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Started by smoakingun, March 23, 2012, 04:11:58 PM

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smoakingun

March 23, 2012, 04:11:58 PM
Comming this october, there is a fall festival in windsor, fl. (That's near gainesville). It was suggested to me last year that maybe I should set up a booth for appleseed. This is a carnival type event where local churches set up games and give candy to the kids. The thinking goes that I should set up some kind of applesed gallery, maybe shot with bb guns? Does anyone out here have any experience with, or ideas for this kind of stuff?
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Thomas Jefferson

Sly223

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March 23, 2012, 05:06:34 PM
NO REAL EXPERIENCE BUT A WILLINGNESS,we can talk about it at the IBC.
Get a shoot box and table and mingle with like minded people,I'm in! ..:..
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9mm4545

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March 23, 2012, 05:56:52 PM
Hey, I'm in. Keep me posted.
The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would be utterly inadequate to the wants of a different nation.  Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter in the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government. - Francis Grund 1837

oneshot_onehole

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March 23, 2012, 06:10:41 PM
SKG,
Give me a call next week (I'm at a shoot this weekend)
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Jim

scuzzy

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March 23, 2012, 07:03:40 PM
Quote from: smoakingun on March 23, 2012, 04:11:58 PM
The thinking goes that I should set up some kind of applesed gallery, maybe shot with bb guns? Does anyone out here have any experience with, or ideas for this kind of stuff?

I'd done a preparedness expo back in Feb where we setup a small shooting range with hay bale backers. We had a few Daisy BB guns. Man, was that popular. It was non stop shooting. The kids, and a few adults, had a blast.

And while the kids are busy shooting you have a captive audience with the parents standing there. Good time for 7th stepping.


An Armed Society is a polite society. Heinlein.

smoakingun

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March 24, 2012, 07:35:17 PM
is there a version of the red coat scaled to 10 or 15 ft?
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Thomas Jefferson

Sly223

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March 26, 2012, 03:41:20 PM
Ask NHale or his Brother Bruce, they held our IBC a couple years ago now but, also have a lot of scaled down targets,I did not see the hits count!
ASK him he may have whats needed, and just never needed that target!
"Smoakin'2" IBC11/12
"Plattka 3-12"(IBC)FL
What have you done for this program lately?
IBC-Tampa 8,'10
RBC-"Myakka12'10"RCR
C-1, Do-1, Teach many!
"Run all you want, you'll just die tired"!
There is U.S. & there is Dems!

Barbie

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March 26, 2012, 04:17:27 PM
Quote from: scuzzy on March 23, 2012, 07:03:40 PM
Quote from: smoakingun on March 23, 2012, 04:11:58 PM
The thinking goes that I should set up some kind of applesed gallery, maybe shot with bb guns? Does anyone out here have any experience with, or ideas for this kind of stuff?

I'd done a preparedness expo back in Feb where we setup a small shooting range with hay bale backers. We had a few Daisy BB guns. Man, was that popular. It was non stop shooting. The kids, and a few adults, had a blast.

And while the kids are busy shooting you have a captive audience with the parents standing there. Good time for 7th stepping.

This is a great idea... I'm going to share it with folks from my state... this may be something that we could do at local 4-H fairs (if allowed), if not, possibly at other events.  Good thinking  O0
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