Just got the word from The Shooting Wire that trick shooter, actor, magician, and well-loved icon of the gun industry Joe Bowman has left us.  I was probably ten years old when he pulled a quarter from behind my ear.  I believe it may have been at the Camp Perry matches sometime around 1967.  Joe was hard to miss in his wide-brimmed hat with the Tom Mix crease and his hand-tooled boots.  As a kid I liked to watch him shuffle cards and juggle sixguns, but as I grew older I learned that he was a contemporary and friend of some of the legends of the screen.  I’m glad that Jeff and I got to visit with him at the SHOT Show this year. The world is less colorful without him, but it’s better for his having been here.