PennDog,

No problem. I actually had my tongue partway in my cheek too.

Though a few years ago my wife and I had a table at a Montana gun show to sell some of our books. One guy came by and started looking at them, eventually figuring out I was the "gun writer" with my name on some of the covers.

He immediately went into a rant about how "all you gun writers say the .270 isn't enough for African game," and would not listen when I tried to say I'd seen the .270 wdo fine work in Africa. In fact I'd recently assured a friend that he didn't need to buy a new rifle for his first African safari, because his .270 would work fine.

But this guy evidently held some sort of grudge against all gun writers because of what some (or maybe one) had written! He would not shut up, and ranted on for at a least a couple of minutes before moving on down the aisle.

So yeah, maybe I am a little sensitized to anybody suggesting that all gun writers say the same things!


“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck