Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters The March 2018 Rifle magazine

Dang just re-read my earlier reply Barseness not Baseless - damn the spell checker!!!!

I'm grateful to Dave Scovill for the development of 45-270-SAA bullet, a .452 slug that falls out of my molds at 280 grains as a solid and maybe 20 grains less as a hollow point. I'm really happy with Brian Pearce's writing in general and especially pleased with his writing about reloading the 45-270-SAA in both .45 Auto Rim and the 3 different pressure levels in .45 Colt.

The Auto Rim load pushes a 280 bullet from my S&W 625 close to 900 fps with little blast or recoil, but good Lord when it hits a steel plate it seems to slap it down twice as hard as a +p 230 grain load does. I have yet to take any deer with it but I'm sure it would produce clean kills at moderate range.

I use the midrange .45 Colt loads in a .45 Colt Mountain Gun at about 1000 fps. I have that revolver set up with an Ultra Dot red dot sight and enjoy making the steel clang father away.... If a collected works of Brian Pearce ever becomes available I'll buy it....

I think everybody enjoys John's writing.... the focus he and his wife gives to hunting for the meat resonates well with both my wife and I.... we are "trophy meat hunters".

I thot you were being TnC ! (tongue-in-cheek)


Jerry

Unfortunately this seems to be the trend.

Jerry

I have 15 years or so piled in an old trunk for safekeeping of Rifle and Handloader. A few copies are on my headboard for those nights I can go to bed and keep my eyes open for awhile. Been electronic sub for 3 or 4 years now. Have most on a thumb drive for an occasional look. That said I agree with most about the writing talent. John B is head and shoulders. Clair Reese was a joke. Scovill, Pearce, Haviland and others are good. Weiland is enjoyable and reminds me of Ross Seifried who I miss greatly because of his knowledge of the old stuff like Terry. Ken Waters can't be replaced. But I am at the age and I have read so many it is getting repetitive. I will read anyway because it is what I do.

I think for the most part, the "glory days" of the gun/hunting rags and writers has passed and it is a lot tougher business to gain and maintain a good reputation in then it was, way "back in the day". In many ways, the hunter is slowly being replaced by the hunter/shooter who, thanks to the internet has access to much more information then the hunters/shooters of yester year.

When Elmer, Jack, Askins, Skelton, Finn, Grits, Capstick, Cooper and others were in their hey day, much of what they wrote was taken as gospel and they opened up a big world of hunting and shooting to millions of sportsman.

Now days one can hop on the internet and read about any thing they want to pertaining to shooting and hunting. If it was not for the latest craze called "long range hunting", gun magazines would be really thin. If we took out the rifle scopes resembling Hubble telescopes that are all the rage and the latest 6.5 wonder cartridge, they would be even thinner.

Also, the opportunity for todays writers to do certain things is not there like they used to be for gun writers from yesterday. Bag limits, lengthy hunting seasons, etc. are not there like they used to be. How many gun writers go on one or two month all species hunts now days?

I have a bit of sympathy for ethical and honest gun writers who work hard and try to put out informative articles. Articles based on their own personal experiences, or some good technical information they are passing along and credit to another source they consider reliable. Those kind of writers keep my interest and I learn from them.

I don't see the future being that good for gun magazines, hope I am wrong.

I’m down to Handloader, all I take now.

I've always been amazed that JB and Phil S. come on this forum and comment and answer questions. Usually a bunch of know nothing internet wise guys run their mouths to the point that people like that leave.

If the currant liberal censorship of the IN continues then paper magazines may make a comeback as the ability to e-publish shooting and hunting information becomes more difficult.

Will they be distributed in plain brown wrappers like porno mags back in the day?

How do you know they came in plain brown wrappers??