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Old October 19, 2010, 08:38 AM   #51
Tamara
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Originally Posted by Blue Train
I keep thinking of past gun writers. Few ever mentioned training at all. Keith mentioned getting hints from "an old gunfighter, the real thing." But none of them went to any sort of gun handling class, except perhaps for those in the Border Patrol, many of whom seemed to have been gun writers. And I think Chic Gaylord said something about the subject. In any case it seems to be more of current thing.
Orville Wright never got pilot training, either, but that doesn't make it dumb.

Besides, just because somebody's a "gun writer" doesn't make them an expert on everything firearms-related, trust me on this.
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