How good are you?  A Rifleman can put 5 rounds into a postage stamp at 25 meters prone unsupported.  No bag, no bipod, no bench.  
This is the size a target at 500 meters would appear.  That’s what we’ll teach you.

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October 5-6 25 meter .22LR only Appleseed at Air Capital Gun Club near Wichita, KS.  .22LR only at ACGC (no centerfire)!

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Notice - Smith & Wesson 15/22 .22LR rifles have been temporarily banned from Appleseed while S&W and Appleseed work to determine the cause of malfunctioning rifles that have created safety concerns. That may or may not change at any time.
S&W centerfire AR15's, all .22LR conversions and non-S&W .22LR dedicated uppers are allowed.
Email me at [email protected] for the latest status.

If you’ve wanted to learn the finer points of putting accurate rounds on target this is for you.  We’ll spend two days learning how to shoot the rifle from standing, seated, kneeling and prone with just a sling to help steady the rifle.  No bipods, bags or benches (although we do make any allowances needed for a person's physical limitations).

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We’ll do our shooting at 25 meters using reduced size targets to simulate distances of up to 500 meters.  There’s no point walking back and forth to far away targets or worrying about wind and drop until you can actually put rounds on a simulated size target.  The 500 meter target is a 1" square (the size of a postage stamp).

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Here's the link to Appleseed's national calendar if you can't make it to this one.

Here’s Appleseed's homepage where you can read all about Appleseed.  Lucky Gunner wrote up a review of Appleseed and a follow up of lessons learned that do a good job of telling you what to expect.

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The entry fee is $60 for adults, $20 for kids under 18 and $20 for all military (Active, Guard & Reserves) and police and elected officials.

We’ll fire about 600 rounds over two days.  The class is held rain, snow or shine as long as it’s safe to drive.  Dress accordingly.

At some Appleseeds centerfire rifles like the AR-15, FAL or any other military pattern rifle are also welcome.  Check the individual event for caliber restrictions. Any rifle action and any sighting system is allowed but the course of fire is designed around removable magazine fed semi-autos.

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Shooters of all skill levels, including new shooters, are welcome.  To get the most out of the class, if possible, students should know how to load, unload and clear a minor malfunction with their rifle.

Here are some helpful links and info.

Online registration

Ammo - You'll need 600 rounds of ammo for the two day class.  CCI Standard Velocity and CCI Mini-Mag .22LR are two of the most reliable and accurate .22LR rounds you can get that's still reasonably priced.

Instructor sign up - If you're an Appleseed instructor we'd love to have your help!
(You must be logged into the Appleseed forum as an instructor to use this link)

How to prepare for an Appleseed

Appleseed website

Appleseed forum

Hope you can make it,

Roger Lomshek
KS Appleseed Coordinator

I fired the groups below at 685 yards prone with a sling from a Daniel Defense 16" Lightweight with a Burris MTAC 1-4X scope.  No bipod or bags or any other stabilizing aids.  This is what Appleseed can teach you!

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(Yes my scope drifts right as I dial elevation.  Working on it!)

Here's the range that was shot at.  The left circle is the target.
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Bump for 2019!  Come on out and join the fun.

Bone Creek March 2019 AAR

What a weekend of incredible swings in weather!  In spite of crazy weather we had 75% of the line earn Rifleman badges!

Saturday morning began with a cold fast moving thunderstorm that had us change up the usual morning routine.  We stayed under the range picnic pavilion for the first couple hours and gave a preamble about the events leading up, then demonstrated the slings and how to use them, used our trainer rifles with lasers to demo the prone NPOA and how to make NPOA shifts then finally gave the first strike.

As the weather was breaking we did the safety briefing still under the cover before finally moving to the firing line.  While the first strike was being told a few of us instructors prepped the firing line by dragging tables out from under the roof and swept the puddles of water off the concrete pad.  Since the firing line is a couple hundred yards away from and out of sight of the picnic pavilion we were able to do this without detracting from the first strike.

Once all that was done we got the target line constructed in short order, went over the safety briefing and were finally ready to stop the first charge of the Red Coats!

The forecasted weather and this being the start of spring break locally might have hurt attendance some but we had 8 serious shooters on the line who were hungry for learning!  The line was almost exactly split evenly between centerfire and rimfire with one rimfire shooter using a bolt gun (he earned his badge and then some).



You'd think the late start to the day would have hurt us but the shooters were willing to stay late so we kept on until nearly 6:30 PM to get through all of our planned drills plus two AQTs.  It was a hard, high tempo day that saw 240 rounds fired with a 10:30 AM start.

Here are two of our three Saturday Riflemen during the gale force winds.  No idea how I missed the third!


Jon (current Air Force Reserves) on the left did it with a Daniel Defense with a Trijicon Accupower scope on it.  Lloyd on the left (retired Army Warrant Officer pilot) did it with a scoped CZ .22LR bolt gun which he was running like a machine.

