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2012 After Action Reports from other sources

Started by hawkhavn, February 04, 2012, 11:20:55 PM

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hawkhavn

Criticism is the only known antidote to error.  David Brin

What a nation has done, a nation can aspire to.
Dr. Jerry Pournelle

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck."
---Robert Anson Heinlein

"Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted." - George Rogers Clark

"Appleseed is a safe place to learn because they care. They have the confidence and serenity of spring gardeners." 1IV on AR15.com

mac3647

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent"  Thomas Jefferson

mosinguy

Quote from: mac3647 on February 10, 2012, 08:44:02 AM
Nice write up!!!!

agreed.  We should contact and let him know about the Ladyseed events, which would address one of his negative impressions....


And my "we" I guess I mean to say, "I'll shoot him an email and take care of that."


Join or Die

TruTenacity

Our Project Appleseed friends in Texas got some nice media coverage. They explained some of the marksmanship instruction as well as the history aspects of the project. Well done!

Appleseed Project preserves history
http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/news/local/story/Appleseed-Project-Lubbock-Texas-Rifle-gun-shooting/-s0miQulE0CeXQ3cPciYcA.cspx
"We are fighting for our country, for posterity perhaps.  On the success of this campaign the happiness or misery of millions may depend."  Henry Knox

"Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap if we faint not."  Galatians 6:9

KnowFear

Who is John Galt?

KnowFear

the above are both centerfire forums,

.....and here is another in the Calguns Rim Fire forum:

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?p=8082088#post8082088
Who is John Galt?

hawkhavn

Mas was kind enough to include Project Appleseed in his column in this month's Backwoods Home magazine on "Affordable Firearms".  This would be the March/April 2012 issue.

HH
Criticism is the only known antidote to error.  David Brin

What a nation has done, a nation can aspire to.
Dr. Jerry Pournelle

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck."
---Robert Anson Heinlein

"Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted." - George Rogers Clark

"Appleseed is a safe place to learn because they care. They have the confidence and serenity of spring gardeners." 1IV on AR15.com

Nero

A very nice short mention of Appleseed, with a quote from one of our instructors, at the influential Instapundit blog:

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/137512/
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." —Frederick Douglass

TruTenacity

"We are fighting for our country, for posterity perhaps.  On the success of this campaign the happiness or misery of millions may depend."  Henry Knox

"Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap if we faint not."  Galatians 6:9

The Wolfhound

#9
Gun blogs, I read a few of them.  When I found out by reading that one of my favorites was living about an hour away, I tossed out the invitation to come to our next Appleseed.  He came and the AAR says it all:  http://oldnfo.blogspot.com/2012/03/appleseed-aar.html for Day 2 and : http://oldnfo.blogspot.com/2012/03/appleseed-first-impression.html for day 1.

scuzzy

Thanks for all the reports. Just updated our latest news page with the stuff:

http://appleseedinfo.org/latest_news.html

Keep 'em coming!
An Armed Society is a polite society. Heinlein.

George Hacker

Project Appleseed made the front page of the outdoors section of the Coeur d'Alene Press in Idaho.  This is the link to the on-line version of the article:  http://www.cdapress.com/news/outdoors/article_ba9c7bcd-a21a-5795-bf82-44b3f6c218d6.html

Great work, Western Rose and Roland, for writing the press release and getting it into the hands of the right folks! O0

- ShadowMan
Tell your Pacific Northwest facebook friends to "like" and post in the Northwest Region Project Appleseed page.

"You can't miss fast enough..."  "Aim small, miss small."

Western Rose

Don't forget a link to the article in Spokesman-Review in Washington! Roland sent out a press release and got a follow up call and questions which resulted in this article. Here's a link to the on-line version:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/feb/19/marksmanship-clinics-set-in-cda/
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M1NC

Always take the high road - it has a better field of fire

If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve...as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Go forth and fear no darkeness

mac66

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience."  Patrick Henry, 1765

Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan

SteelThunder

NRA Patron Member, SAF Life Member
NRA Certified Rifle Instructor, RSO
Warlord of the West

Ultima vox civis
"Learning occurs only after repetitive, demoralizing failures." - Pat Rogers
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart." - Tecumseh
"Never attribute to treachery, that which can adequately be explained by incompetence" - Bonaparte, Hanlon, et al

Bob Owens

Editor of BearingArms.com, NRA News guest, Gunsite Academy graduate, and proud Appleseed Red Hat.

