25 M Rifle Clinic, Marriottsville, MD - May 2 - 3, 2026

[Lycos]

We had a great weekend for our 25 Meter event.  With seven shooters, Saturday morning was spent getting everyone's equipment checked out or getting the loaner rifles set up for the shooters.  The morning was successful with everyone getting some decent groups, and I taught IMC to the class to make sighting adjustments.  We took a little more time in the morning, slowly working everyone up to an AQT, but it was worth it.  At lunch, Catch-10-22 told a new, improved First Strike, which I enjoyed a lot.  Everyone was very much engaged in his telling of the history.  That afternoon, we finished up with two AQTs, and everyone was on their way.  We had three Riflemen that day.

On Sunday, the weather was great again, upper 60's and mostly sunny.  We started off working on positions and attempting to sight in a difficult rifle that, in the end, had to be replaced with a loaner.  Late in the morning, we began the AQTs. For the rest of the day, we continued the AQTs with a Parker's Revenge target, which everyone loved.  We handed out some RWVA patches as prizes.  I told the Second and Third Strikes for an early lunch.  By the end of the day, we picked up two more Riflemen, and two of our shooters who had not gotten rifleman yet shot 199 and 203 on the last AQT.  One more day, and they would've made Rifleman too. Huzzah!  There was so much progress made, and we had 5 shooters clear the hits-count target and walk away with an Immortal 400 patch. One of them, who lived in Baltimore, literally told the history of the Immortal 400 in such a perfect way, and has visited the Immortal 400 memorials in New York and Baltimore.

Everyone was safe, and the great weather made for a lot of fun, and everyone saw an improvement in their skills.

[Catch-10-22]

Nothing more satisfying and exciting than having a student tell the Immortal 400 story from their own experience living in Brooklyn, visiting the site of the battle, and appreciating the Marylanders' sacrifice BEFORE attending an Appleseed and earning the patch. Huzzah!

What a great group of enthusiastic and engaged shooters. All showed significant progress toward their goals - whether it was to earn that Immortal 400 patch, achieve Rifleman, achieve a Distinguished score (congrats to Deon!), or just to continue on the road to Rifleman, which is well within reach. Sounds like a few folks will be attending a future Pistol and/or RKD event as well.