I Wonder If Jelly Brice Knew These Gunmen

[Wyatt Burp]

Regardless your opinion of him, there is a great chapter in G. Gordon Liddy's unapologetic autobiography where he write about his two shooting mentors in the FBI who were old ex Oklahoma lawmen packing 5" S&W .357s when everyone else carried ,38s. The "shoot to kill" lecture one of them gave Liddy is absolutely profound. Read it here on page 65 onward...

https://books.google.com/books?id=Y...&q=g. gordon liddy will branter jeter&f=false

 

[hoosierone]

Saw Liddy speak in person years ago. He was very impressive.

 

[Hapworth]

Good read -- thank you. Why do we think Brantner's .357 Magnum was loaded with five rounds instead of six, and why did he only hand five rounds to Liddy? Pre hammer block instincts, or is Liddy mis-remembering?

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Good read -- thank you. Why do we think Brantner's .357 Magnum was loaded with five rounds instead of six, and why did he only hand five rounds to Liddy? Pre hammer block instincts, or is Liddy mis-remembering?

I don't really know, but I reckon it was a holdover from bullseye paper shooting. I never even HEARD of someone loading six rounds to shoot at paper until the late sixties.

 

[S&W ucla]

Wonder if those were real names. Doing a search on Historical Gmen site shows no results for Brantner or Jeter. Bryce retired Feb 1, 1958 and Liddy joined in 1957.

 

[lawandorder]

Larry W. Who runs a FBI history web site can probably answer that question.

The names might have been changed to protect the privacy.

It was very common for Hoover and company to
need shooters and most of them were lawmen from the west and southwest.

 

[S&W ucla]

That is Larry's site I searched. No results for either name.

 

[okiegtrider]

It was fun reading that again. Read it years ago and had forgotten that passage.

Then I dragged out my own 3.5 inch model 27 and smiled some more.

Thanks for posting that one!