Where It All Started: Early Mentors - Gun Guys
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Dale Gribble
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In my early teens, my Dad turned me on to three dudes in particular and imo, all three are some of the best gunslingers who ever lived…
Ed McGivern, Elmer Keith and Jeff Cooper
I read everything by those fellows that I could get my hands on.
Ed McGivern, Elmer Keith and Jeff Cooper
I read everything by those fellows that I could get my hands on.
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Several things got me started in shooting. Among them were cowboy westerns, Combat comic books, cap guns, adds in Boys' Life magazines, Herter's Catalog, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, Field and Stream, American Rifleman, the Army Store down on Vine Street, the Athletic House on Gay Street, Jack O'Connor, Shooters' Bible, Klein's mail order advertisements, and shooting an old Remington rolling block 22 when we came to the farm over Christmas.
Growing up I had the ocassional opportunity to shoot .22s m a .410, and once a 20ga. It was when I was 40 that my wife’s uncle brought his .45 on a visit and we went to Calibers in Greensboro. Fired it the first time and it was like, whoa, then wow. Same experience with my wife when I took her to Calibers a week later.
The War Wagon
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After dad, it was Henry Goforth - Rifle rangemaster at Camp John J. Barnhardt - 1978-80.
11 years old with grandpa in Kentucky. My parents were not for it and he told em to shut up and go away for a while. Then he taught me to shoot. He was such a cool guy.