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Pete

"Was it all over when the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor?"

Hell no! We took the fight to them at San Juan hill, then beat the daylights out of them at the Little Big Horn.

That wuz the Koreans we whupped on the greasy grass crick..

I have to agree with Stan, a very good article written by a very good writer. Plus Tom is probably the most knowledgeable person around that knows L.C. Smiths.
As for the slip-up on the date, I know I missed it and I'm sure most did, to me not a big deal, does it mean anything, no, just a mistake. Some people always look for faults in someone else's work, no matter if it is writing or gun smithing.

As a little side note in defense of rabbit, although he doesn't need it, about the late Ed Muderlak, I agree with Jack, he thought he knew about everything because he wrote a few books, well he didn't.

Rabbit:
My apologies. I really don't know "who" you are.

Could you be Jack O'Connor... no, he's dead.
Could you be Michael MacIntosh... no, he's dead, too.
Could you be Thomas Wolfe... nah. He's a gentleman.
Could you be Vic Ventners... let's hope not.
Oh, maybe you're Tom Clancey... but that would be a slight to Tom.

Gawd, what was I thinking! I know who you are now!
You're a tasteless, unsophisticated boor who belittles others to assuage your own inadequacies! Now, that makes sense.

PS: You're also a sheep. If you believe I'm ed g.

Thanks for the thought, Pete- but your $20 against the $500 buy in to be a Lifer might be better spent on some shotguns shells, or something really worthwhile. Being a LIFER there does NOT keep you free from insults and demeaning accusations from other LIFERS, even if you are a "Full Bird Junior Birdman" apparently.

I had thought about taking a Life membership there, as I am a LIFER in the ATA and NRA- but as they say about life (Donald Sutherland in "The Eagle has Landed" for example) "it's all about the footwork and the timing"--

I probably set the wheels in motion for that "Banishment B.S. scenario" when I dared to mention that some DFP from the Nutmegger State used the possessive apostrophe in a very well written article about a clays schutzenfest "Out East"- you know, where you "Paaark Da Caaar in Da Haaavaaard yaard"--That probably cost me my Merit badges and sash- the rest was just a matter of time-

I took that $500 I thus saved, and used it in part to buy a 1928 M12 field grade 28" full Nickel Steel for a friend I made (he lives across the pond, but that's another story) who may be visiting the USA in the Fall of 2012-- He had found one with some "issues" over there, with the pound/dollar and VAT- it would have made a similar "nuts and bolts" M12 cost him the equal of $950 US of A dollars- and there ain't no m12 field grade 12 gauge worth that in today's market, IMO.

I like the Muderlak Parker books I have in my library-and even though we don't have a legal dove season here in MI- I prefer extractors to ejectors, as he said he did for doves in Illinois-- and when I use a 12 bore double for barn pigeons or crows, as I reload AA's- not having to 'shag' empties is an advantage- Also a safety feature, as most of the farms where I blast pigeons have cattle and even swine- and they could pick up a fired plastic empty hull, ingest it and the end result could be a big vet's bill, and the possible loss of shooting rights for me- Unthinkable-

I don't know if the late Mr. Ed Muderlak was a Lifer, and if so, the only one in their long fine history since 1993 to have been banned from posting or not-a moot point- I am going to let my annual paid up membership expire in August 2012- and it ain't all bad news, many of the 72 friends or more I made on the forum in 2-3 years there (although I never met any of them face to face- had an "almost meet' with Jack Cronkite when he and his Missus came through GR to stop at Brad B's Emporium, but- as they say- close only counts in :hand grenades, horseshoes and honkey-tonk belt buckle shining two-steps anyway--

But thanks for your offer to "pony up" a $20, or in my ledger of debits and credits- a fifth O'Bushmills-- We are talking about the Petrified Glaciers Conservation Association here, are we not? happy 2012!! RWTF

Only if "Dem Fokkers vas flyin' Messerschmidts" Jawohl!!!

My concern about DGJ has nothing to do with the authors. It's the editing. The magazine would be of much higher value if there was a copy editor to provide editorial authority. DGJ contributers' copy is published untouched; some writers are paid, others not. The importance of words are subordinate to the pictures. That's running close to vanity publishing. High school yearbooks do better with peer review. Imagine the success of magazines for aviation and auto fans where anything goes.

As for Mr. Ed Muderlak, I respect his contributions, particularly his opinions here and on the Parker forum. His opinions were strongly held. Right or wrong, it didn't matter (as it does not on this forum). I read for information and inspiration. Opinions are a measure of my own biases and opinions. Infallibility is in short supply. It's a pity Ed isn't around to take on his critics. I'd learn something, absolutely, for sure!

"I am with Kensal, DGJ is the only high end rag that deals with the subject at hand.....guns, their owners and their history....whereas SSM and Sporting Classics have become advertising platforms for the outfits they write about...(i.e. guides, lodges, gunshops and dog training schools)"

Sort of. The exception for DGJ is unwarranted. I quit after the Ford commercial thinly disguised as an article about a shooting trip. Phooey.