How much history do you like in your gun articles

[Navy Six]

Mike, please continue including the historical background information with each article. Part of the fun of what we are doing(for me, Cowboy Action Shooting) is associating with and relating to this unique period in our American history.

[Thumb Buster]

This is my first time posting here but I will throw my two cents worth in.  I anxiously await the "Guns of the Old West" magazine to come out for both the gun aricles and the history.  Please keep up including the background and the history Mike. 

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Mike;  Did your editor accept your draft?  BTW; I thought it was just about right.

[Paladin Gun For Hire]

Mike,
Your articles are well done with just the right amount of research. Keep up the good work. What I really like is an opinion of the firearm based on it's strengths and shortcomings, and not on a writers personal preferences. I feel that your articles deliver on that.

[Blair]

Mike,

In my opinion, the title of the Magazine "Guns of the Old West" says it all.
How can you have the story told of the guns, without having the history of those guns told too?
My best,
Blair

[Rangerider]

    Good'a Fella's, Happy New Year to All from Oz 
I agree with Paladin & Blair, Great stuff keep up the good work, It's the legends are made of

[Rye Miles]

The more history about the firearms the better. Keep up the good work Mike!


Rye

[G.W. Strong]

I read the articles for the history. I am not nearly as interested in the gun review portion of the articles. I know that both are needed but it is the history that keeps me reading them. Keep it up!

[mtmarfield]

   Greetings!

   Guns & HISTORY!!

          Be Well!

                   M.T.Marfield

[St8LineLeatherSmith]

without the history behind the firearms they are just obsolete guns that are fun to shoot
the History is more inportant than the artifact IMO. then again history without the artifact is mythical
so one side needs the other in order for it to be a valid piece of history.
just my thoughts.

[Mean Bob Mean]

Mike:  More history, more better.

[rdstrain49]

Mike, save your history lesson.  I'm so old, I lived it.  Fingers can vouch for that.

[Arizona Trooper]

For me, the history is at least as important as the technical stuff. If it wasn't for the history, who would mess with a Colt Navy? But when you load it up, set it off, or clean it after a range session, you can't help feeling a connection with the Pony Express rider, California prospector or Civil War trooper who's life depended on that lump of precision made metal and wood. 

As for who's writing Mike's checks, it really is us. If we don't like an article enough to buy the magazine, the editor won't be sending Mike too many more checks. It's up to the editor to know what style and content the readers will like and help the authors get to that. A good editor is an author's best friend! A bad one will have you looking for greener pastures pretty quickly.

When I was writing for the Dixie Black Powder Annual, I tried to keep articles about 50-50 history and tech. That seemed to work well.