Combat Shooting with Massad Ayoob by Massad Ayoob

Author:Massad Ayoob [Ayoob, Massad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-1859-0
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2011-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

CLOSEUP OF THE COVER of the book Gun Fighters by Col. Charles Askins, Jr. That’s Charlie (a southpaw) in the drawing, taken from a famous photo of Askins. Note that the revolver is a Colt New Service with cutaway trigger guard and King sight rib, a motif Askins favored, and that the holster is a Berns-Martin breakfront. His contemporary Bill Jordan later spoke of how fast Askins was with that combination.

Askins put the speed of fire to good use. He wrote of one shootout in East El Paso, where he employed a Winchester .351 semiautomatic carbine:

“One night at the foot of Piedras Street, which runs slapbang into Cordoba Island, a team of (Border) Patrol officers watched a gang of smugglers scramble out of the willows in the river bottom and pile their load of liquor into an old Hudson sedan.

“Then the cargadores turned and raced nimbly for the protection of the Mex side of the line. Three cholos piled into the old car and commenced to drive away. The BP vehicle pulled up beside the runner’s vehicle and, with guns drawn, we motioned the driver to halt.

“The Hudson came to a stop just as I set foot on the ground. The officer who was in the rear seat also alighted. The driver of the gov’t vehicle threw the door open on the left side and hit the ground. He stepped down just as a gunman sitting beside the driver of the old Hudson swung a Model 94 carbine behind the driver’s head and let go at the Patrol officer in front.

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