Charles Askins 1924 American Rifleman

[Dutchman]

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[pworley1]

I always enjoyed reading his articles.

[Roy Acuffff]

Interesting reading, but then again Charles Askins writing have always been eye openers!

Roy

[Mk42gunner]

1924 would mean this author is Charles Askins Sr., wouldn't it? He was way before my time, but as I understand it, he was one of the first to write primarily about shotguns.

Robert

[nicholst55]

Charles Askins SR also did some very enlightening handgun terminal ballistics testing involving wild horses way, way back in the day. He concluded that the heavy-loaded .44 Special, .357 Magnum, and the 7.62X25 Tokarev did the best job of stopping. This was pre-WWII, and he used essentially everything that was available at the time. IIRC, he was working for the Forest Service and was tasked to permanently remove wild horses from their land. If you chased them off, they eventually returned. I guess his solution was tacitly approved at the time - my how times have changed!

[runfiverun]

it was wild burro's, and pig carcasses he done a ton of his experimenting on.

[MtGun44]

He knew a lot about men, it is clear.

Same kinds of nasty folks out there trying to run everyone else's lives.

[Walla2]

True in 1924 when written. True today. That makes it profound in my book.

[frkelly74]

A prophet only has to look into the past in order to tell you the future.