Appleseeds

[M1A4ME]

I won't go into the history/heritage lessons here but I will say you'll hear about the events leading up to April 19th, 1775 and how the folks for miles around Concord and Lexington reacted to the British Regulars confiscating and burning their property and shooting their friends and relatives. How the people pulled together to face a common enemy whose desire was to dominate them and force them to accept whatever the King of England and his Governor in Boston would allow them to have.

While that will take up a portion of the day by far the majority of the weekend will be spent on the firing line learning how to really shoot your rifle. Yes, most of the Appleseeds are done at 25 meters (partly because you can learn the fundamentals at 25 meters with a .22 rimfire shooting fairly cheap ammunition and partly because very few ranges these days are set up to allow shooting out to 400 or 500 yds.

You'll learn how to shoot smaller groups. You'll do this through learning the six steps of firing a shot. You'll learn how to build solid sling supported firing positions for shooting your rifle standing, sitting/kneeling or prone. You'll learn one of the most important things about shooting a rifle that most foks never hear about - its called natural point of aim and its critical to firing groups in slow fire or rapid fire situations and firing on multiple targets (something you'll do while shooting the AQTs on Saturday afternoon and Sunday).

An AQT is a set of targets scaled down for use at 25 meters. It has four different sized targets to simulate targets at 100, 200, 300 and 400 yds.

Stage one is one target, 10 round, standing, 2 minutes to put all 10 rounds on the one target, no reloads, no position change.

Stage two is two targets, 10 rounds, starts off standing but you drop to sitting/kneeling before beginning to fire, 50 seconds to fire 10 rounds (2 rounds in the first magazine - fire them on the first target, change magazines to the 8 round magazine, fire three rounds on the first target and the last five on the second target).

Stage three is three targets, 10 rounds, starts off standing but you drop to prone before beginning to fire, 60 secons to fire 10 rounds (2 rounds in the first magazine - fire them on the first target, change magazines to the 8 round magazine, fire one more round on the first target, three rounds on the middle target and the last 4 rounds on the third target).

Stage four is four targets, 10 rounds, starts off prone, 5 minutes to fire 10 rounds, two rounds on the first target, two rounds on the second target, three rounds on the third target and three rounds on the fourth target.

Its a a lot harder than you think. Take a look at the links to the Appleseed forum and read through the "thinkgs to bring" list so you can be as comfortable as possible during the weekend and you'll learn more.

Have fun. You'll meet a lot of good people just like you. Recruit them for the VGOF.

[Jakeiscrazy]

+100 I went to appleseed myself sadly I had plans and couldn't make day two but I may do it again.

[SherKhan]

Somewhere on the forum is a query I sent yesterday regarding VGOF folks who participate in Appleseed. ( I'm still woozy from surgery so I haven't located it.) I appreciate your info, and hope to get to an Appleseed later this year. Looks like a good shooting game for geezers like me....

[Chasbo00]

I really like the fact that there are solid standards to become a Rifleman.