{"id":7357,"date":"2022-06-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7357"},"modified":"2022-06-19T19:58:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T23:58:22","slug":"pinned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/pinned\/","title":{"rendered":"PINNED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Pin Shoot, my favorite shooting match&nbsp;<em>evah,&nbsp;<\/em>wrapped up a couple of days ago. A good time was had by all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got to see a lot of old friends. One was Al Burnett, who I met at the very first such match in Central Lake,Michigan in1976. Now 86, Al is a retired Michigan State Trooper, former National Police Shooting Champion, and has a resume that also includes senior firearms instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia. He was in the latter capacity when I went through FLETC\u2019s Basic Officer Safety and Survival Course in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We learned that some of our old friends had made their last visit to the shoot. In our memories will be body armor executive Ed Bachner, the beautiful Katie Stenbeck, and her dad Bill who was a retired lawman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heaven knows how many shots went downrange that week, all safely.&nbsp;&nbsp;Springfield Armory had donated beaucoup guns, all won by highly skilled shooters who proved their ability in front of viewers in bleachers who had a clear view of the pins and could see instantly how everyone was shooting.&nbsp;&nbsp;Big thanks to Springfield for their support!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ve already heard in these pages why I\u2019m so partial to this match that I\u2019ve traveled there 29 times to shoot it.\u00a0\u00a0For a first-timer\u2019s articulate view, check this out, from the pages of one of the most informative gun forums, pistol-forum.com:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pistol-forum.com\/showthread.php?53145-The-Pin-Shoot-Central-Lake-MI-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pistol-forum.com\/showthread.php?53145-The-Pin-Shoot-Central-Lake-MI-2022\">:\/\/pistol-forum.com\/showthread.php?53145-The-Pin-Shoot-Central-Lake-MI-2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am already planning to be there in mid-June 2023. You can find details here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinshoot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.pinshoot.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pin Shoot, my favorite shooting match&nbsp;evah,&nbsp;wrapped up a couple of days ago. A good time was had by all. I got to see a lot of old friends. One was Al Burnett, who I met at the very first such match in Central Lake,Michigan in1976. Now 86, Al is a retired Michigan State Trooper, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7357","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\/7357","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=7357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7358,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357\/revisions\/7358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}