GUNS Magazine August 1960

GREER GARSON, GUNNER
GREER GARSON, shown here and on our cover, is not
a skeet champ.ion, but she is a champion of skeet
shooting, and a lovely example of the vastly growing distaff
interest in the shooting sports. Brought up as a child to fear
guns, "but fascinated by them even then," Greer Garson
now breaks an average 18 out of 25 skeet targets, considers
the skeet range one of the best features of the New Mexico
ranch home built for her by her crack-shooting husband,
oil-man Colonel E. E. "Buddy" Fogelson.
Born in County Down, Ireland, Greer Garson has been
a part of the international social and cinema scene around
the world; but Forked Lightning Ranch-a fine, rambling,
adobe ranchhouse atop a pinon-covered hill overlooking
the Pecos River-is, she says, "where my heart is." On
GUNS AUGUST 1960
SCREEN STAR SAYS WOMEN SHOULD
LEARN TO SHOOT FOR SELF
PROTECTION AND FUN
By CLIFTON CAMP
location now for the production of her next picture, "Sunrise
At Campobello," in which she plays the part of Mrs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Greer is "counting the days"
until she and Colonel Fogelson can return to the broad
acres, the sleek Santa Gertrudis herds, and the skeet shooting
afternoons at Forked Lightning.
Colonel Fogelson and Greer are both Kentucky Colonels,
but "Buddy" Fogelson was a Colonel also when he served
under General Eisenhower at Supreme Headquarters during
World War II. Colonel Fogelson shoots skeet in the
high 90s with all gauges, and has a collection of match
trophies. He lists, as skeet guns, "shot by both of us," a
Remington .410, a Remington Model '48 in 28 gauge, a
Winchester 20 gauge, and a (Continued on page 60)
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