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Indiana has a new Red Hat

Started by TJ Kackowski, November 24, 2014, 08:23:37 AM

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TJ Kackowski

November 24, 2014, 08:23:37 AM
Congratulations go out to Big John on earning his Red Hat at Evansville.  Mudcat and Mutti were on hand to make it official.  Now all that's left is the paperwork.



Big John even managed to earn his Winterseed Rifleman's award the same weekend.


Mutti

#1
November 24, 2014, 08:25:57 AM
 Huzzah Big John!
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
Herm Albright
(1876 - 1944)

DaveD

#2
November 24, 2014, 09:34:30 AM
 O0
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind."

                                           Thomas Jefferson

brianheeter

#3
November 24, 2014, 10:48:43 AM
Well, that didn't take very long!  Well done!

brian
(refuse to) Kiss the Ring!

greyfox

#4
November 24, 2014, 11:50:59 AM
Way to go Big John...way to go! 

KD Cat

#5
November 24, 2014, 11:52:10 AM
Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
When a man loves cats, I am his friend without further introduction.
-Mark Twain

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
-Mary Kay Ash

spitfire51

#6
November 24, 2014, 07:54:32 PM
Big John earning a Big hat during a Big weekend!  Nicely done sir  ^:)^
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PHenry

#7
November 24, 2014, 08:02:19 PM
 O0
Para ser Libre, un Hombre debe tener tres cosas. La Tierra, una Educacion, y un Fusil. Siempre, un Fusil!  Emiliano Zapata

SPQR

#8
November 24, 2014, 08:18:57 PM
 O0
"It is amazing to watch the intricate dance of the Indiana instructors playing off each other's strengths. No ego involved. Just doing what needs to be done by the person best suited to do it to give the shooters what they need." - Miki

"Indiana rules!" - Nero

"We all need Bedford." - brianheeter

Lonestar6

#9
November 24, 2014, 08:25:22 PM
Good on ya!
President Reagan is quoted as saying 'There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.' This is a valid observation, and a powerful tool.

Rayne

#10
November 25, 2014, 12:43:00 AM Last Edit: March 25, 2015, 02:32:40 AM by Rayne
~
QuoteDo not forget those who fought for your Liberties and Freedoms and take care to guard them against all tyranny.

Unbridled Liberty

#11
November 25, 2014, 12:43:42 AM
Congratulations John!

UL
For Liberty, each Freeman Strives
As its a Gift of God
And for it willing yield their Lives
And Seal it with their Blood

Thrice happy they who thus resign
Into the peacefull Grave
Much better there, in Death Confin'd
Than a Surviving Slave

This Motto may adorn their Tombs,
(Let tyrants come and view)
"We rather seek these silent Rooms
Than live as Slaves to You"

Lemuel Haynes, 1775

stagehand steve

#12
November 25, 2014, 08:59:27 AM
Congrats!  Well done!

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Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies."
- George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress (8 January 1790).

ATM

#13
November 25, 2014, 01:55:26 PM
Way to go, Big John!  O0
Say no to drugs. $$-0 Say yes to bacon. O0

hawkhavn

#14
November 25, 2014, 02:11:47 PM
 O0
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This is known as "bad luck."
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olefido

#15
November 25, 2014, 06:36:16 PM
 ..:.. ..:.. ..:..
"That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." -George Orwell

Slow2Speak

#16
November 25, 2014, 09:59:50 PM
 O0

Big John

#17
November 25, 2014, 10:48:39 PM
Thanks all, glad to have worked with you all. I'm following Rayne's lead, so if you feel you taught me
something during the IIT shoots I did, or feel you have something to teach me if we haven't met yet
(which should be everyone, since we all have stuff to teach somebody), feel free to sign the hat.

It's a big head special, so the brim has plenty of room. Mudcat and others advised to go and instruct
with as many SBs at as many locations as I could and not to hurry on the red hat, and I'm glad
I did since I still have stuff to learn at each one. (Nothing against the GreyFox Fast Track Method to Red Hat).  ;D

See you all out there,
-John.

RiflesnReins

#18
November 26, 2014, 10:33:43 AM
 O0 Attaboy Big John!
"Come on guys!  Keep your eyes on your magazines. Stop looking at RnR to tell you when to fire. I know you can hear her down there. Trust me I should know, I live in the same house!."  Mutti

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Thomas Lord Macaulay

I am not sleeping... I'm just practicing the prone position.

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― Winston Churchill

"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."
― Mark Twain

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton

grunt soldier

#19
November 29, 2014, 08:15:07 PM
congrats man.  well deserved!
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GooseGun

#20
November 30, 2014, 02:01:59 PM
Go Big john!!
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