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Ross Seyfried....especially his work on handguns (cannons).
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
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#1. Gerald Burrard. #2. Our very own Larry Brown, Dig Hadoke, Walt Snyder, Drew Hause, MD and Vic Venters, not necessarily in that order. I like Buzz's list but I would add Gough Thomas / GT Garwood.
I am glad to be here.
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Boothroyd & Garwood especially,also Ross Seyfried on nice meaty chunks of lead through old Hammer Guns
Though I have never been a rifleman, I always read Bob Milek in ...was it Guns n Ammo mag?
WW Greener as well, lol
cheers
franc..
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Mike, I second Bodio and his outdoors generalism, guns, dogs, books, etc. While working the dogs this weekend on released birds, on a coveyrise we had a Coopers nail a quail in mid-air and glide off with it. Gil Bodio is down to earth, writes and lives like a gun bum, like his pal John Gierach, the trout bum who lives in a trailer that would make Fred Sanford barf, but fly fishes with pre-fire Leonard, Grangers and Paul Young rods and Hardy and Walker fly reels- But Bodio doesn't have a proof reader- he got the intro date wrong on the Model 21- but, as he likes Model 12's, as does Gough Thomas, I will forgive him and his publisher for that error- what the hay- what's 10 years anyway??
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Yup, bargain hunters can go on Amazon and scarf up Gene Hill stuff for about a tenth of what it is worth. He knew what shotguns and shotgun acquisition was all about. We're supposed to store these guns as well as shooting them. Most authors don't understand "shotgun acquisition".
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The category seems to be technical gun writers, which Gene Hill was not, but this is wonderful writing.
Shotgunner's Notebook "Our World Without Shotguns"
"No shotguns, no poetry. No shotguns, no exuberant competition. No shotguns, no silent days alone, or with a dog, to merely walk and think. Take the shotguns from my life and take the books that go with them. Take the paintings and the etchings and bronzed pointing Setters and Labs with a proudly carried duck. Take my decoys and my marsh boat and my string of calls. Take my old photographs of friends at gun clubs and duck camps and at the simple farms. Take my faded coats and briared boots and old soft hats. Take my whistles and dog bells and red and yellow field trial ribbons from their frames.
What friends I have, what days I treasure most, what places I think about and smile...these are because shotguns are. Without them I would have been empty. They have made my life full."
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I'm pretty sure John Gierach lives in a regular house. He used to live in a small house in Lyons, Colorado, but I think he's moved up lightly with his book sales. I know this is a gun writer topic, but I simply love reading John Gierach. I enjoy Bodio too.
I once interviewed McIntosh by phone for an article I was writing. He had his pipe clenched in his teeth through the whole thing and would chuckle from time to time. I could have sworn I was speaking with Santa Claus by phone.
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Captain E. C. Crossman and Major Charles Askins. Now that is really showing my age--actually valuable sources for researching guns from the 1920s-1940s. Few here probably have never heard of these gents.
Walter c. Snyder
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Captain E. C. Crossman and Major Charles Askins. Now that is really showing my age--actually valuable sources for researching guns from the 1920s-1940s. Few here probably have never heard of these gents. You may have underestimated the average age of this group.  Gil
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