Burlington Flats, NY is a magnet for Great Folks to gather with excellent attitudes and outstanding talents.
With the weather being just absolutley perfect and wind conditions nill, we had many outstanding performances on the 25m line as well as on our KD range.
There was father and daughter Gary and Sammie, father and son John and John Jr, uncle and nephew Craig and Keaton, IIT kooch13's brother Patrick (Active Duty) who by the way shot 220 on his very first AQT this weekend on Saturday, No other word is better than Outstanding on his performance.
But we're not done yet, there was also sets of friends, Ed and Scott who has not shot on a range in about 13 years and did a wonderful job on both the 25m line as well as the KD range with a 10/22 out to 200yds, on paper and steel.
With Ed being his 4th Appleseed is a welcome to any range, plus he is The Carcano Man, but what sets him apart from any shooter that I have ever had on the line is his rifle that he shoots on the 25m line it an old Winchester (forgot the Model number, brain cramping here) it's a single shot, manual cocking rifle and he shoots rifleman scores to boot. Very well disciplined individual just awesome.
He is also an EMT First Responder, we all feel good when he is here.
Plus we had 4 types of doctors on our line as well, all from the same hospital, in fact which is local to our area.
We certainly had everything covered, Thank you all so much.
We also had a young man name Keaton that I believe was our most improved shooter, He persevered all weekend long and had a good time. He is more than welcome at this range anytime.
Another set of buddys Jeff and Brian with Brian keeping things in order on the 25m line while Jeff went to KD and did well at 200 with a 10/22.
Then we have Meghan with her first Appleseed adventure and also being the shoot boss' daughter did a very fine job on the 25m line with 198 being her high score for the weekend and at KD with a 223 on a nice platform. she wailed the snot out of the paper targets and did a beautiful riflemans dance on the sighters at 300yds came back to the 300yd line, placed her d.o.p.e. on the rifle and placed all rounds in the 4 and 5 rings, in just less than a 4moa group, with iron sights of coarse, nice job young lady.
On our line were two Burlington Flats Junior rifle youngsters that are a joy to have here, not just because I know them, but because they enjoy learning.
John Jr took his 10/22 to 100yd paper and posted a group that was at just 8 inches, came back applied his come ups and tightened his group to under 6" all 5's and one 4 ring, but with his understanding of the art of the rifle that we teach kids here he looked at the 300yd steel and asked if he could shoot at that and I said have at it, I gave advise as to were to hold and he placed on that target 3 rds out of 5, I believe, just an absolute steady position this man has, but not only that with another Junior Rifle youngster IIT Awesome Austin did this very thing as well, these kids can shoot in Upstate New York, Burlington Flats Junior Rifle and Appleseed makes a fine combination that great for our saving of this country and our heritage.
The KD range is were the rubber meets the road folks, if you have range enough, it needs to happen at these shoots, the smiles on both kids and adults is the most rewarding point I can have as a shoot boss.
Everyone that shot on the KD range placed rounds on target first time out. We had a Carcano, that hit well at 300, 223's and a 308 boltgun, with a Mosan Nagant as well all placed first rounds on targets at their respective battle sight zeros and then some,,, all who shot 22lr at distance did the same, they all took them out father than most people would even attempt that have not been to one of our events. Is it fun, you betcha it is, what a blast.
I like to set my range up with paper and steel,,, paper first to get the info and then confirm and move to steel and sit back and watch the movie, its great,,, I must say the Carcano has no adjustable sights they are fixed, so The Operator, Ed knows how to apply Kentucky windage and Tennesee elavation and connect.. if you know your equipment nothing is impossible.
Our other Junior Rifle attendee had a previous engagement on Sunday so she was unable to shoot the KD range but she lives around here and I will set a range weekend in the near future so she can get the KD experience.
It is getting late I will end this for now till I get some sleep and refresh my brain cells to follow up this report, so many great things happened this weekend that must be mentioned, others I am sure will post their findings and observations,,,
We also had a very nice lady that volunteered her time to take pictures for us because us guys are really not qualified picture takers, Her name is Randi and is a friend of Shoot Boss Odin from the Burlington Flats club area as well.
I would like to say Welcome to our Family and Thank you so much for all the help.
Pictures will follow as soon as they are edited and she gets some sleep as well.
to be continued.... must get ready for tommorrow's work day....
sgtrock
