Man, I am so excited about this weekend ^:)^
We've got a terrific staff lined up and 42 shooters expected :---
Weather is looking promising with only a 30% chance of rain on Sunday. If the weather guesser on TV last night is right that won't happen until evening.
We also have a special treat lined up for Sunday. Deadeye Don and his crew from the club's black powder discipline are going to bring out some show and tell. We might even get to send some ball down range O0
Can't wait to meet you all. Pictures will be posted over the next few days. Stay tuned...
So much good stuff from this weekend I'm not sure where to start. Families, first time shooters, youth, rifleman, new orange hat - this is why we do what we do. Thank you for spending your weekend with us. Thank you to Douglas Ridge Rifle Club for hosting. This event sold out weeks ago and I kept getting calls from instructors asking how hard a number we had. Well, we can always shoot relays. Opened up another 25 spots on the line. 38 American's joined us Saturday. The weather forecast was for hot. The whole drive to the range with my wipers going I kept repeating 'high of 89'. Well, the weather guessers where right. It got hot. We shot in relays. A little slow out of the gate but once we got rolling we made the most our space and time.
Sunday had some looming clouds that scared off a few shooters but 28 came back to the line. With relays no longer necessary we cranked out some riflemen. Huzzah!
My camera wasn't going too often as I attempted to keep our relays on the tracks but here's what I got.
Shooters, please feel free to chime in with your thoughts and experiences.
Hope to see you on the trail.
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An awesome weekend at Douglas Ridge Rifle Club. Thanks to our hosts for allowing us to come out again and introduce a whole lot more people to their history, heritage, and rifle marksmanship....
Thanks to all our shooters for coming out with great attitudes, and a willingness to learn and work hard...
Very proud of all our shooters this weekend, and our new riflemen (and woman), and to those who didn't quite get there this weekend, remember, a rifleman PERSISTS! :D
Excited to have Bill join the IIT program! Huzzah!!!
I'm gonna do this the easy way - here's a link to all the pictures I took this weekend - and if I accidentally got anyone in there that was in the no pictures group, please let me know and I'll take care of it.
Eagle Creek Sept 2013 (http://s39.photobucket.com/user/jmaia2/library/Eagle%20Creek%20Sept%202013)
Great work guys and gals!!
This was a event, we sold out the shoot had our biggest event at Douglas Ridge club we've ever had. We also had like 7 rifleman and 2 repeats. Not to mention the one new orange hat congrats Bill. Weather was fantastic well on Sunday it was. Cant wait for the November shoot. :~
By the way thanks to all the instructors that helped this event we would have never been able to do it all on our own. Great pictures Ambulance Driver ;D