Jim Carmichel's writing had a great influence on me - easily more than any other writer in my younger years. I subscribed to Outdoor Life and American Rifleman then. I soon had a 280 and I had to have a 338 Win Mag. "The Compleat Just Jim" second edition - 1981. Is on my reading pile - what a sense of humor. I know I have a gun smithing book from him also, maybe some other book(s)???
I think it was reading his gun smithing book that made me think I could make rifle stocks. After building a few I realized that my talents were "not so much", though I keep trying - especially when in quarantine for a year.
