https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob Fri, 08 May 2026 21:00:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/its-that-time-of-year-again-3/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/its-that-time-of-year-again-3/#comments Thu, 14 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9249 For the last few years, each second quarter on the calendar has become my 1911 pistol season. The reason: in June I have a couple of matches coming up where John Browning’s most popular auto pistol design is particularly suitable. One of those events is a gathering of gun geezers, a match held by my […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/its-that-time-of-year-again-3/feed/ 3 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/tac-con-2026learning-from-simon-golob/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/tac-con-2026learning-from-simon-golob/#comments Mon, 11 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9241 At this year’s Rangemaster Tactical Conference one class I took and particularly enjoyed was taught by Simon Golob, who focused on the importance of “cold shot training,” testing ourselves as to how we can shoot without a warmup. Like in, ya know, real life. I was not disappointed. Simon is the man who took over […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/tac-con-2026learning-from-simon-golob/feed/ 3 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/tac-con-2026-qualifications-with-phill-groff/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/tac-con-2026-qualifications-with-phill-groff/#comments Fri, 08 May 2026 20:03:19 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9238 One class I took at this year’s RangeMaster Tactical Conference was Phill Groff’s, focusing on qualifications. The qualification shoot in one form or another is required for virtually all armed American law enforcement, and some states require qualifications for concealed carry permits for private citizens as well. Phill, a Marine no longer in service and […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/tac-con-2026-qualifications-with-phill-groff/feed/ 5 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/tac-con-2026/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/tac-con-2026/#comments Tue, 05 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9230 I’ve attended Tac-Con, the RangeMaster Tactical Conference, almost every year since 2009. It provides a smorgasbord of more than 40 subject matter experts in areas of self-defense ranging from emergency medicine through hand to hand fighting to live-fire handgun and shotgun.  More courses are offered than any one person can sign up for over the […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/tac-con-2026/feed/ 7 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/a-shared-pet-peeve/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/a-shared-pet-peeve/#comments Fri, 01 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9225 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’la 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 Combat Handguns magazine. It’s […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/a-shared-pet-peeve/feed/ 9 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/sentiment-and-guns/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/sentiment-and-guns/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9221 I recently ran across this article from a 2013 issue of Backwoods Home magazine at the website. It reminded me that sentiment and practicality are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Of late I’ve again been carrying an old favorite, the 1911 pistol, albeit in the more modern dress of my Wilson Combat SFT9.  Accurate as heck, utterly reliable, carrying […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/sentiment-and-guns/feed/ 12 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/the-five-point-check-list-reviewed/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/the-five-point-check-list-reviewed/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9217 The treatment for one illness may be fatally contradicted for another. So it is in medicine, and so in can be in law, specifically self-defense law. A classic example is the advice, “Say nothing to police except ‘I want to call a lawyer!’ after you’ve shot a criminal in self-defense.”  Not talking to police is great […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/the-five-point-check-list-reviewed/feed/ 17 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/your-home-is-your-castle-a-history-lesson/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/your-home-is-your-castle-a-history-lesson/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:53:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9213 A classic case of home defense from a little more than a century ago reminds us of core Castle Doctrine principles, an American inheritance from the English Common Law. It appeared in my decades-long Ayoob Files series in American Handgunner magazine. As always, your commentary is invited.  ]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/your-home-is-your-castle-a-history-lesson/feed/ 11 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/worth-repeating/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/worth-repeating/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9210 If you have a few minutes, I’d like to remind you that in the “gun debate,” our side uses logic and the other side has only emotion…but if we are smart, we’ll appeal to emotion AND logic. Here’s how I put it a couple of years ago at the 2024 Gun Rights Policy Conference: or […]]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/worth-repeating/feed/ 4 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/paul-harrell-on-point-shooting/ https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/paul-harrell-on-point-shooting/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/?p=9161 Doing research for an article elsewhere, I ran across this video by the late, great PaulHarrell. I never met the man, but always found his work of value.]]> https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/paul-harrell-on-point-shooting/feed/ 4