Chambersburg, PA is on the Appleseed Map! :~
I will be back with details of the shoot (and pictures :D), but this will give the AAR a root from which to grow.
Chambersburg Rod & Gun Club hosted the event, due to the initiative and persistence of tactical308. More on this incredible facility to come.
Two new Riflemen will be taking up orange buckets (strangely, theirs are shaped like hats O0): layke and tactical308.
Cowdog found his inner beast! Now... is there any way to put that genie back in the bottle? Nope. Not gonna happen. :)
Wonderful!
I have been waiting to hear about how the rifleman's persistence worked with all the last minute hurdles you had to deal with.
What was the count for Sat and Sun?
Thanks for coming out and running the event. I really appreciate the time and effort put in.
Mooney
This one was so great, I do not know where to start...............
Free camping for the me, Spanner and Layke with electric hookups
Tactical308's wife was a shooter, and kept us in free coffee for two days O0
Tactical308 took us to Fort Louden, where the Revolution began in Pennsylvania; ten years before Lexington ;D
watching Allegheny Uprising (The story of Fort Louden) on video Sat Night in Layke's motor home
A wide covered range
An awesome covered 200 yard range to test our AQT skills at distance
50 percent of shooters made rifleman (OK there were only four shooters, but still nice stats)
Good news, yes sir. Was Tactical308 the range contact, Greg? What were his thoughts on having us back next year? I know he said the rest of the year would be a problem because of hunting season and the holidays, but I wanted to see if he thought we could come back.
Thoughts?
Mooney
Tactical308 and Greg are one in the same. I got the impression we can come back in 2010. :~
I also think that the next AS here will have more than 4 shooters ;D
This is a great fairly centralized PA location, and close to MD and WV. This is a chance to bring Maryland into the Appleseed program and give Pennsylvania's southern neighbor a chance to redeem the memory of the Maryland Line of Continentals that saved the Patriot army in the NY Campaign of 1776.
I agree and that is what Greg and I talked about. We were kind of hoping and expecting a few folks from the Hagerstown MD club, that were members at Chambersburg as well, to attend and report back. That's our best bet for an AS in Maryland right now. I'm guessing those MD members didn't come and 4 shoorters isn't going to be a real eye opener at this point. I'm sure it will grow as did Manheim quickly. We'll have MD on the map next year at some point.
Good to hear they want us back. I'll get with Greg and see how soon we can schedule them for 2010. I'm betting April 17/18 2010 will be a good option for Chambersburg if not sooner.
Mooney
If anyone gets a chance, please check to see what Greg is listed as. I could NOT send him a message to Tactical308. He is a great guy, and we need to be able to find/converse with him.
Thanks, Doug
tatical308. Note the missing "c".
No, we don't want to leave him in the lurk (sic). And, also, he is the one who had the camera!
I know, Lyn. I really want the picture accepting my patch, LOL.
I do have his home email in my shoot bag ..... so I can use that one when I get home.
Thanks, Doug
This is the first thing the Redcoats saw:
(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt312/BrerScorpion/Chambersburg_Flag_In.jpg)
This is the last thing the Redcoats saw:
(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt312/BrerScorpion/Redcoats.jpg)
Griff dials it up to "11":
(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt312/BrerScorpion/Griff_Dials_11.jpg)
The nearby 100m range target line was perfectly safe (NPOA has a multitude of beneficial side-effects).
Tactical308, Becky, Griff and layke in their bubbles:
(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt312/BrerScorpion/shooters_100m.jpg)
layke attempts to levitate a cardboard backer; Cowdog shows him how we do it the "Appleseed Way":
(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt312/BrerScorpion/layke_levitation.jpg)
Tactical308 is awarded his Rifleman Patch from Cowdog. 216 while operating a bolt at Rifleman's Cadence! Say, isn't that an ARMY shirt he's wearing?
(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt312/BrerScorpion/Tactical308_Cowdog_Patch.jpg)
layke is awarded his Rifleman Patch, in front of the 200m range. 215! Say, isn't that a NAVY shirt he's wearing?
layke contemplates a 7-hour ride home with Cowdog:
(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt312/BrerScorpion/layke_Cowdog_Patch.jpg)
I sure hope that's some sturdy, robust grass on either side of the covered line... I predict Chambersburg will very soon be prone/sitting/standing-room only!
