[Ken Nelson]

My son and I are just a back from the USAMU Junior Shooter Camp at Ft. Benning, GA. We learned a lot, made lots of friends and in general had a blast.

Full report and pictures can be found here:

http://www.kennelson...ooter-camp-7319

Short version: AWESOME!

I'll also be writing up a Front Sight article in the near future (with help from Rhonda Gibson of MGM).

[BigTinVA]

That's great, Ken. I'm glad that you all had a good time. I recognize three juniors from my area in your photo. Thanks for sharing.

[Charles Bond]

I was fortunate enough to be able to ride over and watch the juniors go through their paces about 4 hours on Saturday. I left with three impressions.

Impression one was the the AMU and the other instructors particiapting in this program were indeed world class. If there is better anywhere in the world, for shooters of any age, I have not seen or heard of it.

My second impression is that either thiis is an exceptionally mature group of juniors or having young people around firearms gives them a maturity that others their own age do not exhibit. I tend to think it is a comination of both with solid parenting at home.

My final impression is simply thank God for MGM, AMU and all the other sponsors. This was money well spent and while Mike and Rhonda Gibson and Big Hamp likely spent time they did not have doing the organizing for this event, the dividends they are going to realize are going to be huge and of infinite duration.

This post has been edited by Charles Bond: 17 November 2009 - 04:41 PM

[35WLN]

That is Great. I told my son about this camp and told him if his grades improve and they have it next year I will get him signed up. He went from a 2.5 to a 3.5 this year, I can hardly wait for him to go. Thanks MGM for all your efforts.

[Ken Nelson]

Charles,

What pleased me most about the camp was the quality of people - Army, parent, and junior - that we met.

I can't thank the USAMU, MGM, Remington, Rob Leatham and a host of other sponsors enough.

In fact, I'll list them now - each contributed greatly to the success of the camp:

USAMU
Leatham Enterprises, LLC
Remington Arms
Glock
DPMS
Warne Scope Mounts
Hodgdon
CPWSA
Speed Shooter Specialties
LaCrosse Footwear, Inc.
Dillon Precision
Velocity Shooters
Thalhmier Jewelry
TAPCO
Techware
Mike Gibson Manufacturing
USPSA
Rocky Mountain 3-Gun
IAWCA
Sheep Dog Ammo
Brian Hass Memorial Fund

In addition, other people (unnamed) donated money to help sponsor kids to the camp.

If your club has junior shooters, keep them apprised of the camp.

Regards,

Ken N.

[kend]

Ken, I'm glad people are spending time with the kids doing this, it will make a huge difference in their future. We have received quite a few thank you notes from several of the Juniors that attended the cam, as we did last year. This makes a big statement as to the character and parenting these kids have, we don't see this from ANY other group of young people we deal with, regardless of age. I'd like to thank Mike and Rhonda for what they've started here, it's a great thing. I couldn't begin to say enough about the AMU guys and all the sponsors, ESPECIALLY the un-named individuals that don't benefit as a business would, THANKS!!!!

[juan]

Hello my name is dan i went to the AMU junior shooting camp and it was one of the best things i have done. I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR.

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[ima45dv8]

Welcome, Dan!

[azeric]

Thanks to Ken and other parents I was able to put together this video that will be going out to all the kids on DVD this week. All the parents were great and I agree that the maturity of all the kids was outstanding. I know my son and is looking forward to next year.

Here's the link to the video:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Bi2BjhDV1uU

Enjoy

This post has been edited by azeric: 11 December 2009 - 08:44 AM

[High Lord Gomer]

Wow! Very nice! Thank you for doing all of that.

[Ken Nelson]

Very cool - thanks Eric.

[azeric]

Thanks Guys:
High Lord Gomer did find some typos in the credits, which proves just how hard it is to proof your own work, especially when its in rolling titles.
I'll add him to the proof readers for next years video for sure. I hope the kids enjoy the video, it will be cool for them to show their friends.