This might be difficult to believe, but some golfers will exaggerate how far they drive the ball. “Oh, yeah, I think I hit that one 290,” isn’t just a fib; it might be a reason for slow play at the ...

I got interested in guns in the early 1950s, at just about the time that scopes were being generally accepted. They were, for the most part, wretched objects—difficult to mount, dim, and fragile, with ...