Project Appleseed

Our next event in Western PA is at the Slippery Rock Sportsman Club, Slippery Rock, PA July 12-13.  It is a traditional 25m Project Appleseed rifle event.  You can find out more details here:

https://appleseedinfo.org/location/?locationid=203&eventid=10843

 

 

Special thanks to the Beaver Valley Rifle & Pistol Club for hosting us this past weekend.  They were very helpful in all aspects of getting ready for two days of an Appleseed event.  And we have a 200 yard Rimfire KD scheduled there in October!

We all had a great weekend of marksmanship and heritage.  Six beginning shooters joined us for the entire weekend, persevering through the heat and humidity of our first taste of summer.   Everyone greatly improved as the weekend progressed.  We began on the shooting benches with rifle rests, then without the rests and next without the benches, working through the day proceeding from demonstration to dry fire practice to live fire confirmation of our marksmanship instruction, combined with history and heritage.  There were quite a few rifle fit and equipment issues that were corrected throughout the weekend, necessitating loaner rifles, slings and other equipment.  Folks were very receptive to the course of instruction, as well as the history and heritage. 

Everyone returned on Sunday, and we worked from laser rifles through more instruction and practice, and all showed great improvement as the day progressed.  The heat got to us late in the day and we shot an AQT and a Redcoat to end the day.

Thanks to all the shooters and the Beaver Valley Rifle & Pistol Club for a great weekend.

icecoldkid, thank you for those generous words of praise. I am trying to emulate the great group of Green, Red, Orange and Blue hats who worked with me in the past as I attempted to accomplish my goals first to become a rifleman and later to become an instructor.
I endeavor to pay forward the kindness, persistence and patience that same group of volunteers  have always showed me.
I work with a great cadre of instructors and I always hope we push to make each other better.
Finally our shooters are some of the finest liberty loving people in the country who come to fill our lines in good weather and bad and drink from our "firehose of marksmanship instruction ". The pride and satisfaction that we feel when a participant achieves something as small as hitting the Morgan's Shingle shot on a Red Coat target to as big as earning a coveted Rifleman patch is matched by few greater feelings.

This is my first post as it means that much.

I attended an event this weekend at Battle Creek and would like to give praise to two outstanding gentleman in particular for the patience, instruction, and guidance.

While the event was a success, regardless of the destruction to the grounds, and the over bearing heat.

I would like to single out two instructors in particular NOT THAT the others were not as incredibly qualified.

Starting with NoLambo (I believe), sir your patience, understanding, willingness to continue to help someone that may not have read the instruction about attending Appleseed events with an open-mindedness to listen, learn, and be instructed. Deserves praise and commendation, not only from students that attended but hopefully your fellow instructors as well.

Next MI-Copperhead, sir your willingness to lend a hand to someone whom, well ... was difficult. In an attempt to help them become a better marksman, despite their ... own self destructive actions. Needs to be recognized. The extra attention you gave to try and make someone else's experience worthwhile. Is humbling. I would expect that any rifle off the rack will work and can be usable by any student with success and this individual ... was difficult. The time, attention, adaptiveness, creativeness you used to customize a rifle on the spot. I am without words.

So to you both as well as Click, Wingwrench, and Bill - Hoozah, Hoozah, Hoozah!!!

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     Awesome weekend!

      

One more though - electrolytes! I was good about drinking water all weekend, but I didn't drink my Gatorade on Saturday, and all my scores on Sunday morning were below my real potential because I really struggled to steady myself. Slamming some sports drink made a huge difference in my ability to take steady aim. I won't make that mistake again!