You might be an Appleseeder if ....

[Trig]

you've had to explain to the officer why your cupholder and floor mats are full of casings.

You tell the strikes and every DOM you know to captive audiences (like on a road trip with your cousins/friends).

You can paper the walls of your house with your saved AQTS and Redcoats.

You use to have a 3 car garage, now you have a 2 car, and an appleseed area

You leave a Cleared red coat posted next to an unshot one after every range visit.

You have a dozen "friends" that avoid your texts/emails because they know if they respond you will be demanding them to come to the next appleseed event.

Your wife asks when she can get "her Garand" 

Your wife scores rifleman and takes a hat so she can spend time with you.

[NorCal22Gal]

You clean out your back pack getting ready for the next work week and find several black sharpies, a few pens, a couple of chamber flags and brass, zip ties, and a few (  ) assorted pieces of brass tossed in there....

[Miller]

Picking spent .22 brass out of the tread of your boots is so routine that it's no longer a conscious act.

You find spent .22 brass in your change jar when you take it to the bank to cash in. (Which leads to some funny looks from the nice girls working the teller windows.  Good opening for the AS sales pitch though.)

You buy all your pants based on how comfortable they are to prone out in rather than how good they make you look. (And consider built-in pockets for knee pads the greatest thing ever.)

[ItsanSKS]

You have a better understanding of the causation of the War for Independence than most High-School History teachers.

You teach American Revolutionary History better than most High School teachers, and have been told as much by a High School teacher.

You know the difference between the War for Independence, and the American Revolution.  (and so do your friends, relatives, coworkers, facebook/twitter friends, and anyone who ever sent you an email)

You are more likely to quote someone that's been dead 200+ years, than you are to quote a current celebrity.

Quotes from the founding generation are inserted into your random daily conversations.

You *feel* the debt that you owe to the Founding Generation.

Though aforementioned debt can never be repaid, you work diligently to 'pay-it-forward'.

At the end of the day, you sleep peacefully knowing that on this day, you have done everything you can to spread the ideals of Liberty and Freedom.

When current events are getting you down, a quick trip down AAR lane has you feeling better.

Pictures from events you attended/worked bring the smell of gun smoke and Freedom to your nostrils.

You understand that "Freedom isn't free" is not some cliche, and you know the price that was paid.

When asked what people you find inspiration in, your list contains more people who died 237 years ago, than 'celebrities'.

You understand that Liberty isn't a spectator sport, and that it is played for keeps. 

You know that the hardest war to fight is the one for the hearts and minds of your fellow countrymen, yet understand that it is the only one worth winning.

[Twineagles]

You read the message about the new Marlin LTR rifles and instinctively wondered how do I order one.

[Transform]

You read the message about the new Marlin LTR rifles and instinctively wondered how do I order one.

One? Whaddya mean ONE?

[Roland]

Picking spent .22 brass out of the tread of your boots is so routine that it's no longer a conscious act.

You mean you don't take the common sizes of brass with you to the store to determine whether a pair of boots will be brass-sticking free?

[Miller]

Picking spent .22 brass out of the tread of your boots is so routine that it's no longer a conscious act.

You mean you don't take the common sizes of brass with you to the store to determine whether a pair of boots will be brass-sticking free?

I haven't bought a new pair of boots since I started Appleseeding.
I tend to wear a pair of boots until they just sort of fade away.

[Twineagles]

You buy a high end rifle and a gi sling is installed first

[fatboytactical]

You have suggested the Idea of going to your in-laws for Memorial day weekend because you realize there is a apple seed shoot close bye.

You have 10/22 mags that are marked 2 and 8.

[Mutti]

You replace the carry strap on your mats with GI Slings so you'll always have extras to loan.

[Pitmaster]

You replace the carry strap on your mats with GI Slings so you'll always have extras to loan.

What a great idea.

[imadentist]

You hand out redcoat targets like most people hand out business cards.

You make your co-workers bring their .22's to work so you can school them on how to prepare for their 1st seed! (I have taught prone on my office floor (with the door closed of course)

All your friends/family/co-workers/acquaintances have either started running away when they see you coming OR they have signed up for a seed.

Every conversation begins with have you signed up for the next AS and/or have you joined the NRA yet...followed by UN-MERCILESS shaming if the answer to either of these questions is no.  After the required shaming I tell them a short story about an act of sacrafice that was made on their behalf 238 years ago!

[KD Cat]

When you use apple seed shirt as a pillow cases.
When get 2 XXL shirts to sew together for a sleeping bag.
When you call you cats it sounds like this........ WITH 2 BOWLS OF FOOD EAT! .
When you call your sibs by there form name.


KDCat   

[Pitspitr]

You're told that you tried explaining "something about inches, minutes and clicks" to your non-AS wife the night before.
(I talk in my sleep)

[Bullet]

You get pulled over for speeding and your first thought is, "Cool, I can tell the cop about Appleseed."  And...it works. 

A friend starts to invite you to a Saturday event and then interrupts himself... "Oh, never mind, you do the shooting teaching thing every Saturday." 

[Miller]

You get pulled over for speeding and your first thought is, "Cool, I can tell the cop about Appleseed."  And...it works. 

