Happy New Year from White Flyer Targets
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***Photo provided by Josh Taylor Happy New Year from White Flyer Targets: We hope that all of you and your families had a safe and joyous holiday season. As we embark upon this New Year, we have some exciting developments here at White Flyer that we’d like Table of Contents to make you aware of. First and foremost, the Gun Club Incentive Rebate Program will once again be in effect for the 2019 sales year. As has been the case for the past two years, all Gun Clubs that purchase over 5,000 plus cases of White Flyer Targets in the 2019 calendar year will receive a 2019 SHOT Show WF Booth Page 4 rebate per each case purchased. Details of how the program will work for 2019 as well as the different incentive levels/amounts will be sent out to your White Flyer distributor in early ISSF World Championship Article Page 5 February 2019. We sincerely appreciate the efforts put forth by both our White Flyer distribu- 2018 Heartland Grand/NM Spt. Clays Page 6 tors and your gun clubs to make this Gun Club Incentive Program possible - without your Northeastern Grand Page 7 help/assistance, it would not be possible. As we said earlier, more on this in February 2019. Secondly, we want the gun clubs that participated in the 2018 Gun Club Incentive 2018 NSSA World Skeet Championship Page 8 Program know that we anticipate all checks to be sent out to qualifying gun clubs during the NSCA Nat. Spt. Clays Championship Page 9-10 first week of February 2019. If you are one of the numerous qualifying gun clubs that has not filled out the required forms - you have until January 15, 2019 to get us this information to USA Shooting wins 39 medals Page 10 receive your Rebate Gun Club Check. Skeet Championships Crowned Page 11 Thirdly, in this New Years edition of the White Flyer Newsletter, we are pleased to Gold Medals–Champions Americas Page 12-13 add CALI’CO Hardwoods, part of the Reagent Chemical/ White Flyer Family, as a regular contributor. Located in Santa Rosa, California and part of the Reagent Chemical Family since Championship of Americas Page 14 1987, CALI’CO has been producing superior quality rifle and shotgun wood blanks for the “The Unwritten Rules” Page 15 shooting industry as well as other industries worldwide. Since 1960 CALI’CO supplies many CALI’CO Hardwoods Page 16-21 of the major manufacturers worldwide as well as custom gunsmiths all over the world. They sell exceptional California hardwoods, in Claro Walnut, French Walnut (grown in California), 2018 Collegiate Sporting Shoot Page 22 Bastogne, Maple and Myrtle, CALI’CO is proud to have supplied wood for Benelli, Beretta, Greg Gilligbauer - 20 Year Employee Page 23 Browning, Fabarm, Holland + Holland, Kreighoff, Kolar, Remington, Parker Reproduction, White Flyer Clubhouse - San Antonio Page 24 Ruger, Sako, Sauer, Weatherby, and Winchester. Beginning with this issue of our newsletter, we are pleased to offer photos of some of our blanks that we currently offer. You will be able Harshaw Sports Club Page 25 to “click” on the photo to get more info and be directed to the folks at CALI’CO to a get Autumn Grand Amer. Trapshoot Page 26-27 additional information. We are proud of the role CALI’CO plays in our Reagent family and In Memoriam Page 28 hope that this new service will be valuable to you. Fourthly, we want to again make you aware of our intent to open a fifth production USA H.S. Skeet Shooting Programs Page 29-30 facility for White Flyer in Dalton, Georgia for our southeastern and Export customers. As Kids + Clays Schedule Page 31-32 more becomes available, we will let you know. Important Dates Page 33 Last but not least, we want to take this opportunity to thank you, the shooters and gun clubs for your support and cooperation. We know when it comes time to purchase targets Contacts/ White Flyer Patches Page 34 you have a “choice” and we appreciate your choosing White Flyer Targets. As the 2019 season White Flyer Online Store Page 35 begins, we once again pledge to each shooter and gun club that we are committed 100% to provide you the best quality targets in the world with the best customer service available. We Shooting Certificate Form Page 36 appreciate your business and welcome your comments throughout the year. White Flyer Plants Page 37 On behalf of the entire White Flyer staff as well as the rest of Reagent family, we FAQ’s Page 38 wish all of you a safe and prosperous 2019. Phil Murray White Flyer Targets The Orange Crusher