Man - even after all these years the most common answer I hear is
From a Friend or Instructor
Seems like there is a bit more low hanging fruit to be harvested. Bring a flyer or just strike up a conversation next time your at the local market.
Someone handed me a flyer at a gun show and I looked it over after I got home. I thought wow a whole day of rifle training for (I think it was) $30. The instruction was good but the history was fanastic and hooked me. Gave me lots to think about on my hour drive home.
Not even sure if there was a web site...............
Read Fred's column in SGN for years. One day he wrote he had picked up a copy of Fischer's PRR and how inspiring it was.
I bought it the next day and read it. I remember him then talking about Appleseed.
Then we had one of the first Appleseeds out west here in WY. A free one IIRC. I read the AAR, the rest is history.
While surfing the internet reading about the M1 Garand I stumbled into a writeup about a "Liberty Training Rifle".
That lead to an Appleseed page that was way too politically incorrect so I wandered away rapidly.
Two years later I revisited the "Liberty Training Rifle", decided to build one, followed another Appleseed link to a much friendlier website.
Decided to go check it out (3 hour drive each way), scored rifleman on Saturday.
Got invited to be an instructor Saturday.
Spent Sunday as an LSO while I prepped my magazines for the next course of fire.
Via a Facebook friend's Facebook post about an upcoming clinic in March of 2013. I had purchased my first firearms only a year earlier, had only been shooting a couple of times and didn't know what I was doing. I'd probably fired less than 350 rounds in my life to that point. So when I saw the post, it piqued my interest. I thought "wow, just what I need! and signed up. Did some web surfing to understand more about the program, found the "How to shoot the M1 Garand video" on youtube, ,watched it 3 times and dry fire practiced in the house for a couple of months before the event (I really wanted that patch!). Even my partially incorrect practice paid off (I wasn't using a sling properly since the M1 video shows the M1907 sling use) as I cleaned up my errors with good instruction from Caliper, Miki and Mac66, and I shot a rifleman's score on my very first AQT. Came back a month later and did it again with tech sights and ITB asked me if I wanted to take a hat. Went home, did some more research before my decision and came back a month later to work my first event.
I saw a flier sitting on the info table at the Ft Bliss Rod & Gun club, it said; would you like to hit a man size target at 500 yards?
I said yes! I figured out what would work with my schedule and signed up for the event(not knowing what to expect).
Brought my old Marlin Model 60, ended up on a loaner Izhmash Biathlon rifle and scored a rifleman's score at the 1st event.
Was offered the opportunity to learn to Seventh Step and it was off to the races, so to speak.
It's been some great experiences and better folks all the way. I'm sure more to come.
Thanks to you all!
Jerry
knew vmt193 from the local gun range
I am an IT geek, so he asked me to check you guys out on the internet, to see if you were nut jobs, or for real.
You were for real, so he went to an out of state shoot, can't remember where.
When they found out he was from Minnesota and had shot RM, they made him an orange hat and also quasi-state coordinator.
I was on the BOD of the local gun club, so we got permission to hold the first Appleseed in Winona, Minnesota.
k
I heard about it in 2010 when The Survival Podcast interviewed Michael Adam, otherwise known as Scout.
http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/episode-396-an-interview-with-michael-adam-of-the-appleseed-project (http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/episode-396-an-interview-with-michael-adam-of-the-appleseed-project)
Fred's column in Shotgun News.
Originally? Boston's Gun Bible.
Jim heard about it at a gun club meeting. We went as a family November 2009.
Kim
Poster in a gunshop. Was on the round to it list for at least 2 years.
perusing the internet looking for marksmanship training.... now I'm hooked
I was doing a 100 yard CMP shoot at the Central Texas Rifle and Pistol club about 5-6 years ago. Some guy in a Green Pickup shot the match and then did a talk about it after. I needed all the help I could get so I wanted to do it, but there were no close events. 4 years ago I found out they had them in North Tx so I signed up.
Illinois gun owners lobby day rally at the state capitol
somebody handed me a card
From the tech sights website mention of a "liberty training rile" Quick google search and you know the rest.
I learned of it through the Fred's M-14 Rifle Stocks ads in Shotgun News.
A friend told me he heard about this marksmanship thing, and if we went we could get a free Garand from the CMP. I said, sounds good to me. While there was no free Garand, what I got was more valuable.
Scuzzy,
Great post sir! I spect someone who is good with statistical analysis could derive some useful info herein to combat that which has stymied our success from the start - getting the word out.
Fred was counting the "icebergs" and listing them off in his full page ad in SGN. I too was much busy with the counting. Then Fred and some others worked up a way to actually do something about it and in many ways, saved my spirit from a slow death.
Education is the only real cure for any human ill. Apleseeds is education.
Shotgun news article by Fred.
Local news station did a story about Project Appleseed when I lived in Georgia. Try as I might I just couldn't get to an event. Moved to Virginia and it was tops on my list of things to do. As it turned out, there was a range (Cavalier) not far from my house that hosted a few.
You'll like this one.-----The Fredericksburg Tea Party hosted the inaugural event for Fredericksburg. The event was oversold at 40 plus. Scout came and ran the shoot---on an April 19. 2010.
I shot rifleman at that event. Got hooked and still here---in our 6th yr. Looks like we just sold out our next shoot. Oct. 17/18 Two Wolves :cool2: