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Thinking about ordering? Please read this first... DUE TO COMMITMENTS TO PROJECT APPLESEED I WILL BE ABLE TO WORK ABOUT 2-3 DAYS A WEEK IN THE WAREHOUSE FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS OR SO, WHICH MEANS BIG DELAYS - EVEN MORE THAN NORMAL! SO PLEASE BE ADVISED OF THAT, BEFORE YOU ORDER, AND MAKE YOUR DECISION TO ORDER OR NOT KNOWING ABOUT THE EXTRA DELAY. The holiday rush may be over elsewhere, but it is still on at Freds (see below, for why) - yes, we are still cleaning up orders from Nov and Dec while pushing Jan [and now, Feb & Mar] orders out the door - so please be patient. If your CC has been charged, and it has been more than a couple of weeks, please call me any afternoon at 919-663-2027. Like last year, Fred will be out on the Appleseed Trail this spring and fall, and it means a drastic slow-down in shipping. Instead of a 7-day week, with Sat and Sunday being a "catch up" day, Fred will be traveling on Friday and Monday, teaching at Appleseeds on Saturday and Sunday. Do the math, and you can quickly figure there are only three days left to ship - Tues, Wed, and Thurs. So, if you are someone who cannot be patient, please save us all the trouble, and DO NOT ORDER from Freds. Orders for books and targets, if only books and targets are involved, should ship quickly. It is orders for almost anything else that takes time. Why? Because everything, including stocks, handguards and cleaning kits, is HAND-select. Yep, Fred picks them each from big piles, sometimes going thru dozens of stocks before finding the right one - the one you ordered. Thanks. About my retirement, it will be in the next couple of years or so, as I try to cut back on the biz and work more on Appleseed. However, as long as I have stocks, I will prob be shipping them out, so Freds the bizness will be around for a while to come... BTW, I do appreciate the patience some of you guys show. Sometimes, incredible. Let me suggest that you make sure you enter your CC correctly. No one this end has time (usually) to email or call you if it is incorrect. We simply move on to the next order... If your CC is wrong, it is a sure order-killer. Please double-check before hitting the order button. $0.00

Alert! Sign up for Appleseed! SIGN UP FOR APPLESEED - GO TO ARTICLES, PRINT OUT ENTRY FORM, MAIL IN! Now! Sign up on-line at www.appleseedinfo.org! Note: .22s are fine for the 25m training; bring centerfire and 100 rds for long distance work! $0.00

NEW! Hits Count Redcoat 25m Target These targets are like eating peanuts... you cannot stop with just one. Like the Classification target, this target has four Army D silhouttes (head-and-shoulder)reduced in size to represent, at 82 ft, targets at 100, 200, 300, and 400 yards. Your task is to put three rounds from the prone position on each of the targets. As a bonus, there is a fourth target, representing a head at 250 yards - which, since riflemen in the Rev War could hit it, you should have no trouble with your modern sights, right? This target will answer a question you need answered: how far off can you be effective with your rifle? On the Appleseed Nationwide Tour to date, less than 50% of the participants can qualify even at 100 yards! This is a good target for practice, a good target for mastering a challenge, and a good target to stick up in front of your friends, and ask them if they can hack it, can make the grade - or are they simply content to remain cooks all their life? You get 100 targets, enough you can afford to leave one hanging at the range each time you leave, to act as bait to get another rifle-owner sucked in to learning to shoot. Buy em, and use em! $9.00

25M Target Combo! Best choice of all! If you are serious about becoming a Rifleman, you are serious about getting others into becoming Riflemen. So here is the deal: Order the 25m AQT in combination with the Quick n Dirty AQT Targets, and you will be all set! With the 25m AQT you get Freds Guide to Becoming a Rifleman, perfect to teach you and your (new) buddies how to shoot and, more importantly, how to be RIFLEMEN! Of course, you get the basic ten sets of AQT targets along with it, so you can put what you read in the Guide into practice. But then you get the FIFTY additional Quick n Dirty AQT targets in a one-sheet, easy-to-staple-up format, perfect for luring in those bystanders at the range. Simply staple one up, and ask, Who wants to try it? Some brave soul will step forward, and maybe you have your first Rifleman prospect in the long journey to wake up America! And, here is the great part! - you save a couple of bucks by buying the regular AQTs and the Quick n Dirtys together! Do not miss this deal! Save America - Be a Johnny Appleseed - and save a couple of bucks, too! $26.00

