Ammo Ambassadors

Hi JB,

Brandon writing from AmmoToGo.com. I hope you're well and the trip back to New York was a good one. I can imagine knowing that you'll be crossing over that state line is one of those situations where it's not even worth looking up the laws for carrying... just leave it at home.

I know you mentioned you needed some range time and I thought this might interest you. Tuesday, we're launching a campaign with Magtech that we're hoping will put 100,000 rounds into the hands of new shooters for free. We're calling it "Ammo Ambassadors".

Basically, we want to make it as easy as possible for people already familiar with shooting and guns to bring somebody who has never shot before to the range and safely teach them about firearms. With an election just around the corner, the more people we can inspire to get familiar with what gun owners actually do with their firearms, the better.

So, here's how it'll work:

• Find a new shooter who hasn't been to the range and experienced the joy of shooting before. 
• Download a target off our site and take them to the range.
• Snap a photo of the new shooter with their target and upload it to our site.
• You'll get a coupon code that's good for two boxes of free 9mm ammo from Magtech - along with free shipping.

We have 100,000 rounds of Magtech 9mm ready to ship right now. We're hoping to find 1,000 Ammo Ambassadors to take 1,000 new shooters out to the range in the next few weeks.

The details and the target are available here:
http://www.ammunitiontogo.com/index.php/cName/pistol-ammo-9mm#ammo-ambassadors (this page will go live on Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. Eastern Time)

If you think it's worthy, we'd love for you to take advantage of the program or share it with your readers if you think they'd be interested. In either case, thank you for taking the time to consider it.

-Brandon

Brandon Black
Brandon@ammunitiontogo.com

New Shooter Sunday

This weekend I took my dear friend Shea to the range for her first time!

I met her at my science fiction writers group and became fast friends. We went to Elite Shooting Sports in Manassas VA.

ESS has excellent facilities for shooters in wheel chairs so when Shea rolled in with her fancy motorized machine they were very welcoming. We had her registered, range card obtained, and the safety briefing done in no time.

I gave her the Four Rules speech in addition to the safety video. We bought targets, put on our eyes and ears and were off!

I brought a couple rifles and a couple handguns. She liked my Savage Mark II bolt action .22LR the best.

--It was big fun! Love you, Shea!!

New Shooters

Tonight I am going to the range with a new shooter.

This is a newbie that I have taken to the range on a previous occasion to shoot hand guns.

She loved it.

Now she is back and wants to try a rifle. AR-15s are great choice because the recoil is so light.

I will also take one of my Ruger 10/22s to start with. I am sure will love the AR.

--I am also interest to see how the injured arm functions.

Another First Time Shooter

Random thoughts regarding my most recent new user:

Take a lot of time before going to the range set expectations. Explain the Four Rules as well as trigger and muzzle discipline.

Let the new shooter wear the advanced hearing protection so they can hear what you say but gunfire is still minimized.

She shot a wide variety of handguns with good control and strong wrists. Everything from a .22LR to a .44mag.

After an hour a new shooters arms get really tired.

Suppressors are great to help new shooters get use to recoil and report.

Seeing a 75 year old woman shooting a .44mag two lanes over was inspirational for this new user. That lady would have let her try her .500mag.

She preferred the revolvers. She did not like the ejecting of the shell casings. The hot brass dance formed that opinion. I even warned her about it in advance so she maintained excellent muzzle and trigger discipline.

I still get the, "I thought silencers were illegal!" comments.

It turned out she was right handed but left eye dominant. I need to research that issue more before our next range. She didn't seem to have a problem but is was odd. She also never missed the paper once.

Next time she wants to try more revolvers and AR15s.

--In all we have another happy shooter.