Thread: Mike Venturino

Greetings All,
A little more about Mike or Duke as he was often called. Mike was born in early May 1949. He was into firearms from an early age and studied Journalism at Marshal College. He always wanted to be a gun writer but until he came under new management when he married Yvonne in 1978 this was in doubt. Mike was told to sit down at Yvonne's typewriter and get on with it. He wrote full time from 1981. The first article I read of Mikes, Likely written in 1979 was in Handloader and was about loading the .40-82 @akaroa1 please note. In 1986 Mike and Yvonne purchased a small block on which Mike could set up a 300 yard range where they lived until his death. It would be hard to overestimate the importance of Yvonne's input in Mikes writing career. Not only did she get him started in the first place but took over the photography, which he hated, They were married for 47 years. Some of the dates have come from an article Mike wrote for GUNS Magazine in 2021.
Regards Grandpamac.