WHEN NICK Harvey said most would-be gun-writers don’t know what they’re talking about, it was hard to disagree, even if you were another gun-writer. If you were, you just hoped you fell into the next category Nick mentioned: the small minority that knew enough to get by. You had to admit you could not compete against his combined knowledge, shooting ability, contacts, resources, experience and literacy. Nick had very few peers worldwide who could match his ability to properly test a firearm.
THAT combination of the essential abilities has always been extremely rare and today it’s probably even harder to find.
If you doubt it, consider the fact that when Nick started out in the 1950s, gun-writers were expected to know firearms in detail: their design, their construction, their
