http://www.survivalblog.com/2011/11/letter_re_guns_for_a_tight_bud_1.html
The article also encourages new shooters to first buy a .22 rifle as a training aid and survival tool.
What a novel concept. :cool2:
And the good thing is that 'Appleseed' now pops up fairly often over at JW Rawles' Survivalblog site!
BF and I just finished reading JWR last book, Survivors.
The NRA WC Appleseed event the author in the link attended was here:
http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=13363.msg110723#msg110723
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"I agree wholeheartedly with your recommendation to seek affordable training through the Appleseed program. My wife and I were privileged to participate in the Appleseed event presented at the NRA Whittington Center a couple of years ago, and found it to be excellent marksmanship and safety training as well as a wonderful historical learning experience. At the end of the program, the range master told the story of a "dangerous old man" in the Revolution, and presented Rifleman patches to me and another "seasoned citizen". One of the many Boy Scouts in attendance blurted out: "Wow, look, two dangerous old men!"
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The other "seasoned" DOM the author mentions is Bill Black, one our IIT's. Bill spends much of his time teaching marksmanship for the Navy.
Thanks for finding that David!
Dan:
I remember that shoot. That was the one where we couldn't get out to Del Norte due to mud so I headed up to Raton on Saturday afternoon.
Me too on the Rawles books. Read "Survivors" the week it came out. Then read "Patriots" again (been a year or so). Then read "Survivors" again for good measure. Rawles is entertaining the first read, instructive on the second.
-David
Edgewood, NM