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Marion, OH April 22-23, 2017 AAR Patriots Day Weekend

Started by Longrifleman, April 24, 2017, 08:23:56 PM

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Longrifleman

HUZZAH! HUZZAH! HUZZAH!

Three cheers for the fine group of Americans who awoke and brought their kids to another great Central Ohio Appleseed!

We almost had to deal with the wrath of Mother Nature but instead she rolled to the south of us and we were left with a perfect weekend for an Appleseed (but really aren't all weekends perfect for an Appleseed, after all?)

When the story of the blockade of Boston was told our shooters grabbed their kit and 3 days biscuit and wanted to head east like their ancestors on the frontier did! The only thing that stopped them was the promise of more great history stories and plenty of hard-to-beat marksmanship instruction on this fine Patriots Day Weekend.

Jim showed up with his daughter, Natalie, and so did Ken with Wyatt in tow (and Grandma for a spell there). Everyone absorbed the fire hose spray like giant sponges and in the end Ken joined the ranks of the elite Rifleman with a 219!

Natalie made great strides toward a patch someday and we probably never saw such great shooting from a nine year old!

Wyatt looked like a real-life little green army man in the prone position and promised to dry-fire practice every night at home so he can get a patch next time.

Jim put everything he had into his center-fire rifle and although he couldn't quite hit the magic number he stayed around 200 all weekend! Persistence, Persistence, Persistence, my man!

We ended our weekend with a KD Redcoat and proved beyond a doubt that what we learned at 25M works to the Rifleman's Quarter Mile!

Many many thanks to the folks at Meeker Sportsmans Club for their wonderful hospitality and the use of a great place shoot!
Do thou Great LIBERTY inspire our Souls- And make our Lives in thy Possession happy- Or, our Deaths glorious in thy just Defense.

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the whole body of the people are armed"- Noah Webster A.D.1787

". . . They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons,
that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and
delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings
said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
"The Gods of the Copybook Headings,". Rudyard Kipling A.D.1919

Texas T

Sounds like a great event. If I hadn't been working on my SBIT 2, I might have made it over to your area.

Congrats to all, keep up the hard work and strive to return. You will find the destination worthy of the journey.    :snipersmi
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."  Mark Twain


First Appleseed, September 26-27, 2015;   First Rifleman, September 27, 2015;   First Redcoat, September 27, 2015;   Second Rifleman, September 27, 2015

Thanks Corvette, great instruction!!!

MI IBC, February 2017

Corvette

Longrifleman, sounds like a great shoot. What a great range for Appleseeds.  See you on the trail. Looking for pictures.

:pics:

Corvette
Be bold, brave and forthright and the bold, the brave and the forthright will gather around you!

Longrifleman

#3
Ken, a freshly minted Rifleman! Wyatt and Nat, too!
Do thou Great LIBERTY inspire our Souls- And make our Lives in thy Possession happy- Or, our Deaths glorious in thy just Defense.

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the whole body of the people are armed"- Noah Webster A.D.1787

". . . They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons,
that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and
delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings
said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
"The Gods of the Copybook Headings,". Rudyard Kipling A.D.1919

Longrifleman

Ever shot a KD Redcoat?
Do thou Great LIBERTY inspire our Souls- And make our Lives in thy Possession happy- Or, our Deaths glorious in thy just Defense.

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the whole body of the people are armed"- Noah Webster A.D.1787

". . . They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons,
that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and
delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings
said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
"The Gods of the Copybook Headings,". Rudyard Kipling A.D.1919