https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:59:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/shot-an-appleseed-yet/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/shot-an-appleseed-yet/#respond Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9348 For anyone who came in late, we here at Backwoods Home magazine are big fans of the Appleseed Project.You can read all about it here.And here.If you haven’t had the pleasure yet, I can think of no better time for you to take part in an Appleseed event than now, in the 250th year of […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/shot-an-appleseed-yet/feed/ 0 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/ar15/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/ar15/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9343 The AR15 is the most popular rifle in America today, and certainly the most controversial. I bet we all know someone who just bought their first one.An ideal companion to the rifle would be a book about its history and use. I recommend “AR-15: A Citizen’s Guide to America’s Rifle.” I’ve known the author, Frank […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/ar15/feed/ 7 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/if-you-have-fourteen-minutes/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/if-you-have-fourteen-minutes/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9339 San Diego Gun Owners recently brought me to their stomping grounds to teach a Deadly Force Instructor class. While there, I sat down with some of their folks to discuss current issues.Catch it here: or watch video here. San Diego Gun Owners have been spectacularly successful as grassroots advocates for the civil rights of firearms […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/if-you-have-fourteen-minutes/feed/ 4 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/john-lott-on-national-reciprocity/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/john-lott-on-national-reciprocity/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9336 Here’s a great piece by Mark Chesnut at TTAG: Professor John Lott’s realistic take on national concealed carry reciprocity.]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/john-lott-on-national-reciprocity/feed/ 15 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/two-more-greats-have-passed/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/two-more-greats-have-passed/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9333 Lord, I hate it when my blog turns into an obituary column.Two good friends are no longer with us. It was just belatedly announced that Tom Marx had passed away this past February. Tom was one of the true “industry insiders.” He began as a Chicago cop and then focused on the gun world, working […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/two-more-greats-have-passed/feed/ 7 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/in-praise-of-a-great-economy-rifle/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/in-praise-of-a-great-economy-rifle/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9327 You don’t need a budget like the Trump family’s to get a high quality, reliable, super-accurate hunting rifle. Here’s an article I did in 2008 for Backwoods Home magazine on the Savage 110 series. The Savage catalog has descendants of the Model 110 series today that are better than ever. Anti-gun novelist Evan Hunter, who […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/in-praise-of-a-great-economy-rifle/feed/ 10 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/magazines/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/magazines/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9320 If you have firearms that work with detachable box magazines, you darn sure want more than one. The magazine is one of the major causes of malfunctions. If you only have one and it goes belly up, your gun just became a single shot. Going to a shooting match? You probably want to bring a […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/magazines/feed/ 18 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/9mm-ammo-today/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/9mm-ammo-today/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9316 A while back, I warned in this space that ammunition was going to go up in price across the board this year.  Unfortunately, that prediction has come to pass. Ammo is a good $40 or more a case costlier than it was this time last year. 9mm ammo is in particularly short supply in gun shops […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/9mm-ammo-today/feed/ 3 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/when-your-favorite-guns-no-longer-work-for-you/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/when-your-favorite-guns-no-longer-work-for-you/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9304 When I was a kid growing up, my favorite deer rifles were lever actions. Marlins and Winchesters. Later in life I got into Cowboy Action Shooting competition, and the lever gun I used there was a Marlin .357 Magnum carbine, loaded with .38 Special. One of the local clubs had a “lumber shoot” where heavy […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/when-your-favorite-guns-no-longer-work-for-you/feed/ 19 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/good-news-from-scotus/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/good-news-from-scotus/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9311 From the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms: SUPREME COURT GRANTS CERT IN SAF ASSAULT WEAPONS CASES BELLEVUE, Wash. — June 30, 2025 — The U.S. Supreme Court has granted two of the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) petitions for a writ certiorari in both Viramontes v. Cook […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/good-news-from-scotus/feed/ 13