guess there’s really no downside if the time isn’t spent more productively.
guess this is targeted at beginners, but … i’m always willing to learn something new.
your thoughts appreciated.
I’m going to one next saturday, over by Terre haute.
Hope it’s good, I know it won’t compare to Tom’s MP 5 class
Bob
The Appleseed is all about basic marksmanship and fundamentals. It is not a course about “fighting” with your weapon. I had a good time when I attended, and relearned somethings I had forgotten, or taken for granted.
It’s derivative of high power shooting. Meaning you tie your support arm up with a tight sling and load the magazines to the gun with your non-dominant hand. This is vastly difference from what you learn at any carbine class, where you use the support hand to load magazines and such while always maintaining a firing grip with your strong hand.
I went to an Appleseed and had fun. Nice folks, and at the time .223 ammo was less than $200 for 1000 rounds of quality surplus ammo. I may have used 500 rounds for 2 days which at the time translated to $50 worth of ammo. That made it more fun than I could have realized at the time.
Tom runs a fun MP5 class. Would love to do it again.
There is one coming to the West Coast of Florida in October. My wife is going to sign up. I may sign up because I just found out today that I can forget about using my left arm for shooting for quite a while. So Im going to have to learn to shoot right handed. I figure this would be as good an opportunity as any.
I found Appleseeds to be a great way to “tune-up” longer range shooting skills.