Gun Gack Hats

We were on the floor of the Bozeman, MT gun show, promoting John’s then new book, Obsessions of a Rifle Loony, when a couple came up to our table. The husband looked at the title and asked, straight-faced, What’s a rifle loony? His wife started laughing, and pointed at him. “You are,” she said. Then it happened again. And again. And again.

Oddly, though, when our friend Dober coined the phrase gun gack, it was the wives who didn’t get it at first. I had to explain it this way: you and your hubby at a gun show and he starts talking primers, grains of powder, ballistic coefficients, etc, etc, etc, etc–and your eyes glaze over….  Ahhh, gun gack.  And to those who speak it, it is the universal language of friends.