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Evansville, IN, AAR - June 25-26, 2022

Started by Big John, June 28, 2022, 12:21:26 AM

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Big John

The second Appleseed event of the year at Evansville took place this past weekend with a capable line of seven shooters. We started on time into an extremely hot day for Southern Indiana that tested the perseverance and patience of shooter and instructor alike.

We had several families represented with multiple members on the line, and I want to compliment our youth shooters Bob, Jacob, and Josh all especially as they showed very good safety habits throughout the weekend. All shooters came to the event prepared with their gear well sorted. Very few loaner accessories had to be pulled from the instructors' bags of tricks to surmount any equipment issues. Due to this preparedness and extremely good attitudes on part of all shooters, we were able to complete the first day's curriculum in full in the face of intense heat and humidity.

All shooters, rehydrated and rested, returned on Sunday to a much cooler and wetter day than the previous. After a full review of the previous instruction, we turned to the AQTs and accomplished two before lunch. While the stories of the Dangerous Old Men and Dames were told, the targets were also scored, and we had our first Rifleman of the weekend, Adam, with a 239. After congratulations, we encouraged him to pursue the extra point for Distinguished (Scoped) of 240.

After Lunch, we had more AQTs and a KD lecture before wrapping it up with the last Redcoat. Another Rifleman showed he knew what he was about, with Matt persevering over the weekend and steadily increasing his scores from the 180s, into the 190s and 200s, and finishing with a 210. His Rifleman patch came accompanied by the customary North Bridge Water for that score. Adam took the instructor cadre's advice to heart over the scores, and topped out at a 248, which is the highest score this instructor has personally ever witnessed at an Appleseed event, and well earned his Distinguished patch to accompany his Rifleman patch (he commented that proper sling use and instruction of Appleseed really improved his shooting.)

We then awarded the William Diamond Drummer Patch to the three youth shooters who shot safely and effectively with scores into the 190s and persevered all weekend with excellent morale and enthusiasm. We finished on time and wished the shooters well on the way home and encouraged all to return with friends.

The local Evansville Appleseed Instructor cadre put on an excellent shoot with quality instruction and conduction of the firing line by WilderMars, Darkfoot, and sur+rifle at the ever-capable Redbrush Rifle Range.

Picture Captions:

1. Leading off with Redcoats and Matt and Jacob on Saturday Morning.
2. sur+rifle instructs Prone Steady Hold Factors with WilderMars modeling to attentive shooters.
3. sur+rifle instructs I,M,C to shooters who multitask with hydrating and listening.
4. Standing stage with Matt and Rich, with RSO WilderMars.
5. Jacob clears his rifle after a stage.
6. Josh and Bob and Adam shoot prone.
7. Bob and Adam conduct the seated stage.
8. Matt, with Jacob in the background, do the same.
9. sur+rifle expounds upon the difficulty of the AQT while extolling the Rifleman achievement.
10. WilderMars supervises her side of the line under an AQT while Adam, Bob, and Josh can be seen shooting prone.
11. ....with Matt and Jacob as well.
12. Lastly, our three youth shooters do standing.












Darkfoot

Adam patching with a 248.
Matt patching and getting the North Bridge water treatment.
Youth photo.
Family photos.

sur+rifle

What a terrific shoot!  Thank you to all those on the line for being so attentive to safety, history, and marksmanship.  And please don't forget our KD event in October.

Just a couple pics to add:

1. Big John instructing on six steps of the shot.
2. Adam receiving his first rifleman patch.

twenty2LR

Had a great time and thanks again to all the instructors for the excellent training.  The old world craftsmanship employed by sur+rifle and Darkfoot to increase the LOP on my rifle with foam and tape is also appreciated and really helped me improve.  I've since gotten a Magpul Hunter X-22 stock as a permanent solution for the LOP issue (https://magpul.com/firearm-accessories/stocks/ruger/hunterx-22stock-ruger10-22.html?mp_global_color=118).

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sur+rifle

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Thanks twenty2LR!  Glad to hear you found a good permanent solution to the LOP issue.  Hope you will consider coming to another Evansville shoot including the KD.

There were some follow-up questions from the shoot that we would like to capture in this thread.

Regarding equipment for the pistol clinics, the details can be found via the "Appleseed Pistol Clinic" link on the "how to prepare" page: https://appleseedinfo.org/how-to-prepare/

Regarding the absolute number of officer casualties at the North bridge: four of the eight British officers and sergeants were wounded by the volley of musket fire and at least three privates were killed/mortally wounded and nine others were wounded.  This can be found in Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer which is a major reference that we use for our history.

As we discussed come-ups in KD, there was a question regarding 22LR ballistics.  As we discussed, there are several variables in play including bullet weight, barrel length, whether standard or high velocity load, sight height, etc.  That said, with a 25 meter zero, we would expect to see a 4 to 8 inch (and MOA!) drop at 100 yards.  It is desirable to know the come-ups for our rifles more precisely than that.  So we would highly recommend setting up targets at 50 yards, 75 yards, 100 yards, etc. and finding the points of impact.  Remember to verify your NPOA to get tight groups and call each shots so that you know if any were 'bad'.  Then you can use your IMC knowledge to determine how many MOAs you need to add for each distance.  This is covered in detail in the Appleseed Rimfire KD course along with the other useful items we discussed like dealing with wind.

Again, hope to see you all on the line in the future!