One of my heroes

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mtngun posted this 21 September 2015

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/wickedlocal-bedford/obituary.aspx?pid=167340014>He held over 30 records in the CBA. 

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 21 September 2015

yep, and he further offered to build anyone else an ” ardito ” rifle, and guaranteed 1/2 moa ....

if one of our highly-paid cba roving reporters would do a research article and follow-up on the history of those ardito rifles .... i would read that article and probably follow up with witty comments ...

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mtngun posted this 21 September 2015

I would read the article, too. Or anything else by or about John Ardito. I like the way he thought.

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Ed Harris posted this 21 September 2015

John was one of the nicest and most helpful guys I ever met. A skilled machinist and clever mechanic. His shooting buddy Warren Gannon was another who is missed.

73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia

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billglaze posted this 21 September 2015

One of the few regrets in my life, was not getting serious about cb's early enough to have met with, talked to, corresponded with, and generally shmoozed with while they were still with us. But-- I like to think that folks like them are still out there. We just don't know who they are--yet. But hopefully, we will.

Bill

In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. My fate is not entirely in Gods hands, if I have a weapon in mine.

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gnoahhh posted this 22 September 2015

I met John 30-odd years ago and still remember his kindly demeanor. Having read of, and digested, his (proven) theories, I haven't followed through on most of them. That is changing as I have recently re-throated a new .30 barrel with a long 1½º included angle throating reamer, and am using the same reamer to construct a nose sizing die in my lathe with which to swage a bullet to perfectly conform to the new throat. Mayhaps I should be doing this with an Ardito inspired/designed bullet too, but first things first.

If we would only follow the trails blazed by guys like Ardito and others we wouldn't be constantly re-inventing the wheel. But, I guess that being human...

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mtngun posted this 22 September 2015

gnoahhh wrote: If we would only follow the trails blazed by guys like Ardito and others we wouldn't be constantly re-inventing the wheel. But, I guess that being human...I want to continue playing with Ardito's method but I also want to try Veral's method (seating a 1-diameter bullet into a significant freebore).      

The funny thing is that Ardito's last article in TFS claimed that long freebore also worked OK.   :D    

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