Word has reached us that Bart Skelton has passed. The son of the great gun writer Charles \u201cSkeeter\u201d Skelton, Bart followed his dad\u2019s path in law enforcement and writing. Beginning as a New Mexico state trooper, he transitioned into US Customs. He shared his father\u2019s love of fine guns and good shooting. He wrote several excellent articles and at least one book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I first met him the same day I first met his dad, whose work I had followed in the gun magazines since I was a little kid. I visited Charlie at his home in Deming, NM in the 1970s. Bart was still in high school, I believe, the kind of clean cut kid you\u2019d expect a man like Skelton and his lovely wife Sally to raise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bart grew up to be a barrel-chested man who embraced his father\u2019s values. I\u2019m told he was only in his 60s when he died.\u00a0 Like his father, we lost him way too soon. I had the good fortune to spend some time with him at the FTW Ranch in Texas a few years ago. Wonderful man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can find his book here<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bart was only 60-something years old. Like Tiger McKee, who left us just a week or so ago, gone far too early and greatly to be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Word has reached us that Bart Skelton has passed. The son of the great gun writer Charles \u201cSkeeter\u201d Skelton, Bart followed his dad\u2019s path in law enforcement and writing. Beginning as a New Mexico state trooper, he transitioned into US Customs. He shared his father\u2019s love of fine guns and good shooting. He wrote several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7807,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions\/7807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}