Hello,
My first forum post. I have been to 4 Appleseeds, 3 in Piru and one at Angeles Range. Just a little back story, I purchased my first 22lr in September 2009. While I had shot air rifles, I never used/owned anything of the powder variety. I really never thought about these tools until recently. I dont know what was the wake up call (maybe more of a slow realization of sorts) but I've seen the errors in my philosophical construct of "society".
I attended an Appleseed after reading a story by Massad Ayoob on the net. It was a cold and raining weekend but the instructors made the event happen, worked on the fundamentals and even tried to keep the rain off of us (still go wet though). It was a bit of a mud pit at the end of each day. Since that first AS, I've been going to the range with more purpose, drills and goals of precision. It seems like every time I shoot now, I am correcting some flaw or unknown detail that affects my groupings. While I have a goal of Rifleman, I see I need to build a solid base of body position leading to NPOA each time. What really interesting about my learning curve is that I seemed to be doing better in the first AS and earlier part of the day that at the later. I now realize that I had been relying on muscling the shot and when it came down to true NPOA, I had/have too many variables in my structure.
So off to the range I go again, groups getting smaller and more consistent and I know I could not have done this level of training without the appleseed instructors.
Thanks,
L0CK3
