Target line set up Friday, camping overnight eagerly awaiting Saturday morning and another Patriots Day Appleseed Shoot!
Saturday
Cold and wet with gusty winds. Checking in shooters at 0830, equipment to the line, returning to Clubhouse by 0915 for Introductions, The First Strike of the Match, safety briefings and rifles to the line by 0955. Due to Range Rules we can't put rounds downrange until 1000 so at 1005 the Red Coats took a beating!
We have twelve shooters on line this morning with 4 youth shooters. Everyone took the weather in stride - rain, cold, wind, and mud - including one young man in a wheel chair. We gave everything we had, Steady Hold Factors (SHF) in Prone, Six Steps of Firing the shot, Talking Targets, NPOA, IMC, and the shooters took it and improved.
Lunch at 1200 with more History (Second Strike of the Match), then back to the line - Ball & Dummy, Carding the Sights, then SHF/NPOA in Sitting/Kneeling and Standing positions, mag changes, timed course of fire, Rifleman's Cadence moving quickly towards 1600 hrs and the Volley Fire to remember and honor those who gave their all for our freedoms on April 19th 1775.
After Volley Fire this morning's Red Coat is re-posted and 13 more rounds fired - is there improvement from this morning? Yes indeed!
Gear put up, the range cleaned and back to the Clubhouse for the final Strike of the Match, and Benediction. To our 4 youth shooters - Adam, Blake, Colton, and Jacob, thank you for spending the day with us and enjoy those patches.
Sunday
Cloudy, cold, and windy with strong gusts. Had to put on the coveralls this AM. Shooters thinned out some today. 8 total on the line, three of them the youth shooters.
A Red Coat, some squares to start the day and here come the AQT's. Feels good to be back in the Clubhouse out of the cold wind for lunch. History and KD briefing round out the lunch time and we are back to AQT's. Several AQT's later we have a Rifleman! Jon with a 225! Now it's time to try KD.
Two shooters elect to try their hand at 100yds while everyone else works AQT's. Soon the pleasing ring of steel is heard across the range.
My thanks to all of you for joining us this weekend. Please come back with a friend (or two).
Thanks Bill of Rights, Jimbo, and Dholder my fellow instructors. Hope to see everyone on the Appleseed Trail again soon.
Dave
Sounds like a well run event and despite the rotten weather, good return rate for Sunday O0 Anyone take any pictures?