Like Cisco he ended up with eye issues, unlike Cisco they couldn’t be overcome.   In the end they were painful enough that his quality of life was beginning to suffer so we had to make the decision to let him go.

River, you will be missed.

We started the process of looking for a cruise in November, we were hopeful that we could take advantage of the “Friends and Family” rate, since Claudine has a family member who works for Royal Caribbean, but it didn’t work out.

We got the Friends and Family rates for cruises in January and started looking at what was available, the problem is, everything is short notice.  When we got the list it was over the new years day holiday, and we couldn’t get in touch with the FAF coordinator until like 4 days later.   We called Royal Caribbean and there was limited availability to begin with.   It was going to be hard to book the rooms we wanted if we waited.  They worked with us and we booked it.

Flying 6 people was out of the question, even leveraging miles, so we elected to drive.  I originally planned on renting a van, but in the end we decided to just leave a day early and roll the dice with our mini-van.  It worked out well and saved us another bundle of cash.

The ship left from Ft Lauderdale, we left Friday the 11th around 1:30pm, and pretty much drove straight through to Melbourne, Florida where my parents are vacationing and watched the sunrise and had breakfast with them.  Then on to our first over-night in West Palm Beach about an hour from the terminal.   I wanted the extra day just in case.  It was roughly 1200 miles one way.

We had 6 people, and 3 rooms. We could have shoved all 4 kids in a single room but that would not have worked out well, I’m glad we booked it like we did. Claudine and I had a balcony and the kids had connecting interior rooms across the hallway.

The Independence of the Seas is basically the same ship as the Freedom that we sailed on last time.  It’s physically the same but as we learned there were differences other than just the décor.  Maybe it was simply that we were overwhelmed or overly impressed the last time.  I certainly felt the cruise on the Freedom of the seas was all 5 stars.  On Independence it was a mix of 5 star items and 4 star items.   The entertainment for example, was head and shoulders above on the Freedom of the Seas.

This cruise was a 6 night cruise.  3 port days surrounded by cruising days.  We left on a Sunday and returned on a Saturday.  So basically 5 ‘days’ not in the port from which we left.

Our Itinerary was:

• Sunday Afternoon: Board and depart
• Monday: Cruising
• Tuesday: Grand Cayman
• Wednesday: Cozumel
• Thursday: Costa Maya
• Friday Cruising
• Saturday (AM): Get off the boat.

We spent the first day showing the kids around, and getting oriented, letting them be awed and figure out what they wanted to do.   In all honesty, the first day was half a living hell.  Some of the kids were kinda grumpy, which made me second guess the whole thing. Matthew in particular was completely over stimulated and decided he’d ‘test’ his parents. But by the end of the evening, things had settled and everyone was having fun.  Matthew found his stride in the ‘Aquanauts’ program.  Which is like onboard day-care only a whole lot more fun.  He really enjoyed the activities, and the Royal Caribbean crew in the kids area were outstanding.

The first night was also the first of two formal nights.   Of which we learned that I had no-dress socks.   How’d that happen?  Of course there were none to be had on the ship.  The clothing store on the Freedom had dress socks, ties, lots of things like this.  Even the tailor who rented tuxedo’s didn’t have any.   Grrrr….   So if you ever wondered if you can shove size 10 feet into kids dress socks designed for kids size 13-2.  The answer is yes.  Not very comfortable, nor much fun but it can be, and has been done.

Day 2, was our first port day.  With a stop in Grand Cayman.   We were supposed to stop there during our 2011 cruise but weather didn’t allow it so Claudine and I were really looking forward to it.    We were highly encouraged by friends to do the stingray encounter at stingray city.   We are cheap, so booking excursions through Royal Caribbean has never been our thing.   We considered it since we were taking the kids and that added security of making sure you’ll get back on the boat does have some value.   But none-the-less we chose not too.   At breakfast on day one we met another couple who said you must do the stingray encounter so we decided to make that a top priority.

We weren’t in Grand Cayman that long, we docked at 9am, and were to be back by 3pm.   We got off the ship, the girls hit up the jewelry stores for their free charms then Claudine did her magic, negotiating with the local tour company.  She secured our Stingray encounter for $25 per person, with Matthew being free.   They were advertising the tour for $45, which included transportation to and from the ship, 45 minutes with the stingrays and 45 minutes snorkeling.   The same tour if booked with the ship was well over $75 per person so that was a score.

