Jag,
Hardly off-topic; Gough Thomas is wonderful reading, any of his titles. He was well read for the same reason Zutz was among people w/interest in shotgunning .. common sense, based on their own findings; neither were just writers. Same may be said of Brister and a few others that were inquisitive, opinionated [but not so much they could not accept being wrong when it proved so] and willing to share their observations w/the rest of us.
I liked Zutz for a lot of dif. reasons, but he gets credit in my mind for today's lasting concept of better handicap patterns w/Green Dot vs. the faster powders.
I wasn't real happy when he told the world about the VL&D or Antoine(sp?)guns being mostly Francottes. It was a fairly well kept 'secret' until then.
