A few days ago, we received an announcement from Dan and Joanna Cote that they are discontinuing the Double Gun Journal. It went from 1989 to 2022. When Daniel started it by he wan often reduced to selling off his own prints and his used firearms. It became a major success and was so or many years; and he established a new standard for scholarship and esthetics. The formidable , forbidding (because he knew so much) and fortunate Ross Seyfried often published there by preference, for instance. .
Daniek was always generous with his money but by 2022. it cost him more to print it than he made from it, and he reluctantly closed it. It is fair to say that however specialized, it was the best journal of its kind in the world,. it will be missed. I’ll add more later as it sinks in…