Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters THE BIG BOOK OF GUN GACK has arrived

John,

Last year we published Eileen's latest cookbook, SAUSAGE SEASON, with spiral binding for just that reason. This year we ran out of the original hard-cover SLICE OF THE WILD copies, so reprinted it in paperback with spiral binding, so they will lie flat too. Unfortunately, we didn't make the print larger in either book, because Eileen wanted the sausage book to match the layout of SLICE.

But THE BIG BOOK OF GUN GACK does have a much larger font, for the very reason you suggest--short arms on many readers!

Ummm... John, the chapter on the .300 Wby,you have a pic of a bull elk you killed in Colorado. The caption reads "This eating-sized elk taken with a .300 Weatherby mentioned on the PREVIOUS page was a welcome addition to our freezer." There's no mention on the previous page of you getting that elk,or any page in that chapter.

Just a heads up.

Got my copy in the mail yesterday...

All I can say is WoW!

another home run John!

looking forward to a lot of enjoyable times reading a chapter here and there, during my leisure time...

Ken,

Read the caption to the close-up photo of the rifle and ammo on the previous page, and you'll find the mention of the elk.

There are some typos in this printing, including three that we decided were serious enough to include an "errata" sheet with the books shipped in the last few days. But here they are for those who didn't get the sheet:

On page 29, second line from the top. "2fps/inch rule" should read "2fps/degree rule."

At the bottom of page 421 in the last paragraph, the formula for calculating the area of a circle is described as "Pi squared times the radius" when it should read "Pi times the radius squared." But all the bore areas listed were figured correctly.

On page 427 the last line of the recoil-formula example for the .243 Winchester should read "ME 1867/174 = 10.7"

The one part of the book where there apparently aren't any typos is the loading data. That's because Eileen and I went over it several times, then gave copies to two friends who are serious handloaders and had them check it all out. Then we changed the few mistakes they found, and checked it all again several times again.

Yesterday we had to order a second printing, because in the first week we shipped about 60% of the first printing. The next one will include corrections of the above mistakes, plus a few others that weren't as important, but just puzzling. One was apparently caused by computer glitch, where the number 2/3 was somehow inserted in the middle of a word!

I can't fault you very much. You can probably believe the fun I had dealing with nagging typos when I was publishing papers about systems of differential equations and their numerical approximations which included large quantities of summations, indices, subscripts, superscripts, yadda yadda.

JB,

My two copies just arrived. I'm sure my friend will enjoy the inscription in his copy, and I do appreciate the unanticipated one in mine.

Thanks,
Dave a/k/a mathman

Gotcha.

Just picked my copy up from the mail today. Looks like I'll be staying up late tonight reading!

Thanks MD!

John: Received my copy in the mail today. I was house painting but played hooky to thumb through. Great addition to your other two books in my library. It will take all my willpower not to try to go through the book immediately, but parse it out over the cold winter nights!
thanks much!

John,
Mine arrived safe and secure. Inscriptions are great.

I saw the 2/3 thing and laughed. Also noticed a caption in a margin with no picture.

Oh the joys of publishing, eh?

Thanks to you and Eileen also.

Geno

Hi Geno,

Thanks for your sharp eye, but that's probably a sidebar, not a lonely caption. Or at least Eileen and I haven't found any like that in dozens of checks on the sidebars and captions. What page is it on?

Looking right now, had looked thru 25-20, 303 and a few others in passing. (obsessive reader, hard to stop even if I have little interest in cartridge, but loonyism rears it's ugly head!)

Yep, appears to be sidebar. My bad,, it's the one in the .303 chapter about your friend Jay. First chapter I read and was expecting picture of the "holes from the first three Sierra..."

Ooops.

Geno

PS, I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken.

Don't feel bad,it happens to the best of us.

My copy came today, so I'll have something to do when it rains. By the way - how many calibers in the book does one have to own before being a certifiable loony? Which ones are worth more points, and which ones beside the 270 deduct points?

That 9.3 B-S looks like fun. Now, to find one of those "10 zillion short Remington 700 actions" in left-hand on something I don't care to keep intact.....

The number to qualify as a CRL would depend on the cartridges. You could own 8 rifles in .223 Remington, .243 Winchester, .270 Winchester, 7mm Remington Magnum, .308 Winchester, .30-06 Springfield and .300 Winchester Magnum and just be an ORL (Ordinary Rifle Loony).

But if you own 4 rifles in .22 K-Hornet, .300 H&H, .348 WCF and .450/.400 3" you're definitely a CRL!

So, a single shot in 25-20, a lever action .256 WinMag (those two with a convertible revolver in same-same), switch bbl bolt 6x55/ 30-'06, all original mil spec 6.5, Nylon 66 & Ruger takedown .22's, 9.3x62, couple of .303's, a couple of shotguns, a M700 waiting for a decision on what to do with it (reblue, rebore, rebarrel?) and maybe some other stuff I think...

Do I get a certificate and straightjacket yet?

If not, I've got plans for new acquisitions next year.

Geno

PS, notice, no .270's.... yet.... and if one did end up in the safe, then I might change it to a .25-270 or a .30-270 or something cool.

PPS, forgot the switch bbl sidelock BP gun in .50 and .36

Lets see,4-.270's(3-Win & 1-Wby),2-.30-06's,2-.300 mag (H&H/Wby) 3-.375's (2 are H&H and 1 is a RUM) 2-35's (.358 NM & 9x57) 3-7mm (2-7x57 and 1-7mm Dakota).

Only one .25 cal and it's a .25/06.

Thanks for the info Steve. I was going to look into the same thing but hadn't made it that far.

Looks like I will need to have my well read copies bound and get some nice copies for the book shelf.

Scott

Does having an array of Savage 99s in 220 Swift, 25 Souper, 25-284, 260, 6.5-284, 338-284, and 40-55 get me a CRL or ORL badge?

Surely having 15 Winchester/USRA 70s in 25 WSSM is at least irregular loony territory.

Not enough volume for the common cartridges.

Close on the 4 rifles - vanilla 22 Hornet, 300 H&H, 35 Remington (bolt and lever) and 404 Jeffery.

Still a neophyte...gotta work on my Loony.