{"id":6638,"date":"2021-01-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2021-01-02T19:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T00:18:12","slug":"same-gun-all-the-time-for-everything-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/same-gun-all-the-time-for-everything-or\/","title":{"rendered":"SAME GUN ALL THE TIME FOR EVERYTHING, OR\u2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m not entirely sure who first said, \u201cBeware the man with only one gun\u2026he probably knows how to use it.\u201d&nbsp; I think it may have been the late, great Elmer Keith. It\u2019s not a one hundred percent truism\u2026there are a lot of people who don\u2019t know how to use the gun(s) they own, unfortunately \u2026 but for a lot of people, it <em>is <\/em>true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suspect all y\u2019all own a hammer and a saw. If you only own one of them, though, your carpentry abilities are going to be commensurately limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a private gun forum, a friend of mine brought up <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fmgpublications.ipaperus.com\/FMGPublications\/GUNS\/GUNS0410\/?page=20\" target=\"_blank\">an article I published a decade ago<\/a> where I owned up to my identity as a <s>gun slut<\/s> celebrant of ballistic diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A decade after that was written, I still use different guns for different needs. If I\u2019m writing up a defensive pistol, part of the test is carrying it to check for comfort, sharp edges, snags in clothing and all of that. With a competition gun, I like to shoot a match with it, but with all the COVID shutdowns of matches last year that just wasn\u2019t possible.&nbsp; The same shutdowns foreclosed a lot of classes I would have taught with different guns, too.&nbsp; I taught with fewer different firearms in 2020 than in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Readers: your thoughts are welcome here: Same gun (or at least the same action type) all the time for everything, or a bit of change now and then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not entirely sure who first said, \u201cBeware the man with only one gun\u2026he probably knows how to use it.\u201d&nbsp; I think it may have been the late, great Elmer Keith. It\u2019s not a one hundred percent truism\u2026there are a lot of people who don\u2019t know how to use the gun(s) they own, unfortunately \u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6638","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\/6638","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6639,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions\/6639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}