{"id":1791,"date":"2012-06-04T11:14:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2012-06-04T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:14:16","slug":"tradition-versus-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/tradition-versus-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"TRADITION VERSUS EFFICIENCY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of carrying one or another Glock, I recently went back to my old favorite 1911 .45 for a while, if only because I missed it.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just about tradition and nostalgia.\u00a0 It\u2019s about habituation, too. \u00a0I\u2019ve been shooting Glocks off and on for 25 years\u2026but I\u2019ve been shooting 1911s for more than half a century.\u00a0 A hoary clich\u00e9 seems appropriate here: \u201cIt fits like the handshake of an old friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you ever find yourself putting the modern, high-efficiency firearm back in the safe or the gun case, and heading out to the range or the field with something more \u201ctraditional\u201d instead?<\/p>\n<p>Skipping over the high-tech, minute of angle hunting rifle for something like an old Winchester \u201994 or a Savage \u201999?<\/p>\n<p>Deciding to take an old double-barrel shotgun bird hunting instead of an ultra-light, more \u201csensible\u201d autoloader?<\/p>\n<p>Strapping on a six-shooter instead of a state of the art semiautomatic pistol because\u2026well, just <em>because, <\/em>dammit?<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts on this are solicited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of carrying one or another Glock, I recently went back to my old favorite 1911 .45 for a while, if only because I missed it.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just about tradition and nostalgia.\u00a0 It\u2019s about habituation, too. \u00a0I\u2019ve been shooting Glocks off and on for 25 years\u2026but I\u2019ve been shooting 1911s for more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","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=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/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=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}