As a relative neophyte to the gun writing business (only a couple of dozen articles published so far) a totally agree with what has been said. Getting paid at all for your work is the first hurdle, and getting enough to make it worth doing, for all but the select few in the upper echelon of writers for major magazines is even more difficult. It really is pretty much a labor of love. I would like to publicly acknowledge the encouragement I received from Rudi Prusok and John Campbell to take the things I was interested in and researching anyway and submit them for publication.
Since I came from the realm of Biology, I was familiar with that style of writing, but more importantly the research that goes into scientific papers, so for my "major articles" I use that, then try to transfer that content into a more casual popular style of prose. I really appreciate the positive feedback I have received over the last few years from quite a number of you. And for those wondering about the collection of Steve Durren's and JD Steele's articles on the Roller, be patient, life got in the way and I still have to get that onto the front burner again.
Froggie
