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echo: guns
to: JOHN SANDOW
from: VERN HUMPHREY
date: 1996-05-18 08:30:00
subject: guns

JS>VH>PN> Uh, the .45 or '06 part?
JS>VH>As Saint Townsend Whelan said "The .30-06 is never a mistake." :-)
JS>Then why did he see it necessary to neck it up to .35"?  Or was he just
JS>having a sandow moment?
He didn't.  Some of his cohorts at Springfield were messing around and
necked up the .30-06, and decided to call it the ".35 Whelen" --
probably on the theory that the prestige of his name would help promote
it.
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