It was Elmer Keith's enthusiasm writing in G&A about how much better the 1965 Model 70 was than the pre-64 that suckered me into buying my first deer rifle. I suppose that I should let my Elmer grudge go after 55 years, but I learned a valuable lesson that advertising dollars direct and finance gun writer writing and seldom is heard a discouraging word. JB did write a nice synthetic stock article in the new Rifle magazine for those of you interested.


My other auto is a .45

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory