“A marksman,” they teach, is “capable of hitting a man-sized target from 500 yards away … This 500-yard range is traditionally known as ‘the rifleman’s quarter-mile;’ a rifleman can hit just about any target he can see,” and their mission is to teach participants to “shoot a rifle accurately — accurate enough to score ‘expert’ on the Army Qualification Course.”They," in this case, is the Appleseed Project.
"To Plant a Seed," my Rights Watch column for the Aug. 2008 issue of GUNS Magazine, is now on sale at bountiful newsstands throughout the Republic.
It was my privilege to attend an Appleseed last month and can I highly recommend it for learning basic marksmanship principles and some history on the American Revolution.The Appleseed instills the value of marksmanship in that conflict and in today's "soft war"!
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