For my money, Charles Newton deserves far more posthumous recognition than the currently canonized P O Ackley. Newton originated a bunch of superb cartridges AND a pretty darn good set of actions. He just saw too far ahead with his designs and not well enough up close with his business. A number of his best cartridges suffered from their use of special-size cases -- and are now being virtually raised from the dead in the form of "new cartridges" recently introduced. He was definitely far in advance of the rest of the shooting world, and it didn't help that -- as Jennings (below) has revealed -- the "experts" of the day published a lot of stuff about his cartridges that just wasn't accurate (a problem for both designers and readers to this day!).
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<br>Bruce M Jennings, Jr, tagged Newton accurately in the title of his excellent 1984 book, "Charles Newton -- Father of High Velocity." I hope Jennings still has copies available. His address is 70 Metz Road; Sheridan, WY 82801. The OLD phone number that I have MAY still be good -- 307-674-6921
