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Piru, CA May 15-16, 2010

Started by Camljr, May 18, 2010, 12:20:37 AM

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Camljr

May 18, 2010, 12:20:37 AM Last Edit: May 23, 2010, 02:17:10 AM by Camljr
Another excellent Appleseed at Piru, CA.  Weather was nice, 78 degrees, nice 5 mph breeze, Makes you glad to be living in California!

Another reason to be glad, is the caliber of folks at this Appleseed. We started off the morning with 21 on the line. Early redcoat was not that bad...

          Sat am     Sat pm
400=       1               2
300=       0               3
200=       4               5
100=       8               3
HS=        1               5

Pretty good improvement!    

ended the day with one rifleman, Don C. shot a 212!  Don C. brought his son, Donny, and two neighbor kids Thomas and Josh. Way to seventh step, before knowing what it was!!!

Steven E. is the model of perserverance!!! I gotta hand it to this guy, this was his 7th appleseed!!! He wants the Riflemans score bad! He even said he was obsessed with getting it. and is determined to do it with his .22 bolt action rifle he had brought to every one of them...  Go gettum Steve, work on the dry firing at home... you will get there.

James Liu, a returning Appleseeder, brought a friend Rick, and ended the day with a 193! Almost there James.. You will get it next time!

End of the day, we saw some improvement, got in a couple AQT's and presented Don C. with his patch... We presented a few Luther Blanchard Youth patchs to:  Brandon, Thomas, Josh, Donny, Jordan Joseph, and Jessica.

I wan to thank Dano, AsMinuteman, MauserSanta for helping out with this shoot... It was a team effort.

AsMinuteman even did his customary costumed appearance at lunch, firing a shot from his flintlock pistol during the first strike on Lexington Green...  The attendees love that stuff!

A great day overall...

Sunday we had 20 back, Brian even brought his wife! Way to go Kim... I think she had a good time.

Sunday was a blur, Dano called the line Sunday afternoon.  We ended up with quite a few in the 180-190 range. and someone got a 205?? Can't remember who it was...

Dano brought his neighbors, Jason, Steve, and Brandon Wolf. They camped over at the range... if you call a large trailer "camping"...

Brandon was our "designated Sniper" and got close with a 201! He kept saying "I ain't gonna let those redcoats burn our town!"  :~

We got another Rifleman on Sunday, Steve Wolf, finally broke through  and got the score... Take a look at the picture and guess what his score was!!! Those of you that know, can see that he was "christened" in the north bridge water!

Congrats Don C. for making California rifleman # 218 and Steve for making California rifleman # 219.

I will leave something for Dano to post and others if they want to...

I will post some pictures after I downsize them.  Thanks to all the attendees for another safe Appleseed!!!

Onward!

96 SHOOTS SO FAR!

WSMR Instructor 03/10  -  SAPPER STEEL!

�The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection�   Thomas Paine

Proverbs 22:3  -  A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even when checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy, nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat".
Theodore Roosevelt

Camljr

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May 18, 2010, 12:28:35 AM
Some Pics...

96 SHOOTS SO FAR!

WSMR Instructor 03/10  -  SAPPER STEEL!

�The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection�   Thomas Paine

Proverbs 22:3  -  A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even when checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy, nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat".
Theodore Roosevelt

Camljr

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May 18, 2010, 12:33:34 AM
more pics....

96 SHOOTS SO FAR!

WSMR Instructor 03/10  -  SAPPER STEEL!

�The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection�   Thomas Paine

Proverbs 22:3  -  A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even when checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy, nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat".
Theodore Roosevelt

Dano

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May 18, 2010, 12:46:57 AM
It was a great shoot and very busy for once we may be turning around the under attended over instructed reputation. It was very busy indeed! We had some students who were the definition of persistence. John came with an M-1 and a teachable attitude John received one of the Luther Blanchard patches and Shot the M-1 most of the day. His neighbor Jess had never shot a rifle and shot very well. Hopefully she will be back to get the Purple Riflewomens patch! Thanks to Papa John for bringing them out. We had two SKS shooters on the line shooting 4 minute groups! If they had some stripper clips they could have made rifleman. A good thing to have in the shootboss bag of tricks. And who says a giant camper isn't camping! We had to take short showers for fear of running out of water! That is roughing it!!

Dano
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke

'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.'- Ronald Reagan

Camljr

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May 24, 2010, 02:25:52 AM
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96 SHOOTS SO FAR!

WSMR Instructor 03/10  -  SAPPER STEEL!

�The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection�   Thomas Paine

Proverbs 22:3  -  A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even when checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy, nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat".
Theodore Roosevelt

asminuteman

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May 29, 2010, 07:01:34 PM Last Edit: May 16, 2012, 12:41:32 PM by asminuteman
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"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." ~ Thomas Paine

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."~ Thomas Paine

I know of no way to judge the future, then by the past. -Thomas Paine

Johnnyappleseed

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June 01, 2010, 02:04:07 AM
Nice shoot guys ! Congratulations to the new Riflemen .
JA
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
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