I\u2019ve recently learned that, this past October 26, my old friend Dean Speir passed away. Dean was a gun writer who really pissed off manufacturers of guns that had problems, because he broke the stories. He was one of the few of us in the business who wrote \u201cconsumer reports\u201d on firearms, warts and all. He was also a pioneer of gun forums: he created The Gun Zone, which was one of the best such forums ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a personal note, Dean more than anyone else convinced me to go on those forums and put down BS-ers, and I could never thank him enough for that. Troll-hunting became one of my hobbies, thanks to Dean. (You don\u2019t need a license to hunt trolls, and no one feels sorry for the BS-ers you shoot down.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dean Speir walked the walk and talked the talk. He shot in major matches including the National Tactical Invitational. Others have written better obits than I could. You can find them here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m glad he made it to 83. He was a good man who did a lot of good for good people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n May he rest in peace, and in well-deserved pride. Gail and I extend our condolences to his lovely wife Jeanne and the rest of his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve recently learned that, this past October 26, my old friend Dean Speir passed away. Dean was a gun writer who really pissed off manufacturers of guns that had problems, because he broke the stories. He was one of the few of us in the business who wrote \u201cconsumer reports\u201d on firearms, warts and all. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8111","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\/8111","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=8111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8115,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions\/8115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}