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And one more interesting thing. After many years developing .243's and .244's and testing on various animals he said (in the context of African game): "These real lightweights belong on the seventy-five to two-hundred-pound animals like puku, impala, Tommies, Grants, and such and only on them." And they should "be used in Africa by people both highly sensitive to recoil and not insensitive to the appeal of common sense."
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Wasnt he a big 22 Hornet fanatic? Or am I thinking about another gun writer? Townsend Whelen was.
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Page won the Weatherby award.
He was an avid hunter of very big mule deer. He hunted them during the late season in the “four corners” where Utah Arizona Colorado and New Mexico came together. In those days you could buy four late season tags and take four really big mule deer.
His favorite outfit for those hunts was a 6.5-270 Improved. Gene Simillion has the original reamer. 22” bbl & 140 Partitions.
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Page won the Weatherby award.
He was an avid hunter of very big mule deer. He hunted them during the late season in the “four corners” where Utah Arizona Colorado and New Mexico came together. In those days you could buy four late season tags and take four really big mule deer.
His favorite outfit for those hunts was a 6.5-270 Improved. Gene Simillion has the original reamer. 22” bbl & 140 Partitions. That sounds like a ripper 6.5 Rick. I think I could do a bunch of hunting with such a rifle myself. Sounds near the 6.5 RPM.
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Gene Simillion also has an original 7mm Mashburn reamer that he got from Keith Stegall, who built a rifle or two for Page.
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Warren Page also developed the 240 Page Super Pooper by necking down the then new 308W case. He presented it to Winchester but they turned it down....and then released it as the 243 Winchester. -Al Al, the neck-down of the .308 was the .240 Page Pooper. The .240 "Souper Pooper" was a neck-down and shoulder blow-out of the 7 x 57 case - named as such because he wanted something that would "poop" on the .25 Souper which was the .308 necked down to .25 which some argued was superior to his .240 Page Pooper on the .308 case. Yes...you're correct on the Pooper/Super Pooper cartridges. It's a shame the 25 Souper (25-308) never made it into production. Good shootin'  -Al
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My dad flew the backcountry here in Montana as a pilot for hire. Sometime around 1954 or 55 Warren Page had dad fly him to elk camp in Cody, WY. Page showed up at the Billings airport with around a dozen rifles! Dad said he was an excellent conversationalist which made for an enjoyable flight.
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Brad,
That had to be when Page hunted with Les Bowman, another rifle loony and frequent gun writer. No doubt they did some "test shooting" together at Bowman's place!
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I had one of his rifles. A .25 super on a Mauser action with a Timney trigger, a Douglas #2 air gauged barrel sitting in a Fajen stock. It sure was pretty. A friend of mine that was a gunsmith and an occasional writer for a few gun rags now has it. We have wacked a few critters with it.
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Brad,
That had to be when Page hunted with Les Bowman, another rifle loony and frequent gun writer. No doubt they did some "test shooting" together at Bowman's place! John, I always assumed it was Bowman's camp!
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Might have been Bowman's ranch, where he had an airstrip, and of course shooting ranges. If I recall correctly, Bowman horsepacked his hunters into the hunting camp from there--but it's been a while since I read about it.
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Great stories Brad and John. A time when I got a snippet of it in Craig Colorado in high school (I will be 61 tomorrow). I missed a very large mule deer there knowing nothing about hunting mule deer let alone shooting a rifle well. Too funny looking back. This from a California Bay Area boy.
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Might have been Bowman's ranch, where he had an airstrip, and of course shooting ranges. If I recall correctly, Bowman horsepacked his hunters into the hunting camp from there--but it's been a while since I read about it. I need to pin my dad down where he flew him to. He may or may not remember, as he's just 2 mo's away from his 94th birthday.
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Great stories Brad and John. A time when I got a snippet of it in Craig Colorado in high school (I will be 61 tomorrow). I missed a very large mule deer there knowing nothing about hunting mule deer let alone shooting a rifle well. Too funny looking back. This from a California Bay Area boy. Happy Birthday Ed! We're the same age (I turned 61 in June).
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Great stories Brad and John. A time when I got a snippet of it in Craig Colorado in high school (I will be 61 tomorrow). I missed a very large mule deer there knowing nothing about hunting mule deer let alone shooting a rifle well. Too funny looking back. This from a California Bay Area boy. Happy Birthday Ed! We're the same age (I turned 61 in June). I turned 61 last October.
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How did I not see this thread earlier. Great comments fellas!
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For anyone who is a researcher, Warren Page's family donated his personal papers to the American Heritage Center at University of Wyoming. They are open to the public for research. An index to them is available here
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv777427
I suspect there is some insight into the professional man here.
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