Appleseed Instructor on Top Shot

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Jamie Franks, an Appleseed Instructor is one of the contestants on this seasons Top Shots on the History Channel.

Here's what he posted on the Appleseed Forum:

Almost everything we teach at Appleseed helped me out. If you practice these things enough that they become habit - and you don't have to think about them anymore - it just becomes reflex.

Things like:

* The 6 steps of firing a shot (especially trigger squeeze, follow-through / trigger reset)
* NPOA
* Rifleman's Cadence


I would say that those are the things that came into play the most while I was competing on the show. They never would give us a sling - I asked for one a few of times!

Once I had been selected as a semi-finalist, and had to go to Los Angeles and do the final-casting tryout, one of the rifles they had us shoot had a sling on it, and it was up to you whether or not you used it. Of course - as any good Rifleman would - I utilized the sling. We had 1 minute to shoot 10 shots at 150 yards - any position you wanted. So that was straight out of the Appleseed. I shot from a good prone position, using the sling. The guys I was shooting beside did not. I made it on to the show. Neither of those guys did...

Go Jamie!


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