New reference material

[RBHarter]

I was gifted a "new" reference book today . It should make for good reading and be fairly insightful. I had no idea there were so many 22s .

 

[Brad]

That should be an interesting read.

And I bet almost every possible case has been necked down to 22.

 

[Ian]

That's a treasure. So many of these great little books are fading into obscurity.

I managed to be in the right place at exactly the right time and sniped an original, ring-bound copy of Pet Loads from a sale ad about two minutes after it was put up. Ten minutes later there was over a page of "I'll take it's" and seconds, thirds, finally a bunch offering me three times the asking price, nearly turned into an international incident.

 

[KHornet]

I listened to Parker Ackley speak many years ago at a Kansas Rifle Assn. meeting. Roy Weatherby was there and spoke before Ackley. When Ackley got up to speak he started by saying "When it comes to guns made in the last 20 years, it wasn't "young Roy" who made them. I made them, and Elmer shot them". He was a distinguished old gentleman. Great reference book I agree RBH. Can't have to many of them.

 

[fiver]

I heard Parker speak almost every day for a couple of years.
I heard him yell about once a day at someone on the phone.
'strong opinion' would describe him pretty well.

he laughed at weatherby's double radiused shoulder design.
paraphrasing here.
'he only used that shoulder to make it harder for other gunsmith's to cut his designs into their rifles'.... 'dumb ass.'

 

[Ian]

I've heard that many times about Weatherby's radiused shoulder designs. Basically he did it for the sole purpose of being an a-hole to the rest of the gun world. Not surprisingly, Bill Alexander learned nothing from him and basically did the same with his stupid captive reamer drawings. So people like Robert Silvers and Arne Brennan come along and fix it so the industry can have something useful, SAMMI-spec, safe, and public.

One thing is for sure, the big names in the shooting world have always been Alphas who were "characters", to say the least.

 

[RBHarter]

It's interesting that the 7mm-06' that preceded the 280 Rem had round shoulders.

 

[Pistolero]

Yeah, never understood the whole "it's my design" concept in a cartridge. You really can't prevent someone from
making one a tiny hair "different" one which fills the exact same niche.... .300BO and 300 Whisper.

Bill

 

[Ian]

If you want to make money, there are better ways than the proprietary cartridge route. I just doesn't pencil as a business model because it will fail without exposure, and exposure and track record come from public access to AFFORDABLE guns, ammo, and components.

 

[fiver]

or the factory just rip off your design and make you sue them.
if your lucky you get paid 15 years later after going broke and owing a Lawyer 3/4's of what you get paid.
of course they have now sold more than enough rifles to cover their payment to you and bank a pretty good chunk profit.

 

[fiver]

dunno how I did the line through everything trick.

 

[S Mac]

I dunno either but it looks pretty neat.