Page was a great writer, and 'One Man's Wilderness' is one of my all-time favorite big game hunting books.
Today's F&S is a pathetic, far cry from what it was when Warren Page was the gun editor, and it's a far cry from what it was when Bob Brister held that position. Like Page, Brister was one of the truly great, largely unsung shooting/hunting writers, but like Page, he really knew his stuff; he had deep and wide experience, and he was a superb writer.
Today, the shooting column is often a sophmoric, two-page shallow effort, and between the "how-to" and transparent marketing themes, as well as a turning away from anything but hunting whitetails and elk with the lastest off-the-shelf Wunder Gun, the whole magazine has lost most of its former class, depth, glamor, and substance.
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