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Glad to hear the reports of John's death are exaggerated.

I must have misunderstood my hunting buddy's report. However, he does have the Sako .308 that Wooters made famous. He has all the paperwork and the whole 9 yds.

One of the all time greats.

Bump from the past. Any updates on John Wooters?

I came to love and respect Wooters' writing back in the early '80s when I was a kid. My favorite writers were Wooters, the late great Bob Milek and the "new kid on the block", Craig Boddington. I dearly miss the writings of Wooters and Milek but I often pull out old issues and still learn or re-learn things from them. One of my favorite Wooters articles was when he, Finn Aagaard, and Dunlop Farren hunted "wild cattle" in Texas. Seems like Boddington was in on that as well.

Yeah, the name is spelled with two T's: Wootters.

gun nut - I remember that 'wild cattle hunt'. Maybe a couple.

Didn't remember who is was.

Thanks for the reminder.

I also remember them recommending fairly heavy cals/rifles for the 'wild' cattle. There were good reasons.

Sako -

I CERTAINLY HOPE it IS the END of a trajedy.

It has been a MISTAKE and a CONSTITUTIONAL nightmare.

I hope that a book or magazine of John Wootter's articles gets published sometime. I'll buy it.

I have a piece that John wrote on cast bullets in my fovourites pile. The Jan 1983 Guns and Ammo has his writ-up on cast bullets in the various 7mm cartridges and it was and is my oft re-visited authority on the subject.
His enthusiasm for the 7x57 has him favourably remembered and his writing missed.
Best wishes for his continued good health.

Von Gruff.

I am a fan of John Wootters and Gary Sitton's writing in the mid 80's. I read a lot of their stuff in the Gun's & Ammo speciality magazines that were published then, line "Deer Rifle", All Around Hunting Rifles and other such one off publications of the time.

Wootters & Sitton-two of the very best. Both of them used rifles for turkeys and the above referenced 7x57 article by Wootters dealt with cast bullets. Great writers and much missed.

I did a quick search and discovered that Johh Wootters writes a column in the West Kerr Current.
His latest column is dated today. It is very interesting and worth the read.
http://wkcurrent.com/outrage-p1861-71.htm

Jerry

Back in 1971 I clipped an article by Wootters on the revival of the 250-3000 cartridge in the Savage M99A. I failed to record the source.

The article is printed on newsprint paper. The column was called "Versatile Handloading" and titled "Savage's Revival Of 250/3000 Cartridge Best News of Season".

By John Wootters
Associate Editor

There is a picture of Wooters wearing a silly looking cowboy hat.

Any ideas what publication this was?

Wayne

CaneSlinger, Thanks for the research and for posting the link.

beefan,
If you click on the Hunter's Guide on the left side of the page I linked previously, it goes to a good article by JW on field judging deer antlers.
I haven't been able to locate links to previous columns in that paper.

Jerry

Good piece.

Thanks for sharing this link and letting us know where John is, and that's he's doing OK.

DF

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He is/was a good writer. I learned things from his articles.

Hi Carl,

I think jwall wrote it because of sako's signature: 2012 end of an error.

Good night

Dom