"A famous ad that most boy baby boomers will recall from Boys` Life, the old scouting magazine of the `50s, showed a happy lad, carrot-topped and freckly like any number of Peck`s Bad Boys, his teeth haphazardly arrayed within his wide, gleeful mouth under eyes wide as pie platters as he exclaimed on Christmas morn, "Gee, Dad . . . A Winchester! All gone, all gone, all gone," writes Stephen Hunter.
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