Posted: 4/22/2013 8:19:40 PM EDT
Anybody done it? Last September my and my Dad went through it together. It was a lot of fun. I used my 10/22 sporter. I put a green sling on it so it would look like an m1 carbine 
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Here are a few photos and descriptions of the AS I helped host this weekend. While I helped organize it with our local AS coordinator I was only able to get a few photos Saturday early (since I had to work all day) then grabbed a few more on Sunday while helping work the line. Appleseed founder Fred of Fred's Shotgun News column fame came all the way from North Carolina to run the shoot. It was a great weekend and a real treat to meet a man who started a program that has made tens of thousands of better shooters. The firing line first thing in the AM while Fred is giving the safety briefing. A few of the shooters helped me rig up a line of flags for the occasion. Any errors in flag etiquette are mine. <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0262.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0262.jpg</a> The firing line in action. <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0281.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0281.jpg</a> <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0285.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0285.jpg</a> <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0275.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0275.jpg</a> Moving downrange to check targets! <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0270.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0270.jpg</a> <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0277.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0277.jpg</a> Discussing our targets. <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0278.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0278.jpg</a> Dad & daughter looking over her VERY impressive 200 yard target with Fred looking on. I didn't get a picture but she put all 5 rounds in the 5 zone of the first target! <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0287.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0287.jpg</a> Fred telling us the history of the flags during the lunch break. <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0292.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0292.jpg</a> <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0296.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0296.jpg</a> We had shooters bringing the usual mix of gear from iron sighted and scoped M4 Carbines, A2 rifles and tech sighted 10/22's to more exotic scoped 10/22's. There were a few buckhorn sighted rifles too and one of our shooters who scored rifleman with an iron sighted M4 did it again later in the day with a buckhorn sighted 10/22 (it helps that his under-30 eyes see pretty well). <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0268.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0268.jpg</a> This shooter has scored Rifleman before and said he was trying to score a 250 with this super accurized 10/22 and the notoriously poor functioning Remington Golden Bullets because this gun would feed them flawlessly and he needed to get rid of them. He got over 240 a few times but am not sure if he hit 250.<a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0269.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0269.jpg</a> We had some shooters go the minimalist route and others bring comfy foam pads for the day. A concrete pad makes for nice stable shooting but gets kind of hard by the end of a long day shooting. <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0265.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0265.jpg</a> <a href="http://s190.photobucket.com/user/bonecreekgunclub/media/Forum%20photos/IMG_0264.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z67/bonecreekgunclub/Forum%20photos/IMG_0264.jpg</a> Later in the day Fred took some of the shooters over to the 200 yard rifle range where they learned a little more about shooting at (some) distance. We had some 8" and 10" steel targets at the 200 yard line plus some full size redcoats and AQT targets shooters got some time on. Just for giggles I broke out my tech-sighted 10/22 at 200 yards and found I needed about 5' of holdover. It was a challenge but I was able to score a good number of hits on the full size popper we had that far out and shot about a 14" group on paper using holdover. An A2 style elevation adjustable rear sight would be handy for .22's at long distance. Great pics! It was a lot of fun I have to say! Like I said, I was using a 10/22 spoter, I forget the exact name of the sights I am using, but its a ghost ring back sight and fiber octic from. My dad was running a Marlin 795 with tech sites. I was able to get rifleman on my the last "round" of the weekend, which lead to me getting bottles of water poured on me  The funny thing is I really think my Dad would have had it too...but the lady next to him accidently shot his target which nullified it.
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Great pics! It was a lot of fun I have to say! Like I said, I was using a 10/22 spoter, I forget the exact name of the sights I am using, but its a ghost ring back sight and fiber octic from. My dad was running a Marlin 795 with tech sites. I was able to get rifleman on my the last "round" of the weekend, which lead to me getting bottles of water poured on me The funny thing is I really think my Dad would have had it too...but the lady next to him accidently shot his target which nullified it.You must have scored the infamous 210! Good job on gutting it out to the end. Bummer about your dad's target. We had one little girl who had a good target nullified because of a similar shooter mix up. For those who don't know a score of 210 - 250 is a Rifleman (expert) score. Those who hit 210 traditionally get water poured on them. |
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I really want to go to one soon. Anyone brought a Mosin and scored rifleman?
My 10/22 is all set up for one with tech sights, shoots like a dream with a few kidd upgrades. A number of shooters have scored rifleman with one or another of the vintage bolt guns and they have my respect. That is some serious shucking of cases. Two different 10 round courses of fire have time limits of 55 and 65 seconds respectively. That sounds like plenty of time until you realize you start standing then have to drop to kneeling/seated or prone and put ten rounds into a tiny target including a reload!  
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