Appleseed: Best of the West Kemmerer Wyo

[Risky buisness]

Its time to dust off the old rifle, grab some gear and get to an Appleseed---
Wow! Your in luck, there just happens to be several in Kemmerer Wyo this summer--- May 31- June 1st is the first, Aug 2-3rd is the second, oh yea, we also have a week long boot camp there too, July 27-Aug 1st so no matter what you want to do this summer we can get you going,
Help preserve your Second Ammendment Rights, TURBO your rifle shooting skills and meet some really great people all at the same time. Its appleseed, its now and its all right here----
http://appleseedinfo.org

 

[Risky buisness]

Oh did I forget to tell you that Appleseed qualifies your shooting requirment to purchase rifles from the CMP?

 

[RancidSumo]

Is the boot camp fun?

 

[WayneConrad]

I haven't been to an Appleseed boot camp, so I can't say if they're fun, but I'd be surprised if it aren't. Appleseed people are "high caliber," good people to be around. Hard not to have fun around 'em. An Appleseed is pretty fast paced, and no time is wasted, so it's a fun mixed with a lot of shooting. You don't get the shirt just because you showed up. You for-sure earn it.

The week long boot camp's goal is to turn out Appleseed instructors. The Saturday-Sunday Appleseed shoots' goals are to turn out riflemen.

 

[hawkhavn]

RancidSumo,

Fun? I did the Evansville, IN BC last October. The state was in a drought, until that week...rained/snowed every day, cold miserable weather. By the end of the week the ammo was failing due to the wet conditions. Would I do it again?
Yep in a heartbeat. Great people, good friends we made it through.

I'll be one of the Boot Camp Instructors in Kemmerer at the end of July.

See you there?

hawkhavn

 

[RancidSumo]

Probably. I will try to bum my bros AR off of him for the week. You live in Wyo? Great thing is I shoot free.

 

[hawkhavn]

RS,

Nope a few states east -- Indiana.

hawkhavn

 

[RancidSumo]

Well from what I have read the boot camp is mainly for people wanting to be instructers and I am not really interested in that right now but I plan on attending the weekend shoot. I have a couple of questions though,

1. Do the instructers help each individual improve and such or are they just there as supervisors?

2. Will a 22MAG bolt gun work for the short range stuff?

 

[WayneConrad]

1. Do the instructers help each individual improve and such or are they just there as supervisors?

They are there to supervise (safety), give group instruction ("gather 'round, this is how the sitting position works"), set up paired instruction ("you guys will work in pairs--this is a natural point of aim exercise"), and give individual instruction ("I notice you're muscling the forearm--let's work on that"). Instructors walk up and down the line during firing looking for points of instruction. They are hungry to teach!

2. Will a 22MAG bolt gun work for the short range stuff?

You betcha. The basics of riflery--the steps of making a good shot--are the same with any rifle. Natural point of aim, sight alignment, sight picture, breathing, front sight, focus, squeeze, follow through. It's the same with a boltie, semi-auto, iron sights, or glass.

Do get a GI web sling, if your rifle will accept it.

 

[RancidSumo]

Thanks for the info. I will look into the sling. I had just heard that it was hard to keep up with a bolt so I figured I would ask.

 

[WayneConrad]

Well. It's true, you will work a little harder with a bolt. Figure it'll cost you, oh, 10 seconds or so working the bolt during a stage, so at first you won't have any time at all to mess around during the rapidfire stages. But people can and do qualify "rifleman" with bolt guns (I did).

But, with practice, you will get into a flow that will seem natural and practiced, and the rifleman's cadence will become natural, and your bolt gun will become part of you, and you will complete the stages with time left over. And when you get to shoot a semi-auto some day, maybe you can use the leftover time between that last shot and the "cease fire" to have a smoke.