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Mine came in today's mail. I read the Intro first! Thank you John and Eileen.
k2nd

Got "Gun Gack" today, and my Rifle Looney hat! Thank you John and Eileen, great stuff!

P.S. If that "triple deuce" ever gets to taking up too much room, give me shout!

Received my copy this morning.

Thanks
John and Eileen

My 4 copies arrived today.

Three are Christmas gifts for 3 hunting buddies.

Many thanks Eileen and John.

Steve

Got mine today, 10/27/15, noticed that the 25 WSSM and 256 Newton were omitted. Sadness :-(

If you're interested, I know where you can put your hands on a pretty nice Glenfield 30A.

Thanks for the heads-up, Jeff, but after writing that chapter I bought a pretty nice Model 64 Winchester .30-30.

A Winchester 64 would balance better.

John Wootters wrote about his deer camp friend, Palmer "Peg" Melton, jump shooting east Texas deer with a 64. I was looking at a Winchester 94 NRA rifle today, a 64 close, but decided that I didn't need to spend $500+/-on another 30-30 that would never get shot.

Although I'm a Marlin 336SC guy, the 30-30 that I have shot most often over the past five years is a Savage 170 pump gun.

To hi-jack this thread. I'm about half way through the book (skipping chapters on cartridges that don't interest me,sorry John) and so far really like it. Tomorrow start the chapter on 6.5-284 and 6.5-06.

Received my copy today and placed in the most honored spot in the reloading library...the back of the toilet.

John, one thought that might not be possible, but I would love to have copies of your reloading and rifle books that are either lose leaf with three holes for a three ring binder or spiral bound. I tend to crack the spine of your books because I reference them fairly often and try to get them to hold still on the reloading bench. I would buy a version like that over an e-book version any day.

Looking forward to cracking the spine on this one too!

Scott

Mine came in today. I'm packing up for an elk hunt so I've only been able to scan through it and I like what I see.

It's going with me to Colorado so if there's some dead time I'll have some good reading material.

Jeff, I totally agree about the balance. Had a Marlin 36 (not 336) rifle for a while, with the 24" barrel and half-magazine, and for the life of me cannot remember why I sold it. Either one of those or a 64 is still pretty light but hangs a lot better than the carbines!

Did own a 94 Winchester carbine for a while, but it was a .32 Special. It also happened to leave the factory the month I was born.... Can't remember why I sold that one either!

elkhunternm,

Feel free to skip any chapters you want, but usually there's some sort of useful handloading info not specific to the cartridge in each chapter. You'll probably read them when you're really bored anyway....

True,I do get bored rather quickly.

SWJ,


Good idea! We have been publishing Eileen's latest cookbooks in spiral bound format for that very reason. Lots of people want them to lay flat on the counter. Will consider that for sure.

Not many of either her cookbooks or my technical gun books are likely to show up as e-books, because apparently the format really garbles tables and data, whether teaspoons of seasonings or grains of powder.

navlav8r,

Hopefully the "dead time" you experience will be with dead elk instead of the other kind!

I have some late 1940's and early 1950's vintage 94s in 25-35, 30-30, and 32WS, but I haven't taken any of them out of their long term storage boxes for several years.

You know that you have too much stuff when it stops being "real" and is just a list of letters and numbers in an EXCEL file.

The only 94 I have right now is a an octagon-barreled rifle made in 1898, so it's actually a Model 1894. Has been hunted some, but also has the original factory-option sights, a 3-leaf rear and a Beach flip-over with an ivory bead and a globe post. Somehow that one has stuck....

JB,
I picked up my copy from the Shop today and have gone thru the first seven chapters, including the READ THIS FIRST Introduction. Looks like another good reading and reference book. Lots of good stuff so far. I may have to skip over a few chapters to see what you've got to say about my favorites since it's getting late here in Kentucky but I assure you I'll read it all.

Got mine today to be a birthday gift for my father. Had to flip the pages carefully as to not make it obvious I've read through it before giving it to him.

I always got books from my father for birthdays and Christmas.

He had a bunch of friends who, like him, were avid readers.

And I never got a book that had not been read by 6-8 people. But you could not tell because they took very good care of it.

I found out about the book rotation when one of his friends told me that he had read the book. Not a copy, but the one I got as a present.

Steve