Hey, this is Tom Gresham, and this is an experiment of sorts.

This is for our podcasters out there, the folks who like to listen to Gun Talk,

through the podcast.

My dad, I guess I should tell you a little bit about my dad, Gritz Gresham, one of the best known

gun writers of, well a previous generation for sure. He was the shooting editor of Sports of Field magazine for I think about 27 years.

He wrote for most of the major outdoor magazines, Field and Stream, Sports of Field, outdoor life, the NRA's American rifleman, guns and

ammo and dozens and dozens of others. Of course he was the host, one of the

field hosts of the American Sportsman TV show.

He was one of the Miller Light, tastes great, less filling all-stars on those commercials

for a dozen years. We put together a book of his writing some years ago. It's called

Gritz on guns. And mostly they're a collection of his columns from Sports

a Field and I thought it would be interesting to read a few of

those columns from the Grits on Guns book as much as anything just for historical perspective to see what was being said 20 or 30 years ago.

How much has changed?

How much is the same?

To start out, I want to read a piece that was actually a the

I want to read a piece that was actually originally published in March of 1987.

So keep that in mind as I read this piece.

The AR-15 really had not made much or actually any dent on the firearms world.

People weren't paying any attention to it in 1987, really. And remember

my dad was a hunter primarily not so much a shooter, definitely not a tactical person.

His love was hunting.

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