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John Snow??? Never heard of him.
Can you provide any background?
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Winchester must have also restocked his .358 when it was returned to the factory as all .358s had low comb stocks....
Utterly ridiculous prices and some beat-up 70s, to boot....
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He's been the Executive Editor of OL for a while, and been doing some gun writing as part of that job.
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I met Jim at the 1999 SHOT show and talked with him briefly. Great guy and has probably forgot more about guns than most of us will ever know. "The Book of the Rifle " is a great book if anyone has ever read it I would highly recommend it. In fact he used to live in Bristol, VA which is basically the VA side of Bristol, TN.
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I met Jim at the 1999 SHOT show and talked with him briefly. Great guy and has probably forgot more about guns than most of us will ever know. "The Book of the Rifle " is a great book if anyone has ever read it I would highly recommend it. In fact he used to live in Bristol, VA which is basically the VA side of Bristol, TN. +1 I bought his Book of the Rifle when it was first published and highly recommend it to any serious student of the rifle.
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He visits Herb Reilly's gunshop in TN often. I picked up a rifle from Herb one day and Jim left two minutes before I got there. Dangit! I think Herb built a few of Jim's project guns, one of which was a Mauser 98 that was cut in half, shortened, welded back together, then prettied up. http://herbsgunshop.tripod.com/index.htm
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John, thanks for the information. I guess this shows how long it is since I read an Outdoor Life magazine since I had never heard of Mr. Snow.
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John Snow works for Fox News, did'nt know he knew anything about guns but he is from Colorado and likes to ski.
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Maybe it's just me but I wouldn't pay a premium even if they were owned by Elmer Keith or Jack O'Connor..........on the other hand if they were owned by Jeff Cooper  Mike Agree. I would pay a fair price for an Al Beisen rifle regrdless of who owned it, but I would not pay a premium just because it was owned by a writer. In 30 years, few will know the name Jim Carmichael or the names of other writers who have been dead for 50 years. If an honest provance exists for a rifle that was owned by Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas McArthur, George Washington (or some other truly famous historical person), I would pay a premium, assuming I could afford the piece.
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I don't think they'll be forgotten,I'll disagree with you there.I think their putting rediculous price's on "regular model's".I could see paying a small premium if one choose's to do so if their favorite writer was O'Connor, Carmichael,Gresham etc. Geez,I was at an auction and saw a $4000 Beretta sell for $50,000 because it belonged to Hemingway
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John Snow works for Fox News, did'nt know he knew anything about guns but he is from Colorado and likes to ski. That would be Tony Snow. He worked for Fox and later became the White House Spokesman during the third term of President Bush's second term. He had cancer, leukemia I believe, and died about a year ago. He always seemed fair Steve http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/25/AR2006042501602.html
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Steve don't confuse us with facts.
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Tony Snow had Colon Cancer, not Leukemia...
He was in remission when he took the job as press secretary at the White House. The cancer came back, he then resigned and passed away soon after.
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