Gary Reeder
my heroes were of a different sort. Infrequently I
Monday, May 07, 2018, 10:30

would read one of Skeeter's articles but he wasn't one of my favorites. He was a shooter, not a hunter. My heros were handgun hunters like Goerg, Jurras, Milek, Warren Center, J.D.Jones and one or two others, guys that had been there and done what they wrote about. To me Ross Seyfried was too far out there in la la land. I read his earlier articles but as he went along he got more and more off the deep end. I talked to him at a custom show and in my humble opinion, he was pushing the limits in safe loading and shooting and sometimes past that point. Keith was famous for his exploits and cartridge design work but he didn't interest me as he wasn't a true handgun hunter. Dick Casull was a brilliant man with his cartridge designs and sometimes I think he didn't get the praise he deserved. I thought his 38 Casull was a great idea, but somewhere along the line it fizzled out. He didn't get half the press he should have. Hell, half the young people back then (and now also) called his cartridge the 454 Casual. And there wasn't a damn thing casual about the 454.
The only true handgun hunters we have to look up to these days are John Taffin and to a lesser extent Mark Hampton.

I have mentioned this before and I hate this, but the young handgun hunters these days have no heroes. There are no Goergs, no Mileks, no Jurras'. There are handgun hunters out there but none stand out like these men did. I think handgun hunting will continue to be strong but it doesn't have the excitement or fervor it had in years past.