To Appleseed, or not to Appleseed?
There’s an Appleseed shoot in my neck of the woods on Nov. 28/29 – weekend after this upcoming weekend. A buddy and his girl are going, and I’m contemplating tagging along. I think the Girl Child is old enough to handle at least the first day without me (I can always beg off the second if she doesn’t do well) and The Inconvenience is willing to watch her alone for the day.
Pros:
1. Women shoot free, ‘cept for the $10 range fee (per day). Last I checked, I qualify for that.
2. I’d like to shoot an Appleseed not with a behemoth .308. Furthermore,
3. I’d like to shoot an Appleseed with my carbine. It would be a good bonding experience.
4. SHOOTY GOODNESS! Lord, I am so overdue.
5. I can drag The Sister along; she’s never been. Never mind, she says she won’t miss the below-referenced football game.
Cons:
1. It’s probably gonna be cold, and possibly rainy. (Don’t give me that look!)
2. I have out-of-town guests visiting for T-Day, and I’d have to bail before they left Saturday morning, probably. (Unless they want to Appleseed it up as well? Eh, eh, E&B?)
3. I’d miss the last home Vandal game of the season.
4. I can’t guarantee the Girl Child will tolerate it well.
5. I’m perpetually ammo-broke in the 5.56 department. I could take our Remington 597 (I guess .22s are being encouraged, anyway) but our mags are a) scarce and b) finicky. I know, you can technically shoot an Appleseed with a bolt rifle, but – ugh, what a PITA.
My pros list sounds significantly more substantial than my cons list, doesn’t it?
Hmmmmm…
Any of you local yokels plan to go, or care to be convinced?
Go shooting.
Tape the football game. Your guests will be fine with an earlier hug and good wishes; leaving day is never as fulfilling as one would like.
Bring both guns. If you have a malf, another rifle is better than fiddling. A mag feed bolty isn’t ideal for their format, but it’s 20x better than the tube feed lever my brother shot with.
My opinion, from across the pond, is that you should go. Shooting is fun! If that isn’t enough of a motivator, than consider the valuable training time that this will give you. Mind you, I’ve not been to a shoot, but I’m going to do so as soon as I am in my hometown area the same time as an event (I’ve got 880 rounds of 7.62×39 burning a hole in my pocket).
If you’re worried about girl child, I say bring back some young’un approved treat on your way back home.
just my $.02
Definitely go! If you’re worried about the 5.56 ammo, you can also give the coordinator a call, and see if any of the instructors has a spare LTR (Liberty Training Rifle – a slightly modified 10/22) that you can borrow. At least at the ones I’ve gone to, there are always spare rifles available. Hell, *I* generally bring an extra rifle, in case I have problems, or someone else there does and needs a loaner…
Where is it? I’m in orofino.
Lapwai. You should go!
Shoot details:
http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=5168.0
Would have been fun. Maybe sometime. I’ve not been able to make it work out yet. But I did get to attend the CMP Garand class a while back. None of the matches though.