{"id":7538,"date":"2022-11-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7538"},"modified":"2022-11-20T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T21:29:21","slug":"meet-my-spirit-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/meet-my-spirit-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"MEET MY SPIRIT ANIMAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lacking the strength of the bear and the speed of the leopard, my only natural attribute was native animal cunning so I adopted the weasel as my spirit animal.\u00a0 Some years ago I did an article on what I call Weaselcraft, and the good folks at American Handgunner magazine just reprinted it on their excellent website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanhandgunner.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.americanhandgunner.com<\/a>, which is a treasure trove of knowledge going back almost half a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/americanhandgunner.com\/discover\/the-way-of-the-weasel\/\" target=\"_blank\">find it here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be careful when you practice these draws. They happen quick. You\u2019ll notice even so that the finger isn\u2019t going to the trigger until the gun is well clear of the body. DO LOTS OF DRY FIRE PRACTICE BEFORE YOU GO FOR LIVE FIRE WITH CAMERA-BLURRING SPEED. These techniques would get you kicked out of any quick draw contest I know of except Cowboy Fast Draw, but when you use them against a criminal trying to murder you or your loved ones, they don\u2019t constitute cheating.&nbsp; They constitute life-saving common sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lacking the strength of the bear and the speed of the leopard, my only natural attribute was native animal cunning so I adopted the weasel as my spirit animal.\u00a0 Some years ago I did an article on what I call Weaselcraft, and the good folks at American Handgunner magazine just reprinted it on their excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7538","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\/7538","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=7538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions\/7541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}