Project Appleseed Unites History, Rifle Markmanship

By Bob Owens

Kevin Robinson of the Pensacola News Journal recently discovered Project Appleseed, and sounds almost giddy in his reporting.

On command, the 16 “riflemen-in-training” fell to their stomachs and fired off a volley of shots.

Most of them hit their marks in or just outside of their one square-inch targets, the equivalent of a 400 yard shot. It was impressive marksmanship for a group with about four hours of instruction.

Results come quickly at Project Appleseed events. In the two-day clinics, volunteers from the Revolutionary War Veterans Association give a crash course on the foundations of rifle marksmanship, some little-known history about …read more

Via:: Bearing Arms