Writing articles is not the way to make much money either. I wrote what is still the definitive - because it is the only - article on the development of the .22 Hornet for Gun Digest about ten years ago. Probably represented five years of intermittent research, some of it quite intensive, lots of telephone, photo and postage expense - today would use email. Paid $500 as I recall and I subsequently got their annual John Amber award of a thousand bucks more. I then wrote two more Hornet articles with the help of Dick Wright, the benchrest ace who worked up 5/8" handloads for Townsend Whelen's gun, for Precision Shooting, which added another bit of money. After the whole business I figured out that I had not come even close to earning minimum federal hourly wage.
