AAR - Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, May 21-22, 2011

[Reformed Redneck]

Greetings to all,

We had a very good shoot this weekend. Special commendations go out to all of the instructors who contributed to the success of the shoot, and to all of the shooters (aspiring Riflemen all) who chose to spend their weekend listening to the History and acquiring the necessary Rifleman marksmanship skills.

Congratulations to our 4 new Riflemen: Bill, Brian, Robb, and Jared. Nice work! Persistence pays off. I also want to recognize the effort, and corresponding improvement, of all of the participants this weekend. Our course of instruction is quite difficult for some of you, and your commitment to attaining Rifleman status is admirable.

The weather was mostly accommodating with sunny skies (what's that?) and warm temperatures on Saturday, and cooler temperatures mixed with scant showers on Sunday. This is fairly typical north Idaho Spring.

We also had a new orange hat awarded to Jared, and will loop him into the IIT process shortly.


Until next time,
Reformed Redneck

[Roland]

Alright! I get first reply!

Great shoot, four new riflemen, three repeats (Including me! )

Instructor crew, my nakama: It's always great to work with you guys, and all of the instruction and history was great.

Jared, congratulations on your persistence on your patch. Being there for both of your shoots, it was great to you succeed, and then take up the orange hat! Hope to see you on the other side of the line soon.

Bill, also, great job. I believe it was either your third or fourth Appleseed, and I worked with you quite a bit on all of them. Maybe I taught you to well, with you outscoring me and all...

Brian: Congrats to another rifleman that persisted through multiple shoots, looks like we finally got your trigger control down.

Pedersons: excellent job to you all. Boys, well done, great improvement, and good luck on your Eagle scout projects. (they're harder then they sound...) Gina, for a first time shooter, you showed remarkable skill and improvement. Robb, congratulations on your rifle patch. (guess you didn't need that card after all...)

Earl: good shooting, and I hope to see you back soon

That's all that comes to mind right now, and anyway I have to go clean my rifle...

Dirk/Roland

[Western Rose]

Thank you to FRGC for hosting this event!

To all of the attendees, thank you for coming out for this event. It would not have been possible to have it without you. To those of you who shot Rifleman, well done! To those of you who did not, persist on!

To all of the instructors, thank you for coming out and making this event happen. It was fantastic to work with you all again.

Upon downloading pictures from my camera to my computer, I noticed three things: 1. I had no idea where some of these pictures came from (the joy of two or three people using one camera ) 2. the majority of them are of group instruction, instructors telling history, or patch presentations. My apologies for not getting more on the line. I hope Scott and Evenstar will fill in that gap. and 3. I got way less pictures than normal for an Appleseed weekend....

And now for the (few) pictures:

A Coeur d'Alene Appleseed Morning


RL teaching the six steps


Reformed Redneck teaching IMC


Still Learnin listening and enjoying being a shooter instead of an instructor "for once".


The flags



Sister and Brother listening to Roland's First Strike


Hey! Look! Butterflies!



Ouch...


About to teach transitions


Roland telling the Third Strike


Stacking brass


Talking about the fathers and sons on the Lexington Green


Brian shot Rifleman!

[Western Rose]

Day 2 Pictures

Deu1118 reviewing the prone and slings and RL decided he wanted to demo in the mud.....


Review of sitting (Yes, the review was on all of them. No, I did not get pictures of all of them.)




Review of standing


EERT telling us about David Lamson


RL telling us about Samuel Whittemore (and yes, having the bayonet there really put things into perspective)


Reformed Redneck telling us about Hezekiah Wyman


Roland earned another Rifleman Patch


Bill shot Rifleman


Going out to check the KD targets


Still Learnin earned another Rifleman Patch
or
Father and Son during an Appleseed weekend


Jared, the pictures I got of you getting your Rifleman patch turned out rather blurry. Sorry about that... Well done in your shooting and thank you for joining the Northwest Instructor Crew.

[Evenstar]

What a great weekend!!!

We could very well rename this event something like 'ButterflySeed'. Butterflies were everywhere (must be Spring).

Seriously though, a huge THANK YOU to the attendees for 'getting up off the couch' and coming out to hear your Heritage. May we never forget what it cost the Founding Generation to preserve our freedom...

As for the marksmanship, there was much improvement made by all. There's just nothing like seeing all the pieces and steps falling together for a shooter you've worked with all weekend. I hope to see ALL of you back.

Gina, it was a pleasure to work with you this weekend. You did a fantastic job, improved a ton, and I just know that you'll get that patch next time! You're knocking on the door with those scores!

Congratulations to Bill, Brian, Jarad, and Robb. Way to persist on chasing that Rifleman patch!

Thank you, Jarad, on taking up the orange hat. I'll be looking forward to working the line with you.

Instructors, it was wonderful to work with you all again, as always! See you all soon.

RL... *BING!*

Anyway, now for some of my pictures (what? Evenstar got PICTURES? NO WAY! ). These ones are mostly from Saturday, with a few from Sunday. My best Sunday shots are on Scott's camera (a Canon that he twisted my arm to use all day), so he'll have to post them. Thanks a million, Scott!

Like I said, ButterflySeed.


Billy


RR and WR going over prone position



M1A!!!!


Um... line boss?? LOL


RR teaching IMC



WR instructing Marc


Sundog!


Um... RL... photo courtesy of RL.


Father and son


WR instructing something...


