{"id":8929,"date":"2025-09-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8929"},"modified":"2025-08-29T15:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:48:52","slug":"saying-goodbye-to-a-great-cop-and-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/saying-goodbye-to-a-great-cop-and-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"SAYING GOODBYE TO A GREAT COP AND SHOOTER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Herman Davison passed away recently, and we lost a good man.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the early Seventies, I spent some time with him as he made his rounds as a New Hampshire Department of Fish &amp; Game officer. I was doing a story on him for&nbsp;<em>New Hampshire Outdoorsman&nbsp;<\/em>magazine. He dealt with the public firmly and fairly, mixing compassion and people skills with his officer survival tactics. For many years, he was the winner of the New Hampshire Police Officers Association annual handgun match, the&nbsp;<em>de facto&nbsp;<\/em>state championship for cops. He also taught shooting at the state academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, I got to see him when we both shot the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinshoot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pin Shoot<\/a> in Michigan. This year, two months before his death, Herm was ravaged by the cancer that would soon kill him but still stood resolutely on the competition firing line\u2026and still hit what he was aiming at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was the epitome of the \u201cnice guy.\u201d When my older daughter learned of his passing, she reminisced, \u201cWhen I was little and we were all at the range, he always made sure I was hydrated and didn\u2019t skip lunch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Herm had a unique, low-key sense of humor. He genuinely cared about people. He was the sort of lawman we all want policing our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.holtwoodburyfh.com\/obituaries\/herman-davison\/#!\/TributeWall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Herm Davison is greatly missed<\/a> by all who knew him. Godspeed, brother\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Davison passed away recently, and we lost a good man.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the early Seventies, I spent some time with him as he made his rounds as a New Hampshire Department of Fish &amp; Game officer. I was doing a story on him for&nbsp;New Hampshire Outdoorsman&nbsp;magazine. He dealt with the public firmly and fairly, mixing compassion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8929","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\/8929","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=8929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8931,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8929\/revisions\/8931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}