We hopped in the van which drove us to the pier on the other side of the island.   There we hopped into a fishing boat probably designed to hold 30 people with 54 other people.  It was a tad crowded, but we weren’t going that far.   It was a 20 minute ride out to Stingray City which is a sandbar off the east coast of the island.  Our tour guide, David Evans had a pretty good story about his father and his uncle starting this whole stingray tourist thing and his father diving with Jacque Cousteau back in the day.   I couldn’t tell if it was BS, but do intend to look up what I can.   We arrived at the sandbar, and man, oh man.  Stingrays were everywhere, and huge ones, 4-5 foot stingrays.  Not those babies you get to pet at the Newport aquarium.   The water was crystal clear, and about 3 feet deep between waves.   Matthew was in the water in no-time.   Maria right behind him.  Molly, not so much, and Maggie had no intention of getting in the water.

David and his partner grabbed our group’s stingray.  They held it, tamed it if you will and then proceeded to make sure that every family had encounter time with the animal.  You could feed them if you wanted.  Matthew tried but got a little scared.

They feel like velvet, super smooth, and provided you don’t step on one and make it angry completely safe.

Certainly a highlight of our trip.

After swimming with the rays, they moved us to an area called the Aquarium for snorkeling.  The water was equally clear and about 8-10 feet deep.   We didn’t have gear, and there wasn’t enough gear on the boat to go around.   Matthew and I grabbed life vests and got in the water but since he couldn’t see, nor touch bottom he lost interest quickly.  He was also very tired from the previous 45 minutes in the water.

Claudine, Maggie, Molly, and Maria stayed on the boat during the snorkeling.   All was fine until we started to leave.  One of the boats two engines wouldn’t start and we were already running late.   We putted our way back into the harbor, and the driver made the mad-dash back to the port.   We were told that the last tender would leave promptly at 3pm.   We got back to the port at 2:45 and the line for the tenders was already crazy long.    We got in it, and it quickly became clear that we weren’t the only ones late.   The line behind us continued to grow.   I bet the last person wasn’t onboard until well after 4:30.

The rest of the day was casual, playing putt-putt and just enjoying the cruise.

On Wednesday we had pre-booked a personal tour guide to Cozumel.   Claudine got the contact info for Gerry, from Cruise Critic and Travel advisor.  I highly recommend using him for your day in Cozumel.

We pre-booked him, and his van for 3 hours (minimum) but knew we’d have him for at least 5 hours.   He picked us up at the pier as promised and began telling us about thing things we could do/see on the Island.  Claudine and I have been to Cozumel before, both on our honeymoon and the cruise in 2011 where we rented the scooter of death and rode around the island.

The first thing we needed was something to drink, it was hot 90 degrees and humid.  Gerry took us to a small grocery store and secured for us, 6 large bottles of water and ice for a whopping $3.00.   He could have easily told us to buy drinks from a vendor at the pier but didn’t.  While Gerry was in the store he showed us a park to walk around in that contained an underground river.  One that’s used for scuba training.  Honestly the park was pretty hokey and full of fake animals.  But we did see some turtles, and Gerry pointed out an Iguana.  Matthew enjoyed it.

Our first stop on the Gerry tour was the KAOKAO Chocolate factory.  I personally expected a bigger factory type tour and was very pleasantly surprised. KAOKAO is a small private, family chocolatier.  Joshua spent 45 minutes in a very Discovery Channel like demonstration on the history of chocolate and the work required to get flavor from the beans.   We made our own Cocoa.  Everyone was entertained and the chocolate is delicious.  This is a must-do, if you have time in Cozumel.   You won’t be disappointed.   It’s not free, adults were $10 and kids were $5, Matthew of course was free.   We spent about $70 t0tal including the chocolate that we bought.   I would do this again in a minute, or at least stop and buy chocolate.

After this tour Gerry offered up the Tequila factory tour, 4 wheelers, and the zip line.  I could see where this was going, every time we stopped we’d be shelling out another $100 for a family activity.   This isn’t quite what we had in mind.  We wanted a leisurely day, seeing stuff but really didn’t want to hit up $10 per person activities.  Gerry was cool with that and didn’t push anything, we started heading for the Tequila factory and passed the Zip line on the way.   After determining that the Tequila tour was just a dog and pony show put on by a manufacturer and that unlike the chocolate factory they didn’t actually make it there we decided to pass on that.  We asked him to circle back to the Zip line because the kids were excited about that opportunity. 

