Project Appleseed

Ever have a shoot go so well that you swore you heard drum and fife music all the way home?  Or was it the music player, turned low, an IIT slipped into the back of your truck?

Three new shooters came and showed great progress. Plus the returns that re-qualified made it a great weekend.

The funniest cross firing I've ever seen when shooters on backer 1, 3 and 5 all shot backer 3 on stage 3!

;-), what evil genius would do that?  Good shoot, good students. Look forward to next time. 

Ps pics don't seem to be showing up.

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Three new students on Saturday, new shooters except for Marine Jonathan (dad). He and his daughter were shooting apparently-identical Marlin 795s with Tech-Sights that looked very sharp indeed. So the Marine was shooting his target, but everyone else was shooting on his target too. Got to be some kind of record! And the good news is that it was some of the best groups of the day. Life just isn't fair, is it!

Noteworthy: Among several failures to feed in the Marlin rifles, midafternoon Saturday there was an out-of-battery ignition, when a .22LR round fired before the bolt fully closed. No injury, but plenty of smoke from the chamber with the partially-open bolt.

Sunday our youngest shooter could not return due to school obligations. The program of instruction was modified to repeat the transitions to seated and prone with squares as targets, each one three times in sequence as skill-building toward the AQT. During the afternoon, shooters shot one instructor-guided NPOA star target. One student, new to Appleseed, shot the attached star target with NPOA and Rifleman's Cadence only. Pretty good shooting for any Rifleman!

No new Riflemen this weekend, but these shooters are well on their way.