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Wilmington Ohio 10/29-30/2011

Started by DryFire, October 31, 2011, 08:18:26 AM

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DryFire

What a great weekend and a great group of students.  ^:)^  My notes are not conveniently at hand at the moment so I will leave this as a place holder, however everyone else feel free to post your thoughts and pictures.

Ok so I came home to a dead computer, so here I sit at work doing anything but work.  O0 We had an awesome group of Americans this weekend. 22 People chose to endure the heavy morning frost and 26 degree temps on Sat morning and then 16 returned to do it again on Sunday. When the frost had melted and the sun shone bright, in our eyes I might add, we had 2 new rifleman.  ^:)^ Congratulations are in order for Tim and Clinton.

Tim shot rifleman on Sat and again and again and again on Sunday. A man who knows well what he is doing  behind a rifle. Tim even stuck around Sunday evening to do a little hole punching at 200 yards with the instructor crew. ;) Thanks for showing off your toys. Meanwhile Clinton showed us what persistence really means, shooting a 213 with his bolt action rifle on Sunday. This was his second AS and he had been trying all weekend, steadily getting better, but it wasn't until we put a loop sling on his rifle and a little more practice that it all fell together for Clinton. He then stuck around and put those rifleman's skills to use at 200yd Sunday evening.

We had such a great group of people and some excellent groups. I was shocked Saturday as I walked the line to see such nice and tight groups. Joe impressed me all weekend shooting a Marlin 39a with no sling, and stock open sights scoring a high of 208 on the AQT. Get a sling on that rifle and you will have it licked. Kim came out with the goal to improve and despite his many grumblings about his groups I know he learned a lot. Sir it was a pleasure to have you on the line and I thank you for coming out and for what you do here in Ohio for all of us through OFCC.

In the middle of the line we had another couple who although they didn't shoot rifleman certainly exhibited some awesome perseverance thanks to Mike and Angela. Keep at it guys and you will make a great rifleman/woman team.  To everyone else some I got to work with more than others I can 't thank you enough for getting off your couches and spending a day or two at the range learning what it really means to be an American. 

Another thanks too, for the Clinton County Farmer's and Sportsman's association with their beautiful club and great food!  Of course we wouldn't be there if it were not for the work of dirtdawg who got us into the club and served as a gracious student for the weekend.

DryFire
"I believe there is great need for such a book, a book which will help to make us again what we were a century ago before commercialism and life in cities robbed our young men of most of their primitive virtues -- a Nation of Rifleman.
Maj. Townsend Whelen
The American Rifle

Kick-in-the-pants

Pictures to come...

Saturday morning started out at about 40 degrees (according to the weather channel) with some heavy frost and squishy, wet, grass.  The layers of clothing slowly melted away as the grass turned into mud that was enough to drive one  ++)  Luckily the Clinton County Farmers were prepared with hot chocolate @ $.25 and coffee... supply your own mud barrier. 

Being my second Appleseed, I had a great time and was lucky enough to have the wife join in the fun!  I know it was quite a lesson for her and I had lots questions to answer on the drive home and back the next morning (MOA? Clicks? Why?)  Grandma really stepped it up for us watching Jr. and I had to do some dishes/grocery shopping/laundry/making breakfast to make it happen, but worth every minute  :D  Now we just need a ladies only weekend so we can get grandma on the firing line  :--- 

And once again, I met some really cool people!  I even learned about a great little gun shop that I already knew about... I just didn't realize that it was so great!

Many thanks to Dryfire for spotting us a LTR for the lady and a GI sling for myself (that GI sling brought my score up by 30 points at least!).   I also have some trigger-smithing working to do later on this week  :slap:  Regardless, after a little more time on the line I am pretty stoked to have brought home a rifleman patch!  Can't wait till I can say the same of the wife and junior  8)  (and Grandma, Grandpa, the other Grandpa, (the other grandma is unlikely), Uncle this, Uncle that, Aunt Betsy, adopted Uncle Ben... etc  :D )

*Confession time... I think I muscled it on stage 2 when I scored rifleman. I know, I can hear it already...  !@#)  I need to work on that one more, hence my user name.

-Kick In The Pants (Clinton)

Kick-in-the-pants

It seems like this should be it's own topic somewhere, but I thought about this a bit last night:

Before I came to my first shoot I went to Shooters Supply in Loveland to ask them what they knew about it.  They told me a guy named "Spock" went once and they think he had a good time.  Aside from that, they shared my concern about showing up on the 5 o'clock news for associating with crazy militia members that wanted to over-throw the government.  Slightly worried about what I was getting into, I brought 3 high-schoolers with me for backup  8)

Yesterday I met a number of individuals who have been there on what seems to have been a regular basis... how come these guys didn't know about Appleseed?  (Just think about how many other people there are out there just like me!)

It may seem like I'm  :DH: but next time you stop by the gun shop, talk about it!  After all, I'm going to go to a shop I normally wouldn't go to because I went to an Appleseed shoot! 

-K.I.T.P.

dirtdawg

Quote from: DryFire on October 31, 2011, 08:18:26 AM
My notes are not convienently at hand at the moment so I will leave this as a place holder...

I didn't take any notes either :))

Aside from the mud and a couple of hours of low sun angle glare, I thought we had great weather.  It seemed to me that there were remarkably few misfires on the line.  I thought the lunch arrangements were spot on.  I had nice event.  No patch yet, but made some steps towards it.  I made some awesome groups, but the consistency just, well, needs some work.

Thanks to Dry Fire, Wy_Not, and Slim for contributing yet another long weekend to the cause.  Y'all did a great job.  Hopefully, we can keep adding local "hats" to these events until the point (in the distant future) we have to tell them to find their own range to AS at.

Meanwhile, you are all welcome back again anytime.