The Zip-line was at Ecoparque Cuzam, where you can do a number of things including the zip-line, horseback riding, drinking, ATV’s, swimming and paintball.   We were really only interested in the Zip-line.  We met the owner and negotiated a rate, and off we went.   The guys really took care of the kids, and it was fun and entertaining.   A little pricier than I planned on, but we had a blast.  I know the kids would do it again.

Matthew on the Zip-line 2013_Cruise

From the zip-line we headed across the Island for lunch at Playa Bonita.  It was supposed to be better and more economical than Coconuts. It was good, great view, service was a little suspect. My food was excellent but the girls weren’t really happy. If we had it to do over again we would do Coconuts instead.  It was interesting to learn that there is no electricity on the east side of the island.  Everything, including the restaurants are run off generators, and that’s always been the case.

After lunch we stopped at the beach for a little bit so the kids could climb on the rocks, Matthew could throw rocks, and the girls could look for beach garbage glass. 

Gerry really took care of us.  We’ll certainly use him again.  If you’re ever headed to Cozumel look him up.  Email Eduardo: eduardoczm@gmail.com or call Gerry: (987) 869-0044 Please tell them the Disher Family referred you.

After all of that we were beat, and had Gerry drop us off at the pier.  I brought Matthew back on the ship and the girls did a little shopping.

Thursday, our final port day was a short one.   We docked in Costa Maya at 0700 and were leaving at 3pm.   I wasn’t comfortable taking the family on any Jungle tours.  It was questionable that we could rent anything that would hold 6 of us, and I wasn’t about to shell out big bucks for a 2 hour ride into the jungle on a non air-conditioned school bus to spend 20 minutes at the ruins turn around and come back.   Instead we opted for a beach day.  Claudine did her homework and got us reservations at Tropicante. 

The place is the perfect Caribbean beach dive.  Food and drinks were good, everything was reasonable, the beach was perfect.  Massages on the beach, 1 hour for $25, you can’t beat that.  No cover charge, our bill for the day with 3 “on the beach” massages was $160.00

We hung out, Matthew only left the ocean to eat.

The place is run by an American (Steve) that moved there to open his spot 5 years ago.  Contact them and make reservations if you ever find yourself in Costa Maya.  He can also handle all your arrangements for scuba, snorkeling, ruin tours, you name it.   If we had more time we would  have used him for other adventures.

We were back on the boat by 2:30pm, again I took Matthew and Maggie and left Claudine and the other girls to shop.   It was the 2nd of the two formal nights, and I got to suffer in socks too small for the benefit of my family.  But mostly my wife who wanted more pictures.

Friday our final day on the cruise ship was spent recovering from the previous days activities.

We have really enjoyed the ‘Freedom’ class ships.   Our next cruise will be on either the Allure or the Oasis, we may then try a smaller ship but freely admit we’ve been spoiled by the larger ships.

Our final cruise day was non-eventful, it was hella-windy and chilly on deck.  So we didn’t get to swim but we found other things to do, like 72 holes of putt-putt with the girls.

All of the photos can be found here: [on Picasaweb]

The Goal:   Get a relatively inexpensive, yet reliable camera to be able to remotely view weather conditions at our office.   So that I can make sure the grounds crew is taking care of snow and ice removal.

After poking around the web and reading reviews, dropcam seemed to fit the bill so I ordered up two via Amazon.  (gotta love Amazon Prime).

They showed up, and out of the box it configured easy enough.  

We have a rather robust Cisco driven wireless network.   Which from time to time we’ve had to dumb-down for some consumer devices.   Fortunately for Dropcam that had already been done and we have wireless networks up and running for some of those troublesome Apple devices like AppleTV that don’t work with enterprise security.

The first camera, configured right up, and I created my account with dropcam.  Then it started happening, the camera kept dropping off the network.   I have to Access points within line of site and less than 40 feet away with minimal obstructions.  Even my lowly iPhone 4s gets four bars in my office and it’s well known that it’s wireless is sub-optimal.

So I thought maybe I just got a bad camera.   Opened up the second one, configured it up and basically got the same results.   It would work, *sometimes*.

These cloud based products make troubleshooting almost impossible.   There is very limited documentation, and next to no way to test anything.

