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Wells, MN AAR - Aug 23-24, 2025 - Appleseed

Started by ProudPapa14, August 24, 2025, 10:57:30 PM

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ProudPapa14

Fifteen patriots joined us at the Wells Rifle & Pistol Club in Wells, MN to learn about our heritage and improve our marksmanship skills.  The weather was beautiful all weekend.  While challenged with a bit of wind, the temps and humidity were great for an August weekend in Minnesota. 

Saturday's hits count target showed we had some rust to knock off and a lot of room for improvements.  So we settled in and discussed the three fundamentals of marksmanship - 6 steps of firing the shot, NPOA, and shooting positions steady hold factors.  As Adam was going for his Red Hat, he was our lead instructor for the weekend covering the POIs crisply and answering questions promptly.  After a day of getting groups, working on positions, and practicing the fundamentals, we hung an AQT.  This first AQT of the weekend revealed that William still remembered his skills and was able to shoot an opening rifleman score of 212.  After this we shot the ending hits count and we saw both Trevor and William clear it.

Sunday we reviewed our fundamentals from Saturday, hung the hits count where we again had William clear the target.  After that we worked on drills and AQTs.  As we completed the day both Trevor and Jon earned their rifleman patch.  Trevor with a 233 and Jon with a 213 on the last AQT of the weekend.

Others showed great improvement with some weekend bests scores of:
Jenele - 114
Ryder - 119
Aaron - 139
Judy - 167
Quintyn (8) - 74
Jed (8) - 119
Micah - 150
Simeon - 160
Pat - 201

All stuck with it and continued to work on the skills necessary to make the shot. 

I want to thank each of you who were able to come out and participate along with thanking my fellow volunteers - Adam, Mathias, & Toby and the Wells Rifle & Pistol Club for allowing us the use of the range all weekend.

ProudPapa14

Group Photo:


Rifleman:
William


Trevor


Jon


Hits Count Clear


Misc Shots of the line/teaching:






Adam - Red Hat


New Orange Hats




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