Trapper,
If you want the truth, after screwing about every manufacturer in the industry, he got "blackballed."
I owned a jewelry store at the time and he didn't ignore me, either. The dickhead stiffed me for a three thousand dollar Rolex watch.
Last I heard, he was working in a frozen yogurt shop in South Carolina. That's fitting.
Yes, he could tell a yarn, but the man had practically no field experience. Almost all of his stuff was either the experience of others or total fiction.
Once, when I was working with Kimber, I was elected to be his ammo carrier and counter of gopher bodies. The man proved to be perhaps the worst shot I've ever seen. This was quite a revelation for me; after all, this was the great Clay Harvey. Any gopher beyond fifty yards was totally safe, even with the new Kimber Super America .223 that was presented to him.
Of course, Clay sold the rifle at a gun show the next week. Typical
He called me once and asked, "Steve, how many .284 Winchester rounds,on the average, does it take to stop a mature whitetail buck." My answer was pretty simple; "ONE." <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Those of us who are honest writers still feel the effects of Clay's dishonesty. Too bad, but I surely do not blame them.
Steve