25M Targets w/Freds Guide - TEN sets! Special price - $125! Yes sir! A real Johnny Appleseed deal! Buy TEN complete AQT sets - each with the Guide to Becoming a Rifleman - for nearly half the regular price! Cheap enough to give em out! And what a gift they will be - riflemen springing up all over this country. No more going to the range by yourself, no sir! The patriotic gift - the gift of marksmanship! Fewer than 10 friends? - get out and make some! (Take an extra set to the range with you, and you may soon have another friend, you bet) $125.00

25M Targets w/Freds Guide to Becoming a Rifleman Find out whether you are a rifleman - or a cook. Shoot this Army course through at 25 meters (82 ft) to determine your current shooting skill. Then read the Guide to Becoming a Rifleman to improve until you can shoot Rifleman scores. For the duration of the war on terroism, this item is not subject to our $25.00 minimum order requirement. You can also order two sets for the special quantity price of $30, or five sets for $60 ($12/set). The price will adjusted automatically for you when we receive the order. $16.00

Classification AQT - NEW! This is the new AQT - Lite! Only 8 rounds to find out how well you can shoot a rifle! In two minutes or less! And a great recruiting tool! Who can resist the offer of a free target, and finding out what his shooting skills are in only 8 rds? Leave some up at the range after you leave, to sucker someone in after you are gone. Give these babies to your friends - you get 100 for $11, so you can hand them out like peanuts! You can get an even better handle on skills by shooting the 20-rd version. A versatile tool for recruiting people, for sharpening their skills, for motivating them, for sucking them into the soft war! If you are tired of what you see in America today, buy these, and start to do something about it! $11.00

Freds Rifleman Package - GI Shooting Jacket with targets & Guide Sorry, we are completely out of XL RIGHT and 3XL RIGHT AND LEFT. Please do not order XL RIGHT. Thanks! Padded USMC-style cloth shooting jackets, 10 sets of 25 M targets (40 sheets), and Guide to Becoming a Rifleman. [Our supplier has gone out of business, so these may be the last we have to offer.] Add $2 for XXL, [sorry, 3XL is out-of-stock]. Special! Add $7 for a Rifleman T-shirt [NOTE: currently avaiable - M, L only]! Please indicate SIZE (S=Small - chest 36-38", M - chest 39-42", L - 43-45", XL - 46-49", 2XL - 50-53", [sorry, 3XL is currently out-of-stock - please do not order!]) and RIGHT or LEFT hand in shopping cart COMMENTS box. The fit is not critical. These are field shooting jackets, not competition (altho they work fine for competition if you are not in the equipment race). PS: Reports from shooters are that these jackets SHRINK after washing (since Fred never washes his - so the luck will not be removed - he never experienced or realized this), so better order a SIZE HIGHER than normal, for this reason alone. Another possibility: dry clean them either professionally or at home! PLEASE MEASURE TWICE, BEFORE ORDERING ONCE; RETURNS FOR EXCHANGE ARE SUBJECT TO A $12 CHARGE TO COVER RETURN SHIPPING AND HANDLING. THANKS! (Yes, the price has gone up - over the years, there have been several price increases on these coats, and until now, we have never raised our price...) $70.00

NEW! 25M/100yd AQT Silhouette Targets in 100-pk! A single AQT Silhouette on 8.5 X 11 target paper. Post at 25m [82 ft] and it is the same size as the Stage 1 Standing AQT target! Post at 100 yards and it is the same size as the Stage 4 Prone Slo-fire AQT target! If you are into sniping, post it at 200 yards for a target = to 800 yards; at 300 yards for a target = 1200 yards. Put up four of them at 100 and shoot the Advanced AQT. It is tough and a real challenge, even for Riflemen - and fun to shoot! Post at 100 yards and practice rapid-fire! All-in-all, a great generic target to shoot on, at any distance. One hundred targets, ready to shoot! Twenty-five complete Advanced AQT sets! You cannot lose on this deal! $10.00

