I knew Bill Jordan quite well, as we shot skeet at the same club and ran into each other out on the River a time or two. I was in high school at the time. He always had time for a kid. Later as a young lawyer, I ran into him again at the NRA Convention is Dallas. He had drinks together and were joined by Elmer Keith and some other folks whose names I don't recall.
I met Col Askins a couple of times in San Antone and he was always polite, even courtly, but never warm. I disliked him from his writings, for numerous reasons. I doubt I will see him in Heaven.
I only met Skeeter once in the hospital in El Paso, but he was circling the drain at the time. I did know his wife Sally when I lived in Deming NM and a finer woman you will never meet.
When I was in high school my highest goal in life was to work in R&D for Winchester. I wrote to them asking what kind of education I would need to do that. They wrote back listing the engineering education I would need. I was not a science and numbers guy, so I got a degree in Speech and Drama and went on to Law School. After some years as a lawyer, I went back to Seminary for another three years of graduate education. Still, I admire those folks who made a living working and writing in the firearms field. It was my life goal, one for which I was poorly equipped by nature. "A man has to know his limitation".
