Warren Page?

I admit this may not be the appropriate place on these forums to ask this question, but I'm not sure where else it really would belong.

Warren Page was a hunter/target shooter/rifleman to the very core. And he was supremely competent at all three. He was also a benefactor to today's riflemen and hunters.

Among many other "shooting" things in his background here are just a few which you may find of interest.

- He won 9 U.S. national benchrest championships.

- He won the Weatherby big game hunting trophy.

- By 1973 he had already made 13 African Safaris.

He had already hunted several times in India, Russia, Manchuria, Portugal, Spain, Norway and all of the Canadian Provinces (and territories)and all of the United States from Alaska to Florida, and on down as far as to British Honduras. And that leaves out MANY of the countries where he hunted and shot record book heads of game.

- He was one of the founders of the U.S. National Shooting Sports Foundation. He was a founding trustee of the International Professional Hunters' Association.

- He also helped design four of America's factory-produced sporting rifle cartridges.

Warren Page was one of America's riflemen who had done it all.

I mention all this because wandering through my library today brought him back to mind.

He was also a skilled writer. One of his hard-bound books, "One Man's wilderness" (1973) is currently available on-line from many used book sellers for from $4 to $8, delivered.

If you remember Warren Page, but no longer have any of his writings, the time and price were never better for reading him again.

If you never knew of Warren Page, you could do yourself a lot worse turn than getting one of his books now and making his acquaintance.





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I once wrote WP and asked him to help me find a job in the firearms business when I got out of college . His answer"*** Once you make your avocation your vocation you will have lost something that brought you pleasure."
Felt a little dejected at the time but latter in life I understood. Still never got a Psp. roger

I just never read as much of Mr. Page's work as I did O'Connor's/Keith's and then Jim Carmiachel's. I do have at least one of Page's books in my library.

I knew Page had done a lot of stuff in his life, just never knew how much.

One thing you touched on that probably could be brought out here was the affect Page and Huntington had in popularizing the 6 mm cartridges with the American sports people. roger

Nope, Never heard of him.

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Originally posted by bartsche:
One thing you touched on that probably could be brought out here was the affect Page and Huntington had in popularizing the 6 mm cartridges with the American sports people. roger

Not to mention that he was really the main driving force behind Remington bringing out the 7 m/m Remington Mag....thanks to all kinds of favourable publicity Page gave to the 7 m/m Mashburn Magnums when he was writing for Outdoor Life magazine (and others).

Seems to me I recall him being known for his fondness for the 7mm calibre long before Jon Sundra came along.

he laid out the 100 yard range at my F-I-L's gun club.

Wasn't the "PAGE" of the "Page Sooper Pooper" cartridge?

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Wasn't the "PAGE" of the "Page Sooper Pooper" cartridge?

yes he was - he was also a good friend of mike walker - one of the driving forces behind remington, and he had a great deal of influence at that company also. warren was a first class gun nut and hunter. i only had the chance to meet him one time, but that one time was a great experience

I own one of the books he wrote :

The Accurate Rifle, 3rd. printing July 1978.

Thanks for the information on Warren Page. I have all the O'Connor books and when I read your post, realized I had none of Page's. I will remedy that soon. I read him in the Mag's years ago and always respected his writing. Good shooting.

His "big" rifle was a .375 Weatherby, built on a Remington 721 (he commented on the extractor and that it worked fine for him), stock by Weatherby in, I believe Myrtle, with the lovely leaf carving and mother of peal leaves, Pachmyer (SP) low swing mount. He used to shoot it once with the scope on and once off to the side, every day to make certain it was stable and working. He had an 80 round target to prove success. Would love to have seen the 8 lb. (all up) Champlin 7 mag Clayton Nelson put together for him! Arthur Olds

I was an impressionable kid growing up and reading O'Conner and Page. I think he didn't stick out because he didn't seem to embellish the truth or try to pump up the story. He probably had more widespread hunting experiences than O'Conner or Keith either one (they tended to hunt around home a lot more), but he never seemed to be viewed as a real expert because of his deprecating style. When it came to rifles and accuracy, he was far ahead of any of the others. He wrote several articles for others that dealt with (gasp) real data. His influence at Remington was great. While Elmer (like Al Gore and the Internet) claimed to have invented about everything new that came out and was successful, Page really did influence a lot of it. O'Conner didn't seem to claim much influence at all on the deign side, he just seemed to popularize a lot due to his writing influence.

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Originally posted by Art S.:
I was an impressionable kid growing up and reading O'Conner and Page. I think he didn't stick out because he didn't seem to embellish the truth or try to pump up the story. He probably had more widespread hunting experiences than O'Conner or Keith either one (they tended to hunt around home a lot more), but he never seemed to be viewed as a real expert because of his deprecating style. When it came to rifles and accuracy, he was far ahead of any of the others. He wrote several articles for others that dealt with (gasp) real data. His influence at Remington was great. While Elmer (like Al Gore and the Internet) claimed to have invented about everything new that came out and was successful, Page really did influence a lot of it. O'Conner didn't seem to claim much influence at all on the deign side, he just seemed to popularize a lot due to his writing influence.

I think the above is a very good evaluation and summary of "Lefty" as his friends called him. (...which was kind of weird, 'cause he wasn't left-handed and didn't shoot left-handed either, but it WAS his nickname.)

Very perceptive, Art!

Enjoyed reading Page's stories growing up. It's interesting that he was on of the top outdoor writers of his era but if you "google" his name not much information turns up now.

My father was a charter/bush pilot here in MT in the 50's... picked up Page and flew him to his hunting camp in Wyoming. Said he was great company during the flight. Also noted he had what bordered on an arsenal!

Of course Page was F&S shooting editor for years...

I keep a copy of "The Accurate Rifle" by my chair.

When I was a kid the first thing I read when F&S came in the mail was what Page wrote.