Introducing Grizz Holloway — Our Resident Curmudgeon, Historian, and Deal-Sniffing Oracle

Every now and then, you meet a person who somehow ends up becoming part of the furniture in your life, the kind of friend who shows up uninvited, drinks all your coffee, critiques your gear, steals your magazines (the print kind), and then leaves you with a handwritten note containing one part wisdom, one part insult.

For us, that person is Grizz Holloway.

Grizz has been around longer than most of the rifles we write about. He’s the type of guy who can hand-fit a sear by lantern light yet somehow uses the latest iPhone Pro “because I’m old, not dumb and poor.” He’s a storyteller, a shooter, a man who has opinions about everything from bolt-gun stocks to energy drinks, and someone who can turn a simple range trip into a three-chapter saga about responsibility, recoil management, and questionable life choices.

So we’ve invited him, against our better judgment, to contribute to the blog for a while.

Expect:

• Gear takes with more gravel than a county road

• Coffee-fueled rants about modern gun culture

• Philosophical detours no one asked for

• And, starting today, Grizz’s Black Friday picks

Yes, you read that right.

For the next couple posts, Grizz will be combing through the internet like a raccoon with Wi-Fi, pulling out the actual deals, the fake deals, and the “if you buy this, you deserve what happens next” deals.

He insisted we introduce him first, though. “If I’m gonna tell folks what to buy,” he said, “they should at least know the name of the man saving them from wasting money.”

Fair enough.

So please welcome Grizz Holloway, friend, critic, philosopher, and now… blogger.

Brace yourselves. He has things to say.

And for those wondering, we didn’t have time to write this so we used ChatGPT, precisely why having Grizz on tap for a bit is nice.