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Not many will probably be familiar with the name Jim Kjelgaard. He wrote fiction geared toward boys. His most famous work was Big Red. Anyway I was in love with his books as a kid and the main characters in his books almost always used 30-30 rifles. Even though I grew up in a 30-06 family his books are responsible for my lifelong love affair with the 30-30. And he wasn't even a gunwriter.
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Not many will probably be familiar with the name Jim Kjelgaard. He wrote fiction geared toward boys. His most famous work was Big Red. Anyway I was in love with his books as a kid and the main characters in his books almost always used 30-30 rifles. Even though I grew up in a 30-06 family his books are responsible for my lifelong love affair with the 30-30. And he wasn't even a gunwriter. Did you read Firehunter by Kjelgaard? My favorite of his.
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Not many will probably be familiar with the name Jim Kjelgaard. He wrote fiction geared toward boys. His most famous work was Big Red. Anyway I was in love with his books as a kid and the main characters in his books almost always used 30-30 rifles. Even though I grew up in a 30-06 family his books are responsible for my lifelong love affair with the 30-30. And he wasn't even a gunwriter. Did you read Firehunter by Kjelgaard? My favorite of his. I can't remember that one specifically. Was that more about prehistoric hunting? I may well have. My local library had so many of his books and I read them all. I still have a half dozen or so that I purchased of his.
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Moosemike, yes it was. A young, prehistoric man and injured girl are banished from the group, and fend for themselves.
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250 Savage and most definitely Larry Koller.
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Pretty much all of them, but a few special mentions
280 Rem - pretty much every gun writers of the 80s/90s favorite. Still one of my favorites
35 Whelen - Milek and Boddington wrote some articles on the Whelen when it first came out and had a young rifle loony( at the time) dreaming of one. Still think it is great!
257 roberts - O’Connor / Mule Deer had me hankering for one. After trying several, never stuck with me
7-08 - Haviland - John’s articles of hunting with his kids with one got me wanting one. Despite still thinking it is about the most sensible deer round never stuck with me either
7x57 - O’Connor, Mule Deer, Aagaard - very similar story to the 257 Roberts with me. Classy round but moved on as never caught the bug
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25-35 because of Olive A. Fredrickson's book with co-author Ben East, Silence Of The North.
250-3000 because of Larry Koller
257 Roberts and 7x57 because of JOC
256 Newton because of EK
6.5x54 because of Roy Chapman Andrews
6.5x55 because of Francis Sell
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I suppose I could blame Jim Carmichael for the first 260 Remington I purchased. The 4 or 5 that followed were all me. Guess that's what makes a rifle loony.
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Moosemike, yes it was. A young, prehistoric man and injured girl are banished from the group, and fend for themselves. This just unlocked a core childhood memory. Another of his books that was really cool: Boomerang Hunter. Along those same lines of fictional books leading to wanting a cartridge, Deathwatch by Robb White. The young hunting guide in the book carries a 22 Hornet, which I thought was just so cool.
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Moosemike, yes it was. A young, prehistoric man and injured girl are banished from the group, and fend for themselves. This just unlocked a core childhood memory. Another of his books that was really cool: Boomerang Hunter. Along those same lines of fictional books leading to wanting a cartridge, Deathwatch by Robb White. The young hunting guide in the book carries a 22 Hornet, which I thought was just so cool. I have Boomerang Hunter. But my faves were Big Red, A Nose For Trouble, Trailing Trouble, Stormy, and Wild Trek. And the main characters all used 30-30 rifles
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The illustrious 9.3x62. Having spent over a decade killing everything with a .375 once I read JB on the 9.3 and realized I could have the same thing in any '06 sized gun, the die was cast. The theory was proven to be correct, and now after a decade of killing with the 9.3x62 I must say it's about the wisest cartridge choice I've yet made. 9.3X62 ,but I think it was the old Hunt America site that put it on my radar.
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Now I have to reread some Kjelgaard
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Moosemike, yes it was. A young, prehistoric man and injured girl are banished from the group, and fend for themselves. This just unlocked a core childhood memory. Another of his books that was really cool: Boomerang Hunter. Along those same lines of fictional books leading to wanting a cartridge, Deathwatch by Robb White. The young hunting guide in the book carries a 22 Hornet, which I thought was just so cool. The "clients" rifle in Deathwatch was quite a mashup: a Mauser action, Winchester stock and a Weatherby barrel in .340, IIRC.
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35 Whelen: from my crazy uncles on the campfire.
7mm-08: from reader suggestions made when I was a pro-staffer at Deer & Deer Hunting.
308 WIN: again, from my crazy uncles on the campfire. They were all pushing me towards a 99 in 300 Savage, but I decided to buy the 308 WIN and download the rounds to 300 Savage levels. I couldn't be happier.
44 Magnum: You'll laugh, but Clay Harvey convinced me that I wanted one.
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Oh no, I'm not falling for this again. Some writer somewhere sometime had talked me into getting a .410, .221 Fireball, .222, .222 RM, 6mm, .25-20, .257 Roberts, 7mm-08, .300 Savage and a .35 Remington. Then because none of them was a 12 gauge, .223, .243 or a .308 the ammunition became obsolete and or so prohibitively expensive that I didn't even want to shoot up what I had. The used market for a firearm with no available factory loaded ammunition was as dead as the cartridges. Like most of you, I have hankered for lots more rifles than I've bought, but thank goodness I've stifled that urge and only saddled myself with ten relics from the past. I see all the whiz bang new cartridge offerings in the last couple of decades and can only wonder where they will be in a few years?
My other auto is a .45
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Moosemike, yes it was. A young, prehistoric man and injured girl are banished from the group, and fend for themselves. This just unlocked a core childhood memory. Another of his books that was really cool: Boomerang Hunter. Along those same lines of fictional books leading to wanting a cartridge, Deathwatch by Robb White. The young hunting guide in the book carries a 22 Hornet, which I thought was just so cool. The "clients" rifle in Deathwatch was quite a mashup: a Mauser action, Winchester stock and a Weatherby barrel in .340, IIRC. I have it in my mind that the client had a 358 Norma Mag, but it's been a long time since reading the book.
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Now I have to reread some Kjelgaard 👍
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John Taffin convinced me that life w/o a 475 Linebaugh wasn't worth living - my first custom revolver
PA Benchrest shooters made the 300 Wby a must have
Tom Gresham is currently forcing me to re-explore the quarter bore and mainly a 257 Roberts
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IHMSA made me get a 445 SuperMag and 357 Maximum
"Hondo" Taylor or another "ol time" PH writer convinced me the the 6.5 bore was the cat's meow. I'm still a 6.5 fan even though the CM almost turned me against it.
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