Page 4 2019 SHOT Show Las Vegas, NV January 22-25, 2019 Please stop by and visit us at our White Flyer Booth #15431 during the show. The Orange Crusher Page 5 Lucas Wins Junior Men’s Trap Silver, Women’s Trap Wins Team Bronze at ISSF World Championship CHANGWON, South Korea (September 6, 2018) Logan Lucas won the first individual medal for the United States today at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship when he won silver in the Junior Men’s Trap event at the Changwon International Shooting Range. Lucas (Pacific, Missouri), who has only been shooting International Trap for the past year-and-a-half, made his international Finals debut at this World Championship, qualifying for the Final by tying for the highest score (120/125 targets), then winning a shootoff 9-8 to enter the Final with the best bib number. That bib number would come into play when the field came down to the final three athletes – Lucas, Steven Argio of Australia and Lorenzo Ferrari of Italy. After 40 targets, Lucas and Ferrari were tied at 31 hits. Lucas had the better bib number (which is used for tie-breaking purposes in a Final) so Ferrari was eliminated and took the bronze medal. Logan Lucas Entering the final five targets, it looked as if Argio had all but sealed up the win. Argio would drop one target, then later two in a row. The Final was decided on the Final shot when Argio would win the gold with his final hit that gave him 42 targets to Lucas’ 41. “I knew entering the Final I just needed to be calm,” Lucas said. “I’m not a very calm person. I try to take stress the best I can – that’s something I’m going to be working on with [National Coach Jay Waldron] – but knew I had to keep going strong, breathe between every target and just take my time. Even at the end, I knew I just had to keep going strong – don’t let up. There was still that possibility that [Argio] could mess up, we could tie and send this thing to a shootoff.” A relative newcomer to the international circuit, Lucas won his spot through the team trials process at the selection match in Tucson, Arizona earlier this year. Just weeks prior to the World Championship, Waldron invited Lucas to Colroado Springs, Colorado to train. Waldron noted how hard Lucas worked, day in and day out - shooting three 120/125 matches in a row prior to coming to Changwon – the score he went on to shoot in Qualification at the World Championship. “He shot his butt off in that Final,” said Waldron of Lucas’ performance. “That kid’s got it going on. He’s a really easy-going kid, mellow kid and it just ties over to his shooting. He’s super focused and not afraid just to let it rip, and that’s basically what he did on that Final.” The last time the United States won a medal in Junior Men’s Trap was in 1997 when Matthew Depuydt won bronze in 1997. This World Championship is Lucas’ second international competition. Also competing in Junior Men’s Trap was Dale Royer (Jackson, Montana), who finished in 16th place with 113 targets. Mick Wertz (Muncy, Pennsyl- vania) finished in 27th place with a score of 110. Trap team medals are awarded based on the combined score of the three athletes from a country in the Qualification round. The USA Shooting Team finished in fourth place with a score of 343 - just two targets out of a team bronze medal. The USA Shooting Women’s Trap team wouldn’t secure a Finals berth, but would win a team bronze medal with a combined score of 339. Spain won the team silver with a score of 342 and Italy won the team gold with a score of 343, setting a world record. The top finisher for the U.S. women in Trap was Kayle Browning (Wooster, Arkansas) who finished in 11th place with a score of 114. Ashley Carroll (Solvang, California) also shot a 114, but placed in 14th place. Aeriel Skinner (Jackson, California) finished in 30th place with a score of 111. The Women’s Trap Team of Carroll, Caitlin Weinheimer and Corey Cogdell-Unrein won team gold at last year’s Shotgun World Championship in Moscow, Russia. Junior Men’s Air Pistol athlete Jack Leverett III (Bainbridge, Georiga) missed out on a potential Fi- nals berth by just one point with his score of 573 to finish in ninth place. Leverett’s finish today is the best finish for an American Junior in Men’s Air Pistol since Will Brown finished in 11th place at the World Championship in 2010. The U.S. has never medaled in this event at a World Championship. Jack Leverett III bests his previous Junior World Championship finish last year in Suhl, Germany where he finished in 24th place.