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Jeff,

I did some more digging in my library and reference, and the more I dug the more complex it got--including partly involving my correspondence with Doug Murray, author of The Ninety-Nine, A History of the Savage Model 99 Rifle. Doug passed away in 2008, so this was a while ago.

Dunno if I have your e-mail address, but it would probably easier to do it that way rather than here.

Seems like DigitalDan is a bit of a misnomer. Maybe AnalogDan would be a better fit?

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I had a subscription in the early years of Sporting Classics. I allways read Robert Jones first he could really tell a story without fugging up the facts as applicable. His untimely passing made me realize he was the attraction to SC mag and when my sub expired I didn't re up it. Pinckney was there and his writing didn't get it for me. Even back then I had no use for the msm slant on everything. Inaccurate facts and bullchit lines just don't fly for me. You can get that in less that a second turning on the TV. You guys like him it's OK by me . I like people with credibility not enough time in life left for bullchit period . Laughs yes bs no..mb

Well that was certainly why I started this thread😜

Seems it worked.

No. I think Practical Dan is a better fit. Form follows function.

It certainly did.

One more time!

Thanks for posting. Interesting reading.

I usually ignore technical errors because everybody makes them (some seldom; some often). If I never made a mistake, I might be more critical.
I am fond of early to mid-20th century technology; in firearms, motorcycles and cars. Even my more modern rifles were cutting edge in 1975. If I could buy a brand new '56 Chevy, that's what I would be driving. My new car won't even let me flash someone the bright lights!
All in all, not a great article but containing some truths. GD

Roger has written some good books about living in the Lowcountry, he’s a hoot in person. I’m not too upset by his mistake.

Yes, everybody makes mistakes, but one of the things I learned early on about being a professional writer is to make an effort to keep them to a minimum.

I would not be upset by "his mistake," if there were only one--not several in a relatively short article.

That's in the same vein as fiction writers who make wild mistakes concerning gun stuff. Female mystery writers are the worst, in general, which is why I've been avoiding them. Probably a somewhat misogynistic attitude, but it's my attitude and I'm sticking with it!

Great article. But I'm a little longer in the tooth age wise.

You’ve got to love the campfire. An article whose claim is that nothing SIGNIFICANT has changed in many decades, if not a century is followed by a discussion about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, lol.

A statement about the lack of available ammo is attacked for being inaccurate because ammo was available, just not reliable?

Did Ken Howell just re-incarnate?

Yep!

There's not only been significant advances in rifles, bullets and powders, but optics. Before WWII no rifle scopes were sealed against moisture--the reason many if not most scoped rifles before the war were equipped with detachable scope mounts, often high enough to allowing aiming with irons even without removing the scope.

Plus, very few scopes featured coated lenses, because Zeiss came up with coatings during the 1930s.

One thing I have noticed frequently over the decades is how many hunters form their notions of perfect rifles (and scopes, cartridges, etc.) by around 40 years of age--and then never change 'em.

One of my local friends in Montana, who I lost track of maybe a decade ago, decided by 40 that pre-'64 Model 70 Winchesters and the Weaver steel-tube scopes made in El Paso, Texas were the finest ever made. He was so certain of this that he often offered to loan friends his Model 70s with Texas Weavers so they could experience all that excellence themselves.

That’s probably true about a wide variety of things, not just those items.

I think this forum is living proof - it would be interesting if everyone's actual age were posted under their "Join Date."

I'm 74 and pretty comfortable with that Model 70/El Paso Weaver concept! It's one of those cases where logic says otherwise but it's just comfortable. GD

I will be 72 in just under two weeks.




In the 90's and mid 2000's if anyone predicted that that I'd be owning anything but heavy barreled magnums and repeaters, I'd have said they were nutz.

I would never thought I would be acquiring




Quarter-Bores




Sako's



Cooper Single-Shot Bolt Actions



Mannlicher Stocked Rifles



Straight pull European Bolt guns



Double Rifles

and as of late, O/U Combinations,



223 Rem/30-06 Springfield



12 gauge/308 Win w/ 222 Insert (Einstecklauf)

I even have my eye on a Drieling (Drilling).

I still consider myself to be an un-reconstructed red-neck, so I don't whether I have evolved or just have gone nutz.


Quien Sabe,


GWB

I'd like to think the 30-30 still holds that record. I still see a good number of them in the Woods. I know I was prowling the snow filled landscape with Winchester 94 in tow today.