{"id":9225,"date":"2026-05-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9225"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:00:01","slug":"a-shared-pet-peeve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-shared-pet-peeve\/","title":{"rendered":"A SHARED PET PEEVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We all have our pet peeves. One of mine is people who abuse their firearms by trying to do dramatic flourishes with their mechanisms a\u2019la TV and movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gun writer Mitch Eckler does a good job of pointing out the same problems in <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonoutdoors.com\/article\/is-snapping-revolvers-bad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this article <\/a>in an Athlon publication, the online edition of\u00a0<em>Combat Handguns\u00a0<\/em>magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a good, solid read, and worth looking at just for the lead photo, \u201cgun porn\u201d of my favorite configuration of Smith &amp; Wesson\u2019s classic .357, the blue steel Model 19 Combat Magnum with four-inch barrel and round butt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously, though, you\u2019re looking at it for the advice, not the pix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have our pet peeves. One of mine is people who abuse their firearms by trying to do dramatic flourishes with their mechanisms a\u2019la TV and movies. Gun writer Mitch Eckler does a good job of pointing out the same problems in this article in an Athlon publication, the online edition of\u00a0Combat Handguns\u00a0magazine. It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9225","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\/9225","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=9225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9229,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions\/9229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}