A friend starts to invite you to a Saturday event and then interrupts himself... "Oh, never mind, you do the shooting teaching thing every Saturday."

Friend has already been to a 'seed right?
Right?

[Twineagles]

When you are purchasing another 10/22 and the salesman offers to show you how to operate it and you offer to show him how to dissemble the trigger group. Cabelas guy seemed a bit taken back by that 

[discoqueen]

These are all fantastic, and I found myself nodding my head in agreement to more than a few!

At the last Appleseed I attended, a discussion ensued with a couple of people about how they found the prone position really uncomfortable. I responded that prone is my favorite shooting position. Then I realized why.

I've been sleeping in prone position (unknowingly) for several years now. Can't fall asleep any other way. LOL!

[Pitspitr]

prone is my favorite shooting position. Then I realized why.

I've been sleeping in prone position

Maybe I need to try that!

[ThaiFighter]

...You are on a first-name basis with every RSO at every range within 200 miles...
...Your slings and staple guns all have "THIS XXX BELONGS TO" written in large block letters on them
... and they still walk away...
...you've given enough .22 ammo away to fund a nice vacation...
...You own 3 dozen click pens and each has been held by dozens of people and none has ever written a scratch...
...You understand the feedback loop of an attentive audience...
...the dramatic pause in your presentation packs more of a punch than the vast majority of your words...
...you've served as red hat under an shoot boss that you coached as a shooter...
... you remember the sheepish look on that shoot boss's face when you called him out for a safe rifle violation as a shooter...



   

[308LIBERTY]

Guys who run the indoor range, after intently watching you shoot, looks at the t-shirt and says "Oh, you're one of them Appleseeder's. That says a lot!"

[209Ken]

...if you have used a shooting mat as a sleeping mat while camping at a shooting range.

[TaosGlock]

You know now that your other "gun forums" are mostly worthless, iceberg ridden, male chat rooms for "gun owners".

All your buddies are Appleseed instructors or at the least, attendees, or you will rarely answer their e-mails/calls.

You have a GI sling on your hunting rifle, which is now the same as your MBR.

Your CMP M1 Garand has replaced your bedside CQB AR.

All your rangefinders now laser to at least the limit of your rifle sights in bad conditions.

You have actually shot your Mosin Nagant and 8mm mauser  to "2000" yards per the maximum marked sight marking.

You filed/painted 4 notches down the front sight of your 03A3 so it will shoot to 1200 yards so it is mostly on equal ground with your Garand and M1A.

You look forward to shooting in the wind.

You snicker at the word 'tactical" and CQB.

Your wife, who is now an Appleseed instuctor, also has the same amount of MBR's as you do.
Same wife also has as many field boots/clothes as she had has casual dress garments.
Same wife now thinks nothing of a reloading bench in the master bedroom as her AR likes custom ammo for long range.

You know that phrases like "Live free or die" and "Don't tread on me" are more than just modern slogans bandied about as bumper stickers on todays vehicles.
You know that these colonial slogans were words that defined a code, that was a lifestyle, which is the American Revolution.
You know the Appleseed words "learn today, teach tomorrow" are part of that same 'American Revolution'.

You correct others when they say 'American Revolution' as they nearly always mean 'Revolutionary War'.

You know who coined the phrase 'shot heard round' the world' and where it was at, it's significance and correct/educate others who know not their heritage.

You can at least argue, though not conclusively, with the revisionists who fired that first single shot at Lexington.
You love to correct the revisionists about what really happened at Lexington after the first shots by whom and you do it with respect for their ignorance.

You know the Grand Union flag is not a modern "British" flag.  When a historically challenged doufus americana asks you at a gun show "why are you displaying a "British" flag?", you refrain from asking them if they flunked American history.

You fly a Betsy Ross flag.

You actually help your struggling fellow scoped sighted bench shooter to get his rifle sighted in by explaining to him it is initially easier at 25 yards that at 100....and why! Then hand him an Appleseed trifold and next shoot date for an Appleseed.

The top and bottom layer of trifolds are actually the protective covers for the ones you give out.

The seat behind your truck has a full compliment of AS targets.

You know that a rack grade MBR and mil-spec ammo is plenty good enough for our program.

[Burnett]

Your sleep patterns have changed:

Do you mean that you sleep in stages? Like 2 hours, then 55 minutes, then 65 minutes, and finally, 5 hours?

[Timothy_D]

You've shrunk a Redcoat and AQT target by 33% to allow for training at a 50' range.

[Red Wing]

So glad this thread got bumped! So much awesomeness! My contribution:

You have burn scars on your support elbow from a fellow Appleseeder's freshly-ejected .22 brass; because you refused to compromise your NPOA over a little pain....

[LadyRimfire]

You replace the carry strap on your mats with GI Slings so you'll always have extras to loan.

What a great idea!

[Aliquippa]

You see someone on a FB buy nothing page is giving away two boxes of 50 each plastic type political signs -and you snatch them up for your local Shoot Bosses to use as backers.

[Geek]

You find yourself looking for events at locations that allow camping so you can afford to help at more.