If you like the oldies and dead writers, have a present on a slow server:
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZ47SecPyF6Z8D...dv4ZVXXXWSzYRv
If you like the oldies and dead writers, have a present on a slow server:
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZ47SecPyF6Z8D...dv4ZVXXXWSzYRv
Well, this guy named @jetfire sometimes has something worthwhile to say.
"The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so."
― Ennius
I just re-upped my sub to Handloader after many years. Holy crap it’s good.
Ignore Alien Orders
I have my grandpa’s Gun Digest collection, complete until 1997 except for the second edition. I started buying them for a while ago after he passed in 97 but as time went on, it seemed that the technical knowledge in the articles was declining.
I stopped adding to my Gun Digest collection some years back. Have most of them, missing six of the early ones. Have the first 18 Handloader's Digests. Lost my enthusiasm for it. I try to keep in mind that it's just my viewpoint. Back in the early Nineties I was in my mentor's one station cellar range with a few others. I was reading a gun mag while waiting my turn. My friend looked over at me and said, "It doesn't seem like gun magazines are as good as they used to be. They don't have the real interesting articles they used to have." I looked at him and had no clue what he meant. Ten years later I understood completely. Any time I picked up a magazine, it was- " Ho hum, another article about caliber x versus caliber y. Revolver versus semi-auto. Seen it six or eight times before. Seen it done better. Ho hum." I try hard to remember that there is a steady stream of newcomers to whom it's all fresh and new. It does get exasperating sometimes to see something that's been around forever presented as new and original, as if no one ever thought of it before. I'm getting old and cynical, I try to keep that in mind.
Knowledge increases with each generation, but wisdom dies off.
I do believe that most current gunwriting is more marketing and salespitching than it used to be, but that is what the present world seems to be about. Guys like Roy Dunlap and Phil Sharpe would probably have to wear gun gaming shirts with multi-nat corporate logos to sell books or articles these days.
gn
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