Welcome to E D Skinner's Website

Background

After going pistol shooting with some co-workers, I became interested in target shooting. My first pistol was a Ruger New Model Blackhawk in .357 calibre with the stainless steel finish. I immediately liked the really big noise that it made and ran through a couple of boxes of ammunition before deciding that 1) this could get expensive at approximately $0.25 per “bang”, and 2) I wasn’t hitting where I was aiming except on rare occasions, and didn’t know why. Talking with my friends and the other shooters, I discovered what “flinch” meant, and I had it big time. I learned that as I pulled the trigger, I knew when the gun was going to go off and my body was reacting in anticipation, and in a protect-myself manner, just before the hammer actually fell. That reaction was pulling the gun away from the middle of the target and I was never going to hit what I thought I was aiming at with any semblance of regularity.

Collected by: Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net http://www.flat5.net/

Revised: 03/08/2005

Converted to HTML and additional notes added: 07/26/2005

Anita Skinner, Ed Skinner, Caryl Leander, and Dana Martin

Anita’s known ancestry has a much longer tenancy in North America than Ed’s. It includes the Mullinaux family, originally from France, who first emigrated to Lower Canada (now Quebec). Over several succeeding generations, they moved farther south, first to Illinois and then across the Ohio River into Kentucky.

Our domain, flat5.net, was registered in 2001. We consider it to be our “family domain”. While its content is primarily written by me, Ed Skinner, my wife Anita is active in its design, and our kids and grandchildren may occasionally be noted herein.