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Just found the winter 2015 issue at Barnes & Noble and was surprised to find it titled "Annual Bookstore Issue"! Haven't been getting the quarterly in a couple of years so perhaps this is not the first time they've done this. Looks to be some excellent articles on classic American makers and one that I was very excited to find - "Regarding Henry: The Life and Times of a Waterfowling Icon", by Kevin McCormack. As a big fan of Nash Buckingham and his few stories of gunning the Potomac with local notables of the past, as I have done for a long time, I used to sit along those same banks of the river and think of the fine shooting they must have had. I took a new young waterfowler and his father out for a hunt on one of the Potomac's tidal bays yesterday and the young man was more than intrigued by my A.H. Fox 'duck gun' even as he shot his first 2 ducks ever - a black duck and a drake gadwall with his youth model Remington 870 20 ga. I already have set aside a sturdy 12 ga. Sterlingworth that I will give to him to shoot ducks with when he is a little older and bigger. Thanks much to those authors who continue to tell us so well of these old American-made classics and the men who made them great.

-jmc

It's too bad they aren't sold in newspaper/bookstores anymore. I use to buy it religiously before the internet only sales policy. I tried a one year mail subscription once even though the shipping cost was expensive to Canada. Anyway, even with their protective cardboard packing, two of the issues came badly damaged in the mail. Because of the damage, I gave up on my subscription. They lost me as a customer.

Tim

And thanks to you, jmc, for helping that young man kill his first ducks. Well done.

SRH