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Welcome back to Gun Talk. Tom Gresham here.

If you want to call me, that's easy.

866 Talk Gun or Tom Talk Gun.

That'll get you in here.

You know how much I like rifles.

I'm just kind of a, as our friend, John Barsness calls a rifle loony.

And one of the guys who writes a lot about rifles and really knows a lot about them is Richard Mann.

And he's got a brand new book out that talk about appealing to me, rifle cartridges for the hunter,

a hunting journal spinning a half century. We're joined right now by

Richard Mann. Of course, Richard, you write for practically everybody. It seems like everywhere

I look, there's your writing. Well, I have written for just about everybody. Mostly now,

field and stream, gun digest, and the NRA. All right, so why don't you get folks just a little bit about your background?

And I have said before, I think that you are one of the preeminent writers about hunting

and rifle cartridges and other gun stuff as well.

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