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AAR Dec 11/12 Annapolis, MD

Started by BeSwift, December 13, 2010, 04:21:47 PM

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December 13, 2010, 04:21:47 PM Last Edit: December 13, 2010, 05:27:11 PM by BeSwift
Maryland's first Winterseed...

It seems the cold weather was a good omen, in that our line was at FULL capacity. 1-2 no-shows were gladly replaced by walk-ons! 17 shooters Sat, 16 Sunday... Sat was cold, but fair weather, and Sunday was warmer, but a full blown monsoon after lunch...

The good news... 6 shooters earned Rifleman status! High score was 242 by a Marine from the mid-west...We also had one youngster (maybe 10 yrs old?) who earned his patch with a 210!   Lots of family/kid combos who stuck it out thru the entire class..bad weather and all... I'll ask IIT3 Cheeks to post some pics...(only the flattering ones, please  LOL)...

Congrats to  Instructors/ IIT's  Sashok.Privetov who qualified for Red Hat, Cheeks for IIT3, and Red Hat BD who's volunteered for SBIT

BeSwift
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well"
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Happiness =  Reality - Expectations

AmericaStandsStrong

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December 14, 2010, 05:18:18 PM
Congrats to all the new Riflemen!  ..:..

A 242? Thats gotta be he highest score I have ever seen on an AQT.

Blake

Old Glory!

#2
December 14, 2010, 05:21:13 PM
Monsoonseed!   

Midwestern Marine?  Oh yeh!  10ish year old Rifleman?  OHHHHYEH!!!  His brother knocking on the door....oh yeh! 

Good work all!
"My primary objective is to change hearts and minds, for that is where the gaping hole in the hull of the USS America lies. I am looking to make a spark and praying that it will ignite, by their own will, into a bonfire in their hearts and souls."  PHenry

"Folks, this Appleseed thing doesn't work if we get a patch and go home. It doesn't work if we shoot a Rifleman score and remember the good times we had out on the range. It only works if we take that 7th Step and spread the 'seed. HUZZAH!!!"  Slim 


April 18-19, 2009  "The seeds of rifle marksmanship were sown in good ground.  In the end, then, every attendee walked away as an instructor for their friends, family, coworkers.  May you tend your patch in Liberty's garden well and through a long life."  Francis Marion

BeSwift

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December 14, 2010, 06:27:33 PM
We're going to start referring to them as ANAPPLESEEDS....lol...

Old Glory must be doing a heck of a job in the Midwest, if she's sending students out here to show us how it's done...

BeSwift
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well"
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Happiness =  Reality - Expectations

CaptG

#4
December 14, 2010, 07:51:37 PM
Congratulations on the Red Hat Alex!
G
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Winston Churchill

mark97se

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December 19, 2010, 08:56:52 AM
Thanks to all the instructors for their hard work!  The weather was not the best, but my 2 boys (10, 12) really enjoyed the shooting and the classes.  Sean was, of course, happy with his 210.  Tim wanted to achieve rifleman so badly, but had to settle for 209.  A little better weather and a few less malfunctions, and he will have it for sure next time.  Thanks again to the instructors...for the boys to sit thru the rain all day on Sun and still say that they had a good time...that is a monumental accomplishment!

We will be doing another Appleseed next year for sure...just have to decide...spring in MD or fall in WI...or both?

Stay vigilant,
Mark97se
"He is lost only who gives himself up for lost"
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