Wallingford, CT: 9&10 nov 2013

[Jay Haich]

Thanks to all who braved the "cool" weather this weekend. Although Sat started off below freezing it did not dampen the enthusiasm of the folks. Sun was much warmer (no gloves and only one jacket). We paid for this improvement with a rain shower in the mid afternoon.
The shooters kept up with an accelerated pace on Sat(we needed to be out of the facility by 5pm). On Sunday we started half an hour earlier and had finished our Red Coat by 9:15. This set us up nicely and we did a Ball and Dummy exercise and 3 AQTs before lunch.
I had a wet reminder to remember to pack in the pop up shelter - the Dry Erase markers do not work that well on a wet whiteboard  . We improvised and continued the KD lecture on the back of the maps that I use for the 3 Strikes.
Sun had a heavy attrition rate and by the time it started to rain we were down to 3 shooters. The instructors were very impressed (and more than just a bit envious) of the energy levels of our 2 junior shooters at the end of the day.
We were fortunate enough to have 5 IITs doing Progress Checks this weekend and they rotated thru their roles smoothly.
A big thanks to Blue Trail Range for hosting us this weekend.

Reset that Trigger




The CT Instructors modeling their Shooting jackets (can u say Carhartt  )

Quickly, Quickly. Post those squares


Checking for (and finding) improvement in the Red Coat scores on Sun morning


Sunday morning recap

Scoring AQTs


It got windy between rain showers...the rocks were on standby in case the wind tried to blow the shooters off the line






and then there were 2...


These are the Young Patriots that had way too much energy at the end of the day (thanks to D-Donuts???)

[TOMINCT]

 It was good to be back to BTR as they've been a good supporter of Appleseed in the past. Although I was there for Saturday only but several students showed a marked improvement by the end of the day.

It was great to see almost half the line being junior shooters. They hung in tough when it was bitter on Saturday and made it back Sunday to finish the weekend. A rifleman persists.