A MOST RESTORATIVE APPLESEED
I hit Backwoods Home’s turf – Gold Beach, Oregon – feeling like I had one foot on bronchial pneumonia and the other on a banana peel. Thanks to some powerful antibiotics, Lenie Duffy’s...
THE GUNS OF APPLESEED
Before you take a rifle course you need a, uh, RIFLE. You probably already own a suitable gun. If you don’t, let the hosts know beforehand, and they can most likely round up a...
GOOD PEOPLE
One of the joys of my work is that it allows me to meet some of the best people in the world: cops and shooter folk. Both tend to be far above average in...
CHAPMAN ACADEMY RETURNS
I had grown up reading about Ray Chapman, the man the late, great Jeff Cooper called “the maestro” of practical handgun shooting, and got to meet him in Los Angeles in 1978 during a...
A SAD AND MEANINGFUL ANNIVERSARY
Thirty years ago today – April 11, 1986 – what may have been the most studied gunfight of the Twentieth Century took place in Dade County, Florida. Eight FBI agents on a rolling stakeout...