Dave James
03-03-2006, 09:58 AM
Didn't think the group would mind me posting here..One of the last great "PS" has passed.. Bulldog passed away on the 24th of Feb. at 88, I have lost a friend and mentor.
He was from the Eastern SHore of VA. and had come to NewportNews,he traveled some but returned and became a COP's cop, he worn badge No-6,while carring his triple lock 44spl he worked the docks, and over saw the arrival of german POW's, a few years later he was recurited by the FBI in 1950, where he went on to have a 22 year carrer.At 6' 4" and 200lbs he struck an imposing figure, which helped him in arresting a mob hit man named Elmer "Trigger" Burke.. When he retired from the FBI he went to work for the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice, where he over saw the firearms training of several hundered police offices, in yet another 20 year carrer..
We hit it off from the first him and Mr.Bryce and been friends and friendly competetors. First time I ever saw him shoot was on a very cold Jan day at the old Va. BCH range, we where shooting the 60 yard MDA course of fire and he cleaned it with a 2" colt PP, once down to the 25 yard mark he never used his sights,,, I have seen him take a trainee's pistol who, had complained it wasn't working,, hold it upside down and trigger it with his pinky finger and eat the center out of a B-27 from 25 yards.
He loved COP's of all kind and hated those who tried to short change their training, he will be sorely missed
He was from the Eastern SHore of VA. and had come to NewportNews,he traveled some but returned and became a COP's cop, he worn badge No-6,while carring his triple lock 44spl he worked the docks, and over saw the arrival of german POW's, a few years later he was recurited by the FBI in 1950, where he went on to have a 22 year carrer.At 6' 4" and 200lbs he struck an imposing figure, which helped him in arresting a mob hit man named Elmer "Trigger" Burke.. When he retired from the FBI he went to work for the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice, where he over saw the firearms training of several hundered police offices, in yet another 20 year carrer..
We hit it off from the first him and Mr.Bryce and been friends and friendly competetors. First time I ever saw him shoot was on a very cold Jan day at the old Va. BCH range, we where shooting the 60 yard MDA course of fire and he cleaned it with a 2" colt PP, once down to the 25 yard mark he never used his sights,,, I have seen him take a trainee's pistol who, had complained it wasn't working,, hold it upside down and trigger it with his pinky finger and eat the center out of a B-27 from 25 yards.
He loved COP's of all kind and hated those who tried to short change their training, he will be sorely missed