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ISSN 0072-9043

ISBN 13: 978-1-4402-1337-3

ISBN 10: 1-4402-1337-2

eISBN 13: 978-1-4402-1561-2

Designed by Dave Hauser and Patsy Howell

Cover design by Tom Nelsen

Edited by Dan Shideler

Printed in the United States of America

TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL

John T. AmberLITERARY AWARD

We’re proud to note that this year’s winner of the John T. Amber Literary Award is one of our longest-running contributors, the inestimable Jim Foral, for his 2009 Gun Digest feature, the “Age of Mobilubricant.”

Jim has a knack for uncovering forgotten chapters in our shooting heritage and reacquainting us with them with his witty, readable prose. How many of us knew that, in the age before jacketed bullets were perfected, serious marksmen typically dipped their bullets in a can of automotive grease? I didn’t, and perhaps you didn’t either. But I enjoyed discovering this bit of esoterica, as I suspect you did.

As its name implies, the John T. Amber Literary Award recognizes not only a writer’s knowledge but his ability to express it. We again note, with all regrets that may be necessary, that as a craft, gunwriting is a vanishing art. In this day of the blog, the flamer, the spammer and the un-moderated bulletin board, it’s easy to forget that the best gunwriters, the ones who have endured, not only know their subject but know how to entertain the reader. Jim Foral is one of these.