We screwed around with the Wireless side just to confirm that it wasn’t on our end.   We made it as basic as can be with a completely open network.  Still no good.   I opened support tickets with dropcam, and got no response for well over 24 hours.   That’s not a good sign.    So at the end of the day they went back.

Now we’ll ratchet up the search and include higher end POE/IP cameras, cause it looks like that’s what it’s going to take.

For us, dropcam sucked pretty hard.

At first I thought, yeah, uhm, well OK.   Just what I need another holster.   I need that like I need another hole in my head.   Years ago when we took our CCW class the instructor said, “There are 8 million holster possibilities, and you’ll probably go through, on average 8 per gun, until you find one you like.”.   Yeah, sure what ever.   Turns out that’s not all that far from the truth.

Let’s see for the Glock that I normally carry, I have:

• A custom leather inside the waist band holster from a local firm.
• Multiple paddle holsters from various manufacturers for IDPA and what not.
• Even the Cheapie Glock $14 Duty holster, which for on the belt use is the best value out there hands down.
• And of course a Cross Breed super-tuck, which I initially hated, but it grew on me and I now find it very comfortable.
• Plus various other IWB holsters of ebay.  You do get what you pay for.

So when we got these gift certificates I thought great, just what I need.   Then I looked at their website.  $80 for a kydex holster, are you kidding me?  That thing is HUGE and ugly.

And it is:

On top of that there’s an 18 week wait?  You can’t be serious.

So we looked at how we’d best spend our award.   Ordered a holster for the G19/G26.  One for the P238 and one for the LCP. 

We received them Saturday and I’ve worn it for two days.   Wow.  It hugs close, and is super comfortable.  Easy to draw and re-holster.     I hate to say it, but it’s worth the money and worth the wait.

Well done Raven, well done.

Is getting all grown up.

She’s now well over 60lbs, in only 3 1/2 months.   We recently had her spayed by Mike’s Mobile Vet.

Which I highly recommend.  Yeah he costs a little more, but it’s worth it.  You don’t have to drag your dog to the vet, or bring them home so it saves time.   I will warn you though that when you take your dog to the vet for surgery, they usually keep them for half a day or maybe overnight.  What you don’t get to see is them coming out of the anesthesia.  It’s not a pretty sight, but at least it happened at our house.   Even with that experience which was new to us, I’d still do it again.

So for her birthday I decided to hook her up.

How this all fell into place.

1) I used my GSSF Annual purchase discount to buy a Glock 34 ($695 list but they can generally be found for around $600).   The GSSF price was $507, so that’s a pretty darn good deal.  If you’re not aware, GSSF is Glocks Sport Shooting Foundation It’s Glock’s sporting arm.  In order to shoot in a Glock sponsored match you need to join the GSSF.  One of the benefits is the ability to purchase 1 gun a year per membership after your first year at a reduced price.  What they don’t make clear is that nobody knows how to do this.  Most dealers don’t.   What you are essentially buying is a Glock “blue label” gun, or a gun for and at law enforcement discounts.    There aren’t many Glock LEO dealers around.   Of course there is TargetWorld, but when I asked them about it they looked at me like I had 3 heads, even though they do the indoor GSSF shoot there.    Skipping to the chase, you can also buy them from Miami Valley Shooting Grounds.  So I talked to Dana the owner and made the trip.   The purchase was simple.

2) Even thought the Gen 34 has a better ‘trigger’ than most, I still did my magic.  Connector, polishing, springs.   Trigger is at a true, solid 3.2 lbs.

3) Added the green high-viz sight that Claudine says she prefers.

4) Converted this Gen 4 to use a Gen 3 recoil spring.   New guide rod, spring and adapter thingy.   We tune our loads and need/want tune-ability and that’s not currently readily available for the Gen 4 with their new double-recoil spring set up.

Once I had prepped it and done what I do, I handed it off to my buddy for paint. He used Duracoat Firearm Finish (paint), hard ass enamel like paint.

Colors used on this gun:
Frame: Lars Larson Commie Pinko
Slide:  Goddess Purple

My buddy Jeff painted it up and it was done a few weeks ago.  If you’d like a gun painted reach out to him:  jeffsteley[at]gmail.com  His standard pricing is:

Single color 100.00
2 tone 150.00
Revolvers (needs quoting)

The picture doesn’t really do the purple justice.   It’s a sweet nice dark purple.  I felt like a pink slide would be too distracting hence the darker color up top.   Some people find Glock frame’s a bit slippery and the DuraCoat doesn’t help hence the grip thingy.

