Gun Digest annual editions

[ditchparrot]

Does anybody have a lot of those? I think I'm going to try to acquire all of them from their inception in 1946 through the 1970s. I've got a long way to go, as I only have four at the moment (1957, '61 and '63 and '64). Three of those were in a box with a bunch of other stuff that my brother gave me and the '64 book, from the year of my birth, I bought off Amazon for about a dollar more than its original cover price ($3.95).

There are a lot of great stories in them. For instance, the '63 edition had a good overview on the history of shotgun innovations and a really good one about buffalo hunting on the plains back in the day when they were numerous (the population was estimated at 60 million at one time).

My apologies to the tactical mavens, but for me, one of the best things about them is I don't have to wade through a bunch of "black gun" stuff to get to yet another article that interests me.

[Sir Henry]

I buy a new one about every ten years.