[tex_n_cal]

We all respect Skelton, Keith, and O'Connor. Who's your favorite among currently active gunwriters, and why? Any articles or books you especially recommend?

I think he's now retired, but Ken Waters was always a favorite for handloading and classic rifles. I have a letter from him regarding the .32-40 that I treasure.

Ross Seyfried is never dull.:D

Kudos to Sherman Bell, who wrote one of the most informative articles I have seen in recent years - he actually pressure tested a Damascus barrel Parker, to see how much pressure it could actually take. (The answer was surprising!)

[Navy joe]

David Fortier, John Taffin, Charlie Petty.

Others who write but might be insulted to be called gunwriters:
Pat Rogers, Clint Smith, and Jeff Cooper.

[4v50 Gary]

Bruce Canfield - writes about guns I can relate to.
John McAulay - ditto
Ian Skennerton - ditto
DeWitt Bailey - ditto
Chandler (Norman & Rocky) Brothers - ditto
Peter Senich - ditto
Me - I like me too.

[Sylvilagus Aquaticus]

John Taffin, Tom Gresham and his father, 'Grits', David Fortier, Bart Skelton.

I like Mike Irwin's stuff, but I don't see you in print as much anymore, Mike.

I wish Stephen Camp would write for print.

Regards,
Rabbit.

[Skunkabilly]

Pat Rogers, Louis Awerbuck.

[Mike Irwin]

Thanks, Syl, but I haven't been published in a gun rag since I left American Rifleman in 1994 due to a layoff.

All of my "gun writing" has been done on Compuserve and the Internet since then.

I've toyed with some ideas, but nothing has really motivated me to try to burn a full article.

[RCS]

I read most anything the following folks write: Pat Rogers, Clint Smith, Louie Awerbuck, Jeff Gonzales, Ken Good, Walt Rauch, Roy Hunnington, Charles Petty, John Taffin.

regards

[BigG]

All the good ones done crossed over the great divide. :( Keith, Askins, Skelton, O'C...

[critter]

Skelton, Ross S., Taffin, EVEN Jeff Cooper! Of those not with us any more, I enjoyed Finn Aagard also.

[bogie]

Dick Wright from Precision Shooting.

[45crittergitter]

Seyfried, and lately, Taffin.

[El Tejon]

Dr. Peter Stevenson of S.W.A.T..

[Erich]

John Taffin. JT is interesting, informed, and has good taste.

I also like Jim Wilson's stuff, but I like his singing and songwriting even more than his gun writing!

[Kilroy]

Gabe Suarez. Not at all dogmatic about means and methods. Well worth a read. Is willing to have his mind changed, given good and valid reason to do so.

[garrettwc]

Most of them have already been named so I will just summarize by saying whoever has an article in this month's SWAT magazine.

[buzz_knox]

Pat Rogers, Louis Awerbuck, and Clint Smith.

[ralphtt]

Sheriff Jim Wilson . . . ;)

[Soap]

Jeff Cooper, Louis Awerbuck, Pat Rogers, Clint Smith, Dr. Stevenson, and most of the S.W.A.T. crew.

[Correia]

I'm a little biased because I know them, but I really like Denny, Rob, and their gang from SWAT. :)

[OF]

Pat Rogers.

- Gabe

[Bartholomew Roberts]

Pat Rogers and Jeff Gonzales


Louis Awerbuck is undoubtedly a great firearms trainer; but his writing style just doesn't do it for me.

[Dollar Bill]

I don't subscribe to any of the current gun magazines except the A-R but I am surprised no one has mentioned Craig Boddington as I used to like his articles, especially on African hunting and I also like Garry James a lot. I always read Cooper's Commentaries on the net although as already stated he might prefer not being called a "gun writer".

[BigG]

Gee, nobody mentioned Mas Ayoob...

[tex_n_cal]

names are good, but I was also hoping that some folks could recommend some especially good articles or books. In my case Sherman Bell wrote his piece in a 2001 issue of Double Gun Journal.:)

[jeager]

Gary James is my favorite

[444]

Growing up, I read every single gun magazine that I knew about. I still can't believe that my parents agreed to buy them all. Like most of us, after I got a little older and wiser I realized that a lot of the stuff I was reading was crap. I then went for years without reading any gun magazines.

A couple years ago I discovered Handloader magazine and I feel like I am a kid again. I read and re-read the magazines from cover to cover. I recently even gathered up my whole collection of Handloader and started reading them all again.
My faviorite writer ? Brian Pearce.
Why ? He is a competent writer. He seems to know what he is talking about. But most importantly, he covers the subjects that interest me most: sixguns and cast bullets.

You want to read a good article ? There was what I considered an excellent article in the October issue of Handloader written by Gil Sengel entitled Ysterday's .38 S&W Special. It discussed the development of the cartridge, early .38 Special loads (basically from it's introduction to about WWII), and how to duplicate these loads today. These loads included the original black powder loads, gallery loads, target loads, and defense/police loads. He tells what moulds you can buy to duplicate the original bullets, what alloy to use for casting, what the original ballistic numbers were and what powders to use today to duplicate those loads. He then tests all the loads in a S&W Model 1905 Hand Ejector, and a S&W Model 1905 Hand Ejector Target. I think I ended up reading it three times.
Brian Pearce wrote a two part article a few months ago on the faviorite guns and loads of Skeeter and Elmer. He also did an article a few months ago on Keith bullets: what Elmer's philosophy in bullets was and the characteristics of real Keith type bullets. He talked about Keith bullets vs. LBT bullets. He told who today makes moulds that are true to the original design of Keith.

Books: I recently went to Amazon.com and typed "Elmer Keith" into their search engine. I then ordered every book that came up. I previously did the same with Skeeter Skelton. I already owned all the books by Jeff Cooper. I am currently reading Guns, Bullets, and Gunfights by Jim Cirillo.

[Dr.Rob]

Craig Boddington gets my nod, he's the only 'gunwriter' I've ever bought a book from.

I like his narrative style.

[stevelyn]

John Taffin
Jeff Cooper
Ross Seyfried
Clint Smith
Craig Boddington
Brian Pearce
John Barsness
Charles Petty
Mike Venturino