I purchased a new AR on Black Friday and it finally arrive last week. Decided to shoot some Appleseed today with it, and Jim/Catch-10-22 was up for joining me. I found some original AQT's from Fred's that I purchased about a dozen years ago and Jim brought his M1 Garand to honor these AQT's properly. After shooting the original AQT's, I really like them as the penalties aren't as great on stage 4, and give shooters more opportunities to hit the rifleman standard. Even stage 2 and 3 I think are better with the (5) silhouettes (2-rounds each) in the same time as the Q&DAQT.
Didn't follow my own advice and shot stage 1 way too quickly :-(
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Only used about 2-minutes out of the 22 minutes available for Stage 4. Then Jim let me use his very warm Garand on the site silhouette.
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Geissele SD556 with T2 (from my home defense rifle) and Retired GI Sling.
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Wow, can you imagine trying to run a modern Appleseed with a 22 minute stage 4? ;D
Those old targets are neat to see. It's fun to look at the history of the program and the refinements that have been made over the years.