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Why I love reading Skeeter! PART 2 WHAT??? (reply)

Fivegunner — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:43:31 +0000

John , could you add a little more info, about this falling out thing???

In addition to Skeeter's good humor... (reply)

FOG — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:49:47 +0000

His writing frequently expressed his warmth as a person.

Skeeter could certainly be serious, but regardless of the strain imposed by circumstance, he never showed the slightest hint of having a chip on his shoulder about anything.

Whether that was really true, I can't say, but it is something to emulate.

Or at least admire.

Why I love reading Skeeter! PART 2 (reply)

Slow Hand — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:03:07 +0000

First I've heard if it. What point does this statement make?

"Where'd you get that piece of chicken hide, Pete?" (reply)

Slow Hand — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:01:27 +0000

For a few weeks after I read that article, I called everyone Pete and chuckled about it! It didn't do anything for my already questionable popularity... I gave up on it when it took too long, too many times explaining it!

I've always wanted one... (reply)

FOG — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:59:15 +0000

First, I lucked into the CM (which is just fabulous; Thanks again, Glen!), then I found the grips (which are among the best I've ever seen), and the next thing I knew, there was that shiny "piece of chicken hide" (LOL)

Good for the soul!

The trusty old VISA card, not so much...

"Where'd you get that piece of chicken hide, Pete?" (reply)

Catoosa — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:22:25 +0000

Got a brown one just like that, FOG, but my C/M is not in nearly as nice shape as yours. Class rig.

As a fan of both men . . . (reply)

Kentucky — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:48:14 +0000

. . . I'd be quite interested in documentation of this claim.

Seriously.

In a related story... (reply)

FOG — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:12:57 +0000

As it turns out, butterflies aren't free after all...

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Who....me...?? — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:43:40 +0000

DON'T FORGET THIS; Skeeter and Bill Jordan had a HUGE falling out sometime before Skeeters death.

"Where'd you get that piece of chicken hide, Pete?" (reply)

FOG — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:52:04 +0000

(Good Friends, Good Guns, Good Whiskey p. 138)

It's not a crossdraw, but I'm pretty sure Skeeter would have approved.

Fred D'Albini, probably not so much.

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Borrowed (reply)

Dave B — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 07:14:02 +0000

From the Dark Canyon website, they have a nice little collection of Skeeter's writings.

Indeed! (reply)

Kentucky — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:57:33 +0000

Bill and Skeeter had a grand old time playing off that "relationship".

Some of the funniest stuff ever written.

They were, of course, very close friends.

Classic!

I remember that! (reply)

Boge Quinn — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:25:08 +0000

Takes me back.

Yep, a classic retort from Skeeter. (reply)

Rob Leahy — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:32:00 +0000

Why I love reading Skeeter!

Dave B — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:23:48 +0000

Shooting Times Magazine

June 1979

Who's Who in Gun Land?

Q I ordered a copy of No Second Place Winner from Bill Jordan and asked if he had recovered from Jug Johnson's visit.

On the frontispiece of the book he wrote, "I am sure you are aware that both Jug Johnson and Skeeter Skelton are fictitious characters. Dobe Grant writes all of those Stories".

Well?

A Well, it looks like you've been taken in, like so many others.

"Bill Jordan" is the pen name of Belle Jordan, a wizened little old lady in Shreveport, La. That long, tall, homely yahoo you see around the gun conventions is a guy she hired away from a carnival sideshow to make personal appearances for her.