So there you have it.  Yes men, I bought my wife a gun for her birthday.  No I did not buy a vacuum cleaner, which is what we really need.   She genuinely seems to like it.  I have not been threatened or penalized in any way for doing this.

But Claudine is a special person/wife.  So that might have something to do with it.

Love you honey.  But yes, your gun was in the house under your nose for the last 3 weeks.  And yes you came downstairs and sat next to me and carried on a discussion while I did the trigger job.   Though it wasn’t yet pink. 

Reloading is fun and economical.  I outlined why I wanted to do it in an article a while back, almost a year to the day:  Reloading 101

For the last year we’ve mostly shot ammo that we’ve reloaded.  Except for maybe 300 rounds of factory, everything we shot this year was reloaded.

So here are the things I’ve learned this year.

1) Cast Lead, while economical, pretty much sucks.  I’ve shot it for a year now, about 12k rounds through various guns (All Glocks), some with aftermarket barrels but we’ve probably put 6k rounds down the Glock 34 this year alone with no ill effects.   Accuracy is fine, it’s just dirtier.

Disclaimer:  Glock says don’t do this.   I’m convinced the reason they say that is because people don’t clean their guns.  I do, before and after every match and generally speaking every time I shoot them.  Yes, I have shot a GSSF match with my LEAD reloads.  I could also give my gun to the Glock Armorer after cleaning and they’d never know it had lead through it.  You just have to keep it clean.

Cast Lead, even good bullets from SNS Casting are dirty.  Speed shooting through a smoke screen is no fun, and in fact I’m kind of tired of it so I’m switching.

Cast Lead is dirty, you will need to clean your guns more often if you use it.  You should clean them anyway, which is why the dirty gun part didn’t bother me.

Cast Lead with a compensator sucks though, the comp will lead up and it’s a bitch to get off.   Another reason I’m switching up.

It’s dirty when you reload, and well, it’s lead.   I’m very diligent about washing my hands after I reload or shoot.  But reload 400 rounds and your bullet handling hand will be frickin dirty, scrub brush required dirty.   Reloading with plated bullets eliminates this.

I’m about 2/3rds the way through my first order from Montana Gold Bullet, Inc. and I’m really liking the results so far.

Reloading is cleaner, shooting is cleaner, and no smoke screen after things get heated up.  

So if you have $340 just laying around, hit them up and order me a box of 9mm 115gr FMJ’s.   You’ll find them here. 

Your purchase will help further my shooting as well as further promote “Super Molly” in the shooting world.   She needs your support cause I can’t afford her alone .

Here’s Molly on one of the stages.  Strings 3 and 5 where her best, but it wasn’t her best day by a long shot.  We’d all been sick and struggling with bronchitis.  So that kind of sucked.

I just finished reloading 800 rounds tonight which will get us through Friday Night Steel and the GSSF Match this weekend.  Yep it’s work, but the cost is still about half of factory.

I have never bought new brass.   From the day we started shooting I’ve been saving it.  So when we started reloading, I already had a bunch.   I was given a bucket load by a fellow shooter who had more than he could ever use.

We’ve pretty much maintained that quantity all year long.  We pick up the brass we shoot when we can, but there have been plenty of lost brass matches.   We pretty much volunteer at the local shoots, and if you get your hands dirty setting up or tearing down, you’ll likely be able to pick up some brass.    Again, we’ve bought absolutely ZERO casings.

So, CASE CHECK YOUR AMMO.

Especially before a match.   I’ve had a few ‘issues’ but only about 3 and never if I case checked it.    I get in a hurry and sometimes don’t and I’ve had two rounds stick in the camber that had to be pounded out with a squib rod.  WHOLE rounds mind you, no squibs.

I have had 2 squibs this year with FACTORY FEDERAL .22 ammo that we shoot in Rimfire.  Too bad I can’t reload that.  These were show stopping, bullet stuck in the barrel squibs.  From FACTORY AMMO.  So I’m convinced, do it right and you too can have better ammo than factory.

I’ve used Federal Primers exclusively.  We’ve ‘slicked up’ our Glocks and they can be prone to light strikes with CCI primers, so I just don’t use them.  I’ve had 0 failure to fires this year with my reloads with Federal primers.

Powder, still using Alliant Bullseye.   I like it, it works.

