AAR ECCL Ohio 9-22, 2019

[Corvette]

We had another great Appleseed event at Erie County Conservation League in Sandusky, Ohio. Eleven motivated shooters showed up Saturday morning ready to work on their marksmanship skills.

The weather was sunny  but not overly hot as we started the weekend. 

Once all the shooters had arrived, we completed the normal welcome and moved to the safety briefing. Rifles were brought to the line and the Saturday morning Red Coat was shot.

Results showed we had a great bunch of shooters. We had over half of the shooters good at 100 and 200 yards and 5 joined Daniel Morgan's rangers.  We had one shooter clear their morning Red Coat.  Congrats Deb.
   
We moved to the steady hold factors in prone, followed by the six steps and NPOA instructions.  Related drills were shot and the morning moved on to shooting sighting groups and an IMC presentation.  We broke for lunch and the First Strike was delivered. 
Final sights adjustments were made and confirmation groups were shot after lunch.

Next steady hold instructions in seated and standing were presented which were followed by related drills. The Second Strike was presented at the afternoon break.

The day ended with the Saturday afternoon Red Coat which had results which showed improvement over the morning effort.  We had another cleared Red Coat, congrats again Deb. This was followed by the Third Strike and a call to action to all to get active in their local communities.

Sunday dawned sunny and with some more wind.  We started the day with a review of the POI's from Saturday and conducted a trigger control drill and an NPOA/Rifleman's cadence drill. We then moved on to the AQT's.

The shooters were up to the challenge.  On our first AQT, we made our first Rifleman.  Brian shot a 212 as our first Rifleman.  We had a number of additional Rifleman scores throughout the rest of the day. We had others join Brian. Congrats to Robert and Karen on their Rifleman scores. Welcome to the ranks of Ohio Riflemen and Riflewomen. 

We had a team challenge event which led the shooters to work as a group.  Our "Dawes" team won this  team challenge in a very close event.  The difference between the winners and the next two challengers were a single shot.

The event was completed with a final Red Coat which showed more improvement and the event came to an end.
Our thanks to the Erie County Conservation League  for hosting our event and my thanks to Cadance and Catus Juck for helping me this weekend. 

We look forward to our next event at ECCL.

Corvette

[Corvette]

Well here are the first pics from this past weekend. 

We had a team challenge on Sunday.  We had 11 shooters so I contributed an instructor and we created four teams of three shooters. Team Dawes, Revere, Margaret K Gage, and Warren.  A Red Coat was posted for each team and each team member was given 10 rounds.  The challenge was total yardage on their team Red Coat.  Rules were that you had to have at least three rounds in a target to score yardage at that target.  If you don't have at least three rounds in one of the targets, you do not score anything on the higher distance targets.  Total yardage wins. 

Well we had a really close challenge.  All the teams made it to the shingle (which was doubled to 500 yds per hit) with three rounds or more in each of the 100-400 targets.  The difference between the winning team and second place was a single shingle shot.  The difference between the winner and the third place team (our MKGage team) was two shingle shots.  They had a bunch of shots that were just off the shingle.  Move a couple of them just a little bit and the ladies would have won.  In any case, scores were

1st  Team Dawes  6900 total yards
2nd Team Revere 6500 total yards
3rd Team MKGage 6000 total yards
4th Team Warren (which had an instructor) 5200 total yards

The challenge was a great way to take the shooters mind off the stress of the AQTs and on the following AQT, we made our third Rifleman/Riflewoman of the event with Karen shooting a 213.  A big Huzzah to all. Pics follow.

Corvette

[Texas T]

Sounds like a great event.

[Captain]

That is a great idea for a "team challenge" . . . and just like that . . . I stole it 

Seriously, looks like those shooters had a great Appleseed weekend!

[Corvette]

 Captain,

If you do this challenge, put some time pressure on them. Give them two or three minutes for the challenge.

Corvette

[Cadence]

A dedicated group of 11 patriots got up off the couch for a fabulous weekend of instruction and shoot at the Erie County Conservation League outside of Sandusky, Ohio.

This shoot is always special because I grew up in the area and its nice to visit home. It is also special because the area has a direct connection to the Revolutionary War.

This part of North Central Ohio was part of the Connecticut Western Reserve area granted to Connecticut by its charter. The 850,000 acres that make up what is now Erie and Huron Counties was designated as the "Firelands" area, due to the fact that families in Connecticut that had lost properties due to burned out homesteads during British raids were granted acreage in this area as compensation. Names of towns and townships in the area reflect the names of places from Connecticut.

This group proved they knew very well what they were about starting right out if the gate, with Deb clearing the Saturday morning Redcoat. We proceeded with the Saturday "Drinking from the Fire hose" instruction.

Sunday dawned another prefect day for shooting and soon we began with AQT grind. Congrats to Brian for his rifleman's score on the first AQT. Robert came with goal of trying to get a distinguished patch.  Although he didn'y quite make it, he posted some great scores.

A special shout out to Karen who left early Saturday afternoon due to not feeling well but came back Sunday and persevered to earn the Purple Patch on our last AQT.

A big thanks to Erie County Conservation League for letting us use their great facility and also provided the 4 pop-ups shown in the pictures. It made the ready line look so professional.

Good working with Corvette and Cactus Jack again.