I'd always read Jack's piece in OL before anything else. To the point that, when I got out of the Army in '74, I searched until I found a .30/06 Parker-Ballard Mauser with 24" (not 22), featherweight contour barrel, lighter and better balanced than all the Rugchestingtons. Second rifle was a Mannlicher stocked 7x57, which has acquired two siblings along the way. We won't discuss the three .257 Roberts. JOC influence? Well, maybe a bit.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard
