Sporting Shooter

A farewell to a great man

Marcus O’Dean handed over the editorship of to me, he joked about his relief that Nick Harvey hadn’t died on his watch. Losing someone of Nick’s irreplaceable standing is an editor’s nightmare. I dreaded it. Even the publisher quipped that we’d

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