wrenchman wrote:i would love to hold any of his guns i have read a few of his books i think hell i was there is his best
Years ago, I was walking past a bookshop in Johannesburg that was closing down and I found a few copies of "Keith: An Autobiography" - I bought 2 for R1 each - at that time about $1.20.
Later my dad got "Hell, I was there" - same book.
I suspect, but I have no proof, that in later years (Guns & Ammo) he rambled into a tape recorder and some poor junior copy editor was responsible for turning it into golden prose, without losing the spirit (a losing proposition).
Boddington, many years later mentioned that when he was a junior at Petersen's that turning Elmer's contribution into something printable was a task given to recalcitrant juniors (ie a punishment),
Anyway - I am far off topic, I believe that the 30-06 variants I would like depend on what I want them to do.
>25-06 - goats, small deer, varmints
>270 - same, but bigger deer
>280 Rem - my perfect, all round cartridge
>30-06 - what can I say?
>338-06 - probably would replace 30-06 in my arsenal.
>35 Whelan - a big deer stomper - sambar slapping territory
>9.3x62 - Not a real descendant of the dirty-ought-six, but the case head is within 5 thou and the case length is just a bit shorter and it has taken every African game animal - not so much varmints, though