doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Silent Doubles - In Memorium On another site: "Passing of Michael McIntosh"

If enriching the lives of others is part of why we're here, then he did a first class, A+ job. We always laugh about him referring to the side by side with the twin poly chokes installed as "very nearly the d*mndest thing I ever saw!" Thanks Mr. M.

Such terribly sad news. Mr.McIntosh was one of the most interesting and dynamic sporting writers of this or any other generation. I have enjoyed his entire body of work always looking forward to the next. I borrowed from his style in my own writings knowing that it never quite reached his par.

I write this with a heavy heart tonight, Mr.McIntosh will be deeply missed and my most sincere condolences do out to his wife, family, & friends.

Sorry to hear of this, a great loss.

Mac did what many of us only pretend to do.

Sincere sympathy to Crossed Chisels and the many others who loved the man.

Hopefully, Mac and Jethro are somewhere in an autumn wood catching-up.


C. K.

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Very sad news. Lord have mercy on the man's soul, his remaining family, and friends.

What was the cause of his passing?

This is awful new's.......and at 66,there was much,much more life ahead for him.....I am truly saddend by this,his work's are high on the pedastel for me,I really hope he passed peacefully being with someone or doing something he loved..... honestly ,when it come's right down to it that's all any of us can really wish for.

Sad day

Very sad news to hear that even here in Belgium.I liked his dynamic style of writing. I knew him from his books I have a signed copy from his book "The big bore Rifle and his book "Best Guns". Again an American legend is gone to soon.
Marc.

I believe he'd had heart problems previously. I did not know him, but I think we can bless him for resurrecting the side by side from the ash heap of history. And if we jokingly blame him for the fact that classic American doubles cost so much . . . I expect he might chuckle right along with the rest of us.

Very sad news. I never met him in person, but we talked on the phone a couple times and he was kind enough to write the foreword to my MacQuarrie bio. He never asked for anything other than a signed copy of the book. I had hoped to shake his hand one day.

What MM wrote of being accidentally shot by a good friend while ruffed grouse hunting in our Minnesota woods was a work of remarkable grace.

Jay

We have lost the finest prose stylist -- ever -- to write about guns. It is the end of an era, one Michael helped create.

He was in intense physical pain when I visited him in late June -- yet till the very end he still intended to go to the Fieldsports Shooting School this week. He loved his craft, and was a master at it, and he loved loved words and shooting and guns and the folks he met through them.

Damn, I will miss him.