You know how your mind is going?

Time to go, I found my Leatherman and the air pressure gage...

Yes, it is a beautiful day, I have been busy. But although I rode my Trusty Triumph to the YMCA, it was not enough. That much more and beyond await my attention. So, should I nap at Iron John rest stop? Where will I eat, what will I do, I have directions, and time estimate and a goal. Life is good, if one goes out and lives it in real time.

Ya'll take care, and don't mess the world up while I am finding my way among the heathen, Once I am past Cougar Country I will be fine.

Have to stop jumping down the Rabbit Hole, do you think Lewis Carroll knew..

I am so far behind, I feel more like the White Rabbit than Alice. But the electronic entertainment seem to snatch my day away, and since I have so few remaining I should be doing more with the ones I have shouldn't I?

I don't think the Appleseed needs to change their AQT, their training, nor their story telling, just keep reaching out to Americans and get the message out. Would be very nice if the 22 LR showed up before all the Appleseeds or your favorite center fire ammo. Still, I use my AQT target for my dry fire and my checking on my proficiency. And one could become faster at feeding the fine rifles or switch to 30-06, for the recoil.

Motion pictures

Revival in church tonight, on the range today...

So I thought the talk at the movie theater would make one or two shooters happy. I thought since my wife is off finding seaweed in the ocean, I would go to the range and preach to the choir. Cause you know if they are going to the range they already have opinions about everything shooting.

What I really wanted to do was confirm my zero and check out my accuracy. I could spare fifty-eight rounds of 22 LR, couldn't I? Have to make every shot count, including the photographs.

So five rounds, adjust my sights and begin with a Zombie target and a sighting square. First shot on the sighting square, next three on the four hundred yard target, I think I failed to confirm my NPOA, don't you? Then a major shift to the 300 yard target, the 200 yard target and the 100 yard target. Thirteen rounds only forty more to go.

So the AQT without time, ten rounds off hand, no rest but I was firing a single shot rifle.






Then the second stage the sitting position.
 
Then the third stage in prone position.



The final stage which counts double, the worst of my shooting skills and why don't I work on that, okay I will.

As I finished each of my targets I wandered the line, talking to the other shooters. About what they like doing 'shooting'! The man with the left handed flintlock was really cool. I talked deer hunting in Pennsylvania, and tours from Afghanistan. I dropped off some Appleseed trifold for a man with a son and a Ruger 10/22. Good weekend ahead.

   

Wearing the Chinese field jacket around...

I took my wife out to see Oblivion, not that I like Tom Cruise, but I do like science fiction. Tom did just fine as Jack (is that his new actor character - Jack?).  Anyway, as I was waiting for my wife to get the medium popcorn and her Cola, I had a younger fellow (they are all younger now) telling me that my patches were cool.  NRA Life Member and the RWVA ones.

We talked a bit about guns, there is a gun show in Puyallup this weekend he said, I told him I was going shooting instead. Something about I didn't have any money and I wasn't sure they would have anything I really had to have. But that got me to asking if he was a good shooter, how could he say not? He told me he was the son of a peace officer and had grown up with guns.

I told him I was an instructor with an organization that taught rifle marksmanship to 4 MOA, and that is a one inch square at twenty-five meters. Since my wife was trying to get me to take some of the food off her hands I gave him my card, and told him to look up Appleseed Project, we all need to make every shot count. His companion looked happy when I said that. I imagine I will get an email from him one day.  Just for wearing my colors at the movie metroplex. 

What are the sounds of Summer?

Doesn't that sound like Spring should be warming up?