{"id":79741,"date":"2024-11-11T05:11:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T11:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=79741"},"modified":"2024-11-11T05:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T11:11:17","slug":"the-bad-ass-files-colonel-charles-askins-us-army-ret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/11\/the-bad-ass-files-colonel-charles-askins-us-army-ret\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bad Ass Files: Colonel Charles Askins, US Army (Ret.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Col. Charles Askins Jr.: Unrepentant Sinner\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9LA-seaTdbY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/darkcanyon.net\/The_Legend_Of_Charley_Askins.htm\"><span style=\"color: #663333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman, Times;\">The Legend Of Charley Askins<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #663333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times New Roman, Times;\">by Skeeter Skelton<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">(As Published in Shooting Times Magazine, May 1972)<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">In The West Wing of a secluded, tile-roofed Spanish home in San Antonio, Texas is a room that is one of my favorite retreats. It&#8217;s a large room, carpeted with the rich hides of Polar and Kodiak bears and tigers. A long setee is draped with zebra hides that prickle your back when you sit down for a drink and some talk with the man of the house. Pairs of elephant tusks stand close to bookcases and a maze of racked rifles and shotguns of every description. The walls are spiked with such a forest of mounted heads and horns that the whole effect becomes blurred, and the guest concentrates on the host, who leans casually behind a big wooden desk.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">He is a ruddily healthy man of indeterminate middle age, his compact body kept hard by constant physical activity, his hands those of a working\u00a0\u00a0man. He looks at you with a direct blue gaze that would raise your guard if it weren\u2019t with a soft chuckle as he asks about your health, your family, and the advancement of your career. The smile that accompanies the chuckle is partially hidden by a drooping roan moustache, and overshadowed by the belligerent nose of a Roman centurion.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\">He is Col. Charles Askins, my longtime friend, and one of the most interesting \u2013 some say the most controversial \u2013 men you are likely to meet anywhere in this last of the 1900s.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/darkcanyon.net\/The_Legend_Of_Charley_Askins.htm\">RTWT @ Dark Canyon<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79744 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Gunfighter1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Gunfighter1.png 363w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Gunfighter1-218x300.png 218w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Gunfighter1-300x413.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Legend Of Charley Askins by Skeeter Skelton (As Published in Shooting Times Magazine, May 1972) &nbsp; In The West Wing of a secluded, tile-roofed Spanish home in San Antonio, Texas is a room that is one of my favorite retreats. 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