![]() ![]() For example, although a Merkel 200E is a fine gun, it is not a best gun. They are not the best guns, although some of the guns discussed could definitely be classed in that category in their higher grades. ![]() In other words, they are the double guns that are most popular with the vast majority of double shotgun users in America. The articles that appear in this collection are mostly about over/under shotguns of middle to lower middle price range. As luck would have it, my very first article on shotguns that I wrote was one I submitted to the Double Gun Journal-and it was published! I have been writing for them ever since, for more than a decade. It wasn’t until I retired from my career as a Foreign Service Officer, more than 40 years after my initial interest in shotguns, that I decided to give the article writing a try. As a graduate student, I began to publish essays and short stories, but nothing about shotguns. By the time I was in college, I had gained quite a bit of experience with shotguns, but still I felt it was not enough. I knew that I had to gain more experience both in shotguns and in writing before I could attempt anything. However, as much as I might have been interested in writing articles about shotguns, I had neither the experience nor sufficient background to compose anything that would have been credible. The idea of writing articles about shotguns occurred to me many years ago, indeed, ever since I became interested in shotguns and started reading all available articles in the gun press of the era, back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I am very much indebted to Joanna and Daniel Cote, the owners and publishers of the Double Gun Journal, for allowing me to republish these articles in this collection. The shotgun articles that appear in the Shotgun Chronicles Volume I were all previously published in the Double Gun Journal. ![]()
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