Jeff Cooper's Commentaries Vol. Jeff Cooper's Commentaries Previously Gunsite Gossip Vol. I am so old that I can remember the days before air conditioning, and those are days I would not care to reoccupy. Summer was never my favorite season, despite the fact that school was out, and it still isn't. Spring, of course, is a joyful time of rebirth.
Winter is exciting and cold.
Autumn is hunting season. But summer is just hot and sweaty. At this season, the best we can do is to remember how uncomfortable it is to be cold, if we can. If you can arrange it, that is something of a comfort. From our reading it seems to us that too little of the doctrine and technique of weaponcraft is being broadcast.