Firearms

If you live in the country or anywhere near it, you know the sound of crickets.  It’s pleasant, and soothing. That’s distinct from the soft “crack, crack” of Cricketts, which I for one find pleasant...

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...

Gunsmiths customize firearms to add value in different ways.  To make the gun more accurate. To make it recoil less.  To make it fit the shooter better. My old friend Rick Devoid does those things...

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...

Our military – not for the first time – listens to complaints about poor “man-stopping” ability with 9mm ball ammunition in combat: http://m.military.com/daily-news/2014/07/03/army-wants-a-harder-hitting-pistol.html . It seems to me that there’s little wrong with Beretta M9...