He was an advocate of a 7x57 Mauser. The stores were full of 8 mm Mausers in wooden barrels with the butt stocks sticking out. 50 bucks, I think. No 7 mm to be found. He brought about the universality of the 270 as Elmer did the .44, and Warren Page did the .243. They and Ted Trueblood, Robert Ruark, and Corey Ford gave me the first tastes of classy writing and the longest lasting opinions of ethical hunting and proper equipment.