

Be safe, have fun and shoot well,
Coach Roger

P.S. don’t forget to put our Fall Fun Shoots on your calendars. October 24th and November 7th , 1-5pm at Jefferson Sportsmen. Everyone is welcome….bring a friend!

2010 SCTP National Championships stats and accomplishments:

Mason-Dixon Clay Busters, Squad “Barrels” – 942 for 20th out of 60 squads

Mark – 95* + 95 = 190*
Jack – 97* + 91 = 188*
Brain – 85 + 89* = 174*
Dalton – 96* + 96 = 192*
Luke – 98 + 100* = 198* (the 198 tied Luke for 8th out of 1170 shooters)

Thomas – 92* + 91 = 183*
Steph – 86 + 92* = 178*

*personal best scores

25 straight – Mark, Jack, Dalton, Luke and Thomas
50 straight – Mark, Jack and Luke
75 straight – Luke
100 straight – Luke