Greetings fellow Appelseeders;
The Onalaska Gun Show is taking place the weekend, and Appleseed was lucky enough to get a table dedicated to the cause by Kosciusko when he showed up Friday afternoon. Kosciusko worked the table the entire show Friday afternoon and said there were many interested people, especially in the upcoming La Crosse April 16-17 shoot.
Professor Gun and myself, and later vkf10/22, browningman and Kosciusko, worked the table the entire day. Initially in the morning when I was on my own, there was little to no interest. However, after 10 AM it seemed the table was swarmed by interested parties, and by noon our 70+ copies of the La Crosse April 16-17 Shoot fliers were gone. There were a fair number of fathers who informed us that they were hoping to get their kids to an Appleseed, and a single female who seemed to seriously consider coming to the April shoot.
Thankfully Kosciusko showed up shortly after noon with pizza to refresh us along with a ton more La Crosse April fliers. We also sold multiple slings and handed out green coats and red coats to interested parties, along with the provided Appleseed articles/info magazines we had.
Activity today died down after about 4pm, but we still went through many fliers and had many interested people. It was great to see so many eager people wanting to get into Appleseed. Had a military guy who said he might be able to get some of his active duty military friends to come to one of the La Crosse shoots.
I felt that today was an excellent success compared to the La Crosse gun show two months ago, and I am hoping that we will sell out the La Crosse show for April. Might be a lot to hope for, but I think we reached a lot of people who said they'd be interested in coming to La Crosse in April. I am already planning on getting an Appleseed Table at the next La Crosse/Onalaska gun show whenever that is scheduled.
Many thanks to Kosciusko for showing up on Friday and getting that table for us!
And a picture of most of the 7th steppers, courtesy of browningman
