At home the daily highs were averaging about 98 degrees Fahrenheit and occasionally hitting three digits before the tremendous humidity added to the heat factor. I was glad I was scheduled to go north of North Pole.

Not north of the North Pole, mind you, but to Fairbanks which is slightly north of the town of North Pole, Alaska.  I was hosted by an excellent firearms training school, C4Training at www.c4traininggroup.com.  C4 is headed by Chuck Inderrieden, a veteran soldier and cop. Our MAG40 class (http://massadayoobgroup.com) had unusually high average scores at the end of the week, due in substantial part I think to the fact that many of them had trained with Chuck before. He’s an outstanding instructor.

I feasted on elk, halibut, several variations of tuna and some excellent bear sausage. The accommodations were the best I’ve ever experienced in Alaska, an AirBnB called North Point Cottage.

“Jacket weather” – just cool enough to warrant a garment to cover your pistol – was much appreciated.

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  1. OT: Apparently things are not going smoothly down South, in Houston. “People” still out of power from Hurricain Beryl are threatening the linemen restoring their electricity. Many of those workers are volunteers, leaving families behind and coming in from other cities to help out.
    My first thought was, “Not in Texas!” Then I remembered, it’s Houston.
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ufFYj0o96NU

    Mas?

  3. Did you get to shoot on the Cowboy Action Range? Some members took me N of Fairbanks one time up there to shoot.. Great folks and nice restaurants.

  4. Sounds like a great time. Happy belated Birthday Mas and thanks for all you do
    for us, America and us Vietnam Vets. I hope you have many more to come.
    Dano

  6. 🎵 North, to Alaska 🎶 was always one of my favorite Elvis Presley songs. I would love to experience needing a jacket in July. 😎

  7. Beautiful country up there as long as you have plenty of bug spray & blackout curtains for your bedroom windows in the summer. I remember fishing at midnight and having to wait for moose to wander off the town rifle range before you could resume shooting.

    Charlie Airborne

  8. What I remember most about many years spent in subarctic summers is the little black flies with the chainsaw jaws. I found that as long as I kept moving, though, they chewed on me much less than if I were foolish enough to stop moving. Mosquitoes and sand flies came in a close second. The Fairbanks area was generally one of the most pleasant in the summer, and I find myself wanting to head North again for some of that fresh air out among the spruce timber. Finding a great place there to shoot has never been a problem. Firearms are commonly quite popular there, and have historically been an essential part of daily existence.

  10. David Rodgers: “North to Alaska” was and is a great song, but it was recorded by the legendary Johnny Horton, not Elvis. Dwight Yoakam also recorded it sometime in the 1990s.

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