SLCFSA hosted the June 10-11th Appleseed Event in beautiful Quarryville PA. 15 students signed up and 9 showed up for the event. 5 Adults and 4 youth. The students heard one of the best telling of the first strike by BBQBandit! We shot an initial redcoat target and moved right into steady hold factors for prone, sling use, steady hold factors for seated and standing, as well as NPOA, the 6 steps to firing the shot, and practiced zeroing, IMC, NPOA, Cadence, carding the sights, etc. We listened to the 2nd and 3rd strikes of the match during lunch then practiced the positions we learned on a green coat target. We finished the day with the transitions to seated and prone.
Sunday started out a littler cooler, but the weather was beautiful the remainder of the day. 9 students returned We started the day reviewing safety and everything that we had learned on Saturday. We practiced our transitions, dry firing, the 6 steps to firing a shot and a more in-depth review of NPOA. At exactly 12 noon we started Sunday with our first redcoat of the day. the students continued to improve and refine the techniques they had learned before shooting 5 AQT targets and a final Redcoat at the end of the day. I was very impressed with the progress the students made throughout the weekend. 2 shooters were able to clear a Redcoat target with David clearing 3 out of 4 redcoats! Jason cleared his first Redcoat in the AM on Sunday! David and Jason both produced amazing scores and earned their RIFLEMAN patches.
We finished the weekend with a letter from John Adams ("Posterity"), and range restoration.
Questions were answered, and all left with a better sense of how much our forebears sacrificed for our freedom, and how to apply the fundamentals of marksmanship in shooting a rifle with precision out to 500 yards!
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