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Screwing up on an article because you're "poorly informed" is a pretty poor excuse, unless there's also a very short deadline involved. If a writer doesn't know how to do research, then he should stick to topics on which he is something of a subject matter expert (SME). If you're not an SME, find out who is and ask them. I've found this BB EXTREMELY useful when I've done articles on this or that shotgun, usually no longer in production. Yes, I have owned and shot most of the guns I write about, but I recognize that while I might have owned two or three Parkers (or whatever), there are people here who have owned two or three dozen (or more), and shot them far more than I have.
Without knowing for sure, my guess is that MM isn't assigned too many column subjects by the editors at SSM. People that make their entire living off outdoor writing--and I'll admit that I've never been in that category--do sometimes stray into areas in which they have little experience and knowledge. But at least in SSM, Mac's pretty much stuck to what he knows about, or should know about. And while I don't know how much his stuff gets edited, I do know that in my own experience with SSM, the editors have never hesitated to contact me if there's something I've written about which they have a question, or feel is not sufficiently clear.
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That is the best thing I've seen in a long time! LOL!
Last edited by Fin2Feather; 10/20/08 10:22 AM.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein
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Supelrative catrooning and so very ture!
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Most people have limited experience with numerous kinds of guns. EDM has researched Parkers well but is childish in his knowledge of other guns, but still likes to tell everyone they are the best ever. He doesn't even know what a Lindner is. Add to this the infamous word "opinion". Each person has his preference, even "experts". Trevallion even likes Purdeys (what a maroon!)  You simply have to learn to judge the opinion from the fact.
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Well now if he was left on an island with bunches of game birds & a lot of shells for that Purdey, might not be such a moronic idea to be marooned.
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I Didn't Say Everything I Said, Yogi Berra
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Being an open minded kind of guy, I'd be willing to try out a Purdey for a decade or 3. I promise to give an objective view.
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These were the mistakes I found in McIntosh's little one page Baker srticle.
Research by H. J. Swinney (1991) shows William Henry Baker was actually born in Pittsfield, New York, not Oxford as had been reported by Shanks in 1968. (Tough to change something once it is out there in print!!)
The hammer double produced by the Syracuse Forging and Gun Co. was not designed by William Baker, but rather it was designed and patented by Albert C. MacFarland, October 4, 1887, Patent No. 370,966.
The factory in Syracuse burned in the summer of 1888.
The hammerless guns produced by Baker Gun & Forging Company were not designed by Baker. The designs are at least partially Frank A. Hollenbeck, as he took over as plant super when William Baker was too sick with TB. Hollenbeck had three patents issued while he was with the company in Batavia. Two of those #461,182 and #481,327 were assigned to Baker Gun and Forging Company.
The Batavia Leader was fitted with London Twist barrels during the years it was made by Baker. There was also a Batavia Damascus with Damascus barrels, a Batavia Special with "Homotensile" Steel barrels and a Batavia Ejector with either Damascus or Homotensile Steel barrels. Baker dropped the Batavia Leader/Damascus/Special/Ejector line and replaced it with the Black Beauty a couple of years before they sold out. Folsom revived the Batavia Leader name with a gun fitted with "Cockerel" steel barrels, as listed in their 1923 catalogue. (It is spelled "Cockerill" on my Ithacas)
Once I sent this to McIntosh I never heard from him again.
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Mac used to post on this very forum occasionally, as I remember. I took an article of his to task several years ago in which he stated, among other things, that, in this day and age of modern ammunition, choke in shotgun barrels is obsolete. I wrote him off as a serious gun writer when I read that, and I do not believe he has posted on here since.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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Too bad, because it's true.  Have you tried finest Italian shell with uniform size nickel plated shot out of CYL or IC tube? 
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