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Charles Allan "Skeeter" Skelton (May 1, 1928 – January 17, 1988) was an American lawman and firearms writer who was born in Hereford, Texas and died in El Paso, Texas.
Skeeter Skelton considered the Model 27 with a 5-inch barrel as the best all-around handgun. General George Patton carried an ivory-handled Registered Magnum with a 3 1 ⁄ 2 -inch barrel (along with his ivory-handled Colt Peacemaker ); Patton called the Model 27 his "killing gun".
He was a contemporary of Charles Askins, Elmer Keith, Skeeter Skelton and to a lesser degree, Jack O'Connor. In 1963, Jordan assisted Keith and Skelton in development of the .41 Magnum. He wrote numerous articles on all aspects of firearms, as well as books such as No Second Place Winner, Mostly Huntin' and Tales of the Rio Grande.
Led by articles in firearms periodicals penned by gun writers such as Elmer Keith and Skeeter Skelton, a loose cadre of enthusiastic fans who called themselves the ".44 Associates" formed. [5]
Skelton also promises the Fraser story won’t end without a little more drama. “The final season is going to blow people's minds a little bit,” she says. “The fans have been put through the ...
Skeeter (South Park), in South Park; one of the title characters of Muggs and Skeeter, an American daily comic strip (1927–1974) Skeeter, a recurring Saturday Night Live character; Skeeter, nickname of Naomi Oates Harper, in Mama's Family; Skeeter, in Cousin Skeeter; Skeeter the Paperboy, on-screen persona of Australian TV host James Kemsley
In the early 1960s, Elmer Keith, Bill Jordan, and Skeeter Skelton, all noted firearms authorities and authors, lobbied Remington Arms and Smith & Wesson to introduce a new .41 caliber police cartridge with the objective of filling a perceived ballistic performance gap between the .357 and .44 Magnums, thus creating a chambering which they believed would be the ultimate for law enforcement ...
In 1963, Elmer Keith and Bill Jordan, with some help from Skeeter Skelton, petitioned Smith & Wesson, Remington, and Norma to produce a pistol and ammunition in .41 caliber which would fall between the extant .357 Magnum and .44 Magnum cartridges in ballistic performance, and at the same time address perceived shortcomings with those loads. [3]