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AMMUNITION

Last-Call Loads

The end is nigh for some old cartridges. Is one of your favorites on the death watch?

The .38-40 is an accurate round that has been overshadowed by the more popular .44-40 among the Cowboy Action crowd. The author hates to see it bite the dust, but its fate is inevitable, he says.

Ever since I passed life's half-century mark, I've found myself becoming a regular reader of the obituaries in the daily newspaper. As much as I like to see my name in print, that's the last place I'd want to find it--and now that I think about it, that's the last place it will probably be. But more and more, I'm seeing the names of people I've known, some of them younger than I (in which case I think, "He went ahead of his time) and some of them older (wherein I philosophize, "Well, ...

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