Page was a great gunwriter.While not as widely acclaimed as O'Connor he was more experimental and technically oriented.VERY experienced and well travelled hunter,who went about everywhere you legally could in those days.
He loved wildcats and his favorite rifle/cartridge combo was a rifle he called,I think,"Old Betsy", a Mauser actioned 7mm Mashburn(long?).He used almost exclusively a 175 gr bullet loaded to a bit over 3000 fps on just about everything. Another was a Remington 721 rebarreled and stocked at Weatherby(by Leonard Mews?) chambered for the 375 Weatherby Mag, a blown-out version of the H&H.Also a 35 Mashburn of some type.
He was a great writer with a different style from O'Connor, but just as interesting, I thought.It would be hard to assemble a better bunch of outdoor writers in one place than the group that wrote for Field&Stream in the 50's. Unlikely you ever see that kind of talent assembled under one cover again.
