Two Hundred Yard Sharpshooting By Charles Askins

[Elric]

https://books.google.com/books?id=x...EQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=rifle palm rest&f=true

The Outing Magazine, vol 60, No. 6, Sept 1912 pages 731-737

How the Modern School of Sharpshooting Has Resulted from the Union of American and European Methods

Another article on period shooting

 

[John]

Thanks I have read a few articles by Askins and had a book by him on shotguns at one time. I enjoyed his writing while his sons ran more along the me, me, me, me, I. I, I, style.

 

[RicinYakima]

Well, Charlie Jr was pretty ego-centric, but you have to admit he had an adventurous life! Nowadays, he would be called a pathological killer, but since he was in law enforcement and the Army, he got away with it.

 

[KHornet]

Saw Charlie coming back from hunt in the Anchorage air port as I was waiting to
fly out on my bear hunt. There is/was a separate area for hunters coming back
and heading out. He was in the process of complaining about something or other
with an Alaskan Game official. Impressed me as sort of a cantankerous cuss.

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[Creeker]

Impressed me as sort of a cantankerous cuss.

Sounds about right

 

[Dale53]

I met Charlie Askins Jr. at an NRA Convention in D.C. many years ago. He was a bit cantankerous but, frankly, I liked him. We had quite a chat on two different occasions. He sure had an adventurous life, both WW II (and Vietnam) and "on the border". I suspect he "earned" his attitude. He was a REAL gunny, for sure and shot with the best of them both on the range and in an extensive combat life.

We just need some more of his type around now, than we have. Definitely, NOT "Politically Correct", for sure.

FWIW
Dale53

 

[Pistolero]

The article is interesting reading. I have trouble imagining the skill required to make those
shots at 200 yds standing. I have seen Schutzen rifles, but never held one, so perhaps it is
different once you "balance" one, as he says.

I clearly remember my first time on the line at an NRA High Power match, praying I could stay
on the berm at 200 standing. I was amazed to shoot something like a 75 or 80, I had no idea
that I could do that well. Of course, I improved over time, but standing is always supremely
difficult, at least for me.

Bill

 

[quicksylver]

Sitting was my down fall....