Thanks Tom, and the rest of you guys... like I said, I've written this up for my own selfish reasons, not just to edify all y'all...

But as you know, Tom, the gun rags don't publish stuff like this any more. Jack O'Connor & Elmer Keith couldn't get published in this day and age. So even though I've written this stuff for the 24HCF as a sort of first draft (and it's pretty raw stuff, I didn't do much editing and in re-reading it I see all the mistakes and the ways to write it better) I doubt it's going to see the light of day as a paying published piece. But there's always the self-publication route for a book, right?

I guess we'll see.


"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars