{"id":7771,"date":"2023-04-17T19:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T23:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7771"},"modified":"2023-04-17T20:23:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:23:20","slug":"we-have-lost-another-great-gun-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/we-have-lost-another-great-gun-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"WE HAVE LOST ANOTHER GREAT GUN GUY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We were deeply saddened to learn that over this past weekend we lost one of our great instructors and commentators in the defensive firearms field.  Tiger McKee passed away, suddenly and unexpectedly, at his home in Alabama.  He was only 61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many years now, his training at his ShootRite Academy<\/a> proved to be top-notch. Tiger was a good personal friend, and a man of many talents.\u00a0 See that snazzy looking Smith & Wesson revolver in the photo here? That\u2019s a Tiger McKee Chopper<\/a>, customized by the hands of the man himself for maximum speed of employment and hit potential. If you are fortunate enough to own one, you now have a precious collector\u2019s item.\u00a0 He made them smooth as glass.\u00a0 Tiger was a helluva knife-maker, too, and I\u2019m proud to own one that he forged and sharpened himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On YouTube, you\u2019ll be able to find some of the training videos he did for our mutual friend Tom Gresham, on Tom\u2019s Gun Talk TV and his Personal Defense TV series. You\u2019ll see a quintessential Southern gentleman.\u00a0 Tiger was much like my old friend and mentor Bill Jordan in that respect: \u201ctalk slow and shoot fast.\u201d\u00a0 Like Jordan, he was soft-spoken in person, but an absolutely commanding presence when circumstances demanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiger wrote two excellent books. One was The Book of Two Guns: The Martial Art of the 1911 Pistol and AR Carbine<\/a> <\/strong>and the other was AR-15 Skills & Drills: Learn to Run Your AR Like a Pro<\/a>.<\/strong> You can order both from Amazon.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t let the books trick you into thinking Tiger was exclusive to those two firearms. When the Glock gained popularity, Tiger mastered it and taught it adroitly. When another old favorite became resurgent a couple of years ago with Springfield Armory\u2019s SA-35 came out, Tiger renewed his acquaintance with that clone of the classic Browning Hi-Power and did a great series of articles on how to get the most out of it at The Tactical Wire<\/a>, where his work appeared regularly. He was also a regular contributor to a couple of magazines I also write for, American Handgunner <\/em>and Guns. <\/em>Toward the end of his life, Tiger developed a renewed appreciation for fine revolvers, hence his much sought-after custom work on the S&W \u201cChoppers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deepest condolences to his many friends and students, his family, and especially Tiger McKee\u2019s wonderful wife Gretchen. It\u2019s not a clich\u00e9 to say that we in the gun world are diminished by his passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were deeply saddened to learn that over this past weekend we lost one of our great instructors and commentators in the defensive firearms field.  Tiger McKee passed away, suddenly and unexpectedly, at his home in Alabama.  He was only 61. For many years now, his training at his ShootRite Academy proved to be top-notch. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7771","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\/7771","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=7771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7774,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions\/7774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}