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Originally Posted by Bill Holcombe
Dean, on the subject of material, have you ever considered running a by issue "classic " story each issue.
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Yes Bill, I have done that, but to re-publish articles and stories from previous issues would somewhat defeat my goal of always providing fresh new material, and new authors, for each issue. I will agree that there are dozens and dozens of articles and stories from past issues that would absolutely merit publishing again but Jim Hall keeps the 'warehouse' of past issues that anyone can order from him to fill the gaps in members' collections of
Parker Pages.
Neither will I publish anything that has appeared in publications other than
Parker Pages. I made one exception to this rule when we published Brian Dudley's fine research article on his visit to Remington Arms in Illion to gain access to the prototype Trojan Skeet Gun for his article. What Brian found - some heretofore unknown information on the gun which was published in its entirety in
Double Gun Journal - that Brian, Daniel Cote, and myself agreed could be published in
Parker Pages in an abbreviated format, thereby allowing the important stuff to be published where it needed to be -
Parker Pages.
But that was a unique circumstance, which of course may happen in the future, depending on the nature of the material.
I republished four articles, one for each issue of our twentieth anniversary volume, as a special tribute to
Parker Pages, Volume 1, Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4 and to their authors.
Special circumstances call for special departures from the norm, but I really don't plan on republishing anything from past issues unless I simply do not have enough material for a particular issue.
I will continue to solicit new material for each and every issue with sincere hopes that I won't have that last-minute crunch-time scramble through past issues to find what I would consider to be the right article (theme/purpose/word-count, etc.) for re-publication.
Thanks for asking Bill,
Dean
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