(http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt312/BrerScorpion/Chambersburg_25m.jpg)
We had fun in spite of the weather. Glad I could be a host (along with Becky). Looking forward to another shoot in April. Hopefully with more lead time we can get the word out better. I am already spreading the word at other clubs and handing out flyers.
Quote from: tatical308 on September 29, 2009, 07:54:52 PM
We had fun in spite of the weather. Glad I could be a host (along with Becky). Looking forward to another shoot in April. Hopefully with more lead time we can get the word out better. I am already spreading the word at other clubs and handing out flyers.
Thank you Greg!!! Glad you enjoyed the event! Thanks for hosting and looking forward to next year.
Mooney
Hey guys. I'm so glad everything went well. As if it would ever have gone any other way! By the end of the week-end, three of the seven people there were wearing Orange hats, and another a Red one.
I appreciate the privacy you all have afforded me here, but I'll go ahead and let anyone know who's interested that I was supposed to Shoot Boss this event, but as my daughter and I were driving out to meet tatical308 and cowdog for the first time, and re-connect with spanner at this event, I got a frightening call from my frightened wife informing me that not only had the baby-sitter not picked up the six year old from school, but that in her rush to get there before the administration folks shut the place down and dumped the brat at the "Nine-Oh" (precinct), she was hit by a taxi while riding her bicycle down Second Avenue. She's telling me her head hurts (she left her helmet in the pannier bag, and she's a paramedic!), but she's okay and like a true rider, she's more concerned about the bike. Again like a true paramedic, she refuses to go to the hospital. I think she knows some things the rest of us don't about those places. Well, her alone with the kid and whatever kind of head injury she'd sustained was a bit much, so with a few frantic phone calls to the boys, I was on my way home.
Of course, she's fine. Bent bike, lumpy head, stiff neck, bruised leg, but no bruised ego no sir. She's proud of the fact that she's finally been hit. Kind of a New York City right of passage to be hit by a car, plus she got the week off! I wanted to post a photo of the bruise, and I've been chasing her a around with a camera, but well, fellas just try and get your wife to allow you to post a photo of her bruised leg - not bloody likely. Suffice to say, it's about the size and color of an two pound eggplant.
Thanks guys. I mean it. Not just for spelling me, but for stepping up for the program, Pennsylvania, and the country.
Tatical308, I hope you're gonna offer that tour again next year because I will be there. Congratulations on the patch and especially the hat. And thanks for the event.
Layke, same to you brother! Pennsylvania is already running itself and by late spring next year, you guys should both have your red hats which for some reason turn green almost immediately!
Cowdog, next time. It was a pleasure the several times we spoke on the phone figuring out what was what, and I look forward to meeting you on the trail some time, probably next year.
Lyn, if you don't have a green hat, send me your address and I'll drop one in the mail.
Sorry I missed the first one, cuz the rest will NOT be so intimate.
Spanner, thanks for letting me do the honors.
The only thing that feels better than earning an RWVA rifleman's patch is handing one to a fellow American Patriot.
Well, no one has described the Sunday afternoon KD :~-fest, but I seem to recall... up at the 200 yd range...
Cowdog brought a flintlock muzzle-loader, complete with a horns-of-many-sizes powder-dispensing arrangement (I don't know if they were cow's horns or dog's horns, but they sure were nifty). Spanner hogged the darned thing & doesn't recall if anybody else even got a chance to fire it. In time, I suppose, guilt may settle in... or not. He's an odd one.
Greg allowed the rest of us to take turns with a great assortment of his rifles. There was a Savage "tatical" 308, an M1, an AR15, an SKS and a Springfield 'A3. I could say that it was a hoot ;); or maybe I'll just hint at the fun, and casually remark that it took a great deal of time to sweep up the brass afterwards <:).
Oh, umm... yes. Marksmanship was displayed. And again. And again. I mean, that is what we were there for. The joy was incidental and entirely unplanned.
Greg and Becky-- thanks so much for the hospitality. I'm looking forward to seeing you (and dozens others) in 2010.