I am absolutely NOT suggesting violating your state's prohibition on travel or gathering, but for those who can, where will you fire this year's freedom volley? Remember the names of the valiant dead from Lexington and Concord. Fire the volley in remembrance. Video and share it, so that this will not fall forgotten under the rules of the current situation. Let this too be heard around the world! :snipersmi
As of now, Hot Springs Arkansas. I will shoot in the back yard if I have to.
Was just thinking about this while at the range Sunday. I will be doing this at Cavalier with as many of my family as I can get there.
My back yard with DeadAnt and The Handler, and possibly a friend or two from work.
There are still some events for that weekend that haven't been cancelled (yet). Has there been an official statement as to the time the volley will take place? If we can, we'll coordinate ours out in the desert for the same time.
At my range on the farm with DeckApe FullMetalRifleman and as many others as I can assemble. My preacher will be off that day so maybe a good time for his Appleseed baptism. ;)
For those in the Commonwealth firing private volleys, attached is the PDF of the planned method to do the volley and the times to do so if possible (at Cavalier I will have to do earlier).
EDIT: moved PDF to instructor page per request. My mistake for posting publicly.
Dang, reading through this, I wish I was able to attend an actual event this year. I'm new to Appleseed, and was looking forward to signing up for my local event this coming weekend before our state shut everything down. Question: it says to hang targets (because modern safety requires that we know our target and only point the rifle as something we're willing to destroy) but it doesn't say what targets. As it is a 13 shot course of fire, are these redcoat targets? Or is it supposed to just be a sheet of paper with a black dot? Wondering for my own edification.
EDIT: Nevermind, I found it in the pdf. Pro-tip, if you keep reading BEFORE asking, you'll probably find the answer. Thought they taught me this in gradeschool... ;D
A day early, but Crazyduckhunter and I had a little tribute
For those of you on Facebook...
https://facebook.com/events/s/patriots-day-virtual-memorial-/272988423867274/
The young-uns and I assembled on the range for the volley. The broadsheet was read and the names of the 40 recited with 13 rounds fired to honor their sacrifice. Pictures taken afterward since we didn't have someone to capture video.