Many thanks to VAshooter, ACPjunkie, Truculent Turtle, and kDan for the instruction and history telling. I am honored to be associated with people like yourselves.
The weather was great. Saturday overcast and warm. Sunday sunny and hot, but not overly hot. The range was excellent, could not have been better. Many thank you's need to go to the Reade Range.
Three new Rifleman. One Saturday and two Sunday.
Out of the 18 shooters, 15 were 1st time Appleseeders. More on that later in the promotions section, I took an informal survey, with some interesting results.
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Hey jlacey, I know it looks like gold but it's just brass, no one is going to steal it from you if you set it down for a second.
it went well, not to much hastle with the shooters and even had a female who had never fired a rifle before come out, If only we had more time she would have been a rifle-woman. But alas. Again Many thanks to Reade Range, a very nice High Power facility.
Picture of said future Rifleman, with kDan watching.
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We had a great weekend at Reade Range near Allemans PA. I was sweating rain from the hurricane coming up the east coast but all we got was clouds which kept the temperature down.
I drove up Friday and met B964 at the range and we made decisions on how we should set things up. The standard Appleseed target line would not work. Think rocks. Big ones, small ones, and in between. No place to drive posts into the ground. We ended up using the high power target boards in their target carriers to post the Appleseed targets on. It worked great. The target boards were big enough to post three or four targets at once and then we would go down into the butts and pull the carriers down to change targets.
Seventeen shooters preregistered with fourteen of them showing up to shoot. We had three walk-ons so we had seventeen on the line shooting. B964 paid and was supposed to shoot but spent most of his time helping others.
I had an easy time because Kdan, ACPjunkie, and Truculent Turtle with B964's help kept everything moving well. On Saturday we had one shooter, Brian Hedrick break through the Rifleman barrier with a 219. Sunday brought more sun but cooler temeratures with two shooters earning the Rifleman Patch. Jason Lacey shot a 215 while Tom Scheller shot a 216. I was glad to see Jason back as he had attended the Black Creek Appleseed back in May. He showed his persistance as a Rifleman by shooting a Rifleman score at Black Creek but since we had run out of Rifleman patches then he came to Allemans and shot another riflemans score to finally get his long awaited and richly deserved patch.
Everyone rotated through the various Appleseed jobs including calling the line, line safety officer, coaching shooters and telling the story of April 19th. I was proud of all of the instructors and the way they handled the Appleseed.
VAshooter
I would to like to thank you all for a well executed and enjoyable AS at Allemans, It was down to the excellent instruction that I was able to earn my patch again, again thank you guys. Look to see you again in the near future hopefully with some raised couch potatoes ;D ;D