I admit to knowing very little about Page. I remember reading somewhere that he did not come from a hunting and shooting background, but that he was looking for a job at one of the sporting magazines, and was told that the position of shooting editor was open. So he took it, and then went about educating himself about shooting and hunting. I also understand that he felt it was his duty, because of the position he occupied, to learn about and use new calibers as they were introduced, so he became a proponent of the 7mm Mashburn magnum.

He must have been a quite accomplished hunter because he was awarded the third Weatherby Big Game Trophy (in 1958) -- the first had gone to Herb Klein of Dallas Texas in 1956, and the second to Jack O'Connor of Lewiston, Idaho, in 1957.

I also remember reading somewhere that after he retired from his editorial job, Page became vice president of the National Shooting Sports Federation, and did important work promoting that organization.

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thank you.

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Originally posted by Norbert:
His book "The Accurate Rifle" was like a bible to benchrest shooters.

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Yes. A day or two ago I found a web page about benchrest shooting, with a benchrest shooters hall of fame, for people who had more than 10 points, where a point was awarded for winning a benchrest event. Warren Page was a member of that hall of fame.

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Ok.......you have me wondering. What did he tell you that turned you off so bad? I think it is quite interesting the way we imagine some of these gun writers to be is often quite different from who they really are.

You are correct,Warren had no experience before he got his first writing job,at Sports Afield I belive.He confided to Jack O'Connor (read this in the Keith-O'Connor-Fowler letters)that before he got that job,he knew very little about firearms and had killed one mule deer.

Warren was one of the first big benchrest shooters,and was quite the shot.He probibly had more African experience than Boddington,as on a few occasions Warren got to shoot cape buffalo on control.In his article "One Man's African Rifles",he says he killed around 30 cape buffalos at that time.He used a 458 Winchester and 460 Weatherby at times,but his main DGR was a 375 Weatherby Magnum made on the old Remington 721 action (gasp!a push feed!).

Warren claimed credit for the 6mms and the 7mm Remington Magnum,but he did not invent either,just made cartridges similar.Fred Huntington gets the credit for the 6mm Remington,and Les Bowman on the 7mm Remington Magnum (inspired by an old 275 H&H Magnum O'Connor had given him).

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Originally posted by R. A. Berry:
Brian M,
Gasp! Is not! the Remington 721 was an Enfield knock-off that was very CRF, Mauser-like.

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Sorry, but this is not true. The 721 was the forerunner of the Model 700, and, like the 700, it was a push feed.

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Bear Claw,

Ok.......you have me wondering. What did he tell you that turned you off so bad? I think it is quite interesting the way we imagine some of these gun writers to be is often quite different from who they really are.

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He responded that "It is foolish to even consider to even consider rechambering the 1891 Argentine to 30-06. You should know better due to the fact that the 1891 was built to operate at about 40000 psi". I wish I had saved that letter.

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I'd like to see a big collection of Page's best hunting stories in book form. Perhaps it would require two volumns - one for his North American hunts, and one for his African hunts. BigBob is right, "One Man's Wilderness" IS a great read and well-worth owning, but the trouble is, that book is far from inclusive of Page's best work.

As I understand it, Page graduated from Harvard, then taught at an exclusive school before he turned to gunwriting.

AD

It was the 720 that was a CRF/Enfield knock-off. An excellent action for custom rifles.

The 721/722/725/700 are the pushfeed "pipe" actions. I have referred to the Otteson book on bolt actions

Thanks for clarifying this. Hopefully I will not forget it again (Remington model numbers aren't to high on the rank of priority for me ) . I must have just been in denial over the fact that Warren Page would use a pushfeed for buffalo control work. Amazing!

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