“A marksman,” they teach, is “capable of hitting a man-sized target from 500 yards away … This 500-yard range is traditionally known as ‘the rifleman’s quarter-mile;’ a rifleman can hit just about any target he can see,” and their mission is to teach participants to “shoot a rifle accurately — accurate enough to score ‘expert’ on the Army Qualification Course.”They," in this case, is the Appleseed Project.
"To Plant a Seed," my Rights Watch column for the Aug. 2008 issue of GUNS Magazine, is now on sale at bountiful newsstands throughout the Republic.