{"id":4013,"date":"2016-12-31T21:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T01:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2016-12-31T21:49:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T01:49:30","slug":"new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW YEAR\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"hog-jowl\"
Yes, hog jowls (pork jowls) are a thing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhen in Rome,\u201d they say\u2026<\/p>\n

Spending the holidays in the
\ndeep South, where I\u2019m told it\u2019s a tradition to have black-eyed peas for New Year\u2019s Eve\/New Year\u2019s Day.\u00a0 Got \u2018em.\u00a0 The Evil Princess is cookin\u2019 \u2018em up with hog jowls.\u00a0 (No. Not kidding. Not making it up. Not a Yankee dissing Southerners with Beverly Hillbillies stuff. Hog jowls are, apparently, \u201ca thing.\u201d)\u00a0 And no, they didn\u2019t have any possum shanks at the Market.<\/p>\n

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Wouldn\u2019t be New Years without some trigger pullin\u2019, so Bob Houzenga and I spent some time with Jim \u201cFast E. Nuff\u201d Willis and Bob \u201cRed Rob\u201d George for an introduction to Cowboy Fast Draw as practiced by the Cowboy Fast Draw Association. (www.cowboyfastdraw.com<\/a> . Bob and I had both shot years ago in SASS, the Single Action Shooting Society, where live ammo is fired at steel from Western-style six-guns, lever action rifles, and 19th<\/sup> Century style shotguns.\u00a0 In CFD, all you need is the one single action revolver and holster, and you\u2019ll be shooting wax bullets at 24\u201d steel targets. The hit registers on an electronic timer, and you start with hand on gun, drawing and firing one hand only when a light flashes.\u00a0 They were kind enough to let us shoot without the requisite cowboy togs.<\/p>\n

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“Fast E. Nuff,” left, and “Red Rob” show how it’s done. Guns are Ruger New Vaqueros in .45 Colt.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Lights on the 24″ discs indicate it’s time to draw and fire; hit time appears on LED readout.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"quickdraw03\"<\/p>\n

Special casings take #209 shotgun primers to propel wax bullets.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"quickdraw02\"<\/p>\n

Bob “Buck Staghorn” Houzenga, foreground, shows “how fast is fast.” Mas “Camelback Kid” Ayoob shows “how slow is slow.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen in Rome,\u201d they say\u2026 Spending the holidays in the deep South, where I\u2019m told it\u2019s a tradition to have black-eyed peas for New Year\u2019s Eve\/New Year\u2019s Day.\u00a0 Got \u2018em.\u00a0 The Evil Princess is cookin\u2019 \u2018em up with hog jowls.\u00a0 (No. Not kidding. Not making it up. Not a Yankee dissing Southerners with Beverly Hillbillies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-competition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","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=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/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=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}