Another shoot at the wonderful Fritchley range in Evansville, IN. with only 2 preregistered shooters we did some serious 7th stepping on Friday and got a total of 9 shooters on the line for the weekend. With 4 previous Appleseeders in the bunch it made it easy on the instructor crew. The willingness to learn and try new things really made it easy on us. We started out with 2 young ladies Tessa and Ryan shooting off of bi-pods as our designated marksmen. But by Sunday they both had ditched the bi-pod and were really making progress. Here is a picture of Ryan.

But she comes by it naturally as her dad Paul finally got it all together and shot a 220! Congratulations Paul you not giving up really paid off.

Paul on the M1 Garand.

Robin Craig and Tessa were fairly new shooters and Robin struggled on Saturday with becoming familiar with her rifle. But by Sunday she was doing great and was always safe. Craig really made some steady improvements on Sunday after giving our way a good honest try. He was surprised at the results and shot the United States Rifle model 1 better than he shot his .22. Huzzah!
Here is Robin ringing the .30 cal bell of freedom.

Tom was taking it in all day and kept improving as well.

This brings me to Sara and Shanta who I spent a little bit of time with last week getting ready for the shoot. I just knew they were going to blow through and get that coveted Rifleman patch. But Sara had an issue with her rifle where it began throwing random shots. Now those that know me have heard me say it is almost always the shooter and not the equipment. But this time is was the equipment. I shot it and could do no better than 6 moa the scope was tight, action screw tight no ammo change. We finally puller her rifle and put her on another got her zeroed used to the rifle and then the extractor, spring and plunger decided to separate from the bolt. So another rifle and go through the process and by that time she is beat. The AQT wins this round but I am positive that next time she will overcome. Shanta just bounced around all day 200-209 and could never get that one extra point. Real good stages but getting 4 good ones on 1 AQT was the hard part. We will be remedying that.

I want to thank Steve (Loose Nut) and Shanta for allowing us to come onto their range and help to save our country. You won't find any bigger patriots than these 2 in fact their whole family. Feeding us and bringing us into their home and their range. Thank You Thank You! I didn't get many pictures but feel free to post the ones you may have.
I hope to see you all back on one side of the line again soon.