THIRTY OR FORTY YEARS LATER
A few days ago, I was passing through the Panhandle of Florida and got to spend dinner with a guy I hadn’t seen in 30 or so years, and whom I first met 40...
LIGHTING A CANDLE
On January 8, the Brady Bunch suggested a lighting of a candle as a protest to gun violence.
Awww…how sweet.
The 8th, of course, was the one year anniversary of the grotesque mass murder in Tucson,...
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...
A SAD WEEK
It has been a tough week for shooters and the friends and followers of two handgun greats.
In the early morning hours of Tuesday last, Todd Louis Green passed away after a very long –...
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...