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<blockquote data-quote="ofbandg" data-source="post: 1844132" data-attributes="member: 91402"><p>My biggest beef with many gun writers of the recent past, (that's post second war to me), and even present day writers is how they represent themselves as hunters. They may know about rifles and cartridges because they visit the factories, and major shows, and establish contacts with the manufacturers, but most of their hunts are guided and all are about killing a particular animal. I suppose you have to justify the expense to your editor and come up with a punch line for your story but I can't identify with it as a hunter. I understand that they need guides to be successful when they travel to a place they have never been, and it helps to sell a story if you are successful, but they aren't the kind of stories I would go back and re-read. The stories I do re-read are the older ones where writers took trips that lasted months and were required to take part in the chores. In those the hunt is the real story and not the killing. What I find truly maddening is when any gun writer gets a new rifle or cartridge in their hands and they race out and find something to kill just so they can write about it. It is usually a no brainer that whatever they are testing will do the job.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ofbandg, post: 1844132, member: 91402"] My biggest beef with many gun writers of the recent past, (that's post second war to me), and even present day writers is how they represent themselves as hunters. They may know about rifles and cartridges because they visit the factories, and major shows, and establish contacts with the manufacturers, but most of their hunts are guided and all are about killing a particular animal. I suppose you have to justify the expense to your editor and come up with a punch line for your story but I can't identify with it as a hunter. I understand that they need guides to be successful when they travel to a place they have never been, and it helps to sell a story if you are successful, but they aren't the kind of stories I would go back and re-read. The stories I do re-read are the older ones where writers took trips that lasted months and were required to take part in the chores. In those the hunt is the real story and not the killing. What I find truly maddening is when any gun writer gets a new rifle or cartridge in their hands and they race out and find something to kill just so they can write about it. It is usually a no brainer that whatever they are testing will do the job. [/QUOTE]
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