Fountain CO 11/5-6

[Colorado Pete]

 The year's last shoot at Fountain (Frontier Sportsman's Club south range) went off well as always.

This shoot was blessed with exceptionally good students.  Iavor and Judy, never having shot a rifle before, started off with groups in the four to seven minute-of-angle range in prone! All shot particularly well in the prone. 12 eager and happy students showed Saturday, seven on Sunday.

The strong chill wind and overcast on Saturday afternoon took its toll on us by the time the day was over, yet students all hung in there and stayed to hear the Third Strike of the history to close out the day. Thank you all for being such stalwarts!

Sunday warmed up and calmed down a bit. For the Full Distance lesson, all but one student stayed in the berm and moved back to 100 yards to shoot with .22 rimfires at paper and steel. The one student, a 10-yr-old boy named Josh, wanted to shoot his AR15 at 200 and 300. That accomplished, he then requested to shoot my M1 rifle. At 200 yards, he put six of eight thirty-caliber rounds into the 5-ring of the "D-prone" target from prone position! Way to go Josh!

No one earned the coveted Rifleman patch, but repeat Appleseeder Chris came within a few points this time.