KIDS AND GUNS – FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE
News comes from Phoenix of a fourteen-year old boy who protected his younger siblings with a shotgun, shooting a home invader to a stop and leaving the man seriously wounded. It looks as if...
AH, HISTORY…
Here’s an entry promised earlier…
After a shooting, witness’ recollections may vary widely. Add to that what we would now consider sloppy investigation – the way it was done on the Frontier in Old West...
DINNER WITH FRIENDS
When teaching in Virginia recently, the Evil Princess and I were able to have dinner with Jeff Yago and his lovely wife Sharon. Jeff and I have both been writing for Backwoods Home magazine...
A BLAST FROM THE PAST, AS IT WERE
A reader in Georgia was cleaning out his old gun magazines, and was kind enough to send me a photocopy of an article titled “Bowl ‘Em Over,” about the 1979 Second Chance Combat Shoot,...
WHEN NEOLOGISMS ATTACK
So, there we
were, me and the Evil Princess in a hotel room in Montgomery, Alabama last week
getting ready to teach a class.
Recent
cataract surgery has sharpened my vision.
Looking in the mirror, I muttered “Damn, I’m...