Johnnyappleseed

Quote from: Bob Owens on March 30, 2012, 12:34:11 PM
One more. The author is an awesome guy. ;-)

http://pjmedia.com/blog/appleseed-project/

Very impressive ! Thanx for providing the link .
I saw a link from these folks on PJTV .com -----
They were 100% factuall as to available evidence in the Florida shooting -- it was posted on calguns.
Would someone start a new thread on this source , in the appropriate place ?
Your efforts are greatly appreciated .
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

hawkhavn

Bob,

Thank you for the article! Welcome to Appleseed!

Hawkhavn
Criticism is the only known antidote to error.  David Brin

What a nation has done, a nation can aspire to.
Dr. Jerry Pournelle

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck."
---Robert Anson Heinlein

"Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted." - George Rogers Clark

"Appleseed is a safe place to learn because they care. They have the confidence and serenity of spring gardeners." 1IV on AR15.com

TruTenacity

#19
Arma Borealis
A blog about firearms, self-defense, politics, hunting, personal responsibility and other topics that catch our interest by a couple from the frozen north.

http://armaborealis.blogspot.com/2012/03/appleseed_29.

Modified.  Sorry.  I didn't see this link was included in reply 13.
"We are fighting for our country, for posterity perhaps.  On the success of this campaign the happiness or misery of millions may depend."  Henry Knox

"Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap if we faint not."  Galatians 6:9

Nero

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." —Frederick Douglass

CaptMac

Good stuff!

I just received this link via email from a banker that lives in Connecticut and works in Manhattan. 

Quote from: Bob Owens on March 30, 2012, 12:34:11 PM
One more. The author is an awesome guy. ;-)

http://pjmedia.com/blog/appleseed-project/
Ramseur Five Ten!!!

"Live Free or Die:  Death is not the Worst of Evils."  Genl.  John Stark, 1809.

Bob Owens

I'm thrilled that Glenn hooked us up with a link to the article, and I'm pleased that I seem to have hit the right notes. I was very impressed by the shoot I attended in Ramsuer, and look forward to learning a lot from everyone, and hope that I can contribute.
Editor of BearingArms.com, NRA News guest, Gunsite Academy graduate, and proud Appleseed Red Hat.

TruTenacity

#23
Thank you, Bob, for a great article!  It's being posted on numerous Project Appleseed Facebook pages.

Help Us Educate, The Real Revo, Gunalizer, and BloboWogo have linked to your article, too.


"We are fighting for our country, for posterity perhaps.  On the success of this campaign the happiness or misery of millions may depend."  Henry Knox

"Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap if we faint not."  Galatians 6:9

yellowhousejake

Que is an instructor now, waiting for his first event with an Orange hat, but the video is still great!

http://ingunowners.com/forums/appleseed/205184-why_havent_you_attended_an_appleseed.html

YHJ
I have removed my email from my profile to stop the mod reports. If you need a Libertyseed scheduled you will now have to contact me on the Libertyseed forum.

YHJ

TruTenacity

Another Day.....Another.....
Random thoughts on a wide range of topics in real time.
http://keads-anotherday.blogspot.com/2012/03/aar-report-appleseed-project.html

I liked reading the comments.  Nice job Instructors!
"We are fighting for our country, for posterity perhaps.  On the success of this campaign the happiness or misery of millions may depend."  Henry Knox

"Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap if we faint not."  Galatians 6:9

George Hacker

A KBZK reporter from Bozeman, MT came out for a little while and chatted with Mark Davis and one of our returning participants at the Three Forks, MT shoot this weekend.  The story was featured on tonight's newscast.  Here is the link: http://www.kbzk.com/videos/530-news-04-15-12-a-/ (you need to skip to the 4:00 minute mark to get to the Appleseed coverage).

Great job, Mark!  It looks like that reporter was having a fun time behind that rifle (she was a first-time shooter).  Hopefully she got bit by the Appleseed bug.  :)
Tell your Pacific Northwest facebook friends to "like" and post in the Northwest Region Project Appleseed page.

"You can't miss fast enough..."  "Aim small, miss small."

Chainsaw

Tom Scheller

Domari Nolo

scuzzy

Some really good reviews out there. Looks like the volunteers have been doing a bang up job. Links added http://appleseedinfo.org/latest_news.html
An Armed Society is a polite society. Heinlein.

mal

Art Welling attended a shoot this past weekend at Manheim, PA.  Art hosts a blog at carteach0.blogspot.com.  His write-up can be found here:

http://carteach0.blogspot.com/2012/04/appleseed-two-days-of-well-spent-time.html
~Malcontent

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it."
~ John Adams