Sometimes I think about who or what is a rifleman.
This weekend was one of those weekends.
On April 19th not one person on the field had a rifleman patch.
But everyone that was on the field Loved Freedom.
They taught each other skills and they taught their families skills (one was the musket).
They fought for each other's and died for each other.
This weekend, I found myself thinking about it again.
This weekend David and I got to work with four students that caused me to sit back and reflect on what makes a rifleman.
This weekend i was reminded what makes a rifleman, we love our God given freedom and love being Americans.
I Thank God I got to work with this group of freedom loving Americans.
No one on the field on April 19th, 1775, had a riflemen patch, like this weekend none of my students have a patch.
Before April 19th, 1775, they all learned, taught, and practiced with each other, like this weekend these students learned, taught, and practiced with each other.
Lastly this weekend, possibly like April 19th, they shared what they learned.
This weekend,
Everyone worked hard, but David was teaching two friends how to teach each other.
Everyone learned lessons but one student talked about working with a friend and teaching Appleseed skills.
Everyone had challenges but one student volunteered to take a blue hat.
This weekend, I was reminded what makes a rifleman and I Thank God.
We got no patch scores, but we got three students hitting Appleseed MOA at 100, 200 and 300.
One student was MOA at 400.
One student kept working even when issue kept coming.
Think about it one day and wonder out loud, what makes a rifleman.
I think you will conclude a patch can make an instructor, but riflemen can make a nation.
I hope to be the person that gives each one of these students a patch one day, but until then I thank God, He reminded me of what being a rifleman can do.
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KD at Kingman! Awesome, glad to see you were able to get back on that range and bring the first KD in a few years!
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Thank you to our excellent instructors for volunteering their time and expertise to teach us known distance. And thank you for the loan of a good rifle and trading ammo so I could participate. Our instructors did everything to help each one of the four us this weekend, including helping out with some very high-quality loaner rifles where there were problems. I appreciate them both very much.
I have been to a few Appleseeds years ago, including a KD in 2016, and I still learned a lot of new things at this event. I definitely recommend learning from this team if you get the opportunity! The location in Kingman is desert, and we got to work with variable winds and winds coming from different directions on the two days. This was valuable experience since windage does make a big difference at longer distances. Learning to read the speed of the wind from environmental signs with foliage and dust, and then how to use that to figure out hold overs in MOA was very useful. I also learned to hit a moving target at 100 yards, much shorter due to the target almost being blown over, and flapping up and down -- and I still got 7 of 10 into the black. Many skills were advanced at the event, even though no one got the patch just yet.
And thank you for what you wrote about the event. It is true that there are many elements that come together to make riflemen, not just the score. I also hope all four of us will achieve that score, status, and Rifleman patch soon O0
Thank you for the pictures! We can safely say this thread is not worthless ;)
Jenn10 took the Bluehat. Papers have been sent!
Quote from: Jenn10 on March 15, 2022, 05:52:08 PM
Thank you to our excellent instructors for volunteering their time and expertise to teach us known distance. And thank you for the loan of a good rifle and trading ammo so I could participate. Our instructors did everything to help each one of the four us this weekend, including helping out with some very high-quality loaner rifles where there were problems. I appreciate them both very much.
I have been to a few Appleseeds years ago, including a KD in 2016, and I still learned a lot of new things at this event. I definitely recommend learning from this team if you get the opportunity! The location in Kingman is desert, and we got to work with variable winds and winds coming from different directions on the two days. This was valuable experience since windage does make a big difference at longer distances. Learning to read the speed of the wind from environmental signs with foliage and dust, and then how to use that to figure out hold overs in MOA was very useful. I also learned to hit a moving target at 100 yards, much shorter due to the target almost being blown over, and flapping up and down -- and I still got 7 of 10 into the black. Many skills were advanced at the event, even though no one got the patch just yet.
And thank you for what you wrote about the event. It is true that there are many elements that come together to make riflemen, not just the score. I also hope all four of us will achieve that score, status, and Rifleman patch soon O0
Thank you for the pictures! We can safely say this thread is not worthless ;)
Well done, gentlemen. :bow: I'd really like to have been there for that. Inspirational!