Day one down at Bonfield, IL and it was a great day at the Illinois State Rifle Association range. It looked like we were going to get rained on but after a few sprinkles we had cloudy but nice shooting weather all day Saturday. The shooters made great progress with a couple knocking at the door (207). Tomorrow should be a great day!
Sunday was a another great day at Bonfield, IL for Appleseed. The weather threatened to turn into a Winterseed. We were feeling quite a wind chill and when I thought I saw a snowflake the line went wild with anticipation for the coveted, cold-weather patch ...but it was not to be. :-[ However, the shooters persisted and the result was 2 new Riflemen and 2 re-qualifications. O0 :bow:
Congratulations to Eric & Jon on shooting Riflemen scores and Amber Waves and Eric for re-qualifying scores. :bow: :bow: :bow: Also Amber Waves and Jon (son of JR) took Orange Hats. O0 Congratulations to JR on advancing to IIT2. :cool2:
Pat, you did a great job and progressed a lot. Keep dry firing and you will earn the patch.
Karl (get the PC done and get that RH), JR, and Amber Waves (AC) did a great job and I credit a lot of our success to their efforts. Thanks for a great weekend.
Pictures will follow soon.
--Tornado
Okay I know I'm his wife, but you should have seen how hard I worked to get my orange hat. He had me do admin and gopher for him and he had me shoot a rifleman score, too. ~~:)
^:)^ I did it! ^:)^
And it was so much fun!
It was great working with you, Karl, JR and Jon jr. Heck, I volunteered to help you Tornado, but someone has to give you a hard time.
Congratulations EVERYBODY! ^:)^
Yes you did it Amber. And it is fun isn't it. :---
Sounds like a great shoot, congratulations everyone and welcome to the Instructor Corps for the new IITs.
HH
Some pictures! Amber Waves will probably post more later:
^:)^ Jon is so happy with his Rifleman and Orange hat. We will get him on the forum soon. Many thanks to Tornado and Karl for this weekends work as well as Wurstmacher, 2ClicksLow, Ewald, Stom and all the other folks that helped him along the way this year. We're happy to be part of such a great team.
Tell Jon he had better pick a forum name quickly or we may have to pick one for him.... >:D
He may not like that....I've got a couple in mind :))
Thanks to everyone that came out an braved the almost Winterseed elements..... O0
I for one had a great time and I hope that you come out to the last AS in Illinois this year....Waterman Dec 3&4.
Thanks,
Karl
Tell Jon he had better pick a forum name quickly or we may have to pick one for him....
Do it Karl ! After an entire weekend ,bet you have a good one ::)----- ;D ;D ;D
Hi to all you great folks in Illinois ;)
Congrats to the new Riflemen and to the new Orange hats!!! O0 O0 :bow: :bow:
Y'all make me proud to be an American!!!
Patriot Gal