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Old 03-16-2013, 12:29 AM
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Skeeter Skelton was approachable. I met him at the NRA convention when it was in Salt Lake City back about 1978. He was sitting in the SHOOTING TIMES magazine booth Sunday morning, looking a bit worse for wear (due, doubtlessly, to the previous night's honors). I walked up to him, reached in my pocket and handed him a handloaded .44 Special cartridge with a cast SWC in it. He eyeballed it, looked at me, looked around, stood up (he was a lot taller than I had pictured him) and we went and got a coffee and a coke together. He talked to me for over a half hour, asking me about what I liked to shoot as much as he talked about what he liked.

Great story teller, which made him such a great writer. We won't likely have another like him if just because the world today doesn't offer the kinds of experiences that shaped writers like Skeeter Skelton, Bill Jordan, Jeff Coooper and others from that select pool.
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