Appleseed in Winona, Minnesota
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SultanOfBrunei
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Post subject: Appleseed in Winona, Minnesota Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:33 pm |
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Project Appleseed
What's up with these things? Worth $80 for 2 days of rifle marksmen training?
Is the Revolutionary War Veterans Assoc a good group?
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KonaSeven
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:42 pm |
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$80.00 plus range fees and 100-200 dollars worth of ammo. Sounds like fun!
This is the first I have heard of it also. The website looks legit, with lots of information. They do spend a fair amount of screen space defending their ideas and ideals. But then I suppose anything of this nature would.
Thanks for the link.
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meltedeyes
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:26 pm |
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I've never been to one, but a friend went last year and is talking about going again this year.
I know I'm going.
The basic idea is to train people to be able to hit a man-sized target at 500 yards with iron sights. and from what I've heard they are pretty good at it.
They are very pro 2a from what I know, and some of the reading i've done implies that they want to have a corp of people able to do what was commonplace in the 1700, shoot accuratly at long range with a rifle that is capable of hitting hard at that range.
They teach how to sight in your rifle, adjust your stance, and breathe so that you can hit your targets.
I have yet to hear anything bad about Appleseed, although I haven't done a search looking for bad things.
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meltedeyes
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:43 pm |
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plblark
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:59 am |
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I have no experience with Appleseed or the association behind it.
I think their goal is laudable and the fee for a two day shooting clinic is reasonable.
Here's the blog post that sprang to mind when you asked about them however:
http://www.papadeltabravo.com/blog/?p=726
Of course, each course is led by different instructors so it'd be like saying Carry is bad because of a few Shady practices in a badly run class...
Please report back on your experience.
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kecker
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:20 am |
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From what I've heard the Appleseed project is good, but the Winona range is "a dive", at least according to a couple people I know that have been there. Supposedly it's not a good venue for something like this.
Can anyone confirm/disconfirm that?
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DeanC
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:24 am |
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kecker wrote: Can anyone confirm/disconfirm that?
My brother just joined there. From what I saw it didn't look too shabby. Some of the trapshooting points were a little tight to the parking lot IIRC.
http://winonasportsmanclub.com/ClubPics.htm
They have a nicer clubhouse than I have seen at many clubs. And the dues are really cheap.
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KonaSeven
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:56 pm |
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Wow, it looks nice in those pics. (Thanks Dean for the link.) A lot of rural shooting areas are completely cared for by volunteers and tend to look run down while still providing a place to shoot. The photos I saw there looks like a nice facility inside and out.
(yes, I'm sure they are not going to show a garbage pile behind the clubhouse or old limber pile backstop on their website. Not that they have those. I'm just saying.)
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"The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms." —Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
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m14man
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:22 pm |
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this guy that runs it owns fred's m14 stocks in the shotgun news.
read some of his articles, he is pretty interesting.
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Rip Van Winkle
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:12 pm |
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SultanOfBrunei
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:16 pm |
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I don't really know much about the CMP other than you can buy rifles from them, somehow.
Do they offer training sessions to teach you to be a better marksman? I saw they offered "clinics" but couldn't find out what they were exactly.
I am not interested in a shooting league or competition. I would like to get properly trained on distance rifle shooting skills.
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Rip Van Winkle
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:01 pm |
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plblark
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:09 am |
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That's a very well written primer.
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SultanOfBrunei
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:56 am |
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Rip Van Winkle wrote: If your interested, we're having a club match at Post 435 next Tuesday night at 6 pm. Come by and see what we're about.
I have a frisbee golf tourney next tuesday, otherwise I would gladly take you up on the offer. Hopefully sometime soon I can make it out.
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MisterOblivious
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:45 am |
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Joined: Fri Sep 05, 2008 3:41 am Posts: 4 Location: Burnsville
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Heading down to check out this "Appleseed" thing this weekend. Will anybody from this board be there?
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