When Shooting Times (then owned by the Peoria Journal Star) held their "writer get togethers" in Peoria they used the same gun range that I also used. Thanks to a friendship with George Nonte I was able to meet and socialize with all of them when they came to town. They each had their claims to fame but I found it interesting that all of them were genuinely afraid of Skeeter Skelton and even Charles Askins wasn't interested in getting on his bad side.