Marc and Still Learnin during ball and dummy


RL and Loren do some review on Sunday


The Three Amigos


Dirk gets some trigger time


The line



Stapling targets


EERT and the little Lauryn


Dirk gets his purple patch


Still Learnin gets his purple patch


Gina in standing


Appleseeding family!!!


Alex


3 M1A's!!!!


Oh, and the REAL camera (dart, I am NOW dangerous!   )


Yes, artsy shots to follow (this thread is going to be an overload of pics!).

[Evenstar]

A few artsy shots (the others are on Scott's camera).

[TruTenacity]

All showing improvement in rifleman's skills,
Four new rifleman,
Three repeat rifleman,
One new orange hat
Great history ...

Nice work shooters and instructors!

I received six bug bites on my head and 3/4 of one of three blueberry beds weeded for my efforts while staying at home.  I should have come and spent our 28th wedding anniversary instructing with my husband instead.  A rifleman sacrifices and a rifleman persists even in the garden.  Oh well.  At least the pictures gives one a feel for how great this event was.  I can't wait to see the pictures that are on Scott's camera.  (Good chicken wing while shooting with the camera, Evenstar.)

[Evenstar]

Here's a video I got of RL telling Samuel Whittemore's story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKRw2Q0bVbI

[Roland]

Hey, that picture of the reflected flags turned out even better then I hoped. And I finally got a better picture of me in prone...

[eert]

Greetings All!

First off- congrats to the new Rifleman!  Jared, I didn't work with you much (maybe that's why you hit it so fast!)  Bill, Brian, Robb, you all had me in your face for at least two shoots, and it was a thrill to see you break the 210 mark.  Way to go gentleman. 

Second- The whole Peterson clan showed great improvement and I foresee RM scores in your future.  Ditto for the Quint clan.  Judy and Earl were models of perseverance, an example for all of us to follow.

Third-Congrats to our junior instructors, Patrick, Heather, and Dirk  who got to reaffirm their RM ability.   Now that Dirk has shot his share this spring, maybe I'll get a chance!

I particularly like the picture of Heather demoing the standing position.  Excellent example of chicken wing and support elbow under the rifle.  Oh wait, silly me, that's a camera not a rifle!  Good thing since she's well behind the firing line!

Thanks for coming and sharing a north Idaho Spring weekend with the north Idaho cadre and learning to live the Appleseed tradition.  I hope to see all of you on the Appleseed trail again!!

Practice those positions and trigger squeeeeeeeze.

EERT

[Rizzin]

ES, good chickenwing and Support hand on that Cannon, but your Turkey neck and firm handshake grip look like they need some work....   

Something different about RR, but I cant seem to quite place whats missing...  let me scratch my chin on that for a little bit


Looks like beautiful weather and a grand bunch of shooters, well done to those who put down the TV remote and did something educational with their weekend.

[Western Rose]

Something different about RR, but I cant seem to quite place whats missing...  let me scratch my chin on that for a little bit

[Western Rose]

NOTICE TO ALL INSTRUCTORS AND ATTENDEES OF THIS EVENT

So far, it has been discovered that two ticks hitched a ride home with us. *shudders*  We're checking for more now.......

[Scott]

Pictures from the canon are in the "emails" to Western Rose...all 130+ of them.  Have fun posting!

Scott

[Evenstar]

I particularly like the picture of Heather demoing the standing position.  Excellent example of chicken wing and support elbow under the rifle.  Oh wait, silly me, that's a camera not a rifle!  Good thing since she's well behind the firing line!

ES, good chickenwing and Support hand on that Cannon, but your Turkey neck and firm handshake grip look like they need some work....   

You guys.... I'm pretty sure I need to work on my 'happy finger' too. Here are some of the pictures I got on Scott's camera (thanks again!!!!). Oh, and I promise these are the last I'll post on this thread!

Lauryn with her pink .22


More of the line


WR


Killer puppy eyes....


RL shoots his M1A


Marc


Checking KD targets





Quick sighter after KD


Congrats Robb!


Checking out the AQT


Just for RL




Purple patches




Evenstar and Lauryn


The dashing group


Congrats lumberjack55!!!

[Evenstar]

The rest of the pics can be found here: http://s1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd511/Evenstar95/Coeur%20dAlene%20ID%20Appleseed%202011%20May%2021%20and%2022/

Album password is May2011.

[Roland]

FYI- Link is broken... Not any more. Feel free to delete this post.

[Earl]

I have been very happy with the Marksmanship of the Appleseed crew from Idaho and parts of the Great NorthWest, but I have to acknowledge that the photography is really on the mark. So of course I am going to steal some of the best for my mind to dwell upon. Good work, fine folks and America is better for it.

[GoldFish]

The rest of the pics can be found here: http://s1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd511/Evenstar95/Coeur%20dAlene%20ID%20Appleseed%202011%20May%2021%20and%2022/

Album password is May2011.

Nice pics ES!  I might have to 'steal' some of those myself...
On page 1 in picture number 2, is that your AS Challenge Coin, or were you just holding one up for a picture?

[Evenstar]

The rest of the pics can be found here: http://s1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd511/Evenstar95/Coeur%20dAlene%20ID%20Appleseed%202011%20May%2021%20and%2022/

Album password is May2011.

Nice pics ES!  I might have to 'steal' some of those myself...
On page 1 in picture number 2, is that your AS Challenge Coin, or were you just holding one up for a picture?

Thanks! And feel free.
You bet it's mine! Someone saw it out and wanted a picture.

[GoldFish]

Thanks! And feel free.
You bet it's mine! Someone saw it out and wanted a picture.

Thank you!

Looks good.