Grits on Guns - Bullets Do the Work
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🗓️ 19 August 2014
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
From the book "Grits On Guns," a column written by Grits Gresham and published in the December 1977 issue of Sports Afield magazine. Tom introduces the subject of bullet performance, then reads what Grits wrote, and follows it with his thoughts on how the article holds up for today's hunters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Tom Gresham of Gun Talk, and it seems that at least a few of you enjoyed that first |
| 0:06.6 | experiment I did, reading a chapter out of my dad's book, Grits on guns. |
| 0:11.4 | Of course, my dad being Grits Gresham. He was the shooting editor for |
| 0:15.3 | Sportsfield magazine for I think 27 years, wrote for pretty much all the gun |
| 0:20.8 | magazines and most of the outdoor magazines, hunting and fishing and |
| 0:24.9 | guns and camping and a lot of other things. But the book Grits on Guns is a compilation that I put together |
| 0:32.1 | for him. Gosh, a long time ago now, and it's kind of a collection |
| 0:36.0 | of mostly articles he wrote for or his columns really, he wrote for Sports of Theo magazine |
| 0:42.3 | when he was a shooting editor. |
| 0:43.4 | So they're pretty interesting in terms of just looking back at what people were talking |
| 0:47.9 | about what they were saying. |
| 0:50.2 | And the take of a gun writer who honestly was more of a hunter. |
| 0:55.2 | Dad was not a competitive shooter, although he did shoot trap |
| 0:58.8 | competitively for a few years. |
| 1:01.1 | Mostly his interest is interest was in hunting. |
| 1:04.0 | And so you look at this from that perspective. |
| 1:07.8 | So I thought I would pick out one that is fairly interesting right now |
| 1:12.2 | because so much of it is absolutely true and so much of it |
| 1:16.4 | really are things that we're talking about today. Now this one is from 1977. |
| 1:24.4 | 1977. |
| 1:26.2 | We're talking 37 years ago. |
| 1:29.6 | And the subject was bullets. |
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