{"id":9283,"date":"2026-06-16T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9283"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:10:39","slug":"the-last-pin-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-last-pin-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LAST PIN SHOOT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fifty years&nbsp;ago&nbsp;my friend Richard Davis created a new gun sport, bowling pin shooting. Half a century later I am writing this midway through the last one, the de facto national championship of this sport known appropriately as The Pin Shoot. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinshoot.com\/\">www.pinshoot.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve followed this blog for a while you know that of the countless shooting matches in which I\u2019ve participated, this one is my favorite. &nbsp;New shooters are welcomed by a sort of family who\u2019ve been meeting for this event in Central Lake, Michigan for a very long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll good things must come to an end.\u201d Like most cliches, that one has some truth to it. We are mourning fellow shooters who are no longer with us. It\u2019s a bittersweet time, with memories a stronger ingredient in the good times than usual, leavened with sadness that this will be the last one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years&nbsp;ago&nbsp;my friend Richard Davis created a new gun sport, bowling pin shooting. Half a century later I am writing this midway through the last one, the de facto national championship of this sport known appropriately as The Pin Shoot. (www.pinshoot.com) If you\u2019ve followed this blog for a while you know that of the countless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9283","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\/9283","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=9283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9286,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9283\/revisions\/9286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}