For me it was a stack (100's) of guns & ammo as well as other shooting mags that were 15 years old. I picked them up from a buddy in the late 80's and started reading them. There were a few clips about handguns and hunting with them. I learned a lot from those old books. I must say they were much better reading than some of the current stuff out there. (Present company not included)

But as far as a person it would be Les Stewart and Jim Springer of Tuscaloosa AL

Jim had a FA 454 and a 7 TCU contender that I thought was the bomb and Les had several T/C's and a couple of XP-100's

These guys talked me into buying a 14" T/C in 30/30 the rest is history.

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