SLCFSA hosted the July 29-30th Appleseed Event in beautiful Quarryville PA. 14 students signed up and 12 showed up for the event. We also had 1 walk on! The students and instructors braved the 96-degree heat and humidity for the cause of liberty. We shot an initial redcoat target and moved right into steady hold factors for prone, sling use, 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 prone.
Sunday started considerably cooler, and the weather was beautiful the remainder of the day. 11 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. We had multiple new shooters on the line and after each point of instruction everyone could see noticeable improvement. The shooters were eager to learn and brought a teachable attitude!
3 shooters were able to clear a Redcoat target on Sunday. 2 of the 3 were new shooters to Appleseed. Congratulations to Kevin, Jason and Chris!
Chris and Jason both produced amazing scores and earned their RIFLEMAN patches. Jason had quite a few high rifleman scores while running his bolt action like greased lightning!
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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Well done, Tom and Bruce!!!!!