{"id":1604,"date":"2012-01-20T00:40:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T04:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2012-01-20T00:40:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T04:40:09","slug":"shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had waited for some time after the announcement to get my review copy of Julie Golob\u2019s book, \u201cShoot.\u201d I was not disappointed. She put in the tips I expected for seasoned shooters\u2026but I was pleasantly surprised to see that she devoted much of her book to new shooters, and much to those who had owned guns and been shooting for a long time, but had not yet stepped into the deep and exciting pool of competitive shooting.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve known Julie for years, back when she shot as Julie Goloski. While I\u2019d love to adopt her, she already has a dad, the man who set her on her dynamic shooting path. As a shooter, she has kicked butt winning national championships in multiple handgun disciplines.\u00a0 Julie goes beyond that as a master of the shooting sports: most famous for her handgun victories, she also competes with the rifle and the shotgun.<\/p>\n

Julie is living proof of the fallacy that a woman must set aside her femininity to compete in what has too long been seen as a sport that\u2019s \u201ca man\u2019s world.\u201d She\u2019s beautiful enough that she could have been a model. I\u2019ve seen her teach at the firearms industry\u2019s major trade gathering, the SHOT Show (where I expect she is this week) and she\u2019s awesome at that. \u00a0She\u2019s smart enough that she was chosen to be the administrator of what may be the dominant squad of industry sponsored professional tournament shooters, Team Smith & Wesson. She is sufficiently kind and graceful socially to be a perfect ambassador representing the shooting sports world. When she chose to marry one of my highest achieving graduates, Simon Golub, Julie probably shattered the wistful fantasies of thousands of male shooters. More to the point, though, the two of them and their little one comprise a classic young American family, which happens to be devoted to sharing the Gun Culture with an America that needs to understand that these values are part of their roots. I think \u201crole models\u201d may be the term I am groping for.<\/p>\n

Julie Golob\u2019s understanding of that shines through in her book, \u201cShoot.\u201d I think it\u2019s going to turn a lot of people who aren\u2019t shooters and gun owners into <\/em>shooters and gun owners. I think it\u2019s going to help push a lot of people from being casual gun owners into becoming serious, really skilled <\/em>shooters. While a great many of those people will be female, take it from a male whose butt she has kicked in national matches, men can learn from her book, too.<\/p>\n

And, needless to say, I think you should buy Julie Golob\u2019s book \u201cShoot,\u201d and maybe pass it around to people you know who could benefit from reading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had waited for some time after the announcement to get my review copy of Julie Golob\u2019s book, \u201cShoot.\u201d I was not disappointed. She put in the tips I expected for seasoned shooters\u2026but I was pleasantly surprised to see that she devoted much of her book to new shooters, and much to those who had […]<\/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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","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=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/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=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}