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Well, what a fun, rewarding and WARM weekend we enjoyed.
In the final count we had 6&1/2 shooters, 5 instructors, 3 new blue hats and 1 new orange hat step up and be counted! WOW! Especially when you consider that we were operating under some of the more stringent Covid virus rules in the country. A huge thank you goes out to Mark, rangemaster of Sydney Paul Gordon range and his entire staff for their continued support and patience while giving Appleseed a home in Southern New Mexico.
DaughterOLiberty, our resident AppleCore expert, started us off on the right foot by her accurate and efficient handling of the important administrative duties, so necessary to running a successful event. She made sure all the "i's" were crossed and the "t's) were dotted. Thank you Sheila.
Instructors included Mr.Smith on Saturday, RJ.Mouse, Mrs.Smith on Sunday, and a new addition to the local crew, KProctor, coming all the way from Dallas Texas to give us his best efforts. And boy did he do a fine job. He earned a promotion while he was here. I had hoped to have the able assistance of Captwa as an instructor, but he placed himself in quarantine due to recent out of state travel. Thanks to Warren for keeping us safer through his honesty. New Mexico has some draconian rules about "voluntary quarantine" when a person travels out of state. Oh well, it is what it is.
We had three shooters come down from Albuquerque, one of which was brand new to Appleseed and brought his brand new rifle with him. All the others were repeat offenders at our happy lil event. Originally we were to host nine shooters, but one was placed in voluntary quarantine, due to some out of state travel and we had two no-shows, darn.
Saturday, the time monkey got the best of us, however we did get in one AQT, just to keep the participants interested. Must have worked because they all returned on Sunday. The opening "Red Coat" Saturday, showed 2 students being bayoneted and nobody cleaning the excercise. While the Saturday end Red Coat showed all students hitting at least one red coat with three shots and one cleaning the target! Huzzah!!!
Sunday, after some remedial training and rechecking zeros we managed to put in seven AQTs, but without any Rifleman scores, darn. We did have to do the Third strike and wrap up at lunch so fewer DOM/W stories. And at the end of the day RJ.Mouse gave one of the finest benedictions, I have yet to hear. Well done Ron. Thank you to all the shooters and cadre for a worthwhile and positive event.
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Can't wait to hear!