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When one gets down to a real honest confession of his good times, he usually ends up telling himself it was the little, inexpensive hunting trip he enjoyed most.” Every important gunwriter has on occasion addressed small game hunting, but how many became so enamored of it as to declare that “most of the shooting fun for the most of us has been had with small game”? Well-read riflemen are familiar with the work of Charles Landis, who made a science of squirrel and woodchuck sniping, and perhaps also Paul Estey, another ‘chuck specialist, but the name of their contemporary, and author of the preceding assertions, Allyn Henry Tedmon, is unknown to most twenty-first century shooters.

Republication of the books of Landis and those of other shooting authorities of the time – Crossman, Whelen, Sharpe – has perpetuated their reputations, but because Tedmon’s work, prolific though it was, appeared almost exclusively in magazines, his name has receded into obscurity and has been preserved from oblivion only by his unique association with a marque still venerated by many, the J. Stevens Arms Co.