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Started by hawkeye, March 01, 2009, 07:23:11 PM

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hawkeye

March 01, 2009, 07:23:11 PM Last Edit: March 02, 2009, 10:44:54 AM by hawkeye
Wow! Wet, cold and Muddy! We had nine folks show up and stay all day. Two young ladies that were not dressed for the weather were soaked and persisted like true rifleman all day. Even with the light to medium rain and wind all day the shot groups got smaller with no complaints about the weather. Talk about being in the bubble, these folks wanted to learn to shoot. The range had been built the week before the Appleseed so there was plenty of mud , your boots weight a ton and brass vanished as soon as it hit the mud. The range officers had hot drinks and hot food for us, thank you Bud and Dana. We had cabins to stay in and real bathrooms with heat! This is a range in the making that will be a great place for future Appleseed events.Would you have stayed?
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steves4570

#1
March 03, 2009, 09:47:22 PM
I was there and had a good time :D The mud was nice and soft. Look forward to the next shoot there and maybe a tighter group to qualify with. Everyone there was great to be around.         steve :~

bulkhead

#2
March 07, 2009, 07:42:42 PM
I really love the mud.  The best place to stand during this shoot was in a mud puddle.  The water washed the mud off your boots. 

bulkhead
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SamD

#3
March 08, 2009, 12:02:03 AM
Looks like you had a decent shoot in Yancyville.
How many Riflemen, new IIT's?

Sam

TaosGlock

#4
March 08, 2009, 01:36:08 AM
Look at all that cool refreshing mud and water. ;D
We usually forge our NM Riflemen in the oven with our dry, hot n' dusty gravel pits. Yup, bake em' at 210 or more! >:D
Looks like a great shoot guys! Way to persist and what a great group of shooters/instructors out there. 
Way to go!  O0
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eaglescouter

#5
March 08, 2009, 01:49:12 AM
Looks like you could use a truckload of gravel!!
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Fred

#6
March 08, 2009, 06:57:35 AM

    Can we take a moment to feel some pity for the poor Appleseeders who, on that same cold, rainy weekend, were shooting under the 18-foot-wide covered RWVA firing line in Ramseur, on dry concrete - and complaining about their suffering?

      O0
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hawkeye

#7
March 08, 2009, 02:23:13 PM
Hard to make rifleman when every shoot throws water in your peep sight. Folks looked like Alvin york wiping  their sights between shots. The M-14 clone would blow water in the shooters eyes as the bolt worked. Just got the last of the water out of the scope of one of my loaner LTRs. Here's a tip, If you leave the scope on your truck dash for a week or so the water will disappear . Gravel overhead cover, Grass, anything would be better. SamD can you share a little of that sunshine next time? 
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SamD

#8
March 08, 2009, 03:21:40 PM Last Edit: March 10, 2009, 01:24:52 AM by SamD
 We get about 355 days of it a year here.
How about we do a swap. a bucket for sun for a bucket of rain.

Sam

CaptG

#9
March 09, 2009, 12:31:35 AM
Any of us here in TX would gladly take some of that extra rain off your hands. Although the cracks in my pasture do make for convenient .22 dud disposal.
G
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bulkhead

#10
March 09, 2009, 09:09:14 PM
Capt
Funny you say that about 22 dud disposal.  We had a pile of 308 and 223 brass just disappear while you stood there and watched. 

SamD
Any water I could send that way probably wouldn't get past West Texas.  My father told me the deer were disappearing because they were leaving for greener country.  Maybe they're falling in the cracks and disappearing too.  Not that the cracks in Texas are bigger than the ones in New Mexico. 

bhead
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POP

#11
March 09, 2009, 09:11:21 PM
A little pitty for Yancyville  ^-^  

I guess every kind of shooting climate has its price.  

At Davilla, it seems it is always dusty with winds 30 G130 at 11 o'clock.

This last RBC Davilla 2-09 the dry dusty winds blew like that all week.  We still turned out at least 6 Riflemen.  Even on the weekend when the winds picked up to 35 G45+ at 11 o'clock we turned out 3 riflemen.  This with dust and debris blowing in sheets (literally) at eye level Prone Position.  These riflemen just got into their bubble and let the lead fly.

Sheets of dust and debris make life on the line very difficult.  If only winds had been calm, temp 60, ...  ^-^

Riflemen ADAPT and OVERCOME and PERSIST.  They do not complain.  Nor rain, nor dust, nor wind, nor cold, nor hot, nor 18-foot-wide covered RWVA firing line in Ramseur on dry concrete will thwart the determined mind of a Rifleman. O0

One of these days it has to rain in Texas.  And, when it does will you hear complaints of mud, water, ...?  Naw!  But, I am sure we will miss the wind and dust.

I sure feel sorry for Fred, though, having to shoot on those hard concrete floors.  :))

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#12
March 09, 2009, 09:32:46 PM
Quote from: Respiratory POP on March 09, 2009, 09:11:21 PM
One of these days it has to rain in Texas.  And, when it does will you hear complaints of mud, water, ...?  Naw!  But, I am sure we will miss the wind and dust.

See you on the trail
POP

I'll bet they won't complain about the mud and water.  They don't know what it is. ;D
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SamD

#13
March 10, 2009, 01:27:32 AM
Actually it rained last night just before bedtime.
We have got about 1/2" in teh past 24 hours and it's real nice.
Out last precip came the evening before our 27-28 dec Shoot.
72 days without a drop :-[

I went out and rolled in a mud puddle for fun right after supper ;D

hawkeye

#14
March 10, 2009, 08:32:11 AM
If that puddle was about 35 degrees then you would have felt like you were in Yancyville. We've had a lot of rain this year in N.C. I Can't wait for the next Appleseed with warmer temps. I had enough of the cold a wet in Wildflicken, Germany.
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steves4570

#15
March 10, 2009, 09:17:15 PM
I'am with you Hawheye, what a dif a weak made. Are you going to be at the next as shoot in Yancyville? If I can help let me know :~  Oh yeah my m1a was putting water in my face ;D steve
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