We can all do with knowledgeable copy editors. I like much of what's in O'Connor's "Shotgun Book", but he said LC Smith didn't make any .410's. They were still making them while Jack was alive. More of a rifle guy.
I can remember when most of what was written about shotguns from a technical standpoint, in this country, carried a byline of either Zutz, McIntosh, or Brister. Zutz in particular was very prolific. Three different styles, all interesting and entertaining in their own ways.
Brister's book, THE ART & SCIENCE OF SHOTGUNNING should be required reading. Zutz's and Brister's empirically derived data as well as their ingenuity used to get it at a time when a lot of the written word about shotgunning was repeated gun lore brought us out of the dark ages.
