I first encountered him (or his tracks anyway) when I went to Gunsite for the first time in '90. There was a life-size picture of him on one wall in the classroom (building "Luke" in those days IIRC), with the caption "You can't miss fast enough"; I understand that was a saying of his about handgun shooting.
I liked reading his work in the Wolfe publications because he could draw you into some technology you cared little about with the quality of his experiences with it and his descriptions of real use in the field. He intrigued me with things I was not "in to", the same way Skeeter Skelton could. The Wolfe magazines are poorer without him, at least for me.
He did get off on tangents from time to time, and some stuff he claimed just is not true to my knowledge. But so what: on the balance he was a large plus.
jim
