BIGGEST APPLESEED EVER
You’ve read here, and in the pages of Backwoods Home Magazine, about the Appleseed Project, a great combination of American Revolution history lecture and strong, basic rifle marksmanship and safety training. Phil Wylie alerted...
SHOT SHOW 2017: PART 3
The SHOT Show goes far beyond just guns. One of the hottest accessories today is the sound suppressor – silencer – which is riding a huge wave of popularity that has yet to crest. ...
PACKIN’ OLD STYLE
So here I am, teaching a class of mostly high-tech polymer pistol shooters. Glocks, S&W M&Ps, Springfield XD series, and the very popular and very cool new Heckler & Koch VP9. And what’s on...
MORE NEW SHOT SHOW STUFF (AND A PERSONAL ANNIVERSARY)
Woo-hoo! Benchmark for me today: five years helicopter-crash-free. https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/dont-be-afraid-of-flying/.
It has been a blessed five years. Lived to see my fourth grandchild come into the world. Made it to retirement from my police department after 27...
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
March 29, 2011 is upon us, the hundredth anniversary of the 1911 pistol’s adoption by the United States Government. OK, OK, I know I seem to be obsessing on it…but I’m a gun guy,...