Originally Posted by okie john

Askins the Younger had knowledge and experience, but a glance at his work reveals that his writing was lazy to the point of being sloppy. He had also pissed off a lot of people by gaming the rules to win a national pistol title at Camp Perry (back when sportsmanship mattered), and he had earned a reputation for dozens of unjustified killings during his Border Patrol years.
Okie John

Charlie did go out of his way to game the pistol competition. He took a .22LR Colt Woodsman, had it chambered for an altered .22 Velodog French centerfire round. He found and bought a stock of the ammo, pulled the bullets, shortened the case, loaded suitable ammo.

They nit picked his gun (of course), found the sighting radius to be too long. Charlie found a welder to reposition and braze the sight for the allowable radius. He won the match,.

Rex Applegate ended up with the gun, had it engraved with the championship data. According to Bill Askins, Charlie's son, the Col. would have never done that, thought such embellishments weren't Kosher. Anyway, here are some photos. Gotta give him credit for innovation...

After that fiasco, match rules were changed to prevent such in the future.

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,22LR, .22 WMR, Velodog.
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Last edited by Dirtfarmer; 12/21/17.