{"id":1556,"date":"2011-12-12T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T15:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2011-12-12T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T15:52:01","slug":"suggested-christmas-presents-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/suggested-christmas-presents-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"SUGGESTED CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, PART I"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s that time of year again.\u00a0 What to get the Gun People in your life for 12\/25\/11?<\/p>\n

Books are always good.\u00a0 I notice there\u2019s some resonance here at the Backwoods Home blog whenever we talk about \u201cold fashioned\u201d guns like revolvers.\u00a0 I had the pleasure of writing the foreword for Grant Cunningham\u2019s new \u201cGun Digest Book of The Revolver,\u201d and I think you\u2019ll enjoy reading the finished product as much as I enjoyed reading the original manuscript.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve known Grant for many years. He\u2019s one of my graduates, he has impressed others he trained under as much as he impressed me, and he likewise gets great reviews from his own students now that he\u2019s \"gun<\/a>teaching on his own. I\u2019ll state flatly here that in my experience, there is currently no better gunsmith than Grant Cunningham to fine-tune your double action Colt revolver these days. (He does a pretty cool Ruger and Smith & Wesson, too, and I can tell you he\u2019s a helluva good shot, to boot.)<\/p>\n

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Very much a Renaissance man with knowledgeable opinions on everything from music to root beer, Grant is the founder of the whimsical Revolver Liberation Alliance, whose motto is \u201cThe West Wasn\u2019t Won With a Jammed Up Gun.\u201d\u00a0 He has one of the best blogs out there, one of the very few I keep on RSS feed: grantcunningham.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Read and enjoy.<\/p>\n

Back to the book: Grant does an excellent job of showing you how to take advantage of a revolver\u2019s strong points, and shore up its weak points.\u00a0 He backs up his position with cogent arguments.\u00a0 You\u2019ll also see in the book the same subtle sense of humor you see in his blog.\u00a0 The man knows when to be serious, and when not to be serious, and that\u2019s just one more reason I\u2019ve been proud to count him as both a friend and a colleague for many years.<\/p>\n

\u201cGun Digest Book of Revolvers\u201d is available through Amazon<\/a>, \u00a0Gun Digest<\/a> or directly from Grant<\/a><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s that time of year again.\u00a0 What to get the Gun People in your life for 12\/25\/11? Books are always good.\u00a0 I notice there\u2019s some resonance here at the Backwoods Home blog whenever we talk about \u201cold fashioned\u201d guns like revolvers.\u00a0 I had the pleasure of writing the foreword for Grant Cunningham\u2019s new \u201cGun Digest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[24,63,66,116],"class_list":{"0":"post-1556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-gifts","10":"tag-grant-cunningham","11":"tag-revolver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}