Piru CA May 14-15, 2011 AAR

[Dano]

The Piru shoot in May was a great success, 14 shooters on Saturday and 13 on Sunday! The weather was near perfect for Piru, which means it was only windy and not the usual may temperature of 120°! The instruction started right on time at 0900 with Redcoats being shot by all. Mr. Pete has the numbers for the actual redcoat count so I will let him post that, however I can say that the results were not too good. As we worked through the day it became very apparent that the shooters were paying attention. Mark, Jason and Chris were all shooting great groups by the time lunch rolled around. My hat is off to Justin who was shooting a nice M 44 Mosin all day. Eric a shooter with an M1A also had a pretty good day a learned a lot about his rifle. Both Justin and Eric picked up Rifleman Opportunity Cards so we should see them back soon. The group that made a  big impression on me was the Dave and his two children, Roni and Yuval!  Dave is new to shooting and showed great improvement through the day. Roni and Yuval were both listing to everything that V said and showed great form by the end of the day. Future Riflemen I am sure

After lunch and history it was onto AQT's ! Scores were not great but several people were beginning to put it together. On the final redcoat of the day Veronica and Amanda almost cleared the redcoat. Veronica qualified at the 300 yard and Amanda the 400 yard and both had the bonus box! Thanks to Justin for helping Amanda with the extra 7.62 holes on the redcoat!

Sunday saw 13 shooters return, Sunday morning we had 4 people get the headshot and scores on the recoats were pretty encouraging. Jason was the first to shoot a rifleman's score with a 236!! Followed on the next AQT by Mark, who avoided North Bridge water by shooting a 211! Well done, two instructors Pete, Gratefuldog and Scott, Scott1600 also moved from IIT to ITT1. And Mr. Pete my right hand man went from Red hat to Green hat meaning he is a fully qualified shootboss! Congratulations to all who attended!

Dano

[Dano]

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[artkat2]

Dano,
  Nice pic of the "fireball" on the brown Bess!

Mr Pete!

I'll wait for the official announcement!

Cowgirl, always nice to see you, even if it is just a photo!

Nice work guys!

A

[Mr Pete]

Everything is easy when you have great students and great instructors!

Saturday morning Redcoats were a wake up call.  Out of 14 students we had:

Distance	Morning	Afternoon
400 yards	1	1
300 yards	1	5
200 yards	1	1
100 yards	0	3
Bonus	1	6
Cleared!	0	0

Amazing improvement by all the students.  Sunday showed even more improvement and consistency with 3 fewer shooters!

Distance	Morning	Afternoon
400 yards	3	0
300 yards	0	5
200 yards	2	4
100 yards	3	1
Bonus	5	5
Cleared!	1	0

Both Ms Veronica (nice lunchbox) and Ms Amanda left a lasting impression with their shooting skills...so much so I even got their names right!     Justin was knocking on the door with a 190 on the last AQT so MAKE USE OF THAT ROC!  Kudos to Eric who toughed it out all weekend with that M1A.

Roni was a monster!  She was up for anything even though her rifle was almost taller and heavier than she was!  I can only hope that my own daughter is as adventurous!  David related a complement from Yuval stating that he, "learned more history at lunch than he would have ever learned in an entire year of history at school."  A strong testament to the instructors who taught history (Pvt.Joker, Dano and V).

I am always impressed by the people that come to an Appleseed (students and instructors).  I hope to see everybody again on or off the Appleseed trail.

-Pete

[Johnnyappleseed]

good shoot guys 

Noticed 14 on sat and 13 Sun -^5