WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND! 17 patriots showed up to hear the history and heritage of the Founding Fathers and their struggles and sacrifices to create our Nation!Our youngest patriots,Ben ,Matt,Jacob,Mark,Rose,Lesly and Chris (literally our posterity)brought along great attitudes and were some of the safest shooters on the line.
As usual the Florida weather was hot and muggy, but the predicted rain did not materialize and both days were full of un-interrupted Marksmanship knowledge,flowing from the firehose of instruction provided by a great group of volunteers. Heidi Heidi,mike moore ,michael cole,Tomblin, malabar, and Nomadic Hillbilly.With a crew like this even a rookie shoot boss can have a great event!
By the end of the weekend ,we had confirmed an existing Rifleman,exposed a new one and had several people knocking on the190 door.Excellent improvement by all shooters was the order of the day,and perserverance by some was inspiring to all.Not everyone sees how much they have improved,but the watchful eyes of instructors don't miss much,and we saw a lot of improvement.
Bob, Gary, Glenn, Dennis, Ivan, Matt, Riley, Chris and John, thanks for gettin, up off the couch!Lady Liberty needs more like you!!!The next time you walk by the flag,I hope you think about ol' Sam Whittamore , Jonas Parker , Isaac Davis and all those un-named thousands of patriots who paid for that flag, some with the very blood from their bodies!Let not their sacrifice be in vain.
Congats to Matt and Ivan for both scoring multiple rifleman scores, and welcome to Florida's newest orange hat, Ivan Ojeda!!!!
And as if that weren't enough to make it a great shoot, Malabar aka Tom Kehoe passed his Instructor PC and was presented his Red hat during Sunday's closing ceremony.
Well, thats enough to get started , everyone please upload any pics you have
Bill O Rites :~
Sounds like a great shoot! Congratulations to Tom on earning his Red Hat. Bigger bucket time!
Malabar O0 O0 do you own a truck?
Huzzah!
I'll get pictures posted first thing in the morning.
Bill O Rites giving a compelling first strike to a hearty audience...
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Malabar instructing proper sight alignment...
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Nomadic Hillbilly & Malabar showing us how its done...
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Good size target line...
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Malabar doing shot group analysis...
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...and giving a moving 2nd Strike...
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Let's shoot...
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Young Patriots...
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Rifleman Matt:
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Rifleman Ivan & our newest orange hat:
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Congrats to all!
Iknow that no one on earth missed this event more than I did! It was great not to have to be there, but it almost killed me to stay away!
I missed Red hats and orange hats and new shoot bosses and progress, and other promotions I'm sure!
Love and miss you all,
Sly
Quote from: Engineer shooting on June 05, 2013, 09:55:07 PM
Malabar O0 O0 do you own a truck?
I have a Jeep and a van.
What can I do for you?
tk
This was one of the best shoots I've been to. Everyone hustled, no real concerns about safety or health, even though we had four younguns, lots of enthusiasm, and definite improvement in scores.
Rain clouds threatened all weekend but obligingly waited until we were done shooting each day. And the clouds kept the heat down.
Would have like a few more shooters, but attendance falls during the summer months in Florida. And the shooters we had were a great bunch.
This was Lesly's 2nd Appleseed and he improved significantly due to the awesome and patient instructors.
The re-telling of the events of Concord and Lexington were as spellbinding the first time I heard it.
A wonderful positive experience for our youth, the hope of the futures Liberty.
(can't post photos....don't know why)
WTG ! HUZZAAAHHHHH !!!!!!! here's your new Bucket. you guys at palm bay rock :bow: