What a great weekend with a tremendous group of like-minded Americans. Thanks to Dan, Jay and The Salem Hunting Club for hosting yet another stellar shoot. As I have repeatedly said, Project Appleseed would be nowhere without the gracious clubs that give up their facilities for a weekend. Again, THANK YOU!
Thanks to the Instructors, Dan, Tom and Dom for their work and volunteering their time and effort.
The shooters were outstanding. Jay re-qualified no less than five times and came within 1 point of earning the ever elusive Distinguished patch. Alex re-qualified three times and Ryan twice. Jay and Alex also cleared two Redcoats each. Jake, Dano and B-Ryan all showed great improvement over the course of the weekend. The highlight of my weekend was B-Ryan's smile when he shot the 300 yd. Redcoat on Sunday afternoon. Dano deserves an award for sheer determination considering the equipment issues he had, he still stuck with it and I hope he will return for more. It was interesting having Jake there giving us a perspective of what it is like to live in a less tolerant state.
All in all, I think it was an excellent weekend and I look forward to shooting with all of you again.
Many thanks for a great weekend!
Ryan
A few photos from the weekend, because everyone knows...
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Starting the weekend with a little instruction, ensuring that everyone was at the same starting point.
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Thank you again to all the instructors. It was an excellent weekend for heritage and marksmanship training.
Many thanks to the great instructors! Tom's one-on-one attention was particularly helpful and I think I may have finally broken some bad habits that I have had for a long time (mostly related to trigger pull). Thanks to the instructors I improved over 20 points on my AQT. I'm still in the hunt for the patch, but I just bought a whole bunch of redcoats and am dedicated to carving out time in my schedule to hit the range more often. I hope to see everyone in Salem again next year.
-Jake
Cato,
Glad you had a great shoot. Work on that trigger control at home. Dry fire, get a pellet gun and practice in the basement and find time to get to the range. It will all pay off. I am confident that you will patch at the next event. See you soon at another event.
Corvette
Corvette,
Thanks for the words of encouragement. I've been thinking about setting up a backstop for a pellet gun in my basemen and this is just the nudge that I needed. Do you have any particular suggestions regarding pellet guns for this purpose?
-Jake
Well I use a Crossman 760 as that is what I had as a child but the CMP is also selling pellet guns at a pretty good price. Anything will do as you will be concentrating on trigger control and the six steps and not so much on actual accuracy of the pellet. Good luck and see you soon at another AS.
Corvette
The ones through the CMP look really nice. Thanks for the tips!
-Jake