What a week! My water pump on my car blew up the day before the event, and I was thinking of canceling since I only had one student. The DAR owner said "No Way!" and loaned me his pickup truck for the weekend!
I'm glad he convinced me to persist, because this was the most rewarding Appleseed I've done in a long while!
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The parking area and our flags.
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The firing line! He was left-handed, so I was on the ejection port side of his AR, watching intently the whole time.
My student had attended our April 19th AS at Whittington and he had practiced almost every day since then! His best score in April was 160.
We reviewed everything and on the end of Saturday he scored 212!
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I broke down and took a selfie to document the happy event.
It was clear what he needed, so on Sunday I set up 4 backers and posted squares on three of them and an AQT on the fourth. I had John shoot the bottom row of 6 squares in an NPOA drill, 2 shots each from prone. Repeat on the top row. The middle row was in seated. From there, we immediately did the 4th stage of the AQT, and he got a perfect score. He got the body shift!
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showing just one of the NPOA pages.
The rest of the AQT was better too, and he scored 240!
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Happy student!
From there we talked about trajectory, BSZ, near and far zeros, come-ups and basic wind corrections. We figured the come-downs (b/c of course, he was zeroed at 25 and 300- with his AR) for his scoped AR and a .308 with irons and he repeatedly connected his steel target at 150 yards.
He had a fantastic time and gained lots of insight! I have to say, he was the most committed student I've ever had and he showed the fastest improvement I've ever seen! I'm glad I was able to give John such close attention as it really showed in his shooting.
Next month: A ladyseed, with more students!
Wow!!
Awesome job as always BlueFeather! :~ :--- :bow: O0
Had I not been at the NRAWC Raton teaching for 6 weeks I would have loved to have been there. ;)