Howdy. My name is Wiley Clapp and I am an avowed handgunner. I have been fooling around with these things for a lot of years-Bullseye in the 60s, PPC in the 70s, Silhouette in the 80s, etc-and writing about them for a quarter century. We know that a large percentage of American Rifleman readers are also more than a little preoccupied with the handgun and we've always tried to service that interest in the magazine.

But there is a lot of handgun stuff that just doesn't seem to fit into our regular features or columns. Editor-in-Chief Mark Keefe has asked me to use this blog to cover some of the more interesting little pieces of information about pistols and revolvers. This may include comments on little-known handgunners of the past, historical perspectives on older guns or handgun ammunition, even certain techniques of managing a handgun effectively. For all these reasons, I look forward to my electronic visits with you. But I am also greatly interested in getting into an occasional topic that has more than one facet-in short, a controversy.

Mark tells me that the blog will be set up so that you can respond. When your point is such that we believe readers in general might also be interested, we'll run it. We hope that the result will be vigorous discussion that produces more information for everyone, as well as more interest. After a lifetime of playing with these curious artifacts, I think that I know a little about them. But-collectively-you know everything about them. Let's just get the info out for all to share. OK?