NEW! Instructors AQT Package with 3 Guides! If you want to meet your obligation under the Constitution, teach rifle marksmanship. This package makes it cheap and easy. Contents: 50 Quick and Dirty AQT targets; 50 of the new Practice AQT (multiple Stages 2-4 for repetitive training); 100 Classification AQTs to sucker all the new shooters in (who can resist finding out how well they can shoot, in only 8 rounds?). Also comes with THREE of Freds Guide to Becoming a Rifleman plus a special Instructors Guide! Be the first on your block to become an instructor...NOW INCLUDES 100 OF THE NEW REDCOAT TARGETS! $35.00

NEW, only at Freds - As-New Replacement M14 Stocks less buttplates - $35! Yep, only at Freds - new and original M14 rifles stocks, in unissued condition, for only $35 each! With as-new metal - only WITHOUT buttplates. These seem to be replacement stocks, put on rifles which were then stored - only storage ding(s). The original buttplates were in used condition, so you wouldnt want em, anyways. Our EXCELLENT wood M14 stocks are like a car with 12,000 miles - a few dings from the parking lot, but plenty of use left. These stocks appear to have ZERO miles on them! Take advantage of this deal, today! Only a few dozen (unless I find more!). Your choice of birch or walnut - please specify. (The default, if you dont pick one, is walnut - birch is about 20% stronger and less subject to cracking than walnut. $35.00

Rifleman T-Shirt Definition of Rifleman on front, along with a no-nonsense Rifleman; on the rear, Ben Franklin slogan (had he thought about it): Shooting - the only sport endorsed by the Founding Fathers - an American Tradition . Ash Gray. Available in M, L only! - Specify size in Comments box part of shopping cart! $10.00

The Quick n Dirty AQT NEW! The Quick and Dirty AQT - ONE-sheet w/all FOUR AQT stages. Ghost silhouettes, lighter than normal. NOT best for beginners, as no Rifleman Guide comes with this set. You must be able to shoot sub-2-inch groups at 25m. Quick, cause you have only to staple up one sheet, not four; dirty, cause you get a fast result. (Because there are fewer targets in the rapid-stages, and you have to shift targets less, 210, not 200 = Rifleman on this target.) Great for practice, getting to that magic 1-inch, 4 MOA group that defines Rifleman. Great to sucker newbies into shooting! Perfect for club matches. 50 sheets = 50 complete AQTs for $12! Pssst! The AQT asks YOU: Afraid of a little paper target? Afraid of the Riflleman Challenge? Conquer your fear, with these targets. Find out, it is nothing but fun! Becoming a Rifleman, that is. From Freds SGN Column: KEEP STRAIGHT ON THE AQT - With 3 versions of AQT targets now available, it may be easy to get confused: Starting out, or really rusty? Order the basic AQT with Guide to Becoming a Rifleman. You need to learn to shoot like a Rifleman, and this is the fastest way to do it. Put the targets up at 25m, have the Guide next to you for consultation. But regardless of how well you shoot - even if you shoot like a Rifleman - get the AQT for your buddies & all those other new shooters you want to be working on, to get them learning to shoot. That is just as important, for sure! For practice at 25m and 100 yards, and to shoot the Advanced AQT, order the 100-yd AQT Practice Targets. Around the warehouse, we call them the 25/100 since you can shoot them standing at 25m or prone at 100, duplicating the first and last stages of the regular Precision Combat Rifle Match Course (which is the AQT). But you can shoot the Advanced AQT course on these targets, all at 100 yards, for greater challenge. And they are just fun targets, and good targets to file away with load and group data. To sucker in newbies, and for easy practice, once you know how to shoot, order the new Quick n Dirty AQT, with the targets all on one sheet. The QD offers a fast practice target (staple up one sheet instead of four) - and you get 50 for $12. That equals 50 regular AQTs, for 1/5th the price! But there is no Guide, so you better already know how to shoot like a Rifleman. Sometime in the future, on that dread Day when you show up, you just might see it again, as the man in charge staples one up for each of you new fellows, and makes some decisions based on how well you shoot. Decisions that could lead to you holding onto a Molotov cocktail instead of a rifle. Shiver me timbers! A fate worse than death! $12.00