Jim Wilson is a native Texan who served as a Texas peace officer for 30 years, in Denton and Crockett Counties. The last eight years of his service he was he elected sheriff of Crockett County, Texas, with the county seat at Ozona. In 1990, he sold his first gun articles to Petersen’s Handguns and has since written for Guns & Ammo, Shooting Times, The American Rifleman, and Shooting Illustrated. He has also contributed articles to Gun Digest, NRA Family, and True West magazine. He especially pays tribute to Bill Jordan and John Wootters who were kind enough to mentor him and help him get a foot in the door in the gun writing business.

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A lifelong hunter, Wilson enjoys handgun hunting and hunting with the more traditional guns such as single-action revolvers, lever-action rifles and the Ruger #1. In addition to the continental United States, he has hunted in Alaska, Canada, Mexico, Africa, Australia, and Argentina.

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Wilson has also spent a lifetime studying the history of the American West, the lawmen, gunfighters, and outlaws. Wilson says, “We can always learn a lot from studying history and, in my case, it helped prepare me to deal with situations and issues of my own.”

Shane Jahn is a native Texan, lifelong outdoorsman, hunter, shooter, and student of southwestern history.

 

He began his outdoor writing career shortly after returning from his first African safari in 2015.  Since then, his freelance writing has been published by NRA Family, Gun Digest Magazine, Guns of The Old West, The Mag Life Blog, Safariland’s Cadre Dispatch Blog, Texas Outdoors Journal, and a few others.

 

Each year he covers the New Revolvers & Others section of the famed Gun Digest Annual.

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Shane enjoys the challenge of handgun hunting and has returned to Africa twice since 2015 to successfully hunt cape buffalo with a revolver. His long gun interests lean towards iconic lever-action rifles, traditional bolt-actions, and Ruger No.1s with highly figured wood stocks. He enjoys finding guns with stories and sharing those stories with readers.

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​He recently retired from an exciting 22-year career with the U.S. Border Patrol and resides near Alpine in the Big Bend Region of west Texas.

Matt Covert is a Texas transplant from the Great State of Maine, where he lived for 31 years before wandering south.

 

He served as an Aircraft Crew Chief with the legendary Maineiacs in the 101st Air Refueling Wing in Bangor, ME. After seeing Germany, Kuwait, Qatar, Hawaii, Guam, Alaska, and Israel, he chose to escape the -30 degree winter temperatures that blister the northeast runways. 

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A lifelong reader, Matt grew up on dog-eared paperbacks and stories that earned their place—tales of hardship, courage, and quiet grit. Gun Tales offered something rare: a place where story still matters, and where a man who’s spent a life reading can finally step across the firelight and add some of his own.

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As a licensed private pilot and co-founder of both Gun Tales, Matt splits his time between the skies, the keyboard, and the desert. His background spans everything from aircraft maintenance to racecar driving, from podcast production to marksmanship.​

 

These days, he’s more likely to be building a new aviation training software, fabricating parts for an experimental aircraft, or quietly exploring the West Texas backcountry by air.

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