Jacob has joined the Antietam Junior Rifle Club as a member of the competitive precision shooting team. This is an amazing sport that we are just learning all about! He has practice every week, and then competitions interspersed in there, with at least one a month once he is ready for that. This is the same sport that you see in the Olympics - it is really so much more intense than we thought - but Jacob loves the discipline of it.
This is the club where he practices each week - it is a drive of over an hour each way from our house.
This is the view I get when I watch the team shoot. Those targets are awfully small and far away! Jacob seems to be a natural at it...
Here is Jacob working with his coach. This is an incredible man who has given up the position of shooting coach at the Naval Academy so that he can work with this team - he has been doing it for 38 years!!
Listening intently...
They stand under this awning to shoot, but it sure gets hot out there. In the winter they shoot indoors.
On the way home last week we got behind an Air Force Protocol Aircraft/Drone of some sort being transported down the highway (you can see it way up in the front) and it was soooo cool to see. It took up two lanes and with all the police escort we weren't able to get close to it, but it was neat even from far away.
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