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So de-cluttering and came across this signed book from him.
I remember reading articles in gun magazines way back before internet, Guns and Ammo, Shooting Times, etc..

Anyway thought that was pretty cool and a fun find but useless to me as I don't own a handgun anymore nor a police officer.
Pretty certain some of these techniques are probably slightly different these days...or are they the same?

I never met the man, had ordered this book.
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Long live the S&W 19!

I was thinkin bill off realtree camo nvr mind

I use his Doe in Heat and some of his bleat calls.

Things have evolved quite a bit since then.


Okie John

WTH happened to night n hale they die off?

Dumbchit Rick Flair has the wrong Bill Jordan. doesn't surprise me !

No use for it? So, you gonna send it to me for a fee or otherwise?

One I've not read.

He aint no Larry Weishuhn either. Or even Tom Miranda.

Seems the fishin's pretty easy around here.

Bill Jordan.
I understand he was an excellent exhibition shooter, but not much good for anything else.
Legend has it the only man he ever kill was a fellow BP agent.
Seems Bill was in his office, practicing his "fast draw", dropped his gun and it went off. The agent in the adjoining office was bent over, polishing his boots. The bullet went through the wall and hit the agent in the head.

Want to read a book about a "REAL" BP agent? Look up the book, "Shod With Iron".
That's a real agent!

Dayum! I have that book!

Sounds like an interesting book. I’ll look for it. Would be neat to read about a “REAL” bp agent I guess.

I have that book.

He was from Cheneyville, LA, a few miles down Hwy 71 from my house.

Never met him.

DF

Check out this piece on Bill. Click at the bottom to read the poem he wrote.

http://darkcanyon.net/A%20Visit%20With%20Bill%20Jordan.htm

DF

Probably a cool read OP.

I don’t know much about him other than shooting the fellow agent and that he had giant sized hands that required some modifications to his revolvers IIRC.

"Shod With Iron" - C.M. "Buck" Newsom

Newsom wrote to his division chief, asking him for money to buy tires for their (Gov't) trucks.
The chief sent Newsom a 50 pound box of horse shoes!

Ain’t heard this brung up in awhile, not like 20 years back, everybody younger than a Boomer ain’t as aware of the man.

IIRC Mr Jordan did see WWII combat in the Marines in Eintewok and Okinawa, might have killed people there.

As for the manslaughter incident, I don’t believe a dropped gun was involved. They way I have read it he was demonstrating his fast draw for someone. I would guess Mr Jordan had dry fired a revolver about a million times. Having once put a bullet through a wall “dry firing” a revolver for trigger practice myself I find the practice foolish. It gives your subconscious the impression that the gun WON’T always go off when you pull the trigger. Other’s MMV.

https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=248833

In 1956, Jordan fired a .357 revolver in the Chuck Vista CA BP Office. The round went through a wall and hit BP Agent John Rector in the head. He died not long after at the hospital. Jordan “thought” the revolver was empty.

Today it would have been a career-ender, and possibly a conviction and a lawsuit. IIRC Mr Rector’s son was understandably bitter.

I got lucky with my ND. One good outcome was I still get a bit of a chill every time I dry fire now and ordinarily won’t do it unless in locales where I would ordinarily shoot, with the barrel pointing downrange.

Anyhoo…. I sent Mr Jordan’s book to my brother in ‘73 when he became an MP. I saw it advertised in Outdoor Life magazine. My brother did shoot expert but he ain’t shot much less owned a handgun besides mine in the 45 years since he left the service.

He still has the book tho.

I met Bill Jordan once at the NRA's national convention in Anaheim, Ca., 1988 or 1989. Indeed, he had hands the size of Virginia Baked Hams. He was a"big fellow," and a pleasant man to meet.

L.W.

I've got a Knight & Hale slate call, I still use it!!