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THE .22 LONG RIFLES OF APPLESEED
Based on military rifle qualification,
the entry-level event is dominated by the Ruger 10/22.
I had been hearing a lot about the Appleseed Project, which runs
weekend courses around the country providing history lectures
and rifle marksmanship training, and finally got the chance to take
one. This particular shoot was at the Hernando Sportsman’s Club
in central Florida. Inclement weather cut attendance to a couple
dozen, about half of the usual turnout.
The course of fire focuses on a 40- Appleseed lore is the record score
shot Army Qualification Test (AQT), on the course, which was set by a
done at 25 meters with reduced-size septuagenarian Master competitor in
targets intended to duplicate Army NRA Smallbore using an iron sight,
bobbers at 100, 200, 300 and 400 yards. bolt-action .22, the simple fact is the
Rifles on the line included the AR- semiautomatic gives the shooter more
15, M1 Garand, M1A, Kalashnikov, time to concentrate on trigger squeeze. The rifleman’s Patch is the grail of Appleseed
Simonov and even Mosin-Nagant—but, When you have less than a minute to shooters, earned on the Army Qualification Test.
by far, the most common choice was the drop from standing into the designated
humble .22 Long Rifle. shooting position, load, fire two and inherent accuracy are perfectly sufficient.
Appleseed wants to bring its message reload eight (an homage to the honored It is generally encountered though, with a
to all of American society, including M1 Garand and its 8-round en bloc tubular magazine much slower to reload
kids, new shooters and the physically clip), and do it all in less than a minute, under time constraints than the 10-round
challenged. For all those demographics, a “time and motion study” favors the rotary box magazine of the 10/22. This
the mild recoil and report of the .22 autoloader. Starting with action open, is why at Appleseeds, the most popular
Long Rifle make the experience less and no great rush to eject the last casing, Marlin, is actually the Model 795, due
intimidating, and allow the student to the bolt gunner will have to perform to its box magazine. However, the good
focus on the fundamental marksmanship some 36 movements of the bolt, where little 795 is still a distant second to the
principles emphasized at Appleseed. In the auto shooter requires only two. 10/22 in popularity.
a time when ammunition is both hard to Counting the reload, the auto shooter
Sights
find and more expensive than ever, the needs to remove his finger from the
400-round requirement for an Appleseed trigger only twice, while the bolt action One reason for the 10/22’s
weekend is easier and more affordable user will need 10 separate acquisitions dominance is its famous reliability
to meet with a brick of .22 LR. of the trigger. reduces distracting, time-devouring
The Ruger 10/22 dominates this type malfunctions. Another is the 10/22 lends
Why 10/22?
of shooting, and not just because it’s so itself to modular reconfiguration: more
Though the AQT has its roots in a hugely popular. The Marlin Model 60 accessories are available for it than for
time when the bolt-action Springfield actually has been produced in millions any other .22 rifle. This includes various
’03 was still in common use, and more than the 10/22, and its trigger and shorter stocks for smaller shooters and
A coach-and-pupil, ball-and-dummy drill at Appleseed. rifle is ruger 10/22. The event took place at the Hernando Sportsman’s Club in Florida last February.
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higher comb stocks particularly useful shooting stock from Brownells and
in offhand and prone applications. (Half mounting an inexpensive Tasco 3-9X
of an AQT is fired from prone.) The rear scope set at 8X magnification, it gave
leaf sight standard on most 10/22s is not me all the performance I could ask for,
S optimal. You’re welcome to go optical, and won for me the coveted Appleseed
E or replace the irons with the high post Rifleman’s Patch. That said, though, the
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Tech-Sight. with bone-stock 10/22s.
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A Tech-Sight, plus a cheap cotton GI My personal look at the Appleseed
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R Holding 10 Mini-Mags in one hole smaller than loop sling, equals an LTR, or Liberty experience can be found in my blog, at
a dime at 25 meters (above), Mas was happy Training Rifle, the quasi-official .22 of the entries from 2/1/10 through 2/6/10,
with the accuracy of the Clark Custom 10/22 at Appleseed. I shot the event with my at www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/
Appleseed. Mas used this Clark Custom 10/22 Clark Custom 10/22 Squirrel Rifle, with massadayoob. It’s more important,
with Douglas barrel, Brownells stock, Tasco a great trigger job by Kay Clark-Miculek though, to get an overview of the
scope. Shooting mat by BlACKHAWK! (below) and fitted by her with a 16.25" heavy, organization from the Appleseed Web
doubles as rifle carry bag. fluted Douglas barrel. Set in an action site. Pay particular attention to the
“what to bring” section. A lawn chair
for the lectures, a cooler full of water, a
Blackhawk combination gun bag and a
shooting mat all proved hugely useful, as
did an ample supply of spare magazines.
Be sure you’re sighted in precisely at 25
meters before you get there. Some of the
targets are tiny.
If you get involved in Appleseed, you
can find yourself shooting high-power
rifles at 500 yards and more, but the two-
day intro program is, no pun intended,
the core of Appleseed. Bring kids. They
attend for free, as do females and serving
members of the military. I enjoyed the
heck out of it. Frankly, I appreciated
the passionate, “human detail focused”
lectures on the events of April 19, 1775,
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