I am 71 years old and got the gun bug prior to my teen-age years, so I have read stuff written by most of the names that get mentioned when the subject of gunwriters comes up. The one guy who is head and shoulders above the rest on the first class bastard list has to be Askins Jr. A couple of his pieces are memorable. He wrote one article explaining the ideal barrel length for a center fire rifle. He claimed that 22" was too short and 24" was too long. He therefore had all his barrels cut to 23". The other article, which really tore it for me, was a character assassination piece he did several months after Jack O'Connor died, in which he sneered at everything O'Connor ever stood for or said. The guy had no class.