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These are the times that try men's souls.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country;
but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered;
yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods;
and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.
Excellent day today. I was shooting next to a guy from my town that I haven't seen in about 20 years! Also shot my personal best, 236!
"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." - Samuel Adams (letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775)
Since it'll be 50 degrees today and the forecast is calling for "few showers" (which is less than yesterday!) maybe we'll get some of the people who didn't show yesterday.
Come on down, folks - no one ever said saving the country was going to be easy or comfortable. Nothing worthwhile ever is.
"Originally Posted by dwarven1>> We've got a shoot coming up in May (western MA) and another in Harvard in July. Can we reserve a spot for you on the line?
I did get to practice a lot of 10/22 malfunction drills however. My personal highlight was using a pocket knife to clear a double fed, facing the wrong way, unejected mess then continuing the AQT
Here's the link for registration. I'll start a new thread if Crak hasn't beaten me to it. http://www.eventbrite.com/event/640668256I'll be @ Harvard, reserve a spot for me.
Boy, does this reaction sound familiar... I remember thinking the exact same things after MY first shoot. Just shows that America NEEDS Project Appleseed!I pretty much learned I've been doing most of my rifle shooting wrong for my entire life (which explains prior results) and I learned a lot of history that should have been clearer in my mind.
What he said. BEST $12 you can spend on your 10/22 after Tech-Sights.
Just a reminder, folks - clean those rifles good, and clean your magazines as well, since they've been hitting the dirt and mud all weekend. (And if you're cleaning a 10/22 magazine, remember - turn the screw 14-15 flats, NOT the 6 or 8 you'll see in some online videos!!)Well, took a while to hose all the sand out of the actions last night but got a great nights sleep after the rifles were put up.
Thanks to dwarven1, Edmorseiii, luv2bfree for running the line I was on and instructing me. I will keep practicing between now and the next one.
Everyone there was friendly and helpful, it was a great couple days.
I am glad I shot this one with iron sights, but think I might use my scoped 10/22 next time.
Well, my feet are killing me, and there's a few other places that are letting me know I overextended (as usual), I can barely keep my eyes open... and withal, I'm still flying high.
Edmorseiii, luv2bfree and I had the beginner's line - 13 shooters yesterday, 7 who came back today. EVERYONE'S groups tightened up considerably, and two shooters who'd been knocking at the door to Rifleman were dragged through. Lupis42 and NESer JBH, got their Rifleman's patch. Ed and Luv2bfree did a GREAT job on the line and giving instruction, too.
Lupis42, because he got a score of EXACTLY 210 was, in accordance with a Ramseur (home range) tradition modified by us New Englanders, got dowsed with some North Bridge water. (At Ramseur, if you shoot exactly the Rifleman score, you get dumped in the creek. Since we're close enough that it's easy to procure some water that has flowed under the Old North Bridge, the site where, 235 years ago, Americans first fired back at the Redcoats in earnest, we use this instead. )
Even better, Lupis has already taken an Orange Hat and become in Instructor In Training. He's not only a trained Rifleman, he'll be training other Riflemen.
Great weekend. We woke up some 50-odd sleeping Americans, started them on the road to Rifleman (or got them all the way there!), told the utterly inspiring story of our nation's birth, and got some more Instructor In Trainings to keep the program going.
So... for all of you who signed up and didn't go...
We've got a shoot coming up in May (western MA) and another in Harvard in July. Can we reserve a spot for you on the line?
God Bless this man for going out on Patriots Day to help educate American's as to where thier Liberty all began.
Is the history lesson given at all the appleseeds or just the Patriots Day ones? Looking to go in July.
Thanks.
ALL Appleseed Shoots. Some suggested reading, if you want to do some study on your own, is Paul Revere's Ride by David Fischer and Minuteman National Park's website, www.nps.gov.Is the history lesson given at all the appleseeds or just the Patriots Day ones? Looking to go in July.
I was asked to take this photo of Rifleman Mike at the Harvard shoot to demonstrate the perfect prone position.