{"id":8015,"date":"2023-09-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8015"},"modified":"2023-09-19T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T23:16:10","slug":"levers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/levers\/","title":{"rendered":"LEVERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I was a kid growing up in northern New England, lever actions were the most popular hunting rifles in the region. In fact, the only high powered rifle in my dad\u2019s armory was a Winchester \u201994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time went on. Bolt actions and autoloaders came to the fore in popularity among hunters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, we\u2019re seeing a renaissance of the lever action rifles and carbines. To some degree it may be a fear that autoloaders will be banned, but I suspect that nostalgia may have a bit more to do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shootingtimes.com\/editorial\/comeback-of-the-lever-action-rifle\/480510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">great article on the topic<\/a> by Craig Boddington, who is sort of the Jack O\u2019Connor of our time. I\u2019ve met Boddington, and found him to be humble, down-to-Earth, and extremely knowledgeable. There\u2019s a lot to be learned from the man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T-shirt is one of many cool gun-theme tees from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/americanscrollinc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Scroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid growing up in northern New England, lever actions were the most popular hunting rifles in the region. In fact, the only high powered rifle in my dad\u2019s armory was a Winchester \u201994. Time went on. Bolt actions and autoloaders came to the fore in popularity among hunters. Today, we\u2019re seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8015","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\/8015","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=8015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8017,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions\/8017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}