The after action report is now open for Tulsa, United States Shooting Academy
Post your pics and comments.
Our forefathers, and the marksmen of April 19, 1775 would be proud of the shooters that participated in the event this last weekend in Tulsa. Everyone laid in puddles and shot strings of fire during downpours difficult to see through. These shooters know the meaning of the term, "Lay on your arms" as ordered to the militia the night of April 19 as it rained and they were making sure the Regulars didn't come back out of Boston. Was glad to see our friends from Arkansaw, and hope they come back over this way again soon. I believe there were some ROC's issued, so we can probably count on a number of these shooters coming back to future events and earning that patch. There were several that came oh-so-close, like Andrea, Pat, Alex and several others. Always remember, "A Rifleman persists". Practice what you were taught. Proudly, TomCat.
Saturday April 7, was one rainy day at the range.
Did not hear one complaint about a-shootin' in the rain on Saturday. The USSA rangemaster started taking down the target backers during lunch. He thought Appleseed events shut down just because of heavy rain. hahahaha
Sunday was beautiful. In the 70's and dead calm at times.
On Sunday, RH Al's son Alex made a 195 early in the day. There were couples: Andrea and Shawn, Pat and Wendell, and father/son team Mike and Kevin.
The crew from Sunday, and Andrea bearing down on a target.
We want to thank all the shooters of April 7-8, and the US Shooting Academy for letting us use their north range at the 100 acre facility in Tulsa Ok. I recommend everyone check this place out!
Saturday there were a few periods of calm scattered throughout the day of mostly wind, rain and downpours. Every person there persisted! We had to slip and slide our vehicles out from where we were parked after lunch, and move them to the parking lot on higher ground if we wanted to get out of there that evening, but Sunday more than made up for it with a beautiful spring day.
Let's hear some comments from the soggy shooters of this weekend.
hello there fellow seeds... ;) fresh from the couch to my/our (my wife Pat&I ) first appleseed event in Tulsa...cudos to Daniel, Will, and Tom for putting up with a couple of newbies on soggy saturday and to Al (i hope i got that right) for helping us out on sunny sunday as well. We both shot AR 15s mine a model 1 sales 20 inch upper on bushmaster lower and she shot a model 1 sales M4 A3 carbine with a Redfield revolution 3x9 scope that a friend insisted i take as a backup rifle...little did he know that it would be more like bobbing for appleseed on Saturday ;) both rifles performed well even with russian 55 grain 223 silverbear ammo. I must mention that neither rifle was sighted so it was truly a learning experience from the beginning. Pat shot a 180 on the untimed AQT and i shot 140 at the end of the first day..not too shabby considering... :---on Sunday i quickly learned that i wasnt too quick on the timed stages but enjoyed them immensely alll the same..overall i came away with great confidence that we both could become riflemen with practice.... :---
We are very glad you came out on a holiday weekend.
Come back for another event and we can help in getting that expert score and Rifleman patch.
Dry practice/Live practice between now and then is highly recommended.
Positions and transitions become easier with practice as well.
Remember to "relax" for NPOA.
Bring some new people along too.
Your friend, Will.
Quote from: lastround on April 12, 2012, 10:22:44 PM
hello there fellow seeds... ;) fresh from the couch to my/our (my wife Pat&I ) first appleseed event in Tulsa...cudos to Daniel, Will, and Tom for putting up with a couple of newbies on soggy saturday and to Al (i hope i got that right) for helping us out on sunny sunday as well. We both shot AR 15s mine a model 1 sales 20 inch upper on bushmaster lower and she shot a model 1 sales M4 A3 carbine with a Redfield revolution 3x9 scope that a friend insisted i take as a backup rifle...little did he know that it would be more like bobbing for appleseed on Saturday ;) both rifles performed well even with russian 55 grain 223 silverbear ammo. I must mention that neither rifle was sighted so it was truly a learning experience from the beginning. Pat shot a 180 on the untimed AQT and i shot 140 at the end of the first day..not too shabby considering... :---on Sunday i quickly learned that i wasnt too quick on the timed stages but enjoyed them immensely alll the same..overall i came away with great confidence that we both could become riflemen with practice.... :---
It was a pleasure to be there this past weekend - y'all made some great improvements throughout the day! Like Will said - dry fire, practice transitions, all helps. Rifleman's cadence! See you soon, Al.