THERE’S SOMETHING TO THIS “PRACTICE” THING
I’m going into the last week of my six-week teaching sabbatical, and in between writing assignments and such I tried to live up to my New Year’s resolution to get some trigger time for...
THERE’S SUCH A THING AS A TOO-SMALL GUN
If you’ve read my column in Backwoods Home Magazine for any length of time, you’ve noticed how frequently I’ve made the point that it’s close to hopeless for a smaller person to try to...
BLASTING AT A BLAST FROM THE PAST
Old gunnies will remember the great Second Chance bowling pin match, with events for handguns, rifles, and shotguns, that ran from the mid-1970s to 1998. It’s back this week, at its old location in...
PERSPECTIVES…
For the last month, I’ve been blogging about the heart-breaking atrocity at the high school in Florida, and the misguided assault on gun owners’ civil rights which followed it. I thought I might escape...
TRADITIONALISM…
So…I just finished teaching a class with a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver as my teaching gun…and out of 21 students, only one was using a revolver instead of a semiautomatic pistol. He...