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July 7, 2018
THE BIG SEVEN-OH
Today is my seventieth birthday. Hell, I’d need a fire extinguisher to blow out that many candles. It’s been a fun ride, and I’m thankful to still be rolling forward, if not quite as fast as I used to. Got … Read more
July 5, 2018
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
People ask me how an old fart like me can handle traveling to teach and testify all the time. It’s simple, really. My generation grew up with the mantra “Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.” It’s already … Read more
July 3, 2018
AS THE FOURTH GOES FORTH
With Independence Day in the middle of this week, folks are spreading their holiday time between the weekends, it seems. Sunday, driving home from a MAG-180 in Wisconsin (where staff and students alike were AWESOME!) we witnessed a spectacular fireworks … Read more
June 28, 2018
ON A PERSONAL NOTE
The Evil Princess and I were married last week. I hope you’ll be happy for us. It was a simple ceremony in Chicagoland. She’s a native of Chicago (I maintain I rescued her, though she still says “kidnapped”) and since … Read more
June 25, 2018
PIN SHOOT WRAPUP: THE WINNERS AND THEIR GUNS
What shooters, with what guns, won Pin Shoot 2018? The answers might surprise you. Technology popular in the 1890s did surprisingly well. Shotguns One-Person Shotgun requires the shooter to blast eight bowling pins completely off the three-tiered table with only … Read more
June 21, 2018
THE PIN SHOOT: THE EVENTS
I can’t find a better description of this event than the one I came up with in the ‘70s: a carnival midway of live-fire games where you’re knocking over the targets with bullets instead of thrown balls, and winning guns … Read more
June 17, 2018
PIN SHOOT 2018
Evil Princess and I are still basking in the afterglow of several great days at Pin Shoot 2018 in Central Lake, Michigan. That quaint little town is a wonderful vacation spot, made better for us in the gun culture by … Read more
June 11, 2018
June 6, 2018
BUCKEYE FIREARMS ASSOCIATION
A couple of weeks ago this Friday, I had the opportunity to address members of the Buckeye Firearms Association. It was the second time they brought me in to spend a day talking about judicious use of lethal force by … Read more
June 1, 2018
ARTHRITIS AND THE SHOOTER
I’ve had a couple of recent reader requests for advice to arthritic shooters. Since I “are one,” I can speak with some authority, but not all-encompassing authority by any means. To start with, here are a couple of links: http://stoppingpower.net/forum/topic.... … Read more
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