I enjoy reading about the personal lives of the older gunwriters. All most of us know, the ones of us who did not actualy know them or live close to them, is what they wrote about.

I wonder what many of them were like day to day.

I have always wondered how some of them could afford to make trips to Africa year after year, when it seems they did nothing but write. I don't think writing for magazines pays that well.

Askins was an Army officer, and I am pretty sure a Cols. retirement pay would not let him afford to go year after year to Africa.