The Rifleman  

That is the creed of the Appleseed Instructor. Anytime, anywhere, ready to roll, ready to show up, plug in and send the signal "all ahead full" to begin an Appleseed event. I love that about our guys. Before I had Appleseed friends my only close comparison for such "ready to go" buds were my two dogs, Scout and Boo Radley. I could always depend on them to be ready anytime, day or night, to accompany me looking for a lost calf or to get cattle back in off of the highway or check on a sick animal. Never a complaint never a "too tired buddy, go without me this time". Just a fearless, happy dog smile and a wagging "ready to go" tail.

Now, I don't mean to compare our instructors to dogs, (the dogs were much cheaper to feed and house), but they do share some great traits. Always ready to go, ready to instruct, to pass on the message of rifle marksmanship and the message of how our nation began with determined, courageous men and women on April 19th, 1775.

Did I say they had to be at an event to start their instruction? Because if Idid, I misspoke. Our guys are ready to give a class anywhere, at their mail box, at the drive through at McDonalds, at the magazine rack at Walmart. If they see someone reading a Shot Gun News and looking at Fred's column while their wife is grocery shopping, why, that is the signal to launch into their "elevator" speech and turn someone who is thinking of taking the first step, into someone who is ready to take their first step, their first step towards becoming a student and eventually an instructor of rifle marksmanship and safety and their first step in the safeguarding of the liberties and rights of theirselves and their fellow Americans by spreading the word and the story of the Founding Fathers and the American Colonists on April 19th, 1775.

If this sounds like you, or like the you that you have always known you could be, we are waiting for you here at appleseedinfo.org. We have a place for you and a bucket with your name on it. So you can take your place in the bucket brigade helping to bail out the water rushing in through the holes in the hull, the stern, and the bow that is rapidly sinking the USS America.

Don't wait, don't put it off, the water is rushing in almost faster than we can meet right at this very moment. There is nothing to think about, no confusing decisions to make. Do you watch the ship sink with your wife and kids, your mother, your father, brother and sister on it or do you start bailing? You know the answer before you even hear the question.