Bailey CO 4/14-15 AAR

[Colorado Pete]

13 fellow Americans braved a forbidding weekend weather forecast to appear at the beautiful Buffalo Creek Gun Club/Camp Fickes Range Saturday morning. This site is located about 11 miles south-southeast of Bailey, far up in the pine-covered mountains of the national forest. The scenery is "pure Colorado".

The first day we set up on their new Camp Fickes short range (25/50/100 yards) in weather much kinder than predicted. Much progress was made, especially among the four youngsters in attendance.
 
Sunday, due to the particulars of how this range is required to run, we switched ranges to the long range, a 600-yard, multiple-firing-line, single-target-line-with-pits highpower range built by the Army just before World War Two.

We also woke up to about nine inches of fresh snow! Every shooter from the previous day returned, along with two more who were previous Appleseed veterans. After shoveling the snow off the 600 line and setting up the target line at their .22 silhouette range, off we went for day two. The morning blessed us with sunshine, but afternoon  brought clouds and intermittent snow. The shooters hung tough, ignored the unpleasant weather, and we had not a shooter afraid to persist!

All in all a challenging weekend for everyone, and many thanks to the shooters and hard-working instructor crew that dealt with switching ranges, deep snow, and lots of on-the-spot decisions.

[Skinner]

What a great bunch of shooters. I am always proud and humbled to spend time with the type of people who show up for appleseed.

We did not produce any Riflemen but everyone showed fantastic improvement and a lot of determination. Hope to see all of you ( bring someone else too ) at future shoots.

A very cool range with a lot of heritege and history of it's own. Thank you Buffalo Creek Gun Club for hosting this event.