Reminder! If you can’t find something, use the search magnifying glass at the top right of the home page. You can search for small terms and likely find what you need. If you cannot find it, email me and I will help you as best I can.
Nov 17, 2024 The books are now in color! To my eye, the colors make the books look more like the site has always looked. I went to a slightly heavier paper to keep the bleed through at bay but I am still able to print the books at the same rates that Mrs. Camp set when I took over the site.
Clicking on the Products button on the home page will send you to my Square page where you can buy the books using credit cards and other electronic payment methods. If you still wish to send a check, then send me an email and we can work that out. . Scroll down for the books. You can email me if you would rather send in a check. I hope you find this modification a welcome change. where you can buy the books using credit cards and other electronic payment methods. If you still wish to send a check, then send me an email and we can work that out.
I will happily answer any questions you may have. Any proceeds from the books will go to fund the guns and ammunition used for the articles on the site. That is what Steve did with it and it just seems right that it continue that way.
June 23, 2024 As many of you are aware, Mrs. Sandra Camp has been running the site and producing the books for all of you. She will continue to produce and ship the books.
I have been honored by Sandy’s request for me to take the reins on the website and preserve it. She suggested I add to it if I can.
I plan to do that in a few ways:
- I will tell you some stories about Steve, as well as sharing a little of his other informal writings. (Oh believe me, you will like that!)
- I will do some articles, primarily about Hi Powers (or Hi Power like objects), revolvers, and 1911s
- I will answer questions about Steve’s guns and some of the things we spoke about.
I have not changed anything that Steve posted on the website, I just copied it over. Sandy had moved everything to html in 2018, when that became necessary and I have moved everything here because html has become untenable. Some pictures were lost and some of the velocity data will be hard to read. If he put it in a table in Word, then it looks fine. Spaced text does not transfer well. I will try and fix some of it, though much of the ammunition has changed over the years. Most of the links will be dead. If you need some information, feel free to ask me, and I will try to dig it out for you.
I know you probably liked it better the old way. However, this can be much easier to use. At the top right you will see the magnifying glass icon for a search tool. Enter what you want to find, or find again. I have tried searches with things like XTP, 18.5, or bobbed and it seems to work fairly well, bringing up posts on XTP bullets, recoil spring weights, and hammers.
Who am I?
Steve Camp was my sergeant for 3 years when I got out of field training. We bonded a little over similar dedication to firearms and he took me under his wing and taught me marksmanship. When he started teaching me I could hit a sheet of paper every time, at any speed you wanted, inside of 7 yards. We started with 1 inch dots at 10 yards. Once I could keep them all on that, we moved back to 15. He did things like that a couple of times a week, with or without me. Now, you know how he could shoot those tight groups in all the pretty pictures!
We shot together at least weekly for years, unless I was deployed. Many a hunting expedition or lunch meeting resulted in us hashing out what we liked and disliked about every gun that caught our interest or imagination. We communicated by email when I was in Afghanistan or Iraq and by phone when I was off somewhere in the state teaching. People called me his minion, long before the cartoon existed.
I know whose hands and guns are in most of the photos on this site. I was there for many of them. He trusted me to hold the gun, not take the picture.
Steve was my friend and I often still reach for the phone, though less as the years pass, when I see something that we need to talk about. Maybe we can “talk” about it a little here.