Rick Jamison
Ran across a 10 year old gun magazine the other day with an article written by Rick Jamison and it occured to me I hadn't seen anything written by him in a while. Anybody know what happened to him? I used to enjoy his reloading articles.
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Wasn't he involved with a serious law suit involving Lazzeroni, or some one over patent rights or some such hassle? Your right, he dropped out of sight after that. I did see him in Noslers pro-shop when I worked there, 10 plus years ago. Nothing since
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If none of our folks can help, you might try GOOGLEing. I gave it a try and came up with out anything specific other then his legal name is/was? John R. Jamison. And he was involved with some legal disputes with ammo companies regarding ammo patients he had? 0 -
Rick did all the work and testing on the "super Short" magnums using the .404 Jefferies case. When his theory proved promising, the big W and others marketed his test results. Sadly Rick didn't patent any of his ideas and kept everyone up to date on his progress in Guns & Ammo. Rick was (is) one of my most admired gun writers. He is not pretentious like some I could mention. EZ 0 -
I think he is on the Guns&Ammo television show or one of the other gun shows on the Outdoor Network or Sport Channel. 0 -
Ambrose,
Rick is a terrific writer and technician when it comes to reloading and shooting. Unfortunately some bad choices were made by several people which has had a permanent effect on his career.
All of the information about Rick and the court battles is on the internet including transcripts and synopses of the court findings.
The quick and simple story is that Rick developed AND DOCUMENTED a line of Short Magnum cartridges. These were NOT Super Short as stated above but the SHORT MAGNUM as in similar to the WSM. He even had patents granted. This process took a few years and lots of his own money.
The idea was to have a show & tell with Winchester to get them interested in the concept and sell the idea to them for the entire process. In the end, Winchester went ahead with the development of the WSM but they intentionally left Rick out of any financial benefits. He sued. The rest is in the court documents and can be a little misleading.
Unfortunately for Rick, what should have been a straight up business agreement, turned into a nightmare which resulted in his being turned into a 'persona non grata' in the outdoor writing industry.
This is an extremely complicated story and case so look up the documents and read them for yourself. As far as his current employment is concerned, I don't have a clue. I don't own a TV so I don't watch any of the outdoor programming at all. You could run through their websites to see if Rick is mentioned as a host or adviser, though.
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The 10-year-old magazine is Shooting Times and he was listed as reloading/rifle editor. From what I have just learned, it is ironic that that issue had an article introducing the 7mm and .270 WSM cartridges! 0
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