Project Appleseed

September 2026 is Mantis' #TRAINtheWORLD event. The purpose is to build awareness and energy, and grow the community of well-trained firearms shooters. The goal is 10,000,000 shots in September. Mantis and other sponsors will be contributing a penny for every dry and live fire training shot taken, resulting in $100,000 becoming available as grants.


Individuals can contribute their dry fire and live fire shots taken all month long by registering at #TRAINtheWORLD and use their existing Mantis products to automatically log their shots. Participants can also manually enter their shots from their dry or live fire session on traintheworld.org.

Join this event to build your healthy training habits, contribute to stronger firearms responsibility, and support Mantis' goal of hitting 10M shots. You can and make a real impact to Mantis' grant recipients, which include Project Appleseed. Encourage everyone to join with us!

How easy is this??

• Dry fire or go to the range in September (like we're going to do anyway  )
• Log in and record your round count
  
• Help earn grant money for Project Appleseed!

I'm in!  Who's joining me?

Im in, lets get some grant funds

Done! Sounds like a win-win!

On a side note, if you have a Mantis product, in the app there is a "Groups" button. You can join the "Appleseed" group and track your progress alongside other Appleseeders. There is even a chat function. It is a small group for now, but hopefully it will grow.

Quote from: Roswell on August 07, 2026, 01:36:10 PMOn a side note, if you have a Mantis product, in the app there is a "Groups" button.

Just joined. Didnt know that was a thing

Quote from: Bundt Pan on August 07, 2026, 03:29:16 PM

Quote from: Roswell on August 07, 2026, 01:36:10 PMOn a side note, if you have a Mantis product, in the app there is a "Groups" button.

Just joined. Didnt know that was a thing

Pretty cool.  Also, any practice you do with the Mantis equipment is logged automatically for Traintheworld.  Only live fire and dry fire outside of the Mantis system needs to be logged manually.

Here are a few logos folks can use to help promote on their own social media and rep Appleseed a bit.

I'm in!

  I'm in ,put me down for 1,000 rounds.

I was gifted a Mantis X but haven't had much time to sit down with it yet.

Looks like now's the time for that to change.

All signed up with the AS groups. I am "DL44Blaster" in the mantis world.

 How do we add real shots at the range in the system?

Quote from: Eagle Keeper on Today at 03:23:38 PMHow do we add real shots at the range in the system?

Not sure yet, they will likely email instruction on logging.  We can have the shoot bosses do it as well for the September events.  More details to follow.