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Drunken Pistol Champs
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:44 am
by Rover
I found this article in a 1956 Guns magazine written by Col Charles Askins. Scroll down to page 21.
https://gunsmagazine.com/wp-content/upl ... /G0156.pdf
Sounds good to me and it may explain William.
Re: Drunken Pistol Champs
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:11 pm
by 6string
I found the article on p. 24. Charles Askins was always a colorful writer.
There's a number of good articles in that issue. If you go to the gunsmagazine website, they have free downloads of all their back issues from the 50s and 60s.
Jim
Re: Drunken Pistol Champs
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 10:20 pm
by 6string
I just read this in a biography of Charles Askins, remembered this post, and thought it would be a good addition:
"I once asked Askins how he felt about match pistol shooters who took a toddy for their nerves, and he told me of that Texas match in 1934 when the Los Angeles police beat the pants off him.
Between relays, the L.A. cops would retire to the old Cadillac hearse in which they traveled, and draw the curtains. Moments later they would emerge and clobber the next relay. Charley sent out spies and learned the back of the hearse was stacked high with gin. From then forward he attended his matches fortified with the same brand."