And these factors all contributed to the average article, etc being of drastically higher quality. Moreover, they were much more careful about representing themselves as "knowledgeable" on a topic when they actually were one of the *most knowledgeable folks around* - because reputation was everything back then. people were much, much, much more careful for these and other reasons to only publish high quality content. When someone can't just go back and instantly correct something they wrote in haste or lack of study (and have their mistakes simply dissapear as though they never existed, too) when reputation used to matter much more as a part of society when people had MUCH longer attention spans & memories both and when you didn't get virtually any of your reviewed products for free. 1 of the other great sources btw being: pre-internet writings such as Sinclair's journal and many, many books, etc.įYI here simply is a well-known principle at work: And I still don't consider myself anexpert by any stretch btw.īut FYI: wildcatting taught me more about firearms, as well as internal and terminal ballistics both, than any other firearms related activity in which I've taken part the last 30+ years or gun use. 2 others were mimic'd by Wilson pretty closely. including 10 suitable for the AR, and 2 of 13 which Hornady and or Federal later brought to market *extremely* close versions of - exceptI was shooting them for my own pleasure and hunting as much as 11 years earlier. until they (hopefully, eventually) got enough experience to realize they used to criticize things they knew far too little about - and at some point subsequently regretfully admit to themselves they could have learned a *ton* more much sooner if they'd just had an ounce or two of humility. You sound just like the "young whipper-snapper" every generation has had. People like you are why this industry and this country keep repeating the same mistakes over and over, despite the lessons history can teach more open-minded, less bigoted people than you appear to be. Vincent states that an author who claims o be an authority w/ only maybe a decade of experience - consisting of apparently limited breadth and depth of experience (w/ all due respect, based on the articles' lack of breadth and depth within the constraints of this topic - as noted by many commentors) might benefit from reading the wealth of available pre-internet, pre-per-click ad-monetized writings, or possibly from some 1st or at least second-hand experience with wildcatting, and you label him an "old crank?"
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