AAR Quarryville, PA, September 2-3, 2023

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SLCFSA hosted the August 2nd and 3rd Appleseed Event in beautiful Quarryville PA. 15 students signed up and 14 showed up for the event. 11 Adults and 3 youth. The students were in absolute awe as they listened to the First Strike. Yates provided one of the best accounts of April 19th that we have ever heard! We shot an initial redcoat target and moved right into steady hold factors for prone, sling use, steady hold factors for seated and standing, as well as NPOA, the 6 steps to firing the shot, and practiced zeroing, IMC, NPOA, Cadence, carding the sights, etc. We listened to the 2nd strike of the match during lunch then practiced the positions we learned on a green coat target. We finished the day with the Third Strike and transitions to prone.
Sunday started out a littler warmer, and the heat intensified throughout the day. Undaunted by the weather 14 students returned. We started the day reviewing safety and everything that we had learned on Saturday. We practiced our transitions, dry firing, the 6 steps to firing a shot and a more in-depth review of NPOA. At exactly 12 noon we started Sunday with our first redcoat of the day. the students continued to improve and refine the techniques they had learned before shooting 4 AQT targets and a final Redcoat at the end of the day. I was very impressed with the progress the students made throughout the weekend.
4 shooters were able to clear a Redcoat target this weekend. I was very proud to see George return to Quarryville and clear his first Red Coat and earn his PA State patch! Later in the day on Sunday, after enduring the heat and the dust, 4 shooters were able to secure a RIFLEMAN patch.
Words can't express my gratitude to the students and instructors this past weekend. The students brought a thirst to learn and a tenacity to overcome any issues that they encountered. The instructors also brought a passion for the history of that fateful day in April. We are all lucky to share the range with such upstanding patriots and amazing instructors. 
We finished the weekend with a letter from John Adams ("Posterity"), and range restoration.
Questions were answered, and all left with a better sense of how much our forebears sacrificed for our freedom, and how to apply the fundamentals of marksmanship in shooting a rifle with precision out to 500 yards!

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