Afull time writer's worst nightmare is (or should be) boredom. If he becomes bored, his writing will be boring. At best, what a writer has going for him is not especially his knowledge, it's his enthusiasm and the ability to infect a reader with it.

And one thing is for sure, enthusiasm can be a fleeting thing. Even the most ardent passions can become dimmed. For instance, take me and the Colt SAA. That revolver was my first true love. I bought my first one, a 2nd Generation .45, in 1968, and I've owned scores in the ensuing 41 years. At one point I owned 36 in a wide variety of calibers, but now I'm down to about a third of that number in only four calibers. The first book I wrote was titled Shooting Colt Single Actions; In All Styles, Calibers and Generations and it has been a great success for me. Yet in the last couple of years I've not taken any Colt SAA out and shot it except for use in an article. In fact as I started writing this column I noticed that in my gun vault where my Colts set on an open shelf many are dusty. I'll clean them someday.

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