I know this partly due to reading some of his notes, when his widow Berit brought them to a shooting event hosted by gunsmith Charlie Sisk some years ago in Texas. But also know Jim Carmichel, and know that he kept not just logs but EVERY target he fired. Thought maybe he quit doing that when he retired a few years ago, but am in the process of buying one of Jim's target rifles, and he's going to include a bunch of handloading notes and targets.
Didn't those notes enhance the value of the rifle for you?
I'm in the process of selling all my guns and I know those few I've sold had increased value to some of the buyers because of the targets and data on those rifles. It would for me if I were buying a rifle. Not a writer but you just can't keep track of things if you own more than one or two rifles and I think it makes them more "saleable".
