Watervliet, MI Patriots Day April 16-17, 2016

[SteelThunder]

What a great weekend.  A sold out shoot, gorgeous weather, 19 Boy Scouts, parents and multiple other fine Americans (total of 30) out for a weekend in commemoration of Patriot's Day.

It was great to see so many people come out to shoot and hear some great history.  We had several people posting great scores in the 170-190 range...looking forward to seeing you all back to cross the Rifleman line.  Everyone's marksmanship improved greatly as can be seen by the Redcoat scores dramatically getting better from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon.  I especially appreciate the attention and great questions we got from people during our history lessons. 

We had a great time firing 2 Brown Besses and the Memorial Volley at 4 pm was a lot of fun...37 people firing a mix of .22LRs with a smattering of Garands, AR15s, a SCAR17 and 2 Brown Bess muskets.  Very moving.

Thanks to Austin and Andrew for stepping up to become AppleCore.  Now...pick a name and get to work!

I only got 2 pictures all weekend because I was running around so much.  Please post what you got!  Look forward to seeing everyone next time.

[SteelThunder]

 

[Snipette]

I agree with Kris!  You guys were AMAZING!  I hope you had as much fun as we did!  I took a TON of pictures, so I won't post them all, but check out our facebook page for all of them!  Congrats to our new blue hats too!  I look forward to working with you at other shoots!  Welcome.  Hope to see your faces again at an upcoming event...say Niles? 
See you at the range!
Brenda  (Snipette)

[Snipette]

And let's not forget about the Brown Bess' (Muzzel Loaders) that Kris and Bill brought... LOTS more of these on the facebook page.  Thanks so much guys for letting us shoot!

[Merlin33]

Thanks everyone for coming out! I had a great time, it was one year ago today i was finishing up my first shoot and at that point i realized that the program was calling to me. I asked for a blue hat and wore it for half of the next event before i took an orange hat with a score of exactly 210. I am honored to be a part of this program and to meet all of you. I hope to see you in the future.

[snoopy556]

I had a great time this weekend.    As always it was great working with the instructor core and it was also great to see so many shooters. I took a million pictures, but I can't convert them to the right sized file to post them, because I don't have the right computer software. I'm really sorry about that.    Hurrah for our new Applecore volunteers.  Can't wait to work with you guys.  Can't wait to see everybody at the next shoot.

[Sir Kay]

Great Shoot.. Here are more pictures!

[13th Gollum]

Well, my e-mail finally worked, though I don't know if anyone would still be looking at this page. I decided my range name would be 13th Gollum (don't ask me why). I look forward to working in Applecore, and can't wait until the next shoot.
(Andrew Quinones)

[Oz]

Andrew--we're still looking!  Thank you for taking a blue hat and joining AppleCore!  I look forward to working with you. 

(We will be down at Niles this coming weekend.)   

Oz