Project Appleseed

Ohio AS,

Please join me in welcoming DragonFly as our newest Ohio Orange Hat.  Lynda shot her Riflewoman score this weekend at Coshocton Gun Club in Coshocton, Ohio and stepped up to accept to join our team of Instructors. Please join me in welcoming Lynda to the Ohio Instructor Corp. 

Corvette

Well we had another great Appleseed at the Coshocton Gun Club in Coshocton, Ohio this weekend. Fourteen motivated shooters showed up Saturday morning to work on their Marksmanship skills. It was raining prior to the start of Saturday morning but it abated before shooters arrived for registration. 

Once all the shooters had arrived, we completed the normal welcome and moved to the safety briefing. Rifles were brought to the line and the Saturday morning Red Coats was shot.  Results showed we had potential. We had 8 of 14 at 100,  6 at 200 and 300,  3 at 400, 2 joined Daniel Morgan and we had two cleared Red Coats. (Nathan and Bob).  Wow, what a great start to a great weekend. 

We moved to the steady hold factors in prone, followed by the six steps and NPOA instructions.  Related drills were shot and the morning moved on to shooting sighter groups in anticipation of IMC.  We broke for lunch where we enjoyed a First Strike from Texas T and an IMC presentation from Corvette. Shooters returned to the line after lunch to continue their work.

Sights were adjusted, confirmation groups were shot and a second round of sight adjustments were made with confirmation groups shot.

At that point, we were ready to move on.

Next was steady hold instruction in seated and standing which were followed by related drills. The Second Strike was presented by Aragorn at our afternoon break and we returned to the line for a practice AQT.

The day ended with the Saturday afternoon Red Coat which showed some improvement.  We had 11 of 14 at 100,  8 at 200, 5 at 300, 1 at 400, and 5 joined Daniel Morgan.,  This was followed by a Third Strike from Corvette and a call to action to all to get active in their local communities.

Sunday dawned sunny and all the shooters returned for day two, Huzzah. The morning Red Coat was shot and we moved on to carding the sights to work on our NPOA skills. We moved next to the AQT’s. In the morning, we had a number of Rifleman scores shot.
 
Christina and Bob both re-qualified with scores of 217 and 229 respectively.  And, we made a new Riflewoman.  Lynda from The Well Armed Woman chapter in Columbus, Ohio earned her patch with a 211.  This was special for me as I have worked personally with Lynda for two prior events and it was great to see her join the list of Ohio Riflemen/Riflewomen. Huzzah!

We presented KD instructions at lunch and returned to the line to shoot two more AQT’s.  We presented the DOM’s at the afternoon break and shot the Sunday afternoon Red Coat after the AQT's. We wrapped up a little early to beat a storm front that was headed our way.

Our thanks to the Coshocton Gun Club for hosting our event and my thanks to TexasT and Aragorn for helping with this event. 

Day 2 started at a balmy 31*. Cars began showing up at the range covered in moisture, white and fluffy. Anywhere else would call it snow. It is May in Wyoming, and only the week after Mothers Day. Two students showed up ready to get into the grind. Most started out by telling us their own diagnosis of what they had been doing wrong. A good start from the instructors point of view. By the end on the day, improvement was shown , although not enough to hand out any blue patches, but both knocking on the door in the high 180s and low 190s. We will see them on the line again soon! Thanks to M1bzrk and sleepy, and to our newest RH LineDoc. Congrats! You guys make my job easy. Thanks! I know there were photos taken. Please add them and your comments.

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