So yeah, if you shoot, you should reload.  It’s fun, and far more economical.  We honestly couldn’t afford to do it if we didn’t.

Happy shooting.

Last Thursday, the Cincinnati Reds were in a Do-Or-Die Playoff game, at 1pm.  We recently moved into a new building, and don’t have any Cable TV installed yet.  (TimeWarner, your RANT will be forthcoming).

Obviously we wanted to get this game which was on National TV on some of the TV’s in the building for folks who love the Reds could watch and keep up with the game.

We have a couple conference rooms equipped with AppleTV’s.  So we thought, “Oh, this will be easy, we just need someone with an AppleTV/MLB subscription to log in.

LJ was already watching the game live on MLB.com using his MLB account.  We tried his account with AppleTV but it wouldn’t work.   So we did the next best thing.  I purchased an MLB subscription, in an attempt to bring happiness to our beloved fans.

AppleTV/iTunes, did everything right.   Showed me that the game was available then prompted me to buy the subscription.  So I did.   After the subscription was processed it let us know that “Oops, Sorry, this game is blacked out in your area”.  Huh?  It was on broadcast national television.

Thanks for that.

So today my iTunes statement comes in and looks like this:

See that link right there ‘Report a Problem”.

I decided I’d click it, cause, yeah, I have a problem.  I don’t want a recurring MLB.TV subscription that I’ll never ever use again.

So I click it.   What does it do?  Opens itunes:

See that “Report a Problem’ text, that’s a link in iTunes.

So I click that.

What does that do?

Opens a browser, which is what my email invoice should have done in the first place.

Except, I’ll be damned if you can actually dispute an individual charge.  It’s just the generic iTunes Support Page:

http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/

This is not helpful.

Apple is so good at so many things, but this is one area that’s been horrible forever.   No wonder they are as profitable as they are.   If we could force our customers through a maze that doesn’t ever let them fix their issue and we got to keep their money…  We’ve all be millionaires.

After all it’s just a $0.99 app or in this case a $3.99 subscription.   I’ve already wasted more than that is worth to me.  No wonder.  I bet most people just give up.

Now I get to make a phone call, which I can assure you will be super special.

Update: After jumping through the 87 hoops on apple.com and expresslane.apple.com, I was finally able to talk to Heather, who took care of this for me.  But it just shouldn’t be this hard.

Update #2:  I purchased a retina iPad as an update to the original iPad that I got pretty much on day one.  I do love my iPad, I use it every day.   Since IOS6 left iPad(1) in the dust, I was compelled to upgrade.   Less than 3 weeks later they announce a new 4th generation iPad.  Same retina display only 2x faster and better.

I read on the web where Apple usually allows people to swap if their purchase was made within 30 days.   It appears this isn’t policy but it’s a good customer move.   I mean my iPad looks like new and if someone bought it at ‘refurb’ pricing, they’d be happy.   Anyway a few phone calls to my local Apple Store pretty much discouraged me.  Apple Genius ‘DeAndre’ pretty much blew me off.   Spouting out the 14 day return policy, though he admitted they do often stretch that to 30 days in some cases.  At the end of the day, I was left without a confident feeling they’ll make it happen.  I asked for a Genius appointment for launch day (Nov 2nd) and was denied.   I’ll be damned if I’ll stand in line.

Then all I heard about was, never again, never will we get a dog that:

a) Sheds and clogs up the vacuum cleaner
b) Is big enough to clear the coffee table with one swift wag of the tail
c) Makes us buy food by the 50lb bag

But enough time has passed that she forgot all that stuff.

On our way home from my rained out NASCAR Experience, she happened to glance on craigslist and there she was.   11 week old female golden.

We picked her up that evening.   She’s HUGE, and she’s gonna be HUGE, Comet-like we hope.

We’ve had her a week now and for the most part she hasn’t eaten anything she’s not supposed to and the accidents have been minimal.

Meet, Emma:

She’s a doll.

Of course our kids rocked the house.  Both Molly and Maria shot very, very well.

It was a good turn out, about 22 kids.

Dave Reichle explained the rules and how the match would go.

Then it was game on!.

A bunch of more photos at the link below:

Saturday Steel Jr. Match 07/14/2012

Vids below:

Molly swept her age group, and Maria came in 2nd in Rimfire for her age group.

Afterward the whole family shot the regular Saturday Steel Match.

IT was way to close to be comfortable in Rimfire…

Michael *almost* had Molly, *almost*