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Hey, this is Tom Gresham, and it's been a while since I've got a bonus podcast

and thought I'd dig up something out of the archives.

Back, wow, some years ago, I was a staff writer, I think they called me a field editor,

for Guns Namo magazine,

at Peterson's Honey magazine, the folks at Intermedia

used to be Intermedia, they were Prime Media,

who knows what they're called these days.

But at any rate, I wrote a column called Gresham on guns.

And just dug one up and thought, well, we'll see how this works out. It would be interesting

to see how it plays. how this is

is from how it plays after all these years now this is from February of the

year two thousand fifteen years ago fifteen years ago so keep that in mind as we go through this. I might make a few

comments now and then, but we'll just read it. All right, this is from February 2000,

Guns and Ammo and Peterson's hunting magazines.

The column was Gresham on guns.

Every kid loves binoculars. him on guns.

Every kid loves binoculars and I was no different.

From the cheap folding junk to my father's quality war surplus field glasses in a leather case.

I just like to see better.

That hasn't changed.

I rarely go hunting without binoculars, even if it's upland hunting where I'm not looking

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