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A 1st EVER FOR APPLESEED !! **A HISTORY BOOT CAMP**

Started by EEL, January 27, 2011, 09:38:20 AM

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EEL

January 27, 2011, 09:38:20 AM
Many reading this are 1st, 2nd, or 3rd decendants of "The Guy".  If not, you probably experienced his passion for history at a shoot you attended.  It wasn't "the 6 steps of firing a shot" or "how to make a safe rifle" or IMC  :wb: that triggered you to get off the couch.  It was the passion, the feeling, the emotions, the history.

Illinois is proud to roll out the first ever History Boot Camp to be held on April 2-3, 2011.  It will be held in the same location as our last IBC, the Masonic Temple in Ottawa.  There will be NO steady hold factors.  There will be NO prone, seated, standing demos.  There will be NO IMC. 

There will be in depth discussion and demonstrations on how to tell "The Story".  There will be numerous RH/SB there to guide you through how to arrange your thoughts so your story flows and has meaning.  There will be ideas on how you can formulate a good benediction.  There will be ideas on how to reach the shooters on your line for that shoot.  History is NOT cookie cutter stuff.  To be effective, it needs to be tailored for each shoot.

You've all heard that if Appleseed offered 2 day history clinics, no one would show up so we use shooting as the hook.  Well, Illinois is offering just that.  Two days of nothing but history.  It is highly recommended that you read OR re-read PRR beore attending.  This will be a TSP (Total Student Participation) event!

Bring a USB flash drive if you want SBIT info.  We will be happy to download the SBIT folder on your drive.  It is a good collection of things you will need as you change hat colors.  (History, Benedictions, forms, SB responsibilities, quotes, etc)

Cost is $20 per person.  Send a PM to Pappy to sign up.  "Camping" is available in the basement (just as with the IBC) starting Friday night.  With enough attendees, three squares on Saturday and breakfast and lunch on Sunday is included.  We will try to wrap it up by 1330 on Sunday so you can travel home (on a full stomach  ;)) at a decent hour. 

We look forward to making some great story tellers so the "big push" on April 16-17 reaches as many shooters as possible.  Heard this somewhere..........."It ain't about the shootin' folks"

PM Pappy and hope to see a hundred or so  ~~:) of you on April 2-3.

EEL

Do not fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have war......Let it start here.

Yankeedutch

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January 27, 2011, 07:35:50 PM
Hey Iowa IITs,

I just came back from a 3 day IBC with these guys in Illinois.  They are great hosts and teachers.  I am planning to go.  Anyone else wish to join in.  It is not a bad drive from Des Moines. 
After the IBC I felt like I am pretty good with most of the shooting stuff, but the history is harder to learn well.  I know all of the stories, but retelling them with a passion will take practice.
I can't think of a better way to learn this. 
And I can't think of better people to hang around with for a weekend.
Let's make Iowa the next great Appleseed state.

Dutch
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
Edmund Burke

Garand69

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January 28, 2011, 03:40:01 PM
Thank you for the kind words Dutch O0

The fastest way to build your Instructor Corp in Iowa is to inspire your Shooters to step up to the plate, and Reaching them with the History is the first step.

Reaching your Shooters with the History is what this HBC all about!!!! ^:)^ ^:)^ ^:)^

We hope to see all of Team Iowa there!! ^:)^
Garand69

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Boba Fett

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January 28, 2011, 06:54:21 PM
Iowa?


Iowa has IIT's?  ???


Wow!  :o


Come on over guys. Love to have ya for the weekend.

Boba

Pappy

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January 28, 2011, 09:09:46 PM
Please take it easy on these fellows, there are only a few of them and we need them to build on what they have found works best...

All of the IOWA IIT`s and red hats are welcome... Just send me a PM... its that easy... Pappy
Which has greater value?...... Ammo will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no ammo..
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