{"id":5904,"date":"2019-07-14T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2019-07-08T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T14:58:10","slug":"reading-the-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/reading-the-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"READING THE CLASSICS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you\u2019re\nanywhere near my age demographic, you grew up reading the great gun writers of\nthe mid-Twentieth Century.&nbsp;\nAlphabetically \u2013 so as not to betray any personal preference \u2013 those\nincluded John T. Amber, Col. Charles Askins, Elmer Keith,&nbsp; Jack O\u2019Connor, Warren Page, Roy Weatherby,\nand Col. Townsend Whelen. &nbsp;I read them\nall as a young guy, though Askins and Amber were the only two I ever got to\nknow in person. (Shook Keith\u2019s hand once in a receiving line in the 1970s. He\nhad no reason to know me from Adam, but I remember a short, thick, crushingly\npowerful hand.) Talented editor Corey Graff has collected some of their best\nwork from yesteryear in the pages of the eponymous annual book in the new <em>Gun Digest Classics.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gundigeststore.com\/product\/gun-digest-classics-stories-from-the-worlds-most-popular-gun-writers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GunDigest_01-765x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5906\" width=\"383\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GunDigest_01-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GunDigest_01-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GunDigest_01-768x1029.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GunDigest_01.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Read\nWeatherby himself explaining the rationale of his famous high velocity\nWeatherby Magnum rifles. Match-winning tips from National Pistol Champion\nAskins .&nbsp; All manner of good rifle and\nhunting lore from O\u2019Connor and Page.&nbsp;\nFine points from firearms connoisseur Amber. O\u2019Connor on riflery and\ntrophy hunting (but curiously, not on the .270 cartridge he did so much to\npopularize). Keith on what he\u2019s most famous for: the .44 Magnum he helped to\ndevelop, the value of a powerful handgun always on your person in general, and\nwhy he liked big heavy bullets for hunting large game.&nbsp; Page on the 6mm rifle he helped to\npopularize, and busting myths of his time. (I hadn\u2019t known there were people\nwho thought a rifle bullet closely passing a large tree might somehow be\ndeflected off course.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And much,\nmuch more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editor Graff did an excellent pictorial article on Keith\u2019s fabulous gun collection. There are lots of old pix elsewhere that will \u201cbring you back.\u201d Even if you\u2019re younger than me (and, after all, most people are!) I think you\u2019ll enjoy <em>Gun Digest Classics. <\/em>Check it out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gundigeststore.com\/product\/gun-digest-classics-stories-from-the-worlds-most-popular-gun-writers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"www.gundigeststore.com (opens in a new tab)\">www.gundigeststore.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re anywhere near my age demographic, you grew up reading the great gun writers of the mid-Twentieth Century.&nbsp; Alphabetically \u2013 so as not to betray any personal preference \u2013 those included John T. Amber, Col. Charles Askins, Elmer Keith,&nbsp; Jack O\u2019Connor, Warren Page, Roy Weatherby, and Col. Townsend Whelen. &nbsp;I read them all as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5908,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions\/5908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}