Elgin T Gates (7 November 1922

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16 November 1988) was an American hunter, adventurer, author, and firearms and ammunition technician. He was responsible for proposing and testing the

super magnum A super magnum is a longer and/or more powerful version of a " magnum" cartridge. Although the term "super magnum" typically refers to a handgun cartridge, created by lengthening an existing straight-case design, it can also refer to rifle and sh ...

cartridge family in the 1970s in collaboration with Dan Wesson, which led to many

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designs, as well a few production cartridges such as the

.357 Remington Maximum The .357 Maximum, formally known as the .357 Remington Maximum or the .357 Max, is a super magnum handgun cartridge originally developed by Elgin Gates as the wildcat .357 SuperMag. The .357 Maximum was introduced into commercial production as ...

. Gates was a central person in the development of handgun metallic silhouette shooting,American Rifleman , The Super Mags
/ref> and served as president of the International Handgun Metallic Silhouette Association."Lunching with legends: a reminiscence"
''Gun Magazine'', March 1, 2007.IMSSU - History of Metallic Silhouette Shooting
/ref> During his leadership of IHMSA, Elgin published a newsletter titled ''The Silhouette'' where amongst others

John Taffin John August Taffin (born May 2, 1939) is an American author from Boise, Idaho who writes several columns for gun magazines including ''Guns'', ''Gun Digest'', ''Sixgunner'', ''Shoot!'' and ''American Handgunner''. A former math teacher from 1964-1 ...

contributed. Before Gates died in 1988, his impressive big game trophy room was destroyed by fire.

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American hunters 1988 deaths Writers from Wyoming 1933 births {{US-writer-stub