King, I have no idea why the recent flap over MM's essay on the obsolescence of choke? It appeared in Shooting Sportsman yrs. ago and in a volume of collected columns from same also published several yrs. ago. Exaggeration and over-simplification "sets the hook". On the one hand but then on the other frequently doesn't.

I did get to meet him (actually I suppose I accosted him like a groupie) at Sandanona at the VC. He was wearing his kiltie, sporran, knee sox and flashes. I gushed about the enjoyment he gave me. He said "Thanks." Always in my pantheon of wordsmiths.

jack