Only had 6 shooters, all of them 2 day shooters, all from NY, though 2 were from Queens (an 8 hour drive).
Made 2 Riflemen, Luke shot 220 on Saturday, and Gunville shot 216 on Sunday. Gunville is now an IIT, and Luke is considering it in the future. 2 more are "knocking on the door" and the other 2 showed great improvement.
The shooters all came prepared, so we got a LOT of shooting in. 366 rounds on Saturday, and another 516 on Sunday, before we knocked off the 25 meter portion and went to some Full Distance shooting, verifying BSZ's and such. Total count was 882 rounds. None of it was wasted, either, as the Instructor crew and the shooters weren't wasting time.
Now, the youngest shooter there, Corbin, was just 9 years old, and short. A short stock added to his 10/22 helped him out, and he completed ALL of the shooting. The lad is a real trooper, I'll tell you. A pure pleasure to know, and he was a good learner. We're going to see him and his dad back a few more times this year.
The usual NY crew was the crew for this event, along with myself and NattyBumpo (Nathan) from Vermont. Can't say enough about this team, as all I had to do was sit in my chair and drink coffee for most of the weekend.
NY clearly knows how to get rounds down range! Great job :)
An absolutely terrific crew staffed this shoot! O0 IIT's, instructors, and, well, yeah, I guess even the MI - all were the best.
882 rounds, and about that many mosquito bites.
BTW: I claim an unofficial 221 on the target Luke cross-fired my stage 3... at home in lamp light I see the holes my Blazer made vs. Luke's federal - the blazer holes are greyed on the edges from the lead bullet, while the federal (plated bullet) holes are clean.
Congratulations to Gunville for taking the hat. You will find it to be rewarding and fun.
The range layout works well and having a clubhouse with restrooms and a kitchen is great.
Cheryl (Blueskys) deserves the MVP award for making sure we all had more than enough home cooking. Even the lunch time hot dogs were done to perfection.
The New Bremen club house.
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Luke getting his patch. A Riflemans score with a home made aperture sight on his 10/22.
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Bob (Gunville) getting a patch and taking the hat.
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Corbin did not hit Rifleman score but he persisted like a Rifleman. Nickle presented him with an Appleseed coin.
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Gene was one of our shooters from Queens. I think he was the "most improved" shooter of the weekend.
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Nick was the other Queens shooter. He shot very well and will be over 210 at his next AS.
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The instructor to shooter ratio was high, so we were able to do a lot of one on one.
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Nathan came over from VT to help out.
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Did my normal follow up with the range. They were very pleased with how we left the range. "better than when you got there"
Thanks to all the shooters for policing their area and again to Blueskies for all you put into the shoot.
Since we used some of their targets for FD shooting, I left them a bigger than usual stack of AQT's, C/AQT's and Red Coats. Hopefully, they'll pique some interest.