Project Appleseed

Well, yet another one into the books, and another record broken.

Only 14 shooters, but we made 6 Riflemen anyways. And the Round Count? 725 rounds. Yup, 725. What can I say? Those New England folks LOVE to shoot. Thankfully, everybody on Sunday was using a .22, so the Instructors were digging into their personal ammo to give to the shooters, when they ran out.

Plus, we got another IIT and one considering becoming an IIT. Fred and JB, how old is our youngest IIT? We've got an 18 year old considering it.

The weather was sunny and hot on Staurday, we've had a several week heat wave up here. Fortunately, a front went through Saturday evening, and Sunday was much cooler, though very damp first thing in the morning, but it warmed up some, and the sun came back out. An excellent shooting day, and the scores were telling.

Saturday's Rifleman was Eric from NH, he could only do one day, as he had to tend to his children on Sunday. Now there's somebody that doesn't make excuses. He had one day, so he went, and then made the most of it.

Sunday's Riflemen were Andy from NH (223), Evan (GMB74's son) (215), Martlet (210 and 212, not sure which order), Buzzworth (215) and, the last AQT of the weekend, Leroy from VT (227). Leroy would've gotten his earlier, if it hadn't been for crossfiring a couple of times, but many of us have been down that road, so no shame in that.

Our Instructor crew was fresh from an IBC the 2 days prior to the Appleseed, and they were doing an awesome job.

Pictures will be following soon.

 It is of utmost importance that we find out which one of Martlets scores came first because if it was his first score, then he is owed the obligatory dunking in the nearest body of water for hiting it with exactly 210. (Hey, I don't make the rules, I just enjoy follow them!)

  But seriously! What a great shoot. Looking forward to great things in the future from those new BIs!   JB

 

Congrats to all the new riflemen.  That's a heck of a %  

Quote from: Junior Birdman on April 28, 2008, 01:34:54 PM
It is of utmost importance that we find out which one of Martlets scores came first because if it was his first score, then he is owed the obligatory dunking in the nearest body of water for hiting it with exactly 210. (Hey, I don't make the rules, I just enjoy follow them!)

Well, he claims it the first one was 212, but I figured since we didn't know, we had to dunk him. Didn't have a creek or pond handy, but when he got his patch, the North Bridge water came out.

Crak, just so you know, we though Harvard last weekend was a record at 527 rounds, but we broke that and then some this time.

It's all Fred's fault, as he's the one that sold me on the Rapid Fire AQT.

It was OUTSTANDING!
I needed to go both days to get all I could out of it.
It is not easy and they work you
They call the 2nd day "the grind" for a reson
However without it the skills learned on day one will not sink in and be applied
I hovered just outside the Rifleman score of 210 and then I found what number (s) I was not doing "by the numbers" and my groups tightened right up (along with the rest of your body) hurts sooo good
Thanks so much I'm going to do my "HOMEWORK" every Friday

(it was#6)


I will be doing #7 at all times
working hard on the Bennington event

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v634/refarnsworth/Appleseed/Proctor%20April%2008/

Pictures are at the above URL. Unfortunately, the camera was left home Saturday.





Andy from NH, our second NH Rifleman for the weekend.



Buzzworth getting his patch.



Leroy getting his patch. If he joins this forum, we ought to name him "Crossfire". He's an excellent shooter, folks.



Evan and a proud Dad (GMB74). First father/son Instructor team in the future?



Martlet's persistence paid off, for him, and us. He's now an IIT.



Shoot exactly 210, get wet. That's North Bridge Water, from Concord, MA.



Group photo. One of the BEST groups I've had the pleasure to Instruct.

It was a great time.
EVERYONE nailed down a solid position rather quickly.
They made us work to find flaws.
We had to look at the finer points of their position, etc...
NPOA seemed to be the critical one.
Numerous groups showed it.
We had to look for the "wiggle" in between targets.
That was the only way for us to catch it BEFORE they shot.
Otherwise, the targets did the talking.
Another great learning experience.
Thanks to everyone for coming.

sk

You gotta give credit where credit is due, though. Although I wasn't able to attend that weekend (wish I could've, though), I happen to know that at least one instructor (good 'ol GMB74) had to have something to do with the increased skills. He tutored me over the winter months (indoors, naturally) and took my medium skills way up there.

Way to go, GMB74