Mesabi you have a very discerning, if not, critical nose. I have to agree to a point that Renner writes well and spins a seductive promotional yarn. He is after all selling his rifles and like Weatherby, Keith, Phil Sharpe, Harry Pope and legions of gun builders and writers takes some liberty with the facts. But I think the man is a true craftsman and as such should be able to excercise some privilege just like so many others. You can’t sell high dollar custom rifles telling the public they are pretty good. I may be wrong on the definition but “ huckster “ kind of implies a certain level of deceit or crap and I’d like to think he is not that. Sounds like you are a man with very discriminating tastes and lovely rifles

Regards
Rick