PawPaw's House

As regular readers know, I've been a Cowboy Fast Draw Shooter for two years now.  It's an intriguing game, shooting wax bullets at s...

I've got a little buddy, John, who lives down the street and whom I've given permission to fish the pond.  When he's successful,...

The Taylor's and Co Ranch Hand revolver is a single action revolver suitable for use in CFDA.  Based on the 1873 Model P, it is really ...

Many have commented on CNN's very bad month. They practice lousy journalism.  They're the epitome of fake news. Hell, I haven...

It seems that our own Mogadishu-on-the-river is back in the news.  Crime has spiked in New Orleans and the city is unable to contain it.  As...

If you shoot Cowboy Fast Draw long enough, you'll shoot down the boot.  It is what it is, and it's not a matter of IF, it is a matte...

Mr. Justice Thomas sometimes seemed to be in the shadow of Justice Scalia.  But, he has found his voice in this dissent, where he stands fir...

One of the things that every Air Cav trooper carried with him was a Swiss seat.  I carried one of these on my LBE (load bearing equipment) f...

Thinking about that video from yesterday, I began thinking about rappelling.  Sometimes, the helicopter couldn't land (either because of...

Surfing around YouTube today, waiting for Belle to get home, I stumble across this blast-from-the-past with images from my misspent youth. ...

Eaton Rapids Joe emailed me recently, asking me if I knew the story that Junior Doughty told about keeping a roll of paper towels on the en...

While I was getting my butt kicked at Defensive Tactics on Thursday, Belle was heading north.  She, JimBob, and Zach were going to Missouri ...

In forming this new Cowboy Fast Draw club at the church, I've had to answer a lot of questions about guns, belts, holsters, rules and ra...

Well, I'm through.  For the 30th time, I have passed my retainer. Yeah,I've been a cop for 37 years, but until 1984, cops didn...

The Cimarron El Mal came in yesterday, and I picked it up from the FFL at about 3:30 pm after training.  After we did the paperwork, I went...

Aawww, Gaawd, I remember scenes like this from working the streets. Don't do drugs.  Don't ever do drugs. Tip of the Resistol ...

We spent the morning re-qualifying on the pistol and the shotgun.  Done and Done Then we went to a classroom for a tune-up on force-on-for...

In about an hour, I'm going to pull on my boots and head over to the training range for annual re-qualifications. Standard stuff.  Fir...

That un-named storm continues to approach the coast and it looks like the storm track id firming up.  They've upgraded it to a Tropical ...

Those of us who came up in law enforcement in the 70s and 80s knew a dichotomy of law enforcement that few rookies today bother with.  The c...