They both agreed to take orange hats and are looking forward to the IBC!  Thanks for joining the party gents!


Jon (current Air Force Reserves) on the left did it with a Daniel Defense with a Trijicon Accupower scope on it.  Lloyd on the left (retired Army Warrant Officer pilot) did it with a scoped CZ .22LR bolt gun which he was running like a machine.

We hit ball & dummy, carding the sights and all the "hard" drills that slow things down but as always the hard work is what pays off.

At the end of the first long day we had three Riflemen!  We had two young men make it plus one extremely dangerous old man!  The youngsters Joe (who was a new Rifleman) and Jon (who was a re-qual) were using AR's in 5.56 while our DOM (Lloyd) used a bolt action .22 to earn his first badge.  I'll need my IIT Lumberjack to share the pics of their badge awarding since they were on his camera.

Jon and Lloyd both donned orange hats and will be drinking from the firehose in just 3 weeks at our local IBC taught by Max Ord and Ramblin' Wreck!

During the course of the day the weather went from cold rain, to heavy cloud cover and oppressively damp almost cold to wind gusts over 30 with temps of 50+ that quickly dropped to the low 40's as the wind reversed direction.

We ended up weighting the pads down with heavy steel targets like this one with a full size Popper at each end.  The ones with simple 8" steel plates still got blown around!


Here's a 5 second video of an AR with steel plates weighing down the pad getting blown around to show how windy it was.
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Sunday was a whole new and colder ball of wax.  Temps started just about freezing and damp.  It may have peaked at 36 degrees at one point before dropping again.  The humidity was enough that the cold just seemed to soak into your bones and we could watch it cool as our breath suddenly became visible like in some insta-freeze scene from a climate horror movie.

For those of you who've never experienced the wild swings of the midwest here's a real screenshot of a Kansas TV station weather warning of statewide conditions.



In spite of the cold we awarded 4 more Rifleman badges that morning with one of the shooters getting a rare double of a regular Rifleman badge Saturday and Winterseed on Sunday.

Here are the four Sunday Riflemen.  My son Ethan is next to me.  Jacob is beside him and the brothers Joe and Jim (might have them mixed up) and beside each other at the end.



After requaling with his AR on Saturday our new orange hat Jon tried to make Rifleman with his Krebs AK with a red dot.  He spent the whole day cranking out the rounds and kept coming close but couldn't quite crack that nut.  Here's a shot of him from an earlier summer Appleseed last year with it.



Between the non-floated barrel, handguard mounted dot, AK trigger and maybe barrel heat playing a role he was fighting an uphill battle.  He didn't quite make Rifleman but he proved very effective with that commie rifle!

Have to brag on my boy (just a little)!

He just turned 18 and earned his Eagle Scout (proud papa) a few months ago (reviving a city bike park that took over 230 hours of work and over 10 volunteers) and requal'd at this shoot.  He first earned his Rifleman last year using a nicely done up scoped 10/22 that one of our instructors loaned him.

Here's one more shot of just me and my son.



I have to brag because this time in spite of the cold Sunday he shot two distinguished scores (232 & 239) with a tech sighted 10/22 that was mostly stock except for a pistol gripped free floated and bedded Choate stock I put on it 20 years ago.  
He's the first person in Kansas to score distinguished since the badge was created and did it in pretty miserable cold, damp weather!  I was extremely proud and a little overcome for a minute.

Here's his high AQT of the day (239) with iron sights.



Saturday both his scores were in the low 200's but he couldn't put it all together on one AQT.  One stage or another went to pot and cost him badly.  Sunday he put it all together.

So all in all we had a group with a 75% Rifleman rate and 25% new orange hats.  Incredible!!!

The ones who didn't make it still learned that there's more to learn than they ever thought possible and showed great improvement and perseverance.  I expect to be handing them well earned badges in the future!  Both are cadets in the local ROTC unit and college gun club members and will be great ambassadors for Appleseed and defenders of the nation one day.

The May 18-19 Mill Creek Rifle Club shoot in De Soto, KS is now open to the public.  Only about 10 spots remain so you better get in quick!

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Thx, registered....

@Lomshek
I have to bail on this.  What are my options?  Damn graduations...

Appleseed doesn’t issue refunds unless it’s their error but you can carry it over to another shoot.

If it’s a shoot I’m running just LMK and I’ll let you in “free” to keep the paperwork simple.  If you want to do a shoot someone else is running LMK where & when and I’ll take care of it.

I have to wait until after it’s officially approved to open registration but I’m pretty sure our Wichita event will be the first weekend in October (5-6).

Not sure about the winter and beyond schedule yet but there’ll be at least a few every year.

No problem
I’ll try to keep an eye on others and hopefully there will be another at Mill Creek

I’m back in... bailed on that graduation.

double tap

Excellent!  It'll be a full weekend.

32 shooters signed up and 7 instructors!  Wish I could be there but son #2 is graduating high school so the wife would kind of frown on me skipping.