Barista
Marksman
I woke up Sunday morning around 03:30 and was out the door a little past 04:00. After a 4 hour drive (it took me a while to actually finding the place) it was well worth the 8-9 hrs of lessons and shooting.
I had never attended an Appleseed before this event but I have heard great things about these weekend events. I don't recommend just showing up the 2nd day of an Appleseed if you had never attended a full weekend event before. I had other life events to attend Saturday that I had not expected when I signed up for this event; however, I was expecting no changes to my plans since it was a holiday weekend but school events trump. I can tell you that Sunday was a very fast paced day and I had to learn quickly. I think the one saving grace portion of this one day (Sunday) event for me was that there were plenty of hats (Green, Red, Blue, Orange, etc.) to provide some one-on-one training. The margin of error was very small for me and I had to jump right in and learn efficiently, effectively and fast. I believe if I had shot both days I could have shot Rifleman "Expert" but I was rather happy with my best shoot being 195 considering: short amount of time to pick-up the training skills, using a bolt action rifle, and only have 7 round magazines (I had to do magazine changes on strings 1 & 2 when this would not have been required with a higher magazine capacity).
All-in-all I'm very happy with this event, the lessons learned (history), and the shooting drills (AQT). I will be attending another event for both days in the very near future (hopefully with my son).
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