Correct Totem Polar! What is your source?Originally Posted by Totem Polar
Question 3: How many times did Jeff Cooper win the Leatherslap?
Correct Totem Polar! What is your source?
Question 3: How many times did Jeff Cooper win the Leatherslap?
My first answer was faulty memory. My second answer was google, checking up on my memory…
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+c.....-a0138533467
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Totem, your link is to one of the best concise summaries of the history, particularly for the local context and flavor that the author provides. However, while he sets forth much useful information, some of the details he provides are just not historically correct.
Reading into the history, one is struck by how frequently accounts differ in material respects. Those of us who weren’t there are forever dependent on what did get recorded over time, and some of it was misunderstood, misremembered, jumbled, conflated, or otherwise unintentionally misreported.
In this particular instance, we seem to be on pretty firm ground. In the Cooper biography (1996) by his daughter Lindy Wisdom, she writes “Jeff was up against Don in the final bout but Jeff made a false start and called it on himself. He ended up second. That was the first of many lessons on how difficult it is to both administer and compete in the same match.”
T or F:
Jeff Cooper was cross eye dominant?
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Question 4: What targets were used at the first Leatherslap?
Question 5: When was the first Leatherslap held? Year? Date?
Balloons on strings.
Tethered helium balloons that moved around a little in the breeze would be an interesting option to try.
However, no balloons were used the first year.
Seems I recall the target was a 12” steel plate. I *think* I recently read that on the Elden Carl(RIP) website.
Cooper also refers to splitting a bullet on an axe blade and breaking a balloon(s?) on a steel plate-a self admitted stunt.
The axe blade was in his gun room at GUNSITE.
And yes, helium balloons on string are fun!
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