Remembering Bob Brister

Bob Brister's Long Shadow

(Editor's Note: In June the shotgunning world lost a giant with the passing of Bob Brister at age 77. A writer, newspaperman, adventurer and tireless researcher of shotgun technique and ballistics, his book Shotgunning, The Art and Science, published in 1976, stands as a classic firearms reference. Editor-at-Large Rick Pratt offers this remembrance of his friend and fellow Texan.) Bob Brister cast a long shadow on our sport. He was driven to understand everything there was to know about the art and science of shotgunning, and he pursued that goal literally to the end of his life.

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