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Good read this thread. Well most of it.
JOC was right. The 270 Winchester on a Model 70 is a great combination as is the 30/06 and 375 H&H
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...A friend of mine has a matched pair of Armand Swenson High Powers.
Brian. Wow, Brian, those have got to be priceless to anyone who knows what they are. Does he shoot them?
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Sigh. To the fans and aficionados, thank you.
To the rest of you, what a load of Cr*p.
Hi, I'm Charlie's granddaughter, let me set some of this straight.
He wasn't a babykiller. I don't know who started that story originally, but its obviously spun out of control.
He loved the women in his family dearly (his wife, his daughter, and his 4 granddaughters). He hated his mother and his sister (met the sister once, what total trash).
He drank tequila and ouzo daily, because he had arthritis. I never once in my lifetime heard him bemoan any kind of issue that he'd need to drink his troubles away.
Yes, he shot a lot of blacks in Africa. There was this little war most Americans don't learn about where the white farmers who had developed Rhodesia were being slaughtered by black revolutionaries. My family had many many friends there, and he was there to help them try to come out on top in that war. Unfortunately that was not to be, and the country is now Zimbabwe. Maybe a few more Charlie Askins could've kept the country from turning into a unfarmable wasteland with 5000% inflation.
If you met him and he was charming the ladies, guess what? He was a charming person when he wanted to be. He wasn't trying to steal you wife, he was just cooler than you, sorry bub.
And yes, the way he fought might be considered sneaky. But he kicked ass, took names, and lived to be a very old man, which is more than a lot of gung ho whackjobs can say. He'd think most of these kids going off to war currently are total wahoos for the way they do things now, I guarantee it.
He had several strokes, and a a few heart attacks in his later years, and a dwindling case of dementia. Yes, he drove off one day to take his dog to the vet and got lost. There were NOT posters all over town (what crap, we had one news report run, and a family friend actually returned him to us).
He passed away in his own bed at home holding hands with his loving wife. Which is a far sight better than most men, psychopathic killer or not, will ever do.
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Thank you for your post Thangle.
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Some known men are never known; its the partly truth, partly fiction that makes their names not likely to be forgotten...
I knew my grandfather and loved him, but my father certainly knewhim; I suppose our views of the same man differed, as did every Joe Blow in the old hometown...
Thanks for the family member insight.
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JOC was right. The 270 Winchester on a Model 70 is a great combination as is the 30/06 and 375 H&H
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Nice post, Thangle. Thanks for taking the time to post it.
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Wow, Brian, those have got to be priceless to anyone who knows what they are. Does he shoot them? They're in the white, because he wanted to have them hard chromed and never got around to it. Last I saw (6 or 7 years ago), they were just sitting in a drawer. I would bet cash money they're in the same place and haven't moved since I seen them last. Brian.
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He drank tequila and ouzo daily, because he had arthritis. Fred Sanford? Brian.
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I guess you know you are a legend when they make up stories like some of these!
Some of these read like pulp fiction Wild Bill Hickok stories.
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He drank tequila and ouzo daily, because he had arthritis. Fred Sanford? Brian. You've got being a "DICK" down pat....
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... You've got being a "DICK" down pat.... ...isn't that the punch line to an old Nixon joke??? 
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You've got being a "DICK" down pat.... Who threw sand in your mangina? Brian.
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Sigh. To the fans and aficionados, thank you.
To the rest of you, what a load of Cr*p.
Hi, I'm Charlie's granddaughter, let me set some of this straight.
He wasn't a babykiller. I don't know who started that story originally, but its obviously spun out of control.
He loved the women in his family dearly (his wife, his daughter, and his 4 granddaughters). He hated his mother and his sister (met the sister once, what total trash).
He drank tequila and ouzo daily, because he had arthritis. I never once in my lifetime heard him bemoan any kind of issue that he'd need to drink his troubles away.
Yes, he shot a lot of blacks in Africa. There was this little war most Americans don't learn about where the white farmers who had developed Rhodesia were being slaughtered by black revolutionaries. My family had many many friends there, and he was there to help them try to come out on top in that war. Unfortunately that was not to be, and the country is now Zimbabwe. Maybe a few more Charlie Askins could've kept the country from turning into a unfarmable wasteland with 5000% inflation.
If you met him and he was charming the ladies, guess what? He was a charming person when he wanted to be. He wasn't trying to steal you wife, he was just cooler than you, sorry bub.
And yes, the way he fought might be considered sneaky. But he kicked ass, took names, and lived to be a very old man, which is more than a lot of gung ho whackjobs can say. He'd think most of these kids going off to war currently are total wahoos for the way they do things now, I guarantee it.
He had several strokes, and a a few heart attacks in his later years, and a dwindling case of dementia. Yes, he drove off one day to take his dog to the vet and got lost. There were NOT posters all over town (what crap, we had one news report run, and a family friend actually returned him to us).
He passed away in his own bed at home holding hands with his loving wife. Which is a far sight better than most men, psychopathic killer or not, will ever do. I guess that puts a well-directed foot in a few fannies around here.
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"And yes, the way he fought might be considered sneaky. But he kicked ass, took names, and lived to be a very old man, which is more than a lot of gung ho whackjobs can say. "
"He passed away in his own bed at home holding hands with his loving wife. Which is a far sight better than most men, psychopathic killer or not, will ever do."
I think she has a pretty good handle on it. He was a devoted psychotic killer who lived to be an old man in a profession filled with gung ho whackjobs
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He drank tequila and ouzo daily, because he had arthritis. Fred Sanford? Brian. I've got severe degenerative arthritis in both knees and I drink (too much) bourbon. My rheumatologist and internist keep telling me to have no more than 3 drinks a day; now I've got another medical opinion that says to switch to tequila and all will be better. Best advice I�ve had all day!
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� I've got severe degenerative arthritis in both knees and I drink (too much) bourbon. My rheumatologist and internist keep telling me to have no more than 3 drinks a day; now I've got another medical opinion that says to switch to tequila and all will be better. Best advice I�ve had all day! Mark Twain had a cold. A friend advised a quart of whisky. Another friend also advised a quart of whisky. "That," Twain exclaimed gleefully, "makes half a gallon!"
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� I've got severe degenerative arthritis in both knees and I drink (too much) bourbon. My rheumatologist and internist keep telling me to have no more than 3 drinks a day; now I've got another medical opinion that says to switch to tequila and all will be better. Best advice I�ve had all day! Mark Twain had a cold. A friend advised a quart of whisky. Another friend also advised a quart of whisky. "That," Twain exclaimed gleefully, "makes half a gallon!" Hey Ken. These are my kind of doctors! Got their address?
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Skeeter probably had waited in the dark for smugglers. He probably appreciated the fact that a man who shot straight in a heated moment was an assett. Smugglers usually are hard men.
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An old Browning Superposed I traded for a few years back, factory lettered as Capt. Charles Askins Sr.'s personal shotgun, pictured in several books, included Unrepentant Sinner by his son, the Colonel. An extensive thread on www.shotgunworld.com, under "I love my Browning" had 28,000 or so hits over 3 years. It's probably several pages back in the Browning Forum, but has a lot on info of Major (then Capt) Askins, Colonel Askins, with input from the Colonel's son, Bill Askins, San Antonio. Included are the Colonel's Colt Woodsman he turned into a center fire, causing a big stink at the Camp Perry matches. Check it out. DF
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