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What do you mean there's more to life than guns? You've got to talk to that guy. Hey, welcome back. I'm Tom Gresham. This is Gun Talk, and our number is 866 Talk Guns. I'm visiting with Doug Painter, the president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation. And we're taking calls and questions and comments. If you want to wait in, if you've got an opinion, well, by all means, it's the play sport. If you have a question, we will attack it, and we'll give you an answer. It doesn't matter if it's right. We'll answer anything, you know. Doug's willing, anyway. Doug, we were talking about rifle calibers and gear and all that kind of stuff, but you've been a shotgunner forever. and we were talking about rifle calibers and gear and all that kind of stuff but you've been a shotguner

forever and we were talking about the 16 gauge one of the the things that has really changed

it seems to me in shooting particularly in hunting stuff uh shotguns and rifles over the last

30 years is not so much the firearms for the ammunition.

Oh, unquestionably.

I mean, you know, I remember paper, shotgun shells with the old, you know, wad, fiber wad.

Firewad, yeah.

And not nearly as effective as the modern shot shell we have today.

So, and remember, you know, even in rifles, you know, the selection of bullets was, you know, meager by comparison.

You had to be a hand loader.

Exactly.

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