ASK THE GUN EDITOR
Letters containing questions for answering by Nick Harvey must be accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelope.
Mail your letters to: The Technical Editor, 3 Reef Street, Hill End, NSW 2850.
Sixty-Five Years A Gun Writer
Q I've been reading your articles in various magazines for the last 40 years and am amazed that you are still going full throttle at 88 years of age. Can you tell me when you first started writing? I hope you aren't thinking about retiring. Please keep on, keeping on.
– Charles Richards
A My first article was published in the first issue of Australian Outdoors in August 1955. It was entitled "Rifle and Roo Dog". My first article for Anglers Digest Shooters Monthly appeared in October, 1956, and was called “Where Bighorns Roam." I still have copies and must admit they were pretty amateurish, because I was relatively inexperienced, practically a beginner. I've been a gunwriter for 65 years and don't plan on retiring until after I get a letter from the Queen (or King).
Mystery .22-250 Load
Q I reloaded forty rounds of .22-250 ammunition with 34gn of W- 748 powder and 50gn Speer bullets and went to the range to see how they performed. When I extracted the first case from the chamber, I found it was blackened
