The dead gunwriter threads reminded me of Pete Brown, once the gun editor of SA, IIRC. What I recall of him was some positive things he wrote about the Remington 760 in .222, the Savage 340 chambered for the same round, and his attempt to kill a grizzly bear with a 7x57 and/or a .308. Looked in my copy of The Best of Sports Afield and it appears he didn’t make the quality cut, or perhaps he ran off with the publisher's wife or committed some other literary sin.
Anyone else?
Pete Brown got the gun-writer job at SA because he'd been in ordnance during WWII, but was a mediocre writer.
I always wondered why SA didn't make John Jobson the gun columnist during that era, because he was a far better writer, which brought across his enthusiasm for firearms in the hunting stories he wrote. Instead he was the "camping" columnist, which such magazines usually included back then, when they were trying to cover everything from hunting to fishing, and other things that might involve both, such as camping, boats, etc. But I also suspect that Jobson might have known that he might have been bored covering shooting/guns, because back then some of Brown's columns were reports of various shooting competitions.