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SHOT SHOW 2018, PART 5

It was announced at SHOT that Weatherby, manufacturers of high quality hunting rifles, is going to move their facility (and of course, their payroll) from California to Wyoming. There’s a continuing pattern of gun industry people moving from blue states … Read more

SHOT SHOW 2018, Part 4

More from Jim Fitzpatrick, Backwoods Home’s eyes and ears this year at the world’s largest firearms trade show, currently ongoing in Las Vegas:   Glock’s new entries are as follows, G19X is Glock’s entry to the military, won by the … Read more

SHOT SHOW 2018, PART 3

Jim Fitzpatrick, Our Man On the Scene at SHOT Show, reports:  New from Ruger, GP100 7rnd 357 Mag. 2.5 inch barrel.   This is Ruger’s new PC Carbine, it comes ready to accept Ruger Security 9 mags. It comes with a … Read more

SHOT SHOW 2018, PART 2

It’s a good year for southpaws.  Benelli announces a left-hander’s version of their state of the art Black Eagle 3 semiautomatic shotgun.  Savage is offering several new left-handed rifles. Our older readers will recall when, back in the early-mid-Twentieth Century, … Read more

SHOT SHOW: OPENING DAY MINUS 2

The Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade show is the premier gathering of the firearms industry to display new products for the year. Official opening day of the show is Tuesday the 23rd, but today is when the firearms and outdoor … Read more

TIMELESS TRUTHS VERSUS NEVER-ENDING LIES

Sitting patiently (no pun intended) in my dentist’s waiting room the other day, my choice of provided reading matter was golf, cars, boats, or a September 2016 issue of NRA’s American Rifleman magazine. You can probably guess where I gravitated.  … Read more

THERE’S SOMETHING TO THIS “PRACTICE” THING

I’m going into the last week of my six-week teaching sabbatical, and in between writing assignments and such I tried to live up to my New Year’s resolution to get some trigger time for myself.  Several hundred rounds went downrange … Read more

HISTORIC MOMENT WITH AMERICAN GUNS

I’ve recently been reading “Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” by Giles Milton, the story of the brain trust the British prime minister put together to develop improved weapons for both conventional and unconventional combat against the Hitler juggernaut.  There are chapters … Read more

SPEAKING OF NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS…

The single most popular New Year’s resolution in our country seems to be, “I’m gonna lose weight!” I hope no one minds, but I’m going to veer out of my lane for a little bit.  I’m no authority on weight … Read more

…AND INTO THE NEW YEAR…

Good luck to all who are suffering the current record cold snap. Hiding out from winter in north Florida, we still had icicles on the cars and power outages when ice weighed down the power lines.  No “bomb